If you aren’t particularly frugal, what is your weekly grocery spend up to now?

[TwoMagnificentLabradors]

We enjoy good, home cooked meals and are fortunate not to need to be especially careful, but I think a hardly lobster and steak every night. We mostly cook from scratch, never order takeaway, and rarely eat out. We’d cut back on other areas before food.

Our weekly spend is now £180-220 for 2 adults and 2 teens. That’s for a weekly Waitrose delivery (including kibble, sardines, eggs and sweet potatoes for the dogs), meat from the farm shop and a Co-Op top-up shop. Yikes!

Anyone else’s food shop coming in around this?

About £80 a week for 2 adults and 2 teenage. 3 meals for everyone including Japanese style pack lunch "Bento" for the children.

About £200 for 3 adults (dh, me and dd aged 19) and Ds aged 10. Everyone is a fussy fucker and won’t eat the same things as everyone else so I end up doing 3/4 meals each night. That includes lunches for dh and Ds. No alcohol at all. Some meat. Lots of fruit and veg and more snacks than is probably Mumsnet acceptable 😬🙈

About £120-£130 for 2 adults, 2 children and 2 cats. We don't drink unless it's a special occasion and usually buy that separately. Also spend a extra when DSS visits during the holidays and half term because he's an eating machine

My weekly grocery bill is just about under £100 for 2 adults and a 3yo. We do have dietary needs in the family so some dairy free products which are more expensive than the "normal" version.

That figure includes some processed food like chocolate, crisps, quiche, biscuits etc. but buying ethical meat (in small quantities!) and plenty of fruit and veg. Also toiletries etc.

Yep we shop like that too. I also might bulk buy if i see an offer. I got 2kg of basmati rice this week as it was on offer - we probably won't start using it for a few weeks though.

If you get food free or heavily reduced, it's not really comparable to those who pay normal price for everything. Cost up "real" prices for all your food. I'm guessing it's a bit more in line with other people's values.

About £110 for 3 adults plus maybe £10 topup. Which is the same as I was spending for 4 about 3 years ago.

2x adults 2x primary aged dc.

£45 - Hello Fresh for me and dh for five weeknights
£30 - packed lunch foods and evening meals for the dc
£20 - either a Mcdonalds or Greggs lunch one weekend day or £40 on a pub Sunday roast
£10 2x dine offer for Saturday night

Oh and dh gets a Meal Deal on his way to work so £15 for those.

Family of 5 about £120 and then kids school lunch money on top.

Also winter shops cost more in warm hearty meals where as summer meals are lighter and cheaper jackets and salad etc.

That seems very expensive tbh. I’ve downgraded as much as I can without meals becoming miserable… probably averages around £80-100/wk.
2 adults, 2 primary aged children, one infant (eating solids, breastfeeding, nappies) all packed lunches included.
Trying to reduce that through January by using up everything in the freezer and larder

We spend about £110 a week max - sometimes less. For 2 adults and a 16 year old 6 foot boy. Sometimes 3 adults whe dd is home. 3 meals plus a bottle of wine. I meal plan

My parents manage on about £50 a week (possibly less) for both of them basically by not eating meat, drinking alcohol or having pets and not eating very much processed food at all. Their usual meals are:

Breakfast: fruit
Lunch: soup or sandwich
Dinner: curries, home made chappati, yoghurt

Occasionally they buy a cake or something but 80% of what they buy is fruit and veg

It's usually around £110-150 for 2 adults and 2 primary aged children...plus snacks and food for all of their friends who seem to appear at our house looking for food. We do have some top ups though, so maybe £150-200 total.

Yes we spend about £800
a month, no takeaways, never buy coffees etc out, don't smoke, barely drink, rarely go out, but do eat lots of fruits and veg and I buy good quality meat. Have always prioritised food spending even when a student.

We pay about that for a weekly shop in Lidl with top up at Sainsbury’s for anything that Lidl don’t sell. That includes cleaning and washing stuff, and cat food.

2 adults, four teens.

This is my parents too. During covid the supermarket delivery guy used to call theirs "The Harvest Festival"

We’re a family of 5 and are at about 225/week, which includes a big weekly shop at Lidl plus top-ups elsewhere for the nicer or more niche bits. That budget includes things like laundry detergent, light bulbs, medications, etc. We buy pet food in bulk online and only get takeaway maybe 4-5 times/year. I cook our meals from scratch and we do eat nice quality food at home (good fresh produce, nice meat, good cheese, organic eggs, etc), but the meals themselves are unpretentious fare. I am not a fancy cook and don’t use expensive ingredients.

It was almost 100/week less for basically the same shop in 2019, so it’s definitely gone up. Admittedly my children have also grown a lot since then, so we get through a lot more food than we did when they were little, but it is still several hundred more per month more than we used to spend.

Approx 160 a week for 2 adults and a 7 year old, includes all cleaning products, toilet roll, booze and meat and occasional top up. I wfh so it covers my lunch and excessive coffee drinking

weve cycled through all the major supermarkets and found the saving with Lidl and Aldi was offset by the fact their fresh fruit (berries) and salad stuff was going off after 3 days. I stopped using Morrisons as their prices seem to have rocketed, back to tesco who are weirdly cheaper, their food lasts longer and better delivery slots

were spending prob £25-£30 more a week than 2 years ago

Anywhere between £80- £100 a week.
Cook from scratch every night.
2 adults and 1 toddler.
Dh and I don’t drink. Eat meat & fish 3 or 4 times a week.
Main shop at budget friendly supermarket Aldi, occasional top ups for fruit & veg during the week at Tesco or Asda.

For the past few months we've been spending about £150 a week for a family of 4 - kids late teens / early 20s. But older child often pays for her own food. We also have takeaways/ eat out, plus pay for youngest to buy lunch out 2 - 3 days a week (not included in £150).

We haven't tried to cut down our food spending especially, though I'm habitually conscious of costs. We also rarely eat red meat and don't have chicken / fish everyday. Usually one bottle of wine a week.

We spent about £225 a week with toiletries cleaning products and pet food.

Ds has school dinner dd has packed lunch. DH has lunch a couple of times a week but then buys lunch when at work. Take away once a week for me and Dh and usually a family meal out at the weekend.

We like nice wine and buy a couple of bottles a week so probably £30 on wine a week.

I have just done an online order which is about a weeks worth of meals and it was £90 for two people.