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?

£150 for two adults and two junior school aged kids- and two cats. No booze, chicken but no other meat. That's gone up £50 from this time last year.

I’m spending around £150 a week, this include all cleaning products, meat no booze as we are not big drinkers, snacks & lunches for 2 adults and 2 x pre teens

this doesn’t include the cat and dog food which is around £100 every 2 weeks

honestly food prices are crazy and only seem to be going up

About £120 for 2 adults and 3 children, but that’s from Aldi (with the odd Asda top up). Would be much more if we shopped in Waitrose and the co-op like you!

Fo9d has got expensive. I was shocked at the weekend when I got a small head of broccoli in Sainsbury's (enough to accompany a meal for two of us) and it was 95p!

£115-125 for 2 adults, 2 teenagers, dog and 2 cats. That is for 3 meals each day and includes a small top up shop mid meek.

We do eat out or get a takeaway about twice a month though, and that’s in addition. Plus I’ll eat lunch out with friends about once a week, which generally costs £10-12 max.

On average £100 per week for 3 adults and £35 per week for 6 dogs. Maybe one fish and chip takeaway a month around £20. Dogs includes £11 per week raw, £24 80:20 grain free kibble plus they get table scraps.

I'm amazed you can shop in Waitrose for a family of four and spend so little! I spend £100-120 in Lidl for a similar sounding shop without booze up from £70/80 not too long ago

Very similar here, now a bit over £200 every week, and I have 2 younger boys. If they were teens, I really dread to think.

Would also describe myself as liking nice food and not needing to be particularly careful. But this amount is itself now the result of much more careful shopping than I used to do: no Ocado, Lidl for apple juice, some fruit and veg, cereal etc, and more careful shopping at Waitrose including paying attention to offers.

It's worrying.

I buy cleaning products, laundry , dishwasher tabs in bulk from B&M once a month . I spend probably £130 on average each week from ocado 2 adults 1 tween DD. I buy whatever I fancy we don't drink alcohol.

For four of us (2 DC who eat a bit less than adults) about £140 at the supermarket and another £12 to the milkman, each week. No pets, not much alcohol, always meal plan and batch cook. But lucky enough to buy what I want without worrying about price.

This is not including school lunches and a couple of Pret sandwiches, coffees etc for the adults on office days, and a takeaway every month or so.

I forgot about DCAT I buy his food in bulk probably every 2 months or so. Keeps it cheaper.

£200-£250 pw, 2 adults, 3 primary age kids, Waitrose/M&S/Sainsburys

@Applepie. I am with you. Olio is my friend for free food. My total bill last year for food, toiletries and cleaning materials was around £550 - started using Olio in April 2022. Catering just for me!

My cupboards and fridge/freezer are full and I have cupboard full of spare cleaning materials as well. Could live for about 2 months on my current food supplies

So far this year I have spent about £27 on supplies - mainly meat and fish.

I volunteer to redistribute food, grow, forage and bargain hunt. Definitely couldn’t be dropping £150 a week on food!

Last weekend we had a full roast from olio including a large organic chicken 😀

150pw inc absolutely everything, top up shops, toiletries cleaning etc

It was £212 this week. For almost everything (no plans to eat out but I’ll get a farm shop beef joint for Sunday) My Waitrose £14 off voucher kept it to under £200 and I did treat myself to a bunch of tulips. But still….

I appreciate we could spend much less if we used Olio and shopped around. I have SAH/ retired friends who do just that. But we both work full time, have kids and dogs, live in a village and drive loads for work/ school runs. I’d rather chuck our hard-earned at it, and whinge a bit online!

Wow really?

I must look up Olio I haven't heard of that before. Though if you're only a household of one that is more understandable, the amounts you're able to manage on, compared to the families on this thread.

I have just looked at Olio. I'm quite time poor, and that would involve a lot of travel. For example three miles to pick up a single loaf of bread. That doesn't sound great from an environmental point of view either.
Many similar examples. I thought it might be supermarket and small business surplus but it's mostly ordinary people giving away single items of food that they don't want.

Perhaps it varies by location. I'm sure it's useful for some people.

@partoflife in my area there are lots of food warriors who live within walking distance of me (around 20) and I have got to know what days they collect food from shops.

Walking distance for me is up to 1.5 miles.

Between Christmas and New Year one warrior had stacks of collected boxes of veg fruit and salad which was to chucked out by local Tesco. I collected 2 bagfuls which I shared with my family. Still using some of it - froze some and kept some in fridge - has kept well.

It is very variable- lots of nice pastries,very little meat and fish

Since last April have collected around £700 worth of food ( valued at full price) which otherwise would have been dumped.

Was £40 per week for one adult but now creeping to £50-55. Includes household stuff. I’m vegetarian and cook from scratch, mainly lentil or rice-based food. Cat food on top.

Jumping on this thread rather than start a new one. Added up and we spent £800 in January. No alcohol that I can remember and no pets, two adults two kids. I am fairly careful but we do buy quality food, albeit hardly any meat. I'm sure this is at least £100 up on last year.

Around £150 from Sainsbury's. 2 or 3 adults and 3 under 10s

£150 spend in Sainsburys yesterday which will do till next Thurs - apart from fresh milk/bread & no booze, , cleaning stuff. 2 adults, 3 older teens.

So quite frugal then