What is your families daily diet like with COLC?

[FluffyUnionSocks]

Seen a lot of threads recently about the increased cost of the weekly food shop and not buying things they used to buy regularly. After reading a thread today about the cost of fruit and veg and people saying they aren’t eating much these days due to cost I wondered what the average families diet looked like? How much your weekly shop is? And if there is anything you no longer buy?

Family of five, 2 adults and 3 children aged 11-16.
Weekly food delivery from Asda averages at £140 once a month it’s £175 as buy dishwasher tablets, laundry detergent, toilet rolls and cleaning products.

example of daily diet for dc:-
Breakfast, Weetabix, milk and sliced banana
Mid morning snack, kiwi and grapes
Packed lunch, chicken and salad wrap, Greek yogurt with frozen berries, carrot stick, celery and mini cucumber with a pot of hummus, a packet of crisps and carton of orange juice.
After school snack, Ritz crackers, cheese and ham, Kitkat
Dinner, BBQ pulled pork in a bun, sweet potato wedges, corn on the cob, homemade coleslaw. (Mixed salad for those who want it)
Desert, homemade crumble and custard.

Family of 2 adults and two teens (17 &15) I keep a close eye on our grocery spend and so far this year it averages out at £87 a week.

That spend covers all meals, toiletries, laundry, cleaning and some beer/wine.

Breakfast is usually cereal,
Weetabix or porridge often with a banana or frozen berries.

Lunches at home
leftovers
jacket potato - homemade slaw/cheese/tuna with some salad
sandwich/wrap - cheese/ham/chicken
homemade soup - tomato/veg/chicken/minestrone / french onion

Packed lunches
sandwiches/wraps/fruit/crisps
pasta salad (using up whatever we have left ie gammon/chicken/tuna
rice salad (using leftovers as above)
hot food in a flask (curry and rice/pasta in sauce/ stew)

Main Meals (Made from scratch)
Chilli
Fajitas
curry
pizza
roast dinners
sausage and mash
omelettes (with salad and chips)
Pasta bakes
burgers (I make beef, pork and chicken)
Gammon joint with parsley sauce
Casseroles and stews
Stir fry
Pulled pork

We don't really eat desserts but occasionally have fruit and yoghurt, jelly and fruit, sponge or crumble and custard. I bake muffins, cakes and pancakes.

There is always fruit, bananas, apples, oranges and whatever is in season. I don't buy fresh berries or exotic fruit often.

I always have cucumber, peppers, tomatoes, carrots, potatoes, white cabbage, onions and some kind of lettuce in the fridge. There is a lot of veg and fruit in my freezer and I often make double of something and put half in the freezer. I don't waste food, dry bread is used for breadcrumbs, past its best citrus fruit is frozen in slices for drinks

I buy a limited amount of crisps and biscuits and always have frozen chips, fish fingers, chicken nuggets and ice cream so not entirely junk free!

Main meal today was a beef and vegetable stew served with green veg.

Some days we don't eat our 5 a day and other days we eat more. Prices are going up a lot, my weekly spend has increased but I buy what is in season, we don't eat much meat and I don't buy branded goods.

We rarely buy treaty dinners anymore...eg salmon or the nicest range cottage pies. Also don't buy 'fancy' grown up snacks like olives mixed with cheese anymore, or random nice puddings like cream horns.

We still do spend a lot on fruit/berries though...DS2 is a really fussy eater but will happily eat all fruit.

We tend to have a mix of standard family meals e.g. pasta bake, chicken and rice, beef and vegetable tacos and 'simple dinners' like cheesy pasta or beans on toast - usually when the DC have had nursery/after school club days and it's late and they are tired and have already eaten a bit.