Weekly shop-how much?

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How much do you spend weekly on food and household stuff? There's me and two children in our house. One 14, one 8. No pets. The teenager isn't a bottomless pit. I shop in several trips a week to Asda because I walk past it several times a day. One big supermarket shop a month or 2 smaller ones. I make my own pasta sauce, my own pizza dough and bread, bake cakes and cookies instead of buying them although I don't do that all that often. I use frozen fruit for various things instead of fresh. I don't like batch cooking meals because I don't like the way things taste. I batch book the pasta sauce and soup though. I need to add up how much I'm actually spending but I know I need to cut back. Asda used to be £10 for a few items and now it's around £20.

How much meat

Zero. No fish either. No eggs usually unless I'm baking cakes.

I've literally just done a weeks online shop for me , DH and 2 greedy adult sons. That was £101, but we will probably do another £25 over the week at the corner shop. It includes lunches for 3 of us, but no alcohol, toilet paper or milk ( those get delivered separately).
There are 3 meat meals in that, might stretch to 4 or 5, and we will probably get a takeaway one night.

Going in the supermarket multiple times a week would probably do me in financially. Keep all your receipts for a few weeks and average it. I shop from a list for the most part, once a week, have meals planned so I have very little (if any) food waste. Just takes a bit of planning.

Things you can cut back on easily that we used to spend a lot on when DC were younger, but they don't have it now:
cereal ( substitute porridge oats)You can add frozen berries ( or scavenged blackberries)
fruit juice (have actual fruit which fills you up more, and drink water )
individual snack bars ( buy a packet of biscuits if they want a treat).
Use higher fat mince ( 12% plus) for spag bol, pad it out with 2 tins of tomatoes and onions etc, you can get enough for 2 meals for 4/5 people from one 500g pack.
Higher fat food fills you up more, so you need less in quantity. That goes for milk and yogurt too.

We eat porridge a lot and I have it every day. I buy supermarket own brand rolled oats. I wish meal planning worked for us but it just doesn't because nobody wants that meal on the day or Dd goes to her dad's. I'm insisting on a better meal routine. I found lockdown great for food because I shopped once a week online and that was it. I baked a lot and we lived mainly on pasta.

There's 5 of us - two adults, three children. I can usually do an online delivery for around £100, but always need to top up bread, milk, fruit and always seem to run out of something. So usually around £150 on a skint week, payday week will be more like £200!

I spent £50 yesterday on a couple of items and winced when paying. No way will that last us long

Around £130 a week. 2 adults. 2 kids.

Anything from £120-200 depending on what I need have meal planned for, and if I need to do lunchboxes. We do eat meat 4/5 times a week, and I do cook from scratch most of the time.

Having the kids home from school over the summer holidays it was around £220 a week (both bottomless pits)

Its very expensive

I usually but those ready to bake bread rolls to go with soup but I'm going to have a go at making some today instead. They have really gone up in price lately.

Used to be around £150 per week a year ago. This week's shopping (including all the little extra shops) has come to over £250.

Two adults, two late teenage (so early adult) boys, three cats.

We're looking at what we eat, cutting down on expensive snacks, drinks (we don't really drink alcohol at home, but cans of branded soft drinks etc) and meat/fish etc to try to get that back down.

Cat food and litter alone is about £20 a week now.

Loads. Me, Dh, 2 teenage boys, We're trying to get the weekly shop a bit closer to £100 by cutting back on meat and extras like crisps. But that will need topping up with extra bread, milk and bits during the week. We shop at ALDI - can't begin to imagine how anyone on less than a 6 figure salary manages to do their weekly shop anywhere else these days tbh.

We spend £50 pw - three adults, includes about 50% of our toiletries and cleaning products. Some toiletries are bought at work on staff double discount and cleaning products when they're cheaper at places like Wilko or Savers.

So £17 a week per person ?
Perhaps you could explain how

Meal planning doesn't have to be rigid. I create a list of meals for roughly a week. Some have fresher stuff, some are more tinned/store cupboard stuff like pulses and/or meat from the freezer. Some are super quick and others take a bit longer. I don't have specific days to cook specific meals, I just cook the fresher things at the beginning of the week and the store cupboard/freezer things at the end of the week. Not wanting a meal on a particular day? Tough shit 😂

Oh, and I cook stuff that can be reheated for lunch the next day, or another dinner the day after, or can go into portions in the freezer.

£200 a week.

Me, DH, and two older teen sons who are passionate gym goers so want protein, meat, fresh, veg and fruit, yoghurts, cereals etc. As do DH and I tbh.

I shop in lidl. It can be £180 but I bought 6 bottles of wine in this week's shop so £200.

I don't do tops ups, and this doesn't include dog food, we have 2 dogs

2 adults 2 kids (11 and 8). Over a month it averages out at around £150 a week, including cleaning stuff etc. But school dinners are extra. Think is about £160 this half term for both of them. I don’t feel like we eat particularly extravagantly and don’t have loads of alcohol either. Mainly shop at Asda, with a bit of Aldi/Lidl.

£240pw, family of 5