How much do you spend on food for two people?

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I reckon we probably spend around £150-200 a week for food for two of us (no children).
This is about £80 on Ocado then bits and bobs from Sainsburys during the week. For lunch we’ll get a meal deal or similar. Every other week we’ll go out for pizza which comes to £40.

Does this sound like an extravagant amount?

Doesn't sound extravagant to me.

Yes, sounds extravagant to me but can you afford it is all the matters.

I spend less than £100pw for 2 of us, me and a teenage boy with a big appetite. I don't eat a lot myself or snack though so the snacks I buy are all for DS. For breakfast I have yogurt, lunch soup or cheese and crackers. I drink alcohol but not wine, I drink spirits which last longer.

I’ve just spent a little over £50 in Aldi. There will be some top ups, but I don’t imagine that will be more than £20.

Yes, that sounds like loads for two people to me. I spend maybe £55 a week just for me, although that doesn't include meat or alcohol.

£60 main shop in Tesco, plus approx 30-40 in top ups (nice treats). Mainly veggie food and don't drink alcohol. Includes loo roll etc.

I’d guess we spend around £80-£100 per week for two adults. We don’t have a budget but we’re also not too extravagant, don’t buy much alcohol or other more costly items. It all depends on what you can afford. I am happy to be able to go without a list and buy whatever takes my fancy without thinking about the cost. But if we had more extravagant tastes maybe I couldn’t get away with that!

We spend about 120-150 on an Ocado; probably both spend 20 ish for lunches in office days, and then we usually go out for dinner once or twice a week as well - everyone will answer differently though, it’s just if you can afford it

Evening Meals:-
£45 for a weekly Hello Fresh (5x 2peoppe dinners)
£30 Chinese Takeaway once a week
£10 on bits for a Chilli, plus tea and coffee and milk for the week, bottle of wine (aldi, so cheap!)
Dh buys his work lunches, £15 per week
I eat toast or soup at home, probably £10 cost
Weekend lunches total about £10 for ingredients (quiches, salad, sandwich filler and crisps)

That's £120. And it doesn't feel flashy.

We do a big shop at the weekend which involves food, cleaning products, toilet paper, a few toiletries, bottle or two of wine and it's usually about £100. Then probably another £30 in top ups during the week. So not miles off yours. Usually eat out once a week, occasionally twice

Thank you- I figured most people would say around £80-100. It’s hard to keep track of how much others are spending so what is normal, if that makes sense?

We tend to buy lots of our food reduced at Ocado, eg a £3 readymeal rather than a £5 one… so I tell myself I’m getting M&S food for Tesco prices…

Makes sense about how much you earn. We earn about 120k pre tax.

That sounds a lot to me, but if you can afford it, that's all that matters. I spend about £60 on the main shop, then about £30 for bits and pieces (bread,, milk) in the week. Couple in our 6os, so we don't buy biscuits, crisps, etc., apart from when the GC visit

Just seen you earn £120k - lucky you. We're trying to survive on less than £1k a month (house paid off, both got health problems so can't work, DH gets a state pension next May, I've got 3 1/2 years to wait)

We spend about the same as you Ocado plus top-up shops. The amount includes wine and beer though and paper household stuff, the rest come from SMOL or B&M type places.
I'm intrigued how you get food reduced at Ocado? Are these the regular deals they have or the flash sales at the end of the order? I'm not a big M&S food fan and stiil miss this good old days of Waitrose.

There's two of us and this last week we spent £80 on a supermarket shop (some of that was non food - toilet roll, washing up liquid, cleaning stuff)

Then we spent £20 on Sunday on a nice loaf of bread at the local bakery plus a couple of sandwiches and two coffees for lunch. On Saturday I met friends for dinner and spent £30 (Mr Monkey went to a birthday celebration where food was provided.)

So - about £130 which is fairly typical (I haven't included alcohol as that is a separate budget line)

About £50 a week on a sainsburys delivery (that includes cat food and cleaning products) then we maybe tip up 15-20ish towards the end of the week

We earn similar to you and I think that’s a lot on food. We shop in Lidl and I probably spend £60-80 a week for two of us. Lunches are leftovers from the night before and probably twice a week we eat something cheap like beans on toast or jacket potato.

We did however go out for a roast yesterday at a pretty bog standard local pub. For the two of us to have a starter, main and drink each it was £74 without service! I know eating out has gone up a lot but I do begrudge it a bit when I could have made something a lot nicer at home, not be sat by a cold open door, not listen to the family next to us complain constantly about their food and have leftovers for the next few days!

We don't eat out by choice. Spend about £130 a week on food over various shops. Includes alcohol. I never understand people who won't buy fillet steak or expensive fish etc because they claim its too expensive then blow three times as much on a very ordinary takeaway.
Our motto is if you want it, have it, as long as you can afford it.

About £60 a week in Aldi. I meal plan and we have meat every day. No alcohol atm as I'm pregnant.

I go Tesco once or twice a week to get a few bits I can't get in Aldi and I always end up getting treats 😅 🤭 probs end up spending £10-£15 each time on crap but could cut that out if I had to

So I'd call it just under £100 per week 2 adults. We only get a takeaway on a really special occasion x

We earn the same & spend around £100-£120 a week on food. We also eat out or have a takeaway at least twice a week.

We eat out mostly or sometimes have hello Fresh. Eating out with drinks is probably average of £50 per night so if we do that for the week it's £350.

DH cooks from scratch every evening and neither of us buy lunches for work (that's such a big hidden cost), but we still can't seem to spend any less than £120.00 for both of us in a weekly shop and maybe a £50 top up.

I was able to keep it down when we were mainly buying Click and Collect but that was before the CoL prices shot up.

Whenever I find an old supermarket receipt, I think, damn things were so cheap,and plentiful back that. How times have changed.

Under £100 per week on food/groceries (Ocado delivery every other week, veg box, milkman and occasional top ups). I don't include dinners out in that because it can vary so much and I think of it as a completely different category of spend. We don't eat out or have takeaways all that often though normally. Certainly not every week. I do get a lot of my lunches free at work.

We don't really have any signficant financial constraints so I'm not actively budgeting. But we don't eat a lot of meat/fish and cook mostly from scratch. We even make our own bread, muesli, granola...Not that that is particularly cheap!

It was £200 pw including wine, toiletries, loo roll etc. But DS1 has just left for uni, so it should now be less. We don't have DS2 every day, he stays with his dad 3 days a week as did DS1. Ours is a mix of Ocado, Abel and Cole, Riverford or a local box scheme. We know we spend a lot, it is our biggest expense, but try to eat well and buy mainly organic. We almost never eat out and don't get takeaways and always make packed lunches, so this works for us.

Quite agree, very good points.

I don't think that's extravagant. think I spend about £180 per week for the two of us and a cat. We are both at home most of the time so that includes three meals every day. We don't drink and very rarely eat out or get takeaways.