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How much do you spend on groceries per month?

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CurryandSnuggle · 23/03/2024 16:45

My family size: 2 adults, 2 children
Food/Toiletries/Cleaning products: £600-650 per month

Interested to know how much you are all spending. We are hardly buying any luxuries and this just seems eye watering. I mean we are spending over £2100 just on mortgage, groceries, childcare and council tax. Let alone all the other bills…

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S72 · 23/03/2024 18:47

One adult and one 12yo. So far this month I've spent £168.61 in Lidl and another £20 in Tesco. Aiming to spend around £40 - £50 in Lidl tomorrow to get through until end of month.

Mainly cook from scratch and batch cook. Lunches at home (WFH) keep costs down and a packed lunch for the boy.

This excludes pet stuff as I bulk buy of cat food and litter once every 3 months or so whenever the relevant offers come around

ViciousCurrentBun · 23/03/2024 18:51

Between £500 to £600 that’s for 3 adults plus an extra adult 3 nights a week and a very particular cat. We also eat out as a couple once a week.

We buy shampoo, cat litter, cat food and coffee beans on some Amazon deal so get a discount. Cook from scratch a lot especially as I have retired early.

Inthewellwithjoseph · 23/03/2024 18:53

£450-£500 per month for food, nappies, cat & dog food (1 of each) There's 7 of us, 2 adults, 2 teens, 2 children and 1 ebf baby. I mainly cook from scratch.

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RipleyGreen · 23/03/2024 18:53

2 adults, we don’t drink alcohol, £200ish a week.

idontlikealdi · 23/03/2024 18:55

2 adults 2 tweens budget is £650 pm. Doesn't include school lunches which are £160 pm, alcohol or pet food.

NC2024 · 23/03/2024 19:03

Just me, £240pm

EcstaticMarmalade · 23/03/2024 19:07

Two adults and a cat. Easily £1500 a month. If we wanted to could cut that in about half but various other circumstances mean we choose not to.

We can’t take holidays, go out due to medical circumstances, plus those circumstances mean there are some special dietary needs.

Werehalfwaythere · 23/03/2024 19:10

2 adults, 3 young children.

Around £110 per week but some of us are vegetarian so buy minimal meat and we don't drink alcohol much at home either. I think if we ate meat it would be higher (we don't eat much fake meat, choose dairy and tofu).

We shop at Tesco and online to prevent impulse buying!

Trampolineissues · 23/03/2024 19:19

Family of 5 - 2 adults and 3 chn aged 12, 10 and 8. Adults vegetarian and we all have packed lunches 5 days a week. one adult drinks but only 4 beers a week. No pets.
150 roughly a week incl everything we need household wise. That’s only if we go to aldi tho. Suspect we also spend about 40 a mth on top ups/forgot to put bread machine type things.

Bellyblueboy · 23/03/2024 19:21

Just me in the house plus a cat. Weekly grocery shop around £80. That included toiletries, cleaning, cat food and wine!

I covers most meals as I take a packed lunch to work.

Terraria · 23/03/2024 19:26

3 adults, 1 late teen, 1 10 years old and a dog, £150 a week for grocery shopping.

DelilahBucket · 23/03/2024 19:27

2 adults and DS16, easily £600 a month. That covers mine and DH's lunches, not DS's on school days. We could spend less though.

Lion400 · 23/03/2024 19:29

WillYouPutYourCoatOn · 23/03/2024 17:11

Finally! An honest thread!

Usually these descend into some bullshit "£60 p/wk, two adults, five kids and a partridge in a pear tree...and this includes all alcohol. What are you doing OP?" Hmm

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leamne · 23/03/2024 19:30

About £800 a month, family of 5, no pets, nobody drinks alcohol. Could be much cheaper, we eat meat most days and often go for premium brands. We get a Tesco delivery for convenience - Aldi would be cheaper but can't face carrying it all home.

BoobyDazzler · 23/03/2024 19:32

4 adults, one dog, one cat.

Around a grand a month, all in

AristotelianPhysics · 23/03/2024 19:33

I’d say about £900 a month. 2 adults and 2 children. No pets or alcohol.

BorderBelle · 23/03/2024 20:11

About £500 for DH and me.

It's made more complicated by DH working away Monday to Friday, so I shop for 2 different lifestyles.

I eat a vegetarian diet through the week. He eats meat.

It's important to me that I eat very well, so I don't scrimp on things like avocados, nuts, cheeses, good olive oil, good Greek yoghurt.

I take my own lunch to work.

But this was costing us £300 a month not too long ago.

*edited to make the costs monthly, not weekly

VillageOnSmile · 23/03/2024 20:17

About £400, 2 adults.
Over £600 when the dcs are back from Uni.

TidyDancer · 23/03/2024 20:24

Family of four, I don't add it up as closely as I should but I'm guessing it's somewhere around £600-700 per month. We don't drink a lot these days and buy most of the cleaning stuff from Smol periodically. We do have a decent stash in the chest freezer so I think if we had to we could go a few weeks just buying basics.

itsatail · 23/03/2024 20:36

£250/£300 a month for one adult, one child and a cat. Doesn't include takeouts, eating out or coffees

hattie43 · 23/03/2024 20:49

Live alone , two small dogs £ 180 a week

chatenoire · 23/03/2024 21:07

Family of 6 (4 being adults), and a cat £550 (including alcohol)

ohthejoys21 · 23/03/2024 21:12

I think food has generally almost doubled in price. My Ocado shops definitely are almost double.

DGPP · 23/03/2024 21:15

£1K a month, 2 adults, 3 kids

ohthejoys21 · 23/03/2024 21:15

Having said that I'm not sure how much I actually spend as just order when needed.

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