Groceries. How much do you spend and what meals do you eat?

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£100 week / £433 per calendar month
Family of 4
Two adults + 2 older teens

Mostly cook from scratch, except for occasional things like scampi, fish fingers, frozen pizza sausages.

Lunches, leftovers, sandwiches. Jacket potatoes with fillings, things on toast, soup, salads, dall. Pasties frittata

Main meals
Traditional roasts, sausage and mash, pies, stir fries curries, risottos, pasta dishes, grilled fish and meat. Burgers. Meatballs, pizza, pulled pork, bbq.

Does that price include snacks and breakfast or is that just for your main meals?

That includes everything, including some beer and wine. Also I forgot crisps.

Breakfasts porridge with fruit, wheat biscuits, toast, eggs, or the occasional bacon sarnie.

Family of 5 we spend between£180 -£200 Per week depending on what we need . Online delivery once a week.

That amount includes everything, apart from our take away on a Saturday night and our weekly bottle of wine.

Typically we eat:

Sun - Roast lamb, roast potatoes veg.

Poached Pears for pudding

Tonight Bubble and Squeak using left over roast meat from yesterday and salad.

stewed apple with cinnamon for pudding

Tue - Prawn, Pineapple and Veg fried rice.

Fresh fruit salad

Wed - Cheese and onion pie with green beans

Fruit Flap Jacket and plain yoghurt

Thur - Chicken, Veg and pasta bake .

Raspberry Sorbet

Fri -Chicken (using left over chicken) and halloumi burgers, potato wedges or Jacket potatoes , coleslaw and salad

Peaches and plain yoghurt

Saturday- Take Away

Ice cream or cheesecake of choice (everyone usually has different)

Sun - Slow cooker sausage and butter bean stew , veg and crusty bread.

Either mixed fruit crumble ( I will have fruit that needs using up) and custard. Or raspberry or strawberry truffle.

I cannot believe how much grocery shopping has gone up.