Weekly food shop for a family of four… what are you spending?

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I’m embarking on some family budgeting which I’ve never really done before. I’ve put £150 a week for food for 2 adults and 2 small kids and DP thinks we spend more than that. What’s everyone else spending?

That's incredibly low @oceanrudeness
I wonder how you manage it.
Poster above with similarly low (but still higher than yours) is supplementing with home grown fruit and veg and olio etc are you doing similar? Otherwise seems you must be eating hardly anything

About £200 but DS is adult sized and DD is at Uni now
I am not including pet food in that, we don't drink much and only DS eat meat really
No idea how its so high but we can afford it so I am not too bothered about trying to reduce it

I usually do a weekly food shop for £100 give or take. Then there are the top ups for bread, milk, avocados, probably another £20. Plus the Costco shop which gets paid on a credit card every 2 weeks then gets paid off monthly. The only thing that gets bought each time is prosciutto ham and pepsi max, things like toilet rolls are a lot less.

Also doesn't include work and school lunches...

I estimate about £200 all in per week.

It's a big chunk and we could cut down but I don't really see the need.

That's for 2 adults, one almost 10 year old and one soon to be 8 and the cat. Probably spend another £10-£20 to feed my 7 rats.

About £170 a week in Aldi for two adults, a 9 year old and a fifteen year old, that is for all breakfast, dinner and teas apart from a Saturday. It seems to have crept up the past month or two by £20/£30 despite buying the same kinds of food each week. It buy all my shower gel/shampoo/cleaning products etc seperate.

Easily £250 a week....if I'm lucky sometimes less. That's for two adults a d two teens....both DC take packed lunch to school and DH WFH so all meals are provided from home. I shop at a mixture of Lidl/Aldi/Sainsbury's. Rarely buy alcohol

How on earth do you manage this,? What sort of things are you eating?

My husband works for a supermarket so we get staff discount. This means we are less careful than we would otherwise be. Without the staff discount we are probably around £170 per week. Two adults, two teens, one cat. DH does buy more alcohol than I would like, but he would buy less without the discount. We would never go over £150 pw.

You spend £120 on food for a week PLUS £160 per week on lunches?

2 adults and 2 kids here ages 6 and 11 and we’ve got a small dog too. We eat well in that our meals are balanced and eat fair amount of meat, but I do meal plan shop accordingly. We shop at Aldi and we still managed to spend £140, this is usually for 3 meals a day every each, as annoyingly youngest isn’t keen on the free school meals!

About £200 a week, family of 4. We still have to do top ups also. One Dc has ASD and ARFID and only eats a very very limited diet, which costs us more. We don’t drink or smoke, but i do have OCD and spend a lot on cleaning products.

You'd be better off reviewing your bank statements for the past 12 months.

Also have pets.

€200 a week for two adults, no children. That’s about £180 I think. That includes alcohol, very little meat and lots of veg. No
processed food. The pets are another €170 a month at least.

We spend an awful lot less that all of these posts (I won’t say how much as I’ve seen another post recently where a responder put roughly the same figure and was told repeatedly it wasn’t possible!) but I put it down to us being vegetarian and DH is dairy intolerant so we don’t do any dairy either. Saves us a bucket load (if you don’t buy the fake meat alternatives, they are eye watering!).

About £250 a week which is ridiculous and that’s no Alcoa’s no pets!

£110-£120 ish 2 adults two kids under 6

Easily €150. Often €200. 2 adults, 1 child.
We also grow lots ourselves in summer. I think food is about 30% more expensive here than uk though. We don’t drink alcohol, little processed and that doesn’t include toiletries or cat food.

It would be impossible to do for €60 even in summer. A one off sure, but regular no

Family of 4, we budget £150 a week but some weeks we go over depends who is doing the shopping. We have to buy some special dietary products as we have one lactose intolerant family member.

Honestly I don't know, I do wonder sometimes if I'm depriving the family of something but our cupboards are full and we have decent meals, no one's hungry. I work in a community job across a big city so can pop into different shops and stock up on stuff when it's on offer. Tend to buy meat when reduced or on offer and put in freezer and then meal plan around what we have. I don't grow anything but don't like food waste so use up scraps to make soup or toasties. Or other stuff to save money like I've been making my own ham out of cooked gammon, make my own sauces etc. I have looked on olio and it mainly seems to be bread on offer so I've never bothered with it

I'm sure if no one complains then it's all fine @oceanrudeness.
I just find it difficult to comprehend as I've just had a look at my last few shops and I spend £40-£50 just on fruit and veg alone. And then have meat, milk, coffee, rice, pasta and snacks etc on top of that.

There's nothing on olio where I am either.

It’s creeping up week by week, but we currently spend between £140 and £160 a week for family of 4.

2 adults, 2 teens, all meals, cat food, cleaning and toiletries is between 170 and 200 a week.
Edit: includes alcohol too.

2 adults, 2 kids (late primary / early secondary).

We spend about £150 a week on food:
£80 at the supermarket
£20 local veg box and eggs
£5 milk delivery

The remaining £45 is on things we buy less frequently and which freeze or have good shelf life - UK fish, local beef, a wholefoods order, flour in bulk, specific store cupboard items, and a few quid a week on average spent on food at schools.

We don't eat out much - we prefer to get good food to prep at home and take lunches / snacks with us if we're out and about.

Family of 2 adults and 2 teen boys, 2 cats and 2 DC ogs. We spend about £160 per week supermarket shop but often do top ups of milk teens guzzle down, bread and fruit of up to £25. DH and I eat out 2 or 3 lunches a week too.