How much is your weekly shop?

[Hernamesnoelle]

We are a family of 3, 2 adults 1 child (age 4).

In recent months we have had 1 'main' shopping delivery that's normally between £150-£175 and then easily spend another £20 topping up during the week.

It seems eye watering to me, as I'm sure it was about half this last year!

Interested to see if we are around average?

That’s at aldi

About £130, but we eat out, get a few takeaways and the odd £20 top up on top of that, so too much.

That covers 2 adults and a young child, 2 cats and cleaning bits.

Family of 5. The food shopping is killing me. We put aside £600 a month for all food/toiletries/cleaning supplies/top ups and always run out of money before next pay day.

Checked banking app average £65 a week in October. Two people, we eat well. Zero waste, no alcohol and both cook from scratch. That’s only groceries though.

Interested in these replies as I want to show dh food prices have gone right up, he thinks i’m making it up when I say we’re running low

Single person, I do a monthly Tesco shop of around £120 and then spend maybe £10 additionally a week (usually at Tesco Express or sometimes Sains) picking up odd/fresh bits for dinners.

If i had to then we could reduce our grocery bill but like many I don't want to make sacrifices. We eat mostly homemade and stick to seasonal veg and offers. I also meal plan. But I love cooking and baking. It isn't always poor planning and impulse buying that causes higher costs. But sometime its expensive and good quality ingredients.

I’m not including any pet food as we don’t have pets, and I’m not including children’s lunches that they get at school/pre school. Also we don’t drink alcohol. But everything else is included.

But we do eat nutritious food. In the past week for dinners we’ve had home made fishcakes, a lasagne that did a couple of days, a curry, jacket potatoes, a slow cooker chicken thing, a chicken stir fry, all of which are served with veg. For lunch, DH and I (we wfh) will have omelettes, scrambled egg on toast, soup, sandwiches, leftovers, jacket potatoes etc.

£130 a week including cleaning stuff and toiletries, no pets and w don't drink alcohol. 2 adults and 2 children 9 and 11. The 2 adults have 5 packed lunches a week and kids usually have schools dinners. Shop at Aldi, Iceland and Home Bargains. On top of that we have 2 meals out or takeaways a week.

In Ireland. 2 adults. At the moment it's €120 a week from Tesco, but that is €20 more than usual to cover things I'm stocking up on for Christmas (wine, Danish Butter Cookies, tubs of chocolate etc.). The only things that get topped up during the week are milk and bread - neither of which I drink/eat, but DH does. We eat very well, I'm retired, so have time to cook everything from scratch, plus I enjoy doing it.

Family of 2 adults, 1 toddler and a cat and we spend £700-800 a month. Fuck knows how

2a 1 3yr old DD who eats mainly at wraparound care during the week I don't calculate this into the food budget as we would need to use this irrelevant 1 dog.

Difficult as we tend to buy meats in bulk from the butchers but I've calculated we need approximately £80 for all of our basic needs as we do not buy alcohol.

I would budget £100 per week and expect us to be pretty comfortable.

Truthfully we buy as we go so quite difficult!

Could possibly cut it down to £60 per week using frozen veggies of not much variety and no nice extras like broccoli cheese bakes etc but we're comfortable and happy.

I budget £500 a month for two adults. I'm a Coeliac, so some things are more expensive.

2 adults + 2 kids. Realistically £200 a week. With hardly any meat or wine.

One adult and one 6' teenage boy who eats an astounding amount of food, I spend about £60 a week, plus I make all our bread, ordering flour separately.

I cook from scratch, don't buy brands or alcohol and think carefully what I buy because I'm on a budget. No allergies or unusual dietary requirements which makes it easier.

2 adults and 2 teen children, plus 1 medium size dog and 3 cats. I’ll easily spend £200 in the weekly shop (excluding alcohol, any random bits of household items like socks/glasses, and cleaning products). I’ll likely spend another £40-50 for other items I’ve run out of -forgotten. … it’s scary!!

Interesting to hear from non UK households.

2 adults, no kids at home, 1 cat.

Our weekly shop is around £300. From Ocado, mostly organic, mostly stuff we cook from scratch. Includes about 4 bottles of wine.

I have people coming to stay later in November and that shop is booked and is currently £400. That's for dinner on a Friday, lunch and dinner on Saturday and Sunday lunch with lots of sides.

We also spend about £300 - £400 a month on dinner in restaurants or takeaways.

Usually around £80 (2 adults and 2 children), max £100 (if hosting dinner for others, etc).

UK, 2 adults and grandchildren who stay for a couple of dinners a week - well over £200. We also eat out about once a week. On the plus side we eat about 2 take always a year.

Sweden - £60/week - 2 adults. We don't eat meat but buy good quality food.

2 adults about £80 per week including alcohol. Neither of us eat fruit so that saves a lot.

I thought I was bad but seem to be on cheaper end here.

2 adults, 2 kids, 2 cats. Some weeks around £120, some weeks £90-100.

which seems much less than some.

that includes toiletries and cleaning stuff, but no alcohol. Usually shop at Lidl and go to Sainsbury’s on the weeks we need a bigger shop (better choice of hair products etc).

2 adults 1 two year old.
About 70 to 80 including top up shops
But my husband doesn't eat lunch and my toddler eats that at nursery so it's only dinners and my lunches which is either leftovers (if there are any) or a sandwich.
We don't really drink at home so don't spend on that.

Family of 7 with one pet and ive just done my shop at aldi. Spent £158. I have 9 dinners planned out of that.
Il top up during the week with milk and fresh bread.
Id say the maximum we spend a week is £180.

Even when I do a big shop when im literally out of everything I never spend more than £200/£220.