How much do you spend on your supermarket shop?

[Outwiththedebt]

So off the back of me wanting to get out of debt (see my other thread) it has been brought to my attention that I spend too much at the supermarket.

So how much do you spend on an average month at the supermarket? 2 adults, 2 primary age kids. Includes laundry detergent, cleaning products, toothpaste, shampoo etc as well as breakfast and evening meals for us all and lunch for me and DH.

What sort of meals do you make?

2 x adults and a cat 400 pcm

No children at home, we spend £400 a month for 2 adults in the supermarket. I i usually make stuff like stew, cottage pie, chilli, curry, roasts, I’ll tend to eat only meat with veg or salad and I’ll cook fresh meat for pack lunches, but all my meat comes from our local butcher and my monthly butcher’s bill is around £100+

Approx £90 a week, 1 adult and 2 children. I make roasts, pasta, casseroles, sometimes a fish dish. Lunches are soups, egg based
meals, sandwiches, beans etc. I’m going to try and cut it down a little bit by avoiding some of the snack foods which are completely uneccessary.

Same 2 adults and 2 dc.

Between 90-120 euro per week. I don’t include shampoo/conditioner/body wash in the part of my budget though. I shop
in Lidl.

some meals I cook;
curry
pasta bake
shepherds pie
roast chicken
sausage traybake
pork loins with potatoes and veg
homemade chicken burgers
lasagne
stirfry
fish with potatoes/ or rice and veg

lunches are rolls or wraps with chicken/ham etc, fruit, chopped veggies. A treat. Crackers. Cheese, yoghurts etc.

Average £70 every 10 days for one adult, two older teens. But that's because I have no choice. I bulk buy, buy more when its on offer and cook from scratch. The biggest change I made was meal planning every meal and snack.

£650 per month for 2 adults .
Plus top ups maybe £25 a week from M&S or nearest supermarket to work for fresh salad fruit & bread
Does not include cat food or litter bought separately - special diet one cat £250 per month
No booze either bought separately 6-8 bottles of wine & couple of cases of beers so another £120

Two adults, two kids 3 and 6, about £150-60 a week. But we aren’t massively careful about it so probably not that helpful if you’re looking to save money.

Been trying hard to bring the food shop cost down.
Currently give myself £135 a week for 2 adults and 2 children. Inc pack lunch's for 3 days.
Cook mostly from fresh, trying to lower possessed food. Buying better quality of some items but less of it.

2 adults, about £450 a month, including cleaning products - no pets. Cook from scratch, use a butcher so less meat but better, shop when offers on and stock up on items we use, avoiding UPFs which means very different purchases than I used to make, and a delivery a week which stops those expensive random treat purchases.

Like you we are 2 adults with 2 children (4&8) we spend about £100- £120/week all in (so that includes toiletries and cleaning products aswell as food)

We don't live on junk but don't eat lots of fancy or expensive home cooked recipes either and tend to mostly buy own brand (or budget range for some items) where possible.

We shop at Tesco and use clubcard.

Thanks, does this include the butcher or not?

About 650 a month for four adults, that includes lunches

£150-£200 a week, 2 adults, 17 year old boy who eats me out of house and home, 2 toddlers. 17 year old and DH are very active so eat more than the norm I would say. Mostly home cooked meals, chilli’s, stews, pasta etc. Then probably another £100-£150 a month on toothpaste, cleaning products and toiletries

About £500 per month for two adults and two primary age children, plus the odd top-up. But about a quarter of it is the shite snacks and fizzy drinks DP sticks in the trolley at the last minute. 😡

Prob around £400 for 2 adults and half a hungry 12yo
make the majority of meals from scratch but DD likes snacks and DH likes his protein yogurts

£95pw for 2 adults and 2 v young primary age kids. Cook from scratch. Beef and tomato stew, sausage casserole, Bolognese, lentil and bacon soup, bean chilli, turkey mince burritos, pork chickpea and chard, peanut butter chicken curry, kimchi fried rice, occasional burgers and pizza etc etc.

Yes, it does.

Thanks all. Doesn't seem my current expenditure is excessive then (£600 all in including top up shops) but I could probably cut down to save money in the short term.

£300 per month max (and includes some alcohol) - two adults and two cats. We don't go without - we have three meals a day plus 2/3 snacks. I'm not into puddings, but DH will have a yogurt at least once a day after a meal.

£600 seems a lot to me

We shop at Lidl and use the 10% discount ( not every month as we don’t spend enough every month )

When our boys are home ( three boys in their twenties ) we spend about £400 ( which inc the 10% discount on about £160 of that )
We only spent more than £400 in Nov and Dec last year but we were buying for Christmas. Generally it’s far less

ps. That also includes for a dog ( lab/staff mix) and two cats

Average £70 - £80 a week for 2 adults, 1 primary age child. Usually at Tesco.

3 adults, around £75 a week

£500 a month for two adults, an elderly cat and elderly dog, and a steam of hungry teenagers that pass through intermittently. But I do batch cook, bake and buy on offer. Includes household items too, not just food. Could easily be £600 without all that.

About £700 a month for 4 adults and 2 cats including toiletries and household goods.

One adult, one teen boy, £55 a week. That's food and basic toiletries. I cook from scratch and don't buy alcohol.