5 adults in the household and the cost of food shopping

[GeorgieTheGorgeousGoat]

How much do you spend on your food shop per week?

We are about £120 at Aldi and a £40 Sainsbury's top up but are getting bored. I'd like to do it all at Sainsbury's but fear it would be closer to £300 / week.

Would be interesting to see what other all adult households spend?

If you’re bored why don’t you try changing your menu rather than the shop?

Also your shop is cheaper than what I spend - two adults, 4 year old and 1 year old!

There are currently just 2 of us. DH spent £100 in Tesco yesterday, that doesn't count whatever it was he spent at Costco mid week. That's us stocked up for the next fortnight apart from fresh veg and bread.

If all the adults are earning money then £300 a week wouldn't be problematic surely?

There is no magic bullet in food shopping nowadays, good quality fresh food is expensive.
Doesn’t matter where you buy it.

What are you bored of?

I used to shop exclusively at Aldi but also got a bit bored.
I now shop at Asda and Sainsbury’s. Sainsbury’s is obviously more expensive but there’s not that huge difference that there used to be between it and Aldi.
Choice and quality is loads better at Sainsbury’s too.

This is us, granted i'm not the most imaginative cook but there is just much less choice at Aldi so its hard.

4 adults here and we spend £1200 and pay for alcohol separately.

No we aren't at that stage yet.

Per week??

There’s a lady on TikTok called savewithgem, she used to spend circa £300 per week on food shopping for her family of 5/6 now she spends £50 a week and some of her meals look amazing and healthy.

Sorry no £300 per week.

Ah phew! I'm not sure if £300 / week is sustainable for us.

No point asking other people with different budgets, preferences and priorities what they spend as you'll just get a range of amounts from under £100 to over £300.

I find 'not knowing what to cook' an alien concept because my brain constantly spews food ideas such that I could probably cook something different 3 times a day for decades without repeating what I eat.

Ask everyone in the household for ideas of what they would like to eat and buy that. Unless there's a health reason, they should all be cooking at least once a week too.

3 adults and 2 adult sized teens; we probably spend about £250 week. I have found that letting things run down a bit more helps and then going to get what we need or getting a same day delivery from Morrisons works better than the weekly scheduled shop. Probably every 3 or 4 weeks for my big Tesco delivery now.

I'm finding I need to buy a lot more filling snacks that I used to, bakery items and a fortune on pink lady apples. 😅

Per week ?

We have two older dc (23 and 14) and there’s dh and I and we spend around £250 a week. The main issue we have is that none of us like the same things and dd 23 often eats at completely different times to everyone else (work / social life) so the fridge mostly consists of ready meal type options and sandwich / quick type stuff, and I know this makes things more expensive. If I cooked something from scratch like a shepherds pie or whatever chances are absolutely no one would eat it.

Who cooks isn't really the problem. And i don't even do the food shop- DH does. But collectively we would like to find the rxtta money to shake things up a bit. I was just hoping you'd all say you can feed your family from sainsbury's for £200/250 😂

We had 4 adults (1 of whom is a a serious gym addict so lots of meat/eggs) until a few months ago and were spending about £180 a week ….we’re down to 2 adults now and spend under £60 a week!
I do the majority at Aldi with some things I prefer from Tesco

But why does going to Sainsbury’s needed to shake things up?

surely it’s changing the menu that would help?

if you usually use mayo for salad, try adding pickles and oil, or making a Marie Rose with tomatoe pure and woster sauce added to the mayo, or a honey and lemon dressing , a garlic and mustard one

what exactly is the problem ?

You don't have to do it all in one shop. Plan your meals for the week, something that isn't boring and that you all want to eat. Get what you can from Aldi but if they dont have all the ingredients pop to Sainsbury's or Waitrose for the few further items you need (or send one of the others there with a list)

4 adults here in holiday time £200 pw easy 2 adults are vwgetarian as well ! When just 2 of us around £80-120 and with 3 £150 ish. I fine this website helpful https://www.clearscore.com/learn/managing-money/average-uk-household-cost-food

Of course you can feed 5 adults from Sainsburys for £200/250 per week. Quite easily with an interesting varied diet.

Make sure you use your Nectar card for the offers and discounts.

Like a PP says, what exactly is the problem?

What about trying an app like Cherrypick, which gives you the Gousto etc experience at supermarket prices, but obviously you need to order or go buy the food yourself.

Plan & shop meals instantly at supermarket prices

Your shop seems cheap to me op!!

I shop at tesco for 3 adults a teen and 2 kids and it comes to £250ish a week... but I'm not scrimping, lots of fruit and veg, lots of meat, 24 packs of coke regularly etc.