How much is your weekly shop?

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I was talking to an old collegue the other day about food shopping and if hes noticed a price rise in his shopping bill.

He lives with his wife and their 3 year old son, i was shocked when he said his shopping bill is £100 a week every week! thats not including the occassional expensive week you know with washing powder or whatever.

My parents with no children (living at home) spends 150 a week-on what? seriously? dips? bloody expensive dips!

My shopping costs about 50 but often 30 a week for 2 adults and 2 children under 5. I have noticed my bill going up a bit, dont know if my son is eating more or vat rise.

do you shop weekly? whos bu, my collegue or me? where do you fit?

Ours comes in around about £120/£130 every ten days - me, dh and dog. A lot, I know. It does include lunches / breakfast for work though and DH insists on things like Lucozade Sport for work. Weve started shopping in Tesco instead of Sainsburys but tbh I dont think its any cheaper at the moment.

If I have the money, I would shop in Waitrose all the time!

That should say had the money!

This thread has really made me think!! I have no idea what I spend - I go to tesco or sainsburys once a week but also call into M&S every other day. I do tend to bulk buy things that are on offer; toilet rolls, washing powder etc. From today I am going to make a list, budget for it and save some money hopefully!!!!!

Around £125 - we have 3 DC, one in nappies and another in night time pull ups. But probably 3 big shops a month - and on the other weeks maybe £50 - guess around £500 a month. We shop in tesco.

I make everything from scratch, fruit and vegetables are v expensive. We don't drink & rarely throw away food. I don't buy out of season expensive fruit or veggies. We also do entertaining maybe every 2nd weekend, which is expensive. Not posh entertaining but it adds up.

about 55 on a monday and 55 on a friday.

240 this month, so far.
which included 2 take aways, and a party.

I shop weekly and try to keep it to under £100. Mostly it's around £90. But there are weeks when we buy lots of cleaning stuff or a big box of beer/case of wine when it is a fair bit more than that. On average it probably is about £100. Two adults and a four year old.

I don't think it is unreasonable to spend that much if you can afford it! Obviously if we couldn't afford that amount, we wouldn't spend it. And it certainly makes my life happier to be able to afford really nice fruit juice or posh bread or something that is kind of a treat every week.

I also buy organic or free range meat as far as possible, and try to buy fair trade where that's available so I am certainly spending more than I have to. But animal welfare and fair wages for producers are really important to me and I feel glad that I can afford to support those things. If my budget was much smaller then obviously I would not pay the extra cash if the money wasn't available. I would eat less meat though and try to stick to organic or free range where I could.

Oh man, I think we "win". We spend about £120 a week, that's me, DH, DS (11) and DS (1).

We all eat like horses! I am breastfeeding and running, DH cycles commutes, DS1 is doing somesort of grow fest and well the 1yo eats normally I suppose .

We are all slim (I'm a little underweight actually).

Our trolley is full by the time we've got out of the fruit and veg aisle. DSs eat some meat but me and DH don't; we eat fish though.

I think alot is on DHs veg. He has to eat SO much because of all the cycling. Oh, he eats a million dozen eggs every couple of days.

DS doesn't drink and I have a bottle of wine a week, so it's not going on booze.

We mainly eat a main thing (sausages, fish, quorn thing) and then lots of veggies and either spuds or rice.

We don't have puddings so much, mainly yoghurt. I do eat my body weight in chocolate though.
Oh, I don't know. I tried doing the fruit and veg shop from the market but it wasn't much cheaper than Tesco TBH.

Aldi did come out cheaper but we mainly do online shopping.

My weekly shop is about £80. That is for DH,me and DD3 19, It goes up a bit when DD2 is home from university but not that much,

for me & my boys 3 & 4, i spend £20-£30. we always eat healthy and i cook everything from scratch. the boys eat large amounts too!
i shop around and get my tin toms, bread and milk from farm foods. they do 2 hovis for £1.25, 4x tin tom for £1, every saving makes a difference.
we don't eat much meat. our usual meals are
bean chilli with jackets & salad
jackets with cheese/beans/tuna, salad
quorn spag bol
homemade soup
chickpea curry with aubergine & spinach
chickpea moroccan stew with sweet pot
beans & cheese on toast
homemade pizza/calzone
pasta with various things like roasted veg, or anything random!
i always meal plan but if when i get to the shop and other things are on offer/cheap then i will change it.
i have noticed that prices are going up and instead of buying grapes for example, i'll get carrots for the boys to have instead as cheaper.

I thought we (2 adults 2 young children) are not spending too much on food but after reading these messages I am shocked with our spenditure (once a week £100 plus, and during week twice around £20-£30)and with the fact that some people together with their pets manage to live on £50 a week! ... I cook from scratch, nearly always, occasionally buy ready meals like sushi, Indian etc... but we do buy a big selection of fruit, veg , cheeses, and ... alcohol (wine, beer) too. Then sauces, cupboard ingredients add up... I always try to buy whatever is on sale/offer... It also depends who does the shopping - me (cheaper) or my husband (than it is about 30%-50% more expensive!)

Oh yes, forgot to mention - we shop in Tesco, and do not buy all organic, just milk, some fruit and veg, about 20-30% only I would say...although wish to buy all organic obviously but can't afford ... if already spend so much on food! :) But I know some people who spend more than us, for just 2 of them, no kids, and buy most organic...

We spend about £70-80 quid a week - me, DH, DC2 (under 3s) and two cats. Shop at Sainsburys and generally fans of good quality meat, organic/free range stuff, etc, so we could easily drop our spending if we wanted to.

I remember DH coming home from the supermarket when he had realised that he had only brought £10 with him and had to shop smart - was very impressed at what you can buy when you really try to save!

We easily spend £200 a week and it is probably more for two children - including a male teenager, two adults and a variety of animals.

I cook everything from scratch and I know we could shave some off that but I cannot see how we would get down to some of the figures quoted on here.

I buy nappies and wipes through amazon's subscribe and save but even without that our food shop is approx 160 a week for 5 of us.

Well as I live in Ireland I thought I would throw my tuppence in. Myself and DH and DS(8) spen approx 150 euro per week.
Everything thing here is so expensive. I have tried the discount stores , Aldi and Lidl and cen get it down to 120 there , as long as there are not expensive detergents etc,
I cook a lot from scratch but a loaf of bread in tesco's is 2e and I am not talking artisan bread !

I am also in Ireland, they don't call it 'rip off Ireland' for nothing.
I am near the border though so I can pop in there for a big shop, washing powder etc..

God! I knew I wasn't being thrifty but now I am wondering where our money goes! I spend £100 on a Fri/Sat and then a further £60-£70 during the week. I use Ocado and Sainsburys so whilst I know Ocado isn't the cheapest I just did a shop online through MySupermarket and found Sainsburys came out cheapest for what I was buying. Ocado would have been £19 more, and that was on just a £70 Sainsburys spend so that shocked me. I didn't think Ocado was too bad as they Tesco price match brand stuff but they are way more expensive on fruit, veg, meat etc.

So £160ish a week here on food and then once a month I do a shop at Costco for washing powder, dishwasher tablets, which come in at around £100. So I reckon we're spending upwards of £700 a month on shopping. Eeeeeeek!

We do have a someone for dinner once a week but we also eat out/takeaway once a week and dc4 is in nursery two days a week! I need to have a shopping overhaul don't I!?!?

We are a family of four btw, dc are 4 and 1.

Okay, somebody asked for a list so I have gone to my 'shopping list' area on my online shop (apparently doing online shopping on average means we spend 20% less than in store) and have the following written down - and have tried to bulk it into meals so you get an idea of what we have - although my main problem is our portion size. Neither DH nor I are overweight (well, he def. isn't, I've just had DC#3 and could certainly do with eating less to lose weight but I'm breastfeeding and runnign around after my two pre-schoolers too, so am justifying myself that way!). Either way, I saw a previous poster saying she made 12 adult portions of bolognaise with 1kg of mince. We get through a 500g bolognaise in one sitting, with perhaps a small portion left over for one person!!!

We always eat a hot evening meal, and normally have cold lunch. I have a three-week rotational menu which we stick to (unless there is a special occasion or something), which has a roast, a further two or three meat meals per week, a couple of easies (eggy bread for example) and a 'tasty for everyone' meal (saussies, beans and chips/curry/homemade pizza etc). We get through more fruit than all the fruit bats in Sydney Botanical Gardens thought which, despite offers, is expensive. It's a shame that a pack of biscuits would be a (financially-speaking) better snack for the kiddies.

staples, breakfasts and lunches;
8pts milk, basics cheddar, camembert, basics clementines, diet coke (my vice, but I don't really drink alcohol), toms, cucumbers, bread, butter, breadsticks, basics cream cheese, pears, peaches, bananas, greek yogurt, 4-pack longlife orange juice, tea bags basics, peanut butter, cheepios (what we call cheerios - sainsbury's brand)

evening meals;
mccain oven fries , baked beans, sausages
fresh cream, free range eggs, bacon
pasta/macaroni/pasta shells, basics chopped toms, mince, kidney beans, carrots, paprika
basics mozzarella, garlic, ham, plain flour, pineapple chunks
whole chicken, basics baking potatoes, vegetables
noodles

randoms:
persil non-biological, dishwasher salt, sainsbury's shower gel, rosemary, plughole unblocker, tissues, little ones wipes, Go-Cat, bleach

Our average spend is about £80 with one or two of the 'randoms' normally. I tend to buy these kinds of things when they're on offer and just hide them somewhere till we need them again...,

whoops - a tad long!! sorry

Our weekly shopping is about £110 a week for 2 adults and 3 children and that includes all the toiletries and non-food items. We cook meals from scratch at least 6 times a week and we eat a lot of fresh fruit and veggies and I do "exotic" foods at least once a week which use more expensive ingredients like belazu harissa paste (which runs out very quickly) and Japanese mirin. We shop with Ocado which deceptively appears like the more expensive option, but it's not. Instead we spend more whenever we shopped in the usual "physical" supermarkets like the local Tesco's/Asda's because shops arrange their products in such a way as to tempt customers to buy more stuff than they really need, and in the past we just ended up buying buy a whole lot more stuff than we really need and a lot more junk food too.

maybe about 60 quid or so

Four of us. About £200, but there's a lot of booze and entertaining out of it.

Ooh can we come Hully? :o

Mais oui, it's always open house round ours (realises why she spends so bloody much)