To ask what you spend at the supermarket on average each week

[Joysmum]

I'm just wondering what everyone else's costs roughly are, for how many people and whether this includes lunches?

I would say we average about £120-£130 per week for 2 adults and 3 children (this includes a 10mo baby in nappies who is now formula fed). This includes lunches for 4 of us (DH eats at work) and occasional treats/alcohol but not the pet supplies (two guinea pigs). I do a couple of £10 ish top ups per week too I would guess. Trying hard to meal plan more, but I do cook from scratch I would say 90% of the time.

Hard to say exactly what the average weekly figure is because I'll often buy meat and fish in bulk to freeze - this week for example I've spent about £30 on chicken/salmon/minced beef etc but this is all to freeze in batches and will probably last 2-3 weeks, so next week's shop won't include it. Ditto with cleaning stuff or nappies - tend to stock up when they are on offer - and bottles of wine.

I suspect I could get my general weekly shop for a lot less. No, I know I could. I never buy 'value' (apart from the Tesco Value round lettuce for the guinea pigs ), prefer to feed the kids organic milk, spend too much money on Organix type baby snacks (which I know are a rip off but the baby adores them), we probably have too many treats and I am a shocker for buying branded goods when I know the store-brand stuff would probably be just as good. If I really put my mind to it and tried to budget hard (and cut out all alcohol, treats etc) I could probably cut a good £50 off it. But we can easily afford the shop we do, and don't eat out much, so (other than me feeling a bit inferior and daunted when reading about what other people do) the amount we spend isn't really an issue for us.

I'm not sure what we spend exactly, probably around £40 for 2 adults and one nine yeAr old
Dp buys stuff to eat at night sometimes as he comes in late and might have a supermarket curry and rice or whatever
I usually do one monthly Asda delivery for around £60 which is for tins and heavy things and meat. I top up at other supermarkets mostly tesco and lidl for fruit and veg, milk bread tea coffee etc...
We buy a lot of own brand and budget stuff and we don't eat a lot of meat. I'm not that fussed about exotic fruits or blueberries out of season, whatever, would rather buy apples and pears and cabbage.
I always add a lot of veg or pulses to things like spaghetti bolognaise. Or make Indian vegetarian food like Saag Aloo or curry.
We eat stirfrys once a week which doesn't require much meat and lots of veg. Noodles and rice don't cost much. I don't see the point in straight to wok noodles when they only take 4 minutes to cook in boiling water.
Oh look didn't I ramble on. Oh well you did ask and I can bore for Britain.

50 a week for me plus 5yo and 3yo for food and toiletries but not counting pull ups (both dds still in at night) or cat food. Or wine. So more like 60-70 some weeks. I shop at Asda as well.

I'd say about £100 pw for two adults and 2 children (5 and 3).

I buy Tesco Everyday value on lots of things...lots of tins like tomatoees, tuna, sardines. The value veg and fruit (most of it...not strawberries, NEVER strawberries from Tesco even in high season, they are shit)

Some things I will only buy branded...butter, yoghurts, bread, cereal (except Weetabix...I much prefer cheap Weetabix as it's firmer) being a few. I will only buy free range eggs and chicken.

I do buy the 3 for £10 on pork loins...£10 worth of those is enough for 4 meals for us all (either just oven baked meat or chopped up in a casserole or stirfry)...they are brilliant value and as nice as any expensive pork loins I've tried.

I do buy a lot of berries which are expensive (not strawberries obv lol). I also buy at least one nice cut of meat a week, usually for Sunday lunch. Also quite a bit on herbs (dried and fresh). I also spend about £10 a week on cheese which puts the bill up...I have a dh and two kids who are complete cheese fiends and love all the expensive stinky cheeses, and in the case of the dc, brie, which isn't cheap.

If I had to, I think I could still feed us decently on half that...we'd reduce the meat we buy and not buy free range chicken/eggs, switch to budget brands of more items, stop the range of cheeses that fill our fridge.

I am not sure if it has been mentioned but to save money you could try buying frozen berries rather than fresh. I recently started doing this and I have found it really helpful. Also check out frozen spinach!

Reading this with shame as I have no idea what I spend. Don't do a weekly shop just buy what 's needed wherever I happen to be.

Wow £70? I budget £150 and often go over. 2 adults, a 5yo and 2 2yos although the 2 yos eat the same as the 5yo and sometimes more! We have so much fruit it costs a fortune, my cupboards are well stocked though. It's not even like we have rump steak - this week we've had beef casserole, chicken casserole and spaghetti bolognaise. Usually shop in Asda. Meals are home made and very rarely have takeaway or eat out.

I know exactly what we spend each month because I'm sad I track our expenditure to the penny on certain items

At the moment, we're averaging £60-70/week on groceries and £25/week on outside food, the latter meaning anything from takeaway to picking up a coffee whilst shopping.

Our groceries cover all meals, drinks and snacks for all of us (me, DH & toddler). The £25 spent elsewhere doesn't replace a meal as we always have food in, eg in the freezer or cupboards, as I have a tendency to stock up. It's also our main treat.

I would also suggest that some people might think that they spend a lot less (or possibly a lot more!) than they actually do. I've always had a pretty good handle on our finances yet I was still surprised by how much we spent once I actually started tracking. We've already lowered the monthly groceries by £100 and the monthly outside food by £30.

18mo ago we were doing £30-40/week all in. 3y ago we did £10-15/week all in. Was pretty miserable and hard going, but done out of necessity at the time and we had no DC. Without seriously compromising on a combination of quality, nutrition and enjoyment, I highly doubt that we could go below £50/week on groceries now.

Two adults and one toddler: between £70 to £80.

$220 CAN a week

Not had to buy groceries for a while as been living with my Dparents, but previously with me, DH, 2 DSes (4 & 2) plus Dcat, shopping used to cost between £100 & £200 per month, for everything, so around £30-£40 per week.

Done by buying reduced to clear everything, Value everything, buying from local farms directly & not buying what we didn't need.

I am impressed by those spending less than £100 pw for a family. I spend about £120 - £150, for 2 adukts and 2 teensge dswho can get through 6 boxes of cereal a week without trying but that includes everything, household stuff, pet food, toiletries etc as well as food. We don't eat takeaways and rarely go to restaurants, so don't have additional expenditure in that way. I never go to a supermarket but shop online and have it delivered. I have tried to get it down to £100 but fail... On the other hand, there are certain things I won't compromise on, so all meat and milk is organic, which pushes the price up a bit.

Forgot to say, my total included lunch for 4 of us for 3 days, but ds2 was eating 2 breakfasts & lunches & 1 tea at nursery.

Total did not include chippy tea once per week (£8)

I'm impressed too MrsAM - but wonder if that's a rather British thing - to be proud of how little we spend on our food?!
If I think about it I'm equally impressed by anyone providing good food to nourish their growing family within their family budget, whatever that may be. Or even providing for their families full stop.

£90 pw for 2 adults and 2 dc (9&11), includes lunches. Expect this to creep up as dc's reach teens as ds is already having similar portions to me (and still hungry)

Then probably £100 pm at Costco on cleaning stuff, loo roll, washing powder, cereal and other bulk buys (meat is very good there)

£300 per year on wine - purchased on annual trip to France when we stock up on 100 bottles ish.

Where you shop makes a massive difference. A £70 shop in Aldi will last us 10 days easily and includes lots of treats, free range chicken/eggs, lunch box stuff, wine.

A weekly shop in Asda never seems to cost me less than £80 and that's buying very carefully.

I made the mistake of using Ocado once because I had a £15 off voucher - £80 and when the delivery man came I thought there must have been a mistake, it was only 4 carrier bags full

I find the quality of Aldi fine and would rather buy whatever I want there than have to shop really frugally in one of the big supermarkets.

We also don't eat meat every day, and I don't buy anything branded, so that has an impact.

I usually spend approx. £75 per week for 2 adults, 1 teenager and 2 cats. I'm careful and buy some value stuff and things on offer in bulk if I know we'll use them. On the other hand, we enjoy a bottle of wine (or two) a week and if we want a treat, have it. This covers all our meals as OH and DD take sandwiches with them.

about £200. family of 8 here

£100 pw for two adults and two kids. We have one of dd's friends round at least once a week. There is an extra adult eating here at least 5 nights a week though, and some lunchtimes too which has pushed our costs up noticeably. Includes all toiletries, cleaning products and chicken and livestock food though...

About 120 p/w for 2 adults, one 3yo and a cat. Includes toiletries, nice wine, organic meat (about 3x a week) and dairy-free foods for child and myself. Top-ups probably about another 30 p/w.
It's a lot and we could certainly spend less if we had to!

About £60-80 a week, online shop and then two or three top up shops of £15-25 each.

This is for 2 adults & 2 DC -all meals & packed lunches and occasional items of school uniform or pyjamas etc..

Too much! I need to cut back, I can do it but I seem to focus on food a lot in the cold weather!

I spend around £50-70 a week I have a14 year old ad a one year old

I cook fresh every day and we have a full roast with all the trimmings on Sunday

We also have two cats