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?

Looking at my credit card we average £95 per week. Online shopping from Ocado. If I go in store to our local Tesco, it will be £150 easy. Shows the power of their in store promotions!

We're a family of 2 adults (work from home so in all day) and 2 DCs (11 and 8). Cook largely from scratch, very few takeaways.

I think a lot of people either underestimate what they buy or they don't eat a lot or use toiletries and cleaning products.

The average family meal will set you back at least £5 and that's without desserts, snacks, odd bits of toast here and there, ketchup / mayo. Even a pack of ham with five slices costs £1.50 so lunches must be at least £1.50 per day per child by the time you've added the fruit and snacks - unless you are reeeeally careful. Then there's juice, milk, tea and coffee. And breakfast.

Even if you do breakfast and lunch for £2 per person which would be fairly grim, that's £56 a week. A spartan evening meal will add £35 and there would be no cleaning or toiletries allowed. If you include those you can't manage for less than £100.

There's no point in kidding ourselves - food prices are unacceptably high now.

We only spend on the credit card, and from one place so our average is £95 a week and that includes toiletries/cleaning stuff. Alcohol we buy in bulk so that might add an extra £10 a week. I think about what I buy, plan meals, stock up on things when it is cheap, eat leftovers for lunch or make soup out of food that is past its best, we throw away very little. Could easily do a non-grim breakfast and lunch for £2 a person!!

But yes - food prices are extremely high. But then I'm always amazed by how much people throw away too ...

I read the reviews on Ocado and there are people throwing away whole bags of potatoes because they start to sprout - what?! Or those people that throw perfectly good food away because it's a day over the best before date.

wishing are you including butter, oil, tea and coffee? Do you have juice? I think vegetarians get a slightly better deal financially but even then a tin of pulses is now around 80p and you'd need at least two for a nutritious meal for four. Vegetables themselves are ludicrously overpriced now, even in season veg.

Stashing special offer food is all well and good but we shouldn't be forced into this wartime mentality to feed our families. IMO.

Wishing - a challenge - do me breakfast and lunch for £2. I want it to be nice. :)

£100-£135 tops
2adults, 3 children -2 are teenagers, one is severely disabled so that incurs extra costs. And 1 dog
I think I could get it down a bit
Everyone has a packed lunch

We live almost next door to a large Tesco, I have no idea how much we spend per week as we just pop in all the time.

I know that makes us look stupid, but I just have no clue. I suppose it's less than our income blah blah blah.

Guessing at 150 a month, including booze and clothing.

has anyone else noticed on this thread that the younger the dcs, the cheaper the food bill? Look back through the thread and you will see what i mean. If you don't have a teenage son then you will never know how expensive the food shopping can be !!!

They have hollow legs :o

Sorry lets go I have 14 year old there are 4 of us we spend 50-70 a week

I agree with letsgo. It's even more expensive when the teenagers are at home all day in the holidays and when they are on keep fit initiatives and want protein in spades

Did an absolutely huge Morrisons shop today including one bottle of wine, joint of beef, other meet, lots of cheese, restocking all my cereals, cans, spreads and freezer along with my normal shop. Included some toiletries but not cleaning stuff - £135. The same shop would have been at least £50 more in Tesco. I think that Morrison is far and away the best value supermarket.

I spent £100 today between sainsburys and aldi. Lots of lovely treaty food and wine.
Having a take away tomorrow night which will be around £25 for the three of us, and going out for lunch on sunday as well.
I could easily cut back on my food spends, but we love nice food and drink too much, so i probably wont.

I spend between £30-40 per week for me, two primary aged DCs and 3 cats....the cats cost the most!

All three of us eat cooked lunch and pudding at school, 1 cd also has breakfast at school....so I'm buying for 21 dinners, 6 lunches and 16 breakfasts......we tend to have simple suppers due to cooked lunches.....so beans on toast, noodles, cheese, apple and crackers, yoghurts, eggs (we have hens) that type of thing. Breakfast is toast and/or cereal. Meals at the weekend tend to be cooked breakfast...eggs again/bacon etc...or pancakes, pizza or suchlike in the evening. Lunch might be something with pasta and then a full roast (sometimes at my parents) on Sunday. I feel we eat well, kids snack a little but usually on cheap nuts, seeds, fruit, yoghurt and biscuits. I don't drink much and don't smoke.

Cats food - buy tins in Lidl and dry food that is on offer.

I use vouchers where appropriate, bulk buy and use value products if I feel the quality is good (noodles, pasta, cheese, veg)

Wondering try Lidl for fruit and veg. Had a salad yesterday, we only used 1/2 of everything. Lettuce, Tomatoes, Cucumber. So last nights salad was under 74p.
Is it just me but are Lidl (can't comment on Aldi as we don't have one) fruit and veg better than the main large supermarkets.

We come in way lower at 25 - 40. Two adults one toddler. Includes nappies cleaning products - but I top up on milk and bread in the week and a pizza so thats prob another 10 - I shop at lidl for the main shop plud occasional adds trip for toddler fruit pots snacks

About £90 a week for 2 adults, 2 kids and 2 pets including all lunches, nappies and toiletries.

My 2 dc seem to eat all the time...ds2 and dh take pack up to school and work and ds1 has hot dinners (which costs £40 a month)
We don't drink much, don't smoke, not pets and we easily spend £100 a week.
I am not brand loyal, or shop loyal at all...I go where is convenient for me that week, so either ocado, asda or co op.
Don't really use branded goods either...
In the past few years I would say that my grocery bill has gone up 30% at least.

I just skim added up and divided by the number of posters who posted their spend and got around £75 so it would seem that is the average weekly spend!

Obviously there is people much lower/higher than this and family sizes differ greatly but just thought it might be of interest!

in the past year my grocery bill has gone up 30%

Mine has too. And it goes up and up when the children get older and then again when I get so sick of cheap food your priorities change and you start giving in to the 'special' ranges.

I don't know how anyone with children actually eats out. It's always at least £50 once you have catered for drinks etc. Harvester is cheap but frankly I would rather cook my own than do that sticky table with a lump of meat on the side thing.

We never eat out, unless you count the macdonalds I let the the dc have about 3 times a year! :)
I buy a lot of fresh fruit and veg and we are meat eaters too so it's very expensive.
I did try an organic Veg box for a while but I didn't always like the contents and it is very £££.

Occassionly we eat out, I can say £50 seems an enormous sum but we live in London so have a relative large amount of choice. I think the drinks usually would add an awful lot to the bill, we just order tap water and have only main and pudding, although dh and myself don't eat pudding. Between the 4 of us we probably spend no more than £35 and that would be rowing the boat out without vouchers. Usually we try and pick up a voucher for something which gets something free.