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?

£45-60 a week, includes everything. 1 adult, 2 kids.

About 150 for 4. dh works from home and the amount of fruit that is consumed staggering.

Midlands.
2 adults, on 6 yr old and a cat.
About £80 a week, including all toileteries and cleaning stuff and an occasional bottle. This included packed lunch for all of us every day. We occasionally 'miss' a week when things are tighter.
We eat out a couple of times a week.

Between £100-120 every week. Includes toiletries . Also an organic fruit and veg box every week. We don't eat meat more than 1-2 times a week. Do buy a lot of organic stuff though including milk bread etc

70-100 per week. 2 Adults and 2 DC (14 months).

London. Just over £200 for a family of 5 (shopping at Ocado and M&S), and most lunches are also bought. DH is a meat monster and protein is expensive. Looking at this thread makes me wonder how the hell we spend so much, I must say. When we were poor students (in Australia) it was completely different - I think our eating habits have definitely changed. I think I might need to do something about our food spend - it does look v high.

Are supermarket prices different in diffferent areas?

I spend £50 - 60 per week. 2 adults and a cat. We both take packed lunches to work every day. This does not include wine.....

I reckon it's around £200 pw with top ups now. Two adults, two teenagers (lunch for DS who's on a gap year and packed lunch for dd). That includes all cleaning stuff, toiletries and 2/3 bottles of wine and a couple of packs of beers. I don't stint but neither do we live on fillet steak or smoked salmon for that. This weekend we had pasta on Saturday and a beef stew with dumplings on Sunday and Monday. Other dinners this week are: kievs, chips and peas tonight, pizza and salad tomorrow and a reduced pork meatball thing which I will service with pizza and salad on Thursday. I also bought a reduced shoulder of lamb on Saturday.

I work full-time and tend only to use Sainsburys and Waitrose. If I had more time I would shop around more. I also like the DC to have plenty to snack on before I get home from work which often isn't before 7ish, ie, nice ham [eek], cheese, crackers, cake, etc., etc, and I make sure they have a nice breakfast in the morning: scrambled eggs, bacon sarnie, muffins with toasted cheese.

I am expecting the shopping bills to reduce considerably when DS leaves home next year.

about £30-40, me dd and cats.

Having said all that we rarely have a takeaway (2/3 times a year) and rarely eat out as a family - once a term now the DC are so busy with their social lives. DH and I might be eating out a bit more often.

£40 to £50 a week, me, DD and a dog. We're in the Peak District, I shop at the beloved Aldi.

We spend about £200. Family of 4. we both buy lunch out although ds takes packed lunch to school.

Oh and we hardly ever go out to eat so that includes alcohol too :)

Prices in stores vary from street to street: you will pay more in your little local Tesco than in a big one. And their won't have the same deals.

If there is a big difference in mortgages and how salaries then I'd think there might be different prices.

That's my assumption, maybe someone knows for a fact?

If other prices such as tea ir coffee can be different (saw someone on another thread saying they bought s cake for £1.2 when it would've been £3.90 here ) so I'm guessing it might be similar with food?

I spend about £100 a week for 3 of us (although hubby eats double what is normal) and only includes lunches for me. I don't buy much processed stuff and mostly cook from scratch or use jar sauces.

That includes food for 3 cats and all toiletries, cleaning gear etc.

I too am wondering how those of you on £50-£60pw manage to do it?

We checked bank statements recently and realised we spend WAY more in the supermarkets than we realised.

2 adults, one 2 year old, 1 cat, includes all meals for all of us. £120 a week.

HOWEVER, that is supermarket spending, not food spending, and we've bought a lot of clothes for DD in Sainsburys, and lots of toys/equipment from Lidl's aisle of excitement, so actual food costs will be less.

We don't currently meal plan. I buy organic: milk, eggs & some fruit & veg, butter from grass fed cows, vintage cheese, high welfare meat. We eat proportionally few carbohydrates and lots of veg instead so that is more expensive. We buy wine. We have houseguests. DD is in nappies. So those things explain the higher bill.

That said, i am a bargain hunter, buy reduced stuff and stock up on goo offers, we do lots of our shop in Lidl, I cook loads of pulse based veggie meals, so fuck knows how much it would be if I just let rip! Scary!!

I spend about €120, I don't know what that is in sterling, and thats me being pretty frugal and shopping in Aldi (family of 5, 2 adults, 1 teen, 2 kids, 1 dog and 2 cats). The cost of groceries is far more expensive here in Ireland I think, even in the so called budget shops (Aldi and Lidl) . We also have far less choice as to where to shop, there are only a few large supermarket chains no Asda, Sainsburys, Morrisons etc so there is less incentive for the supermarkets to lower the prices. I am amazed sometimes when I read the prices of basic items on here sometimes, I reckon I could shave 1/4 off my bill if I shopped in the UK :).

Anywhere between £50-£70 a week in Tesco for two adults, a toddler and a baby. That includes all meals.

Well last night I spent £140 )2 adults, 3 teenagers, lunches included (mostly). But I hadn't been for 10 days& I bought a few extras like brandy butter to have in for Christmas. I suspect it is usually about £130, but I don't really budget & do get bits & bobs in the week sometimes(the £40 carton of milk)

I think about £100 per week, although we don't shop religiously on a weekly basis so hard to say. There are three adults and one child (5).

We live near Brighton and spend about £100-£120 a week on 2 adults, an 8 month old baby and a German Shepherd. Including toiletries, nappies, odd crafty bits etc.

We don't drink alcohol, eat takeaways or buy into the whole organic thing so that looks like a lot I suppose! We are both "bodybuilders " and do eat a loose kind of paleo diet though so maybe that's bumping the price up

Around £120ish for 2 adults, 1 2 year old and 3 cats. That includes nappies and toiletries

£150 a week to £200 but I am a foodie and love cooking. That's for 1 DC aged 2, 2 adults and 3 dogs. Food is our biggest extravagance and I was brought up not to skimp on good food. I would love to know how to do it for 60 quid!

I can do it between 50-70 for 1 adult two kids under 16 and 2 cats incl all lunches. The 70 quid weeks are washing powder and dish washer/cleaning product re-stock weeks. Meal planning is the only way to keep it low so a roast chicken dinner converts the next day to a chicken and veg soup. A large pack of mince will do two evening meals of a spag bol and shepherds pie respectively. Pack lunch foods have also got to be planned for but my kids like bagels and paninis which you can get cheaply at aldi - stay away from the branded biscuits and crisps and you will save another load of money. Stews and stir frys go much further than a meat slab and carb plus veg. Keep bread in the freezer to avoid waste get a few slices out an hour before you need them. Buying cleaning products and pet food in bulk it is a massive saving and gives you lots of cheaper weeks.