to ask how much your weekly shop is and how much your two year old eats?

[RalphLaurenLover]

Just that really.

A friend told me she does her weekly shop for £25 this includes her husband and her 2 year old and her 4 week old she said that this includes her veg, fruit, fresh meat at £2 a go etc etc all from Iceland.

It's only me and my nearly 2 year old son and I spend about £40 a week on fresh meat, veg, fruit etc and I thought that was reasonable, I don't buy fizzy, chocolate, sweets froozen food, ready meals etc.

She made out I was way over spending for no reason and my son doesn't eat enough because she feeds her two year old the same portions she does herself and her husband and she's been told he's overweight for his age.

I'm nbu am I?

I'd pay £25 a week not to shop at Iceland, mind you my local one smells like a sewer, so maybe I'm prejudiced

My LO has three meals a day which is basically

cereal with no milk because he's strange or toast

lunch of a sandwich, grapes, orange, half a banana and maybe some crisp

then his dinner will be like some veg, small handful of chips and then maybe some nuggets, salmon, cod, haddock fish cakes, sausages

he doesn't really do snacks but he doesn't eat a adults portion of anything even if he could I wouldn't let him

About £85 a week for me and two dc (6 and 4). That includes everything - household products, toiletries, wine etc and also home delivery from Tesco. I do it all online and keep an eye on the basket - it seems to add up so quickly. I really think supermarket prices have risen in the last few years. I used to live abroad and would stock up on stuff when I came home. I remember getting wellies for £2 from asda, and now they're at least 6.

haha chipped I went in there for the first time the other day after going to the post office because they had 6 creme eggs for £1.50 and I'm a sucker for creme eggs

Its probably doable if you eat cheap, processed shit every day with very little variation which isn't really a nice way to have to live.
I think you are doing really well OP to manage on £40 a week. I think I was spending around £30 a week on my shopping for just myself at uni and that was 20 yrs ago!
I spend about £100 pw now for me, DH and DD and that includes toiletries, cleaning products and wine. I could do it for less but love my food and love to cook so will get a variety of meat, fish etc. I'm also very sceptical of people who say they do it for buttons and wonder what they have included when they count it up.

We spend roughly £80 a week ( I think) difficult to say as I do a massive aldi Shop every few weeks and bits and bobs from lidl on the other weeks.

I shopped today and spent £160. It contained lots of meat, veg, one nice wine (£8) one bottle of gin (£10) flowers (£3.50).
I didn't buy any rubbish or processed food except for three luxury pizza.

We do eat very well and quite a lot of meat. Agree with poster above once you start cooking great food with good ingredients cheap food doesn't cut it. Processed cake is horrid.

You can't eat well for £25 a week.

So this is just a stealth boast thread that you feed your kid better food than your turkey dinosaur thread? I remember your other thread. You're very into what everyone else is doing and their business aren't you.

Turkey dinosaur friend*

Im glad op feeds hers better than turkey dinosaur friend and did you remember another thread or search the username flowery so you could have a snipe?

Not at all. I wanted to know how much people spend on their weekly shop in comparison seeing as I didn't think £40 was a lot.

We had a conversation my child eat's chicken nuggets, chicken fingers which are the same thing as Turkey Dinosaurs.

I also wanted to know if my son was eating alright in quantities and in fact others have confirmed he is.

I don't have two year old but I think you should all start a small savings plan to mature when you have teenagers :)

God my shop is min £80 for me, 12yo and 4yo (inc washing and household things and sometimes supermarket clothes etc). 12yo eats pretty much adult portions if she likes the food, less if not, 4yo about half an adult portion if that. There is no way a 2 yo can eat an adult portion! Their stomach is the size of their fist, is a good guide I was told by a health visitor. I am seriously jealous of your shopping and cooking skills to be living on £40 though I'll not be giving up chocolate any time soon so maybe that's it

I spend between £40-50 per week at Aldi for me and dd (2). This does include nappies, toilet/kitchen roll, cleaning products, washing powder and food for two cats. Although I only buy these items when I have run out so it's not every week at the same time for them all.

I had to buy my weeks worth of fruit and veg separatly recently and spent £25. This was still from Aldi and only included a piece of £2.99 gammon and we do eat a lot of fruit and veg I just hadn't realised just how much

Fudge It's cause last year I bulk brought a hell load of Huggies nappies as I dislike huggies rather wrap him in a teatowel so I haven't had to buy nappies since 2013 and he still has 600+ Huggies to go in his current size lol

I also get his wipes when they're on offer which is usually Sainsbury's but Asda had 12 for £9 but they were still included in my shop last week

So weird Chipped! The one where I used to live does too! Must be something to do with the food storage, yuck. Unless you live where I used to live?

150 per week for three of us and one very fat cat.
That includes cleaning stuff from Wilkinsons or Poundland.
No alcohol we buy that separately.
Main shop is Tesco or Sainsburys depending if it's DH or me who does it.
Then we do a bit of topping up mid week in Marks and Spencer because I work near one.
Make a lot from scratch DH loves meat and I am a near veggie so probably would save a bit if we both ate the same. DS is lacto free so that adds a bit on for special milk and yogurts.
My in-laws spend a 100 per week and there is just the two of them- teetotal and no pets.