How much do you spend

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A week on food, clothes and petrol?

We're in the US and spend equivalent of 200quid a week on food. I find it horrendously expensive here.

Fuel however is not, for 2 cars we'd spend about 75quid a week, I have a 13mile commute and DH has about a 30mile commute.

Clothes, I budget 250 for the month, but I can never quite stick to it..... I'm about 12mths negative budget at the moment. Goal for 2015, buy less, experience more!

£50 a week is because we are veggie, I rarely buy alcohol or treat stuff sadly.

..... that's for 2 adults, 2 DC under 10

We're not massive meat eaters here. We do eat meat but not every day and not huge amounts when we do have it.

A normal Sainsbury's chicken will do us for a Sunday roast and the following day we'll have it cold with mash and salad/veg as we don't really have a lot of it each meal

We had an allotment for a few years, and the first year was quite expensive when I got excited about every gardening catalogue I clapped eyes on, but once you've got the equipment it is much cheaper than buying veg in the supermarket. But yeah, there's the time and effort involved. We moved and had to give it up as it was too far to get to each day

£70 on average on food (3 of us)
£35 on petrol
£25 on clothes approx

I am also amazed at how little some of you spend on clothes when you count uniform, school shoes, trainers, new coat for the children - that's more than £10 a week not counting non-school clothes and shoes or what you would spend on yourselves!

See, I would say that I don't spend much on clothes, but in reality its probably at least £100 per month, averaged out. Two children needing good shoes is £80. Then school uniform is at least about £80 as well. It's the little things probably - DS , age 3, needs a hat and gloves for the winter, and even in Tesco they cost about £8 or £10. Vests, knickers and tights, and pyjamas for 8 year old DD can mount up a bit as well.

Since we stopped doing a weekly food shop it's very difficult to estimate.

For 2 adults a12yo & 7yo we spend c.£400-600pcm in morrisons. This includes some non food. We don't eat much meat but do have expensive tastes eg prawns, smoked salmon, tropicana, organic eggs, lots of fresh fruit, naice cheese, no value products.

On top of that we pay for DS's school dinners. DD gets free school meals now so we should be spending less on that now. Dp gets a free lunch at work and I often get a free breakfast.

Clothes- also difficult to estimate as the Grans buy shoes/jackets etc for DCs. Dp buys his clothes from charity shops. I live in leggings and only replace things once they wear out. But it's still probably £20-30 pm.

Petrol- very variable if we go on long trips so I'd say £100-200.

£140 on food, £3 on public transport and less than £5 on clothes.

Wow, I'm spending way too much on food! My spending is at the top of the range described in the thread. Mind you, I can't eat carbs so the cheaper stuff (like bread, pasta, rice and potatoes) is off the menu. And my partner is a committed carnivore. So most days it's meat and lots of veg. The kids have to eat carbs, of course.

The kids are all giants and in adult clothes, even though two of them are still in primary school, so I spend a lot on clothes and shoes for them. I don't spend much on clothes for me and I tend to buy things that are hard-wearing and last forever. Luckily, I'm not very interested in changing fashions (much to my kids' disgust).

I don't spend much on petrol either: about 15 quid per week. I hardly use the car, as public transport is cheap and easy for most things, but it's useful to have it to transport my apparently excessive grocery shopping home!

fashion 30 a week on clothes! Are you having new things weekly?

Not weekly. There are 4 of us and two of those are growing and need school uniforms. £30 per week is only £1500 per year, which isn't extortionate for a family of four.
School uniform for DC1 costs around £200 per year including school shoes.
School uniform for DC2 costs around £300 per year including shoes (different school to DC1).
Then they both need trainers, usually 2 or 3 pairs each year as they are growing and one plays sports. I don't buy the most expensive trainers but even at 30-£35 a pair they work out at £150 per year in total for both children.
So deduct school uniform, trainers and school shoes from the annual budget of £1500 and we only have £850 left to buy clothes and shoes for four people for a whole year actually I probably spend more than that when I think about it.

We spend about £150 in the supermarket but I'm trying to cut this down (family of 4 but does include some clothes, all our lunches, alcohol and cleaning products, plus some gifts (kids birthday parties etc)). I suspect the food element is still over £100.
Petrol is £30-£40
Clothes probably averages to £30-£50 a week

Averaged out (and not including clothes as this is such a variable) probably about £300/week. This is food, petrol, cleaning stuff and food/litter for cat.

There are four of us (two adults, a 16 year old and a 12 year old) still living at home here, and five during university holidays when our eldest daughter comes back. Add to that two dogs and one cat.

It is hard to be exact, but rough figures on a weekly basis are:

Food - £100 approx.
Fuel - £10 per week for me, for husband about £60 - £70 due to his longer commute.
Clothes - never calculated it. Not usually much though unless we have all worn everything out at once. A tight budget over the last few years has meant we really only buy them when needs absolutely must. I think it would be less than a tenner a week most of the time, but can obviously vary depending on the needs of my daughters, if they have shot through their shoe sizes and school uniforms.

I have recently managed to get back to work part time after years of being a SAHM. It is certainly helping with the finances, but initially meant I did have to suddenly spend a fair bit on new clothes for me, having worn just about everything I had until it was threadbare and my old pre-pregnancy clothes being the wrong size and shape totally. I didn't reckon it up, but it was absolutely needed.

Usual huge range of spends here. Thing is, it's impossible on threads to really compare spending, because we will all have such different incomes and budget issues.

I am sure I could spend a lot lot less on food and general cleaning stuff, nappies etc just by buying supermarket own brand or value brands, for example. I don't, because I'm lucky enough not to have to, but I could. And we eat a lot of meat and fish, and whilst I shop around for deals, buy stuff in bulk and freeze it, I'm sure I'd spend a lot lot less if we were veggie!

I would also say I don't spend a lot on clothes but as someone upthread has pointed out, school uniform is expensive, and children have a habit of growing, so I'm sure I spend a lot more than I think I do...

£70 per week on food two adults one teen and a baby and a cat

About £60 on petrol

I only buy cloths in the sale

I am always amazed when these threads crop up that some people spend so little.
Just self and DH and I spend around £100 to £120 on food weekly, then I do an Asda run for cleaning products, loo roll etc and branded goods such as coffee, tea, sauces which are cheaper there.
Then 2 cats, they get through a big 48 pack box of Only-the-Best-Will-Do and a bag of dried food each month.
Fuel is one tank for me; DH gets fuel paid for.
Clothes; about £150 a month, although I treat DD quite frequently she needs smart clothes for work and has expensive tastes.

All of these are approximate figures and can increase or decrease by around £5 a week

£35 for food for 2 adults and 2 children. However we very rarely have to buy fruit at retail prices as MIL is a manager in a fruit factory so we get lots of cut price, mega fresh fruit for pence, this helps to massively reduce our outgoings for food.
If we were to include dog/reptile food, laundry powder, washing up liquid, cleaning stuff, toiletries and toilet roll it would be about £45 pw.

We fill the car up monthly (no commutes to work for either of us so a full tank lasts us the month) and the last time we filled it up it cost us £32 and some odd pence from fumes to the top.

We have a monthly clothing budget of £50 but we don't spend that every month so 'rolls over' IYSWIM.

8 people,
£180 a week on food
£65.50 a week on school lunches
We eat out about once a week which will cost about another £130
I think dh spends about £30 on petrol
I budget £200 a month for clothes but it varies. Last week I spent about £250 on clothes in the sales. I wont buy anything for the next couple of weeks.

About £160-£200 a week on all grocery shopping, that's 3 adults and 2 boys. Some if it in Aldi, some of it in Asda.

We spend £80-100 a week on food for 5 of us
Petrol is £50 a week for DH to commute to work and about £35-40 a week for me but that is 8 miles X 3 a day just getting the kids to school and Playschool then shops etc is 5 mile round trip and work is 10 mile round trip.

Nothing really on clothes and £25 on petrol .

£35 a week to feed 2 adults and 2 kids? Assuming the kids have free school meals that's around 50p per meal. What do you eat?

What food do you buy for £200 per week. Were a family of 5 at most it's around £100, but can be £50/£60. Admittedly I don't buy organic but I do cook from scratch.

Clothes only replace what is necessary and I don't have a car.

I have absolutely no idea how much I spend on food per week.

Diesel is about £90 every 10 days.

£160-£175 on food. For 5 people. That includes packed lunches for 5, cleaning stuff, dog and cat food
£100 petrol (dh)
I take the train to work £15 per week
Clothes- averages out maybe £50-£65 a week? Inc. shoes