How much do you spend

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A week on food, clothes and petrol?

We currently spend this:

Food €160-200
Petrol €100-120 (two cars, two working parents, living in the sticks)
Clothes €50ish

This is all in the process of changing. I am about to quit work to SAH and our food and petrol bill are about to get slashed.

I'm finding the Frugal January thread immensely helpful in this regard.

Around £60-£80 per week on food- there is only me, ds (13) and a cat
No fuel as no car
Clothes vary wildly- I shop in the sales and charity shops for myself and also have a lot of clothes already, my son grows at the speed of light and is fussy but gets money/vouchers for Xmas and birthdays. His uniform and sports kit is horrendously expensive though so probably at least £30 a week averaged over the year

£35 for all food? How?

Our £100 doesn't include lunches either as eat that at work/ school. We spend around £40 just on fruit and veg. Prob £30 meat/ fish. £20 dairy. £10 random things like rice/ oats. We bake and cook from scratch. Organic where poss

Average 280 -300 a month on food shopping, including cleaning etc. Some months it's less.

Very rare I go shopping for clothes it's a kicking and screaming job. Kids I do a big twice a year thing.

Fuel About 250 a month. Sorry can't be chewed to work out weekly.

I rigorously plan meals and cook from scratch.
This weeks shop came to £83 which included top up of medication but not cleaning products.
Petrol is better at the moment but I drive 100 miles a day so it is a big cost.
approximately £70 a tank at the mo which lasts a week.
The children are growing faster than I seem to be able to keep up with. Thankfully DS2 has no care about wearing hand me downs and they wear school uniform week days.
DH and I do not spend much on clothes.

About £80 a week on food.
£45 a week on diesel.
I don't but clothes every week, but probably about £50-£100 across the month.

Elisheva up until a the end of 2013 things were extremely hard and tight for DH and I, as they are for a lot of people. I guess we just havemt got out if the habit of having to get as much as possible out of as little as possible
It is really cheap to buy fresh veg and meat here (not in a city, and oooop North, pretty deprived area with some really lovely people) like I sad we don't have to pay retail for fruit. We get apples, oranges, satsumas, grapes, bananas .......... in fact the list is endless for less than a couple of quid from MILs work. Our food bill would be much, much higher if we had to buy fruit at retail prices.

We spend approx £10-£12 on veg (including potatoes) and eggs (I get the eggs from the same stall as my veg) and another approx £15 on meat at the butchers. We can get 2 fresh chickens for a fiver there, small but more than enough for us. Then other incidentals like dried and tinned stuff from Tesco (their basic range) there used to be a stall on the market that we used for tinned eat but it has closed down.

We eat, meat, veg and carb such as potato, pasta, rice etc for most main meals. I've got a beef stew in the slow cooker now which will give us each 2 meals and the ingredients that went into it cost a little over £4.

Vick I miss living near a good market. I used to live in Leeds and the market in town was incredible. I'd hardly spend anything at all and come away with bags full of meat and veg.

Food maximum £45 for me dp, 2 teens and 5 cats
Petrol = 2 fill ups per week = £110
Clothes = probably £25 per week. Although my portion probably adds up to less than £1 per week. Dp has to have shirts and suits for work which seem to cost a fortune and dd has her dance stuff. Pair of gold stilettoed dance shoes for her work in December and over Christmas were £135 alone. Fortunately her feet have hopefully stopped growing so she will get her wear out of them.

£70-80 on our food shop at Ocado or Sainsbury's, which includes toiletries and cleaning products. Petrol, I've no idea because I don't drive so DP does the topping up. And clothes, I would estimate £10 a week but these are bought in one go and obviously the amount changes every month. We shop in H&M for most of our clothes and I also buy from Boohoo and Primark.

Since I've been working though some things have been upgraded such as coffee which is an example of why our budget can vary the extra £5.

We also eat out once or twice a month now but we don't include that in our weekly food budget.

FelixFelix, we are really lucky here there are 2 really good markets within 5 minutes drive of each other.

I've done the same kind of food shop in Tesco for the week and spent almost £80. DH and I looked like this . We can afford more now but after being in the habit of budgeting like we had to for 7 years it's really hard not to do it even now things are easier money wise.
The kids never go without and we cook pretty much everything from scratch. We are also mega lucky that we have all the lovely fruit from MIL.

About £100 pw on food for 2 adults and 3yo DD. Buy from local butchers, fishmonger, etc so pricier than supermarket.
clothes I reckon about £6k per yr for the three of us.
Petrol about £150 per month.

Hmm, I may have to find a market! I'm down South and all the markets near me are farmer's markets selling heritage apples and artisan sausages - lovely but not helpful to a food budget!

We usually spend upto £150 for food for 3 of us
Petrol around 40 pw between us
Clothes, no idea we don't buy things weekly normally do big clothes spend every few months

I am going to try and reduce costs though I buy loads of crap I don't need

Food £50 a week
Petrol £20 every 10 days or so
Clothes I use local selling sites mostly but I would say it would work out about £5 - £10 a week or so but some weeks none obviously!

Food - £60
Petrol- £30
Clothes - £30

Working lone parent of 3 - I work to a weekly budget of £200 for everything including treats and days out etc

In America so different but interesting to compare: For a family of 4.

$120 a week on food.
$50 a week on petrol. ( Two cars with one commuting 100 miles daily)
$40 a week on clothes (or thereabouts)

Then we have another $300 a month on kids activities ( Karate, Gymnastics and Gym membership)

Then I spend $400 a month on after school care.

Phew, it does add up!

Probably spend about £100 a week on food and household stuff , that's for 3 adults and 2 children and a cat and a dog . Plus about £20 a month for milk delivery and £10 a week school dinners for one child , and £10 a week bus fares for one child . Diesel about £20 a week .
Clothes is tricky to work out , just had to replace school shoes for one child and buy trainers for another , which obviously I don't do every month . I buy a lot in charity shops for the younger child or from facebook groups .

Boobz if you tell em what size you are and your favourite brands I can check out my local charity shop haunts for you . If you are slim there are some really lovely things , I saw some Toast trousers on the reduced rail the other day for 50p , they were a size 8 though

wow. I can see we are spending way too much on food. We spend about 150/200 per week on food for the 3 of us.

probably around 80 in petrol

and around 20 in clothes if we avg out

Hmm about £75 a week (spread out including nappies and toiletries) for 2 adults and a baby on food.

£30 a week on fuel maybe? But I've got a 2lr Skoda which, while relatively fuel effective, isn't ideal.

And probably about £20 on clothes. Again averaged out because we hardly ever buy clothes.

100-120 for groceries
Petrol - DH fills up the tank once a month usually as he only uses it for getting to work, about 40?

on average about £200 a week on food (2 +3 kids) for the house but eldest DS has £20 a week for lunch money

£70 per week petrol

hard to say with clothes but a lot more now the eldest is wanting all the latest designers and named stuff.

DH and I have two sons at uni who are home, it seems, as much as they are away. We spend £360pm on food, about £280 pm on petrol ( £80 me, £200 Dh) Clothes, about £130pm for me. Dh tends t buy what he needs twice a year, maybe around £50pcm overall if he doesn't need a new suit or anything major.