To wonder if people actually spend 200+ on a weekly shop

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Watching eat well for less and I just can't believe people actually spend 200+ a week on a food shop

One lady was giving a teen 20 a week to get chips and chicken 😟

We have 6 in our family

One baby
One toddler
One teen
Me and hubby
And a cat

I spend £65 a week including nappies and toiletries

This gose up to £90 during holidays and the teen is eating at home not collage

It's mad what are these people feeding there kids

My children have breakfast lunch and dinner I don't encourage grazing all day they can have fruit in between meals and I cook from sctrach pretty much 5 days a week junk on a Saturday then roast on a Sunday

Thing is I don't count eating dinner out or lunch out or takeaways as "food shop" money. I spend £50 ish on a big shop each week for 3 of us (one is toddler) and usually don't need a top up shop but sometimes we do. So surely it depends on what you're counting? If I have lunch out or takeaway for dinner I'd count that as sort of...leisure spending I guess!

Sorry this has been a really long thread and that's probably already been said 300 times...I need to read the rest now!

fox - that's fair enough, I would count it as leisure spending too if it's a once or twice a month thing, however you can't say you are spending £200 a month on food shopping whilst also buying lunch out 5 days a week and having a meal out or a takeaway 3 evenings a week. It just makes it not comparable with someone saying they are spending £200 on all meals in a month.

My food bill could be £50 a month if all I was buying was cornflakes and milk and eating out the rest of the time. :)

I don't think of takeaways or eating out as food shop money either, probably because we don't do it much, it is more like leisure, like trip to the cinema is. I take a ready meal to work for lunch as we have a microwave in the tearoom and that is the easiest to do, so that come out of the food shop but if I went out with colleagues for lunch I would see that as different also and not food shopping.

I haven't counted takeaways or eating out in my 20% if I did it would be closer to 40%.

We spend roughly 20% on food shopping, 20% on bills (inc car stuff and petrol). 10% on fares. 10% on childcare/preschool. 20% on entertainment/eating out.

As promised :)

I've just stopped in at sainsburys on my way home to pick up things for dinner (that I forgot on my online shop) and spent £63 - topping up little bits and pieces, couple of nut butters for dds to try, TOFFEE TRIOS! and a couple of punnets of raspberries.
If I've got it, I spend it!

Family of 5 with a cat and rabbits - main shop is around £100 but usually under then milk, bread and fruit is added in the week. I aim for 150 a week. I'm pretty loose on this as finances are fine but not sure how I'd get to 200 as 150 includes wine and cider (not loads)

17% Groceries
17% Mortgage
15% Other bills

No child care as DH is SAHP.

10% food
15% childcare
15% mortgage
all the rest just disappears into the money pit of the house!

There is two of us. Our weekly shop is £100.

That is a typical £85 ocado with top up at the weekend with a bottle of wine or two.

90% is fresh fruit, vegetables, meat and fish. The rest is fizzy waters, cordials, cleaning equipment etc...

I cant get it any lower, i tried morrisons and sainsburyies and it ended up the same price.

less than 10% food
about 25% mortgage
no childcare
holidays/travel are our next biggest spend - on average a bit less than food, but could be more some years.

dame I did that as well this morning. 5mins on high = 3 pieces crispy :)

But your bills are more than mortgage aren't they? I have included ct, gas, leccy, car, phones etc in my bills.

22% food
28% (ish) mortgage
10% bills (ct/gas/elec/water)
Dh's phone is negligible and mine I pay for out of my own income (tiny). Car we own and insurance is paid for annually.
10% ish saving's

So 30% currently going awol somewhere which is interesting!

Obv that should be savings...

Was that aimed at me MrsKoala, or a general point? I'm afraid I'm not too sure what our other bills are exactly...We're not very good at formal budgeting! But bill on its own is definitely significantly less that mortgage/food/holidays.

I'm going to take a stab that all our other "bills" together (gas, electricity, water, phone, council tax, insurance...) are roughly the same as food. Bit less than 10% income. So 30-35% bills including mortgage.

Mrsmortis - I'm a sahm and we still spend 10% on childcare and in October it will go up to 20%!

Just at everybody. People often think their household bills are just mortgage, but I find all the others together really add up too. We've just moved and our ct is about £260

I spent €183 in Aldi today,But saying that it was a good shop and i got loads.I should get ages out of it.

My council tax is £240 too - it's our biggest bill - even when we still had a mortgage and a car loan.

I'm finding this thread really useful, I would have said 22% on food not that bad but now I see it in relation to mortgage I'm pretty

Our council tax isn't that bad, less than £200 because we live in the bloody sticks what takes a sizeable chunk is DH's season ticket but I've calculated everything after its deduction.

Mrsvilliers: we are terrible at (cash)savings, I know we need to start. The left over money each month is usually scheduled for some other "big" spending(another holiday, more short weekend away)...basically no (cash)saving(although we have generous funds for pensions and share option scheme). I live in the highest council tax band so for our house its not big and its already smth £300/month

I'm terrible at cash savings too Greenleave our cash savings are all to do with DH who has a pathological fear of being made redundant and penniless!

I read an article a while back - can't find it now. That said that 100 years ago food budget was about 40% of someones income and housing only 20%. Which is very different now, which is why we expect and need such cheap food because on the whole people could not afford 40% of their income on food. Our last house our mortgage on dh's last salary was about 50% of our income and his fares 15%, ct, utilities etc 15% and food 10%. No way could we have spent 40% on food.

Family of 4 here including a newborn and toddler plus a cat. Dh and I probably spent more on food in our 20s with £5 each a day spent on lunch at a cafe plus a regular meal or 2 out, takeout and high end convenience food.
Now I'm on Mat leave with time to shop at lidl or aldi, cook from scratch, meal plan, kids so no time for meals out, we've reduced it so much. I'd say I spend £50 a week - £70 when I need nappies and wipes, I then do a top up shop or 2 at tesco for maybe £30. So all in all under £100.