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

Tinned tomatoes are the best tomatoes to use for bolognese, and it's supposed to be slow cooked! ( My DH is another one who hates the slow cooker though

I always worked on 100g mice person?
We have ours over 2 days so use usually use a 700g pack from tesco.

Lol 100g of mice doesn't sound great does it?
*mince

Just me and DH here and we spend about £100 a week, shop in Waitrose and occasionally Asda and buy a mixture of branded and simply Waitrose products.

We used to spend about £150 and there were only two of us. Now there are 3 and I shop at Aldi and Musclefood and spend about £50 including nappies.

we spend about £35 weekly with the occasional splurge, when coffee is on offer and I spend £20-30 in one go. It averages out at about £45 I think. one adult, two children all of us needing vast quantities of fruit and veg to regulate a medical condition.

For those who can't work out how to spend £200 per week must not see the lovely foods on offer in the average supermarket. iItems that cause my shopping bills to creep up include 'better' orange juice, berries, coffee pods, avocados, fresh fish, free range meat, lamb, wine, shampoo, organic yoghurt and anything else that my foodie teenagers will devour. Feeding babies and toddlers is not comparable to feeding two 15 year old boys and a foodie 19 year old. They will eat a well balanced dinner followed by fruit, yoghurt, ice-cream and every snack in the house. The faux shock at shopping bills seems to have a whiff of puritanism about it.

The thought of the slow cooker is making me gag. The smell is grim.

The spag bol snob from 3/4 pages ago gets my first ever value .

I don't have a food budget as such, but find that it averages out at £60 p/w for two of use (Waitrose +Lidl), plus £50 per week on average on a meal out. Once or twice a year we'll have a massive food bill when a large group of friends comes round for a dinner party. I can feed us for far less, but in our present circumstances I am happy with our spending. We're not drinkers, so that may help things.

I used to spend £180 12 years ago that was two adults a 5yoabd a baby.

I shopped in sainsburys and tried to get as much organic as I could.

Then my poshest my friend with a similar family only spent £80. Other friends told me what I was spending was a lot....I had no idea. But we could afford it.

I now spend £100 pw - two adults, two teenage boys and a DD. That's loo roll etc included. We eat well, but little meat. I honestly believe if your shop costs much less than £20 per adult you're not eating particularly well.

I think it's very easily done. 2 lots of nappies here plus a teen and tween boys who seem to have hollow legs.

There are 6 of us. Things like free range or organic chicken for 6 is expensive. Likewise, salmon. My children are also seemingly fruit bats and we go through 3 packs of apples, 2 of bananas, strawberries, blueberries etc. It all adds up. Maybe 3 bottles of wine at £8 or £9 each. Our weekly delivery is usually around £180-£200. Plus as DH works in central London he spends quite a bit on lunches whereas I have a cheap and cheerful canteen.

They use fresh toms and think they are superior. How sad

Ha, sad indeed. I cook quite a bit and sometimes I have made a tomato sauce using fresh tomatoes. You will never guess what- you actually get a deeper and richer flavour using tinned! I think it's because fresh tomatoes are made mainly of water whereas the tinned variety are more concentrated because some of the water has been removed. So for bolognese, I would definitely used tinned which is why recipes call for them. This is hilarious- can't believe someone would be snobby about another person using tinned tomatoes!

I'd like to see blind testing of tinned tomatoes because we get the more expensive Aldi ones and they're great, not watery or full of cores at all. No need at all to pay three times as much for napolina or whatever is considered acceptable on here.

Oh, I definitely could spend that on the five of us. It's more like £75, including mid week top ups, but if I had that sort of money available I could absolutely spend it.

We spend £90 a week -£50/60 Aldi £6 milkman and then bits and bobs elsewhere. That's laundry and cleaning stuff too.
2adults , 2 children ( and 2 teens twice a week)

Our diet needs improving. We need to source fruit and veg elsewhereas also whilst cheap had gone downhill. Want to start using butcher again too.

In a meal rut though so these programmes are interesting

I suppose it's all down to the fact that you cut your cloth accordingly, so if you have200 a week to spend on groceries you do - buying the better brands, more impulse buys, some alcohol, a few treats etc. For me, meat is the main part of a meal. I chuck other veg in obviously but 500gs would make 6 portions, no way would 200gms do 4 people in my household. That's just me though, everyone's different If the family is of 4, I could easily spend the cost of one person (50) on food for one week. Normally it's a lot below but if I had the money I would. it would involve a few things from the 'finest' range, some branded shower gel etc, something yummy from the bakery, some nice posh ready meal for Saturday night, a few nice bottles of wine, lindt chocolate, lovely fresh bread, alongside the normal stuff I buy. I don't think that much for a family is unreasonable if you have the cash, its not hurting anyone so why scrimp and save if you don't have to and don't want to?

Btw my bologbese contains tinned tomstos and is lovely. Mince, onions, peppers, mushrooms, tomatoes, garlic salt, basil, oregano, tinned tomatoes and passata

I love tinned tomatoes. Sometimes I pour the can into a bowl and just eat them like that.

Spend around £150 a week in Tesco and £60 a week on M&S To be honest any less than that is false economy for us as it gets to end of week don't fancy anything and go out got dinner instead

I quite like watching EWFL so I can shout at the telly with righteous indignation

AndNowItsSeven you're angling for a Dave Gorman Found Poem and I claim my £5.

I've said this on here before, but a while back i had to have a serious word with myself about unnecessary parsimony and poverty tourism. We went thru a few years where we were saving hard and i was walking 6 mile round trip (half uphill) with ds1 in a buggy and doing shopping at Aldi twice a week. I was probably spending 50-60 per week all in for big eating DH, me and ds1 (baby milk/nappies etc). That was breakfasts and lunches too and never eating out. Then we moved to a ridiculously expensive area (Vancouver) and i used to actually cry in the supermarket because everything was so expensive. I spent every day walking the city to cheap markets and a toddler group that gave away free day old bread.

Then we moved home and things got better, gradually, then a lot better and i was still shopping the same way. It was like a competition with myself. Enjoyment of food and my time spent was irrelevant, what mattered was i could say 'this meal cost 89p!' I would walk round town pregnant with ds2 and pushing ds1, gasping for water and faint, but wouldn't allow myself to spend a quid on a drink. While at the same time DH was eating lunch out and buying drinks for colleagues etc. In fact the more he spent the worse i got to make up for it.

I think it was my mum who said 'ffs, if he is spending it on himself then why shouldn't you?'. I started to think, would dh go thirsty or hungry, or eat the kids crusts rather than buy a one pound sandwich? Of course not, in fact he'd stop at a restaurant and have a starter and pudding too! We now had the money and i hadn't changed at all.

So now i spend more probably 150-200 a week on 3 adults and 2 dc. We also eat out and have takeaways 1-2 times a week (altho i still can't bring myself to pay 3 quid for a portion of rice so buy the ready sachets for 50p from sainsbo for when we order a curry/chinese/thai).

However, i'm now going out of my comfort zone because as of last Weds i am no longer cooking from scratch. I am going to be spending 3-5 mins max prepping food for the evening meal. I have decided this as cooking is making my life a misery, and dh has been telling me to buy our food ready made in Cook/waitrose/m&s etc for ages. So I am going to take a deep breath and go with it.

I don't think it will be nicer than my food, but i think i will be happier. And we are very very fortunate in that we can afford it. I am also going to try to intersperse the meals with cheaper ones if i can (like ready made quiche and jacket spuds).

I spend very little on the two of us - always less than £40, that's including cleaning products, toiletries, cat food and school lunches. We eat mostly vegetarian, healthy food with lots of rice, beans, pasta, vegetables, eggs etc. DD eats some meat and fish. I buy quite a few treats but no alcohol. I shop at Aldis, Tescos, Asda and M&S and buy a mixed range of quality. I always take food to work with me.

I can afford to spend more on food but I don't think it's necessary. I don't like food waste, I keep an eye on dates all the time and eat all leftovers. I think many people are very wasteful with food.

I saw the programme and was horrified by what the money was being spent on. Not that it was being spent.

I spend a good amount weekly when in the Uk as a family of 5, the children are aged 5, 9, 11. The children eat really well and to put steak on the table once a week with homemade sweet potato wedges, veg and salad it comes to about 35 pounds. The kids wolf it down but they're not grazing all day on junk.

She could have been doing that as well.

Urgh, powdered garlic and tinned tomatoes is not a bloody bolognese! I wouldn't feed that to my dog. £200 a week is easily done, all organic free range meat here, 2 bottles of champagne and thats £100 ... We bring home six figures ... It means we eat very good food ... and don't think tinned tomatoes boiled to death in a slow cooker count as a meal.

Well, bully for you, Martha, you smug old bat. Have a