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

[pleasemothermay1]

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

I never really know what people mean by branded items. Is it like buying Walkers instead of Sainsbury's crisps? Most stuff I buy is Tesco or Sainsbury's own but that doesn't mean it's a cheaper alternative. Sometimes it's just the only version available in store. E.g. a stir fry sauce, filled pasta, ready-made tikka masala is all Sainsbury's label.

We spend about £160 - 180 a week for 1 adult and three teenagers but that covers all meals. About 1/4 is on fruit and veg and on these I will buy the more expensive 'ready to eat' fruit and organic if possible. We can afford to.

That family were a bit extreme though with their 'ping' meals and 70 bags of crisps. I judged them for that (and the tattoos and piercings on the 12 year old).

I haven't seen it but tattoos on a 12 year old?!

I think we probably spend around £200 a week. Heaps and heaps of organic fruit and veg and good quality meat and fish. No ready meals. Food is one of our luxuries.

We use a slow cooker at least 4 times every week. I work every evening and the dc have clubs most nights, so often it would be a choice for dh between slow cooked food made from scratch or convenience food and in that case, the slow cooker wins it.

Makes a fairly decent curry, Moroccan tagine, sweet and sour pork, fish pie, stew, chilli, soups etc and no, it doesn't all taste the same. The slow cooker saves lots of time and money.

I will have to watch it. I am more baffled than outraged to be fair.

I'm with teacher on the spag bol, it needs a good amount of soffritto to taste good, at least half and half.

No the mum had the tattoos, the 12 year old had a few ear piercings (which I know isn't really bad, just not common around these back waters I live in)

In my house we have

2 adults
3 cats
2 guinea pigs

Not sure how much we spend weekly, we normally buy a bunch of stuff one week then pick up some perishables as the month goes on. I reckon we spend about £150? or so for ourselves, that includes partners meals for work etc. We then we have another £50 for our fur babies that includes food/cat litter/mass amounts of hay. We do keep our budget at £300 per month just because.

I budget for about £500 a month. We are two adults two children of primary age. My DC get one packet of crisps a week in their Friday lunchbox. I could do it cheaper but I cook pretty much from scratch and I want
To eat happy food. My meat is free range which I buy from butcher or Aldi. Some Tesco too. I get an organic veg box delivered weekly which I top up and buy fruit. Eggs are organic or free range. Dairy mostly organic from dairies whose male calves can be used for beef.

So as I said I can do it cheaper but I am lucky enough to be able to afford my principles.

Another family of 4 here (kids are toddler and KS1 so free school meals for now). I shop online a lot (mostly Ocado), that way I find it easier to stick to budget. When I used to do a big grocery shop once a week, my budget was £65, plus around £20 on top-up shops. Last year or so, I've been shopping locally more as I try and buy seasonal/UK-grown/organic where I can afford it and when you order online, a lot of the time they don't tell you where it's from. So now if I buy more locally in a given week, I'd delay my online shop till next week but might then spend more online, so it's got a bit messy and I don't know exactly how much it is per week ATM but certainly under £100. Mind you that's with me having the luxury to be "green" as much as I can. If we had to tighten our belts I could certainly stick to £65/week, possibly less.
I do mostly cook from scratch, rarely ever throw food away (except fruit half-eaten by kids, but even then I might wash/cut and eat it myself unless I'm already fit to burst
Over the holidays though, the budget often goes out of the window if we're out all day, so even though I pack a picnic there'll almost always be nibbles bought and ready meals/takeaways for dinner.

oh yes, forgot the cat! Tins not pouches for the fat feline, not as a cost-cutting measure per se, but because empty tins can go in the recycling and pouches can't.

oh yes, and I should add, DH mostly works from home so no work lunch expenditure.

I spend about £60 on the weeks that I am on my own, including my work lunches, and about £100 if DS is with me.I am sure we could eat cheaper, but I can afford it, so why not? I eat a lot of fresh fish, yakult, avocado, cherries, etc. All things which are not exactly cheap. Now, years ago, as a student, I could eat for £10 a week, but I don't want to do that anymore

We eat lots of fruit and veg, too. In fact DD is a squirrel so I've now got a nut stash! She and I get through several packets a week easily, current obsession is macadamia which isn't cheap. If it wasn't for the nuts, weekly spend would easily be £10 less.

When DCs were babies, I wasn't spending any more than now (in fact less as we weren't going out at all) as both were breastfed and wore cloth nappies, I refused to buy ready-made weaning foods (except for emergencies) and preferred cotton wool +water/ bum under the tap to wipes.

I'm not saying I do or don't but I can see how it is easily done. I was in M&S today eyeing up rib eye steaks, they were around £7 or £8 each I think. Multiply that by 4 and its £30 just on meat for one meal. Sadly the local butcher is not any cheaper.

There's just 2 of us. We spend about that in Waitrose or Marks and Spencers including£35-£40 on flowers.

That includes 3 cats

Unfortunately I think I do spend that amount. I admit to being a rubbish planner though and often end up with piles of random ingredients which don't assemble into a meal.

Actually, to be honest I have no idea what we spend. We don't have a joint bank account and we both do food and household shopping on our own but when I do it , it is usually around the £175 mark.

We buy lunches on top of that. I bake as well. Home baking costs far more than ship bought.

and often end up with piles of random ingredients which don't assemble into a meal

Oh god yes. There really isn't a recipe which combines red cabbage, courgettes, crab meat and raw beetroot.

I'm Sorry but if someone swapped my favourite oven chips I'd know by just looking at them.

Where do they find these people for this show?

The ones who buy supermarket mince I just want to shake them, because supermarket mince is bloody stinking. Also who the buys chopped up veg? I bought chopped onions once because they were the only onions left in the shop.

BTW I don't want to shake anyone, and I never will, it's just an expression :-)