How much do you spend weekly on food? AIBU to spend?

[early30smum]

Just that, really? For how many people and does that include cleaning stuff/toiletries? Just stuff bought in supermarkets/online/small shops etc not including any meals out/coffees etc. We seem to spend a lot and I'm beginning to think IABU about the amount... Interested to hear what everyone roughly spends.

Aldi strict £40 a week budget. 2 adults and 1 teenager. Sadly, significantly higher if DD is home from uni. Her taste in food is much more 'refained' than ours - no wonder she never has any money.

I'm starting to think I'm a prime candidate for that shop well for less programme! There are just two of us and I think we spend a good £90 per week (and get takeaways as well!)

Family of 5 (2 teenage boys) £100 per week. But only by shopping at Aldi.

If I went to Sainsbury's it would be £200 per week. That's what I used to spend before I found out it wasn't normal.

There is the occasional top up of a takeaway etc, so per month for food, cleaning products etc, it's £600.

If I spent more I'd feel I was being luxurious. If I spent less I'd feel I was scrimping. Many of our evening meals cost me less than £1 per head. Tonight it was £14 for the 5 of us.

I'm not convinced some people are truthful about feeding 6 people .for a week on £60. If they are it can't be healthy.

rixera completely agree. At the moment we waste a lot of money on food which is awful. But I've also had very little money and every thing was based around dried beans etc still ate well and healthily but it was stressful and I count my blessings that time is over. Without knowing where people live , if they home cook or not , meat eater or veggie , eating out , wage etc there's going to be a huge difference in spending and difficult to give logical responses too.

About £700 pcm for family of 4.

Shamefully about £150 a week for two adults that don't eat meat and that doesn't include work lunches or eating out

I also find these threads interesting, which is why I started it. I only buy free range and/or organic chicken/eggs but red meat I do buy non organic. I bulk out meals with loads of veggies, to give an idea, this week, a 400g pack of beef mince made 4 mini cottage pies to feed 2 kids, 3 went in the freezer for another day. Another 400g pack made 6 portions of bolognese to feed 2 kids. The mince was on offer for £3.75 per pack, so £7.50 for 2. That's 75p per meal or 38p per child plus the veggies and either potato or pasta!

notangelinajolie You spend less than £2 per adult/teenager per day?thats less than 60p per meal.

Does that include toiletries or just food?

Family of 7 , about 140 a week at Morrisons .

Go after 7.30pm and raid the very generous reduced aisle big time , and freeze what I can't find an immediate use for , until I can, particularly with meat and pastry . . If I'm off over the weekend , then I do the same with the local market veg stall too . Also don't get things like dishwasher tablets from supermarket , get those kind of things from factory shop , where I can get three times the amount for half the price . No meals out , but occasionally a takeaway , but that's rare as it's so much of a faff to go and get it , being rural .

Oh, and I buy very little meat. I only buy organic beef for example, so that would be only only three times a year because it's so expensive. I Lao only buy organic milk. But Aldi sells it now.

It's me and my husband and a baby who eats pouches and we spend approx £275 a week
Need to cook for my son more!

£100-120 per week for 4 of us (dc are 1 and 3) including most toilettries, nappies etc. Split between Aldi, Morrisons, Asda and local butcher but we get bread and eggs from the local shop. Very little booze and all organic meat. I cook from scatch and we have most meals at home, only eat out maybe once a week and that's not included.

£60 ish a week for a family of 4, (2 adults, 2 preteens).

One child has packed lunch, one school dinner. Children fed one night per week at grandparents.

It's on the cheap side, but we eat well. I stock up on reductions when I see them, and I don't tend to buy many branded products, expensive snacks or convenience food. We eat typical meals - lasagne, shep pie, spag bol, fish pie, pork chops, paprika chicken, enchiladas, jacket pot, omelettes, pasta bakes, roasts etc, with loads of veg/salad. Always have a full fruit bowl.

I do buy value toilet roll, bin bags, wrapping foil etc. I buy own brand cleaning products (except washing powder, when I tend to buy whatever brand is on offer.)

We're not awfully short of money, I think I'm just naturally tight!

I can't imagine what I'd spend £100+ a week on in the supermarket. I don't go to one that sell clothes/homeware though, so perhaps that's why!

And for the disbelievers. £40 as week is absolutely do able. Go on Martin Lewis site and you will find many, many people manage on much less.

For years each week we would grab a large trolly at tesco and fill it. Our weekly shop was in excess £100. Then I saw the light - partly due to owing lots of people lots of money and partly due to realising that while I was gaining weight from all the food I was buying I was also lining the pockets of tescos shareholders. It's not difficult to save money, make a menu plan, write a list and stick to it. Woe betides anyone who raids my fridge, going of plan is not allowed in my kitchen! It was difficult at first but I'd actually feel sick now if I spent anywhere near the amount I used to spend.

£234 including cleaning stuff/ toiletries for 4 people. Also Dry Nites for both DC, although only one of them wears them regularly.

That's a very precise budget Bathsheba!

Well I've averaged it on my calculator!

Is that per week or month?!

Ah - I'm £161 per week then but budget for £700 a month.

We spend £150 at tesco most weeks for four of us. Three of us at home for lunch all week. DS1 has school meals at another £10 a week. About once every 4/5 weeks that hits £200 with nappies and drynites and babywipes. We can afford it at the moment though and could definitely spend less. We have lived a lot worse and had a food budget of 30-40 a week. It can be done but I did find it very repetitive and depressing when we had no choice.

Per week. We only have a Sainsbury's here and we seem to run out of things every day.

I have fed us all for £40 a week before when finances dictated it, it's not fun but it can be done, mostly veggie, lots of pulses and grains and lots of tedious meal prep.

Per week.

I would still very much like someone to list out their exact shopping and meals if they are feeding families on less than £50 per week. And not just a link to a website. I cannot see how it can be done healthily.