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.

Yep, EthelEgbert, I imagine it is kind of geeky fun when you're not working on a rolling budget of £15-£20 a day for four (and I realise that is a lot more than a lot of families are budgeting with, too)!

How can you not know how much you spend ? That'd me chaos for me i need my meal planner and my lists and i never shop when im hungry or leave the house without double checking the fridge and cupboards for anything ive missed off

Probably averages around £50/week for 2 adults and 21 month old. Includes nappies, toiletries and some clothing and other tat from Lidl! I am veggie though, so less meat perhaps. I use the website resourcefulcook.com a lot. Really great as gives you weekly meal plans, rough costings and a printable shopping list for what you need! Makes it much easier to budget and save. Could do with updating but I find it really helpful.

£140 a week for two adults, two kids, two dogs, a cat and household/laundry/cleaning etc. Not so long ago; only a few months it was only about £100-110. I dont think our habits have changed but the bill has :(

Yes I guess I'm not a good example. Zero idea of what we ever spend on food as blended family, kids come and go. Pretty irrelevant to this thread then!

Family of 6 here, kids are 1, 4, 6 and 8. We spend about £120-£140 per week. It could be cheaper if I went to Aldi or lidl but we're paying for the convenience of it being delivered.

Writing. We do eat breakfast at home, mostly porridge, Weetabix, granola, eggs and toast, simple sort of stuff.

DH and I (and whoever is home from Uni) eat lunch at home, youngest two take packed lunch. Tends to be wrap or pitta with cold meat/tuna/cheese and salad or leftovers from dinner or homemade soup. Kids also take fruit, small carton of juice, yoghurt and some sort of biscuit to school.

Snack wise everyone tend to hit the fruit bowl or make a shake/smoothie in the nutibullet. We also eat far too many nuts and crackers and cheese.

To be scrupulously honest, £120 a week doesn't include DH's £7 a week coffee pod habit, or the ocaisional Friday night bottle of wine.

Oh, and that includes 2 cats as well!

About £50/£60 a week. We are two adults, 1 toddler and 2 dogs. We shop at Waitrose. My husband sometimes stops by early in the morning after he drops toddler off at nursery to have a look at what food they have on offer, this sometimes reduces the overall cost per week. This week he managed to get a 4.5kg piece of gammon for £11 (more than half price off). He's cut it into smaller pieces and frozen it for the future.

I've been meal planning since I left home at 18 in 1996. It's the only way I know how to shop.

^^ to add - this doesn't include alcohol etc. My youngest (3 months) is in cloth nappies so no cost of nappies there. I would say we spend about £10-£20 a month on alchohol.

Oh, we are all about the yellow sticker shopping! 1kg gammon for £1.50 post-Christmas? Yes, thank you!

£240 per month for 2A, 2 teens, 8 dogs, 1 reptile and fish. Includes everything, ie, groceries, household, alcohol and pet stuff. No free school meals so they take a packed lunch. Everything cooked from scratch. Joint/chicken (1.5-3kg) will be enough for main meals for 3 days, often with enough leftover for sandwiches as well. We generally have 2 nights a week with no meat. 2-4 times a year the monthly bill goes up to around £300 (costco). Shop mainly in Morrisons and Aldi, but occasionally in Tesco.

I really need to get my food shopping in order, spend way too much

Two adults, probably around 100-120 per week supermarket and 50-60 per week ad hoc daily shopping. Mind this is including everything like soap powder, bubble bath etc

I bulk buy good quality cold pressed dog food every 2 months. This is included in the costs in my pp.

multivac dp still talks of the 9p massive organic chicken he once bought. He had to stay up until 1am to cook the bloody thing as it wouldn't fit in our freezer whole. We ate chicken a lot that week!

Approx £60 a week - 2 adults, a 4 yo and a 2 yo. We eat very well for that, I shop around, freezer any yellow sticker meat etc. Doesnt include DS school lunches at £14 a week which are compulsory in nursery but he will be going to packed lunches within the £60 budget from Sept.

We spend £40-£60 a week when it's just DH and I. That's everything, laundry stuff, cleaning stuff, toiletries. We don't do top ups in the week, either. We, also, spend £30-40 a fortnight or so for DS2's shopping at uni.

We mainly have an online delivery from Tesco because I'm disabled and DH works long hours so he doesn't want to spend the weekend in a supermarket. We've got a new ALDI so are going to try to get in the habit of going there more often.

I meal plan and cook in bulk and from scratch. We find that helps us keep costs down.

Family of 3 spend approx £50 a week including nappies.

I used to get an online delivery, about £140 pw for 4 people including toiletries, dog food and cleaning stuff but also used to waste a lot of food. Now i can drive i just go and get bits every 2 days and all the offers from different supermarkets then make meals around what i buy. I live a 5-10min drive from sainsburys, asda, morrison's, tesco, aldii, lidl, iceland and the coop so i am spending a lot less now. I just tend to look whats on offer for the week online for expensive stuff like meat and soap powder then walk down the offers isle for packed lunches. Most of the supermarkets have the fruit and veg on for less than 50p now and they are usually different in each one so i seem to buy a lot more fruit now.

£120 per week for 2 adults, DD (9), DM 3 evenings per week, Adult DC x 3 one evening per week, 4 pets.

multivac dp still talks of the 9p massive organic chicken he once bought

Kudos. Mr Multivac's finest moment was 36 cans of Branston beans for under three quid - not even close-dated; it was just that the Co-op was not going to stock six-packs any more. They have just run out; I feel a bit bereft.

60pw for 2 adults and two pre-school age children.

This does all DP's lunches for work too and includes household stuff, nappies and the odd bottle of wine. We shop at aldi.

£80-100 for 2 adults and 1 toddler.

Family of 3 (one adult, 11yo and 12yo)£55 per week. Meticulous meal planning.
Shop at tescos.
Have tried to reduce the amount I spend but can't get it any lower than this