...to ask how much you spend on groceries per month?

[glitterglitters]

For me, dh and dd (toddler) I get and spend £150 for groceries. Dh also bulk buys chicken from wholesaler every couple of months at about £15 pm.

When I talk to people about this they think it's stingy, too little, utterly crazy?

Probably around £400 a month. Me and 2 dc's. DS is heading towards teen quantities of food and I have to eat gluten free which isn't cheap, although I cook as much as I can.

It's cheaper in the summer because we have an allotment.

I spend roughly £140 pounds (2 adults) but that's not just groceries it includes shampoo, conditioner, bath and shower stuff, washing powder, fabric conditioner, face wash, bin liners, cleaning products etc.

Purely food is maybe £115-£130 depending on the month!

It's perfectly do able with meal plans and taking packed lunches etc. Also by not buying branded stuff.

Others spend more, which is fine if you can afford it!

There is a massive discrepancy on here between what people spend I find!

Another one who would love to see your shopping list and meal plan!

I think with 2 fridges we would just waste so much food, there's only so much fresh food you can eat before it goes off even with one fridge there's wastage.

I spend about £70 a week on everything for a family of 4. Meat is ordered in bulk from Musclefoods (7.5kg chicken breast, 2.5kg mince, 2 ostrich burgers and 2 packs of sausages for £47. 30 meals for 4 people) we eat very well on that and if we stuck to a meal plan we'd probably spend less!

£400 a month for a family of 8.
We do grow a fair bit of fruit and veg but the rest comes from Aldi and Morrisons.
I expect it to go up to about £500 as the younger boys get older if our teen son is anything to go by.

^ including hair and beauty, cleaning products etc.

I don't have a budget and have never really given it much thought. I think it's around £80-£100 a week I suppose. That's 2 adults and 2 children. Could probably be less if I meal planned etc. Must give this a go. Could likely cut my costs by quite a lot I imagine. Might make it one of my goals :)

@TwentyCups yes ours includes washing stuff as well. We bought industrial sized bottles of laundry soap about 5 months ago and we're still on the first one. I'll buy my own toiletries but I write for a lot health and beauty projects so get a lot of freebies too. I tend to spend a lot in one go (big bags of dishwasher tablets, blocks of cheddar, multiple kilo bags of veg) but then they last a long time which evens out the money.

My mum used to spend about £200 pw on three of us in the 90s. I thinks it literally a case of its happened because we didn't have the money to do otherwise. If I didn't plan carefully we'd not have any food! 🙈

Depends where I go.

Aldi I can do about £200 per month, double that if I go to Tescos

Between £300 and £350 per month for 2 adults and 2 dc (and 3 cats). It's about £75 a week which frugal me keeps trying to get down but every week without fail it's the same! But that includes food, cleaning products, loo roll etc, then also crisps/treats and the dc's packed lunches for school.

£150 per month sounds loooooooooow but it's not stingy if you have what you need, is it?

About £500 per month and we eat out/get takeaway once or twice a week.

There's three of us and a dog and cat.

@LadyDeadpool one fridge is purely for beers (that never get drunk) and defrosting meat. Means I can defrost a few days in one hit and doesn't make my kitchen stink 😂

I'm very fortunate that my mum taught me to cook from a young age and dh will eat anything.

I looked at Muscle Meat, I'm guessing they're quite good? I tend to go to my local butchers and buy their BBQ packs as well as they tend to be great for freezing and will do a few meals (obviously don't need to be BBQed either).

We average 400-500 per month. I try to keep it closer to 400. That includes toiletries and cleaning/laundry stuff. I'm trying to cut the overall costs.

I spend £50 a week for two adults and one child. I cook from scratch mainly, shop only from Lidl and use a lot of quorn vege stuff instead of meat. I don't feel like we are missing out on anything.

@Noodoodle Exactly. I never feel like we go without at all. My sister acts like I'm some sort of destitute sad housewife but then my DH's family were totally broke growing up so he's super conscious of being careful.

@applespearsbears love quote mince! No need to defrost, not greasy and really tasty. 👌🏼

Quorn even!

We spend £200 per month for 4 of us, sometimes there are only 3 of us though, so have incorporated the cost of tuck, going back to school as this would be spent on food if the other dc was at home, iyswim.

About £240 a month

glitters I get it with the additional freezing though. We used to have a chest freezer and I'm sure I spent less over time because I could just stock stuff up, it was so handy. I hate not having room for one anymore, fridge freezers are way too small for my liking. I can't even get an extra loaf of bread in mine!

Having said that, when our chest freezer broke and I had to cook it all to try and salvage some...that was an unenviable task!

My husband would kill for a beer fridge! Could keep my coke stash in their too. Musclefoods meat is great it doesn't shrink at all and there's no fat. Just need to spend a few minutes finding the deals that work for you. I got the mince on code at 95p a pack then 5kg of chicken was an on site offer for £25 and when I added 2 packs of sausages they offered me another 2.5kg of chicken for £12.50 and we eat loads of chicken breasts.
I try to make a hobby of being frugal at least it keeps things interesting! I'm disabled so we have to stretch it where we can.

@Noodoodle nooo that's my worst nightmare! I've got about 5kg of lamb mince, three pork shoulders, a lamb shoulder and about 60 chicken breasts down there alone at the moment 😨😨😨😨

Is the musclefood website always so glitchy or are thousands of mnetters now drowning the site?

About £400 pcm for two of us and a v large cat.

But we feed a teenager every week and most weekends have family round for dinner (about 8 in total) and most weeks will have someone round for dinner too.

Includes cleaning and toiletries. But we don't eat out much, don't get takeaways and I nearly always take my lunch in to work.

150-200 per week for 2 adults and a 9 month old formula fed mini giant who has, until recently, refused to eat anything.

If you add on how much I spend on lunch at work, though, you could easily add another 100 :(

£220 at Tesco every month and after saving all our receipts we found we spend a further £180 on local shop stuff. That's £400 for all five of us and we eat well. Our 5yo DS especially who you would think would just drop if he stopped eating and snacking for five sodding minutes! Seriously, he's skinny as a rake but eats his bodyweight easily every day! Feeding him alone is probably £200 of that