£50 weekly shop!!!!

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Back story.... I'm a sahm, hubby works, 2 kids and a cat.

I do online shopping as I don't drive and hubby refuses to go to the supermarket on his days off. So I did our usual weekly shop this morning, asked for his bank card and was asked how much it was,I said £50 and was greeted with "WHY is it so much?"

AIBU in thinking £50 isn't that much to feed 2 adults, 2 children and a cat, (It includes packed lunches for hubby and child)

2A 1C 1dog. £35 here for bare essentials-no loo roll, washing powder out of that. No lunches. Just dinner and breakfast. £50 you are doing exceptionally well I think.

He should be thanking you for being so thrifty, I don't know how you manage to spend so little. The man obviously has no clue what things actually cost. A shopping trip for hubby is in order see how he manages!

He sounds very out of touch with the cost of living.

On Friday I spent £93 to feed two adults, an 18 year old and a 14 year old who loves sport and simply cannot be filled.

That will do most of the week, but there will be the odd top up for milk etc. Sounds like your DH would keel over backwards at that.

On the TV programme Eat Well for Less last year they quoted that the average food bill for a family of 4 was £81.40 - probably nearer £90 these days with the post-Brexit price rises
www.huffingtonpost.co.uk/entry/eat-well-for-less-bbc1_uk_5784fe2fe4b00cb7b7ffef0b

So it is clear that your dh is out of touch

£50 weekly shop is....Impressive!

If you do the cooking serve him small portions and see if he notices. Sounds like he isn't a man who has a refined palate if he thinks £50 is a lot.

That figure from EWFL is about right for us. I could certainly be a bit more careful but a lot of it is paying more for convenience which is essential for us ATM.

Anyway what is he going to do about it OP, if he's so convinced it's too much?

Pah! I easily spend £40 on just DH and I, no pets... and I don't even buy any meat. Very impressed you are doing it for £50 for a full family.

The EWFL figure is just food isn't it? No cleaning or laundry products, toiletries, kitchen roll, tissues or toilet rolls etc.

Tell him to go for it! I spend about £70-75 for 4 of us and a cat.

How long is it since your DH set foot in a supermarket OP, if he refuses to do the shopping?

Is he too dim to realise that prices have increased since whenever it was that £50 was 'too much' for a weekly shop for a family of 4?

Yanbu.

£50 for a family of 4 is really pretty good. If he thinks he can do better then let him try but I reckon he will struggle to better your efforts op!

I struggle to hit £50 per week, but I guess we have a dc still in nappies and needing formula milk.

Get your own bank card and tell him to try it for himself next week.

You could alternatively spend a week serving only the cheapest dry pasta with tinned tomatoes and sweetcorn, alternated with cheapest jacket potatoes with cheapest beans. Make his packups with the absolute cheapest white sliced bread, cheap cooking margarine instead of butter and very cheap jam... nothing else.

You could spend what you save eating out with your youngest at lunch time and putting your school child on school meals for the week :o

I can't believe he thinks this is dear. And I can't believe you can feed a family of 4 and pets for so little.

We are a family of three and 3 animals and there is NO way I can do it for so little.

We eat all meals at home / packed lunch apart from the odd meal out / takeaway

Our weekly bill could be £100/ £120 and we are not eating caviar or lobster!

What sort of meals are you making for that?

I doubt you could do it any cheaper. I spend £60-80 on two adults, a teen and two children and am fairly frugal.

As a child (back in the seventies and early eighties) I seem to remember my mother spending around £50 a week to feed four of us. She was fairly thrifty.

You are doing well to get by on so little.

If he thought £50 was so much that suggests you normally do it for even less! I'd like to know what meals you're cooking to feed you all on that because i'd like to start. Maybe he's feeling the pressure of one income and targeting the wrong thing?

You need to work out what you need for a full weeks shop - include everything you may ever need to buy including cat food, laundry stuff.

Then give him the full list, £50 and tell him to pop off to Sainsburys and see how much he can manage.

What a twit. He is lucky to have someone who can shop so well. £50 is literally nothing these days.

There are three of us here, 2 adults, an 11 year old who eats like a horse and four cats. Cats alone cost us £30 a month on dry food and wet food, plus another £10 on flea treatment. Then laundry, cleaning products, all the frozen fish food we buy plus our own food. I wish it was £200 a month in total!

I would ask him to do the shopping for an entire month so he gets a more accurate picture of how much everything costs. If he just does it for a week, he'll effectively do a top-up shop.

we spend about £70 a week...1 adult,5 children,1cat and 1 dog. we have to budget a lot.

Send the cat out to work.

I really would like to see the meal plans for £50 a week as I would love to get our costs down in order to have more cash for other stuff.

But i can't seem to do it.

I think that's a good shop. For myself, DP and 1 cat it's 75 for 2weeks worth of food.

Though we are both good at finding bargains and compromising when we want a treat.

WritingHome I think it could be done but largely at the cost of eating really dull food, the way people used to do. Tolerable if you have a garden and time to grow a lot of stuff or keep chickens or something.

My dp does the shopping, £120 per week with more if we're hosting.