To ask what your weekly food shop bill is?

[princesspeppax]

We are currently spending a fair bit more than we would like to on our weekly shopping - and are looking to save some money in the next few months for moving to our new house and this seems like a good place to start

Its me, dp, and our 3 year old and 1 year old.

So if anybody could give some advice on:

What you spend and how many of you it feeds
Where you shop thats cheapest
Meal plans for the family

Any help much appreciated
Thankyou

I spend about £35-40 pw for 2 adults, a nearly 2 year old, a 2 month old and 2 dogs.

I swapped from Tesco to Aldi for most things. I also buy the kids clothing in sales in sizes ahead. If you buy anything online look at websites like topcashback etc. It all starts to add up over time.

I’ve also recently had my phone upgrade and instead of “upgrading” I just switched to sim only which saves £30pm.

100 a week at Sainsburys but 55 a week if I swap to Aldi.
It's a no brainer to shop at Aldi.
This feeds 3.

Less than £40 on average (one week is usually more expensive because of non food items like cleaning/laundry items). Just me and a very fussy 3 year old.

About £60 a week Asda online, including nappies, cleaning stuff and some toiletries, for me, dp and toddler.
I actually find it cheaper than Aldi as I was doing top up shops for certain things, but with Asda online I shop once a week, end of, and am not walking around the shop throwing random crap in the trolley.

Eggs
Eggs
Eggs
Lentils
Beans on toast

Try to add a few of the above recipes into your weekly meal plan, they cost pennies, kids tend to eat them and they are easy!

Don’t do weekly shopping. That’s my best tip for saving money. Supermarkets invented the term weekly shop and I think we are all worse off for it. We buy more than we need just in case, or we spend far more time than we need to on things like meal planning. We end up eating things we don’t really fancy because that’s the plan and they’ll go out of date and it’s just not fun, fulfilling or necessary.

I do a 4-6 weekly shop for non perishables and we buy everything else as we go, when we fancy it. We enjoy eating, buy only what we need and we save money.

Sorry, forgot to say, I shop at Asda and 3 nights a week it’s usually a quick tea like sandwiches, beans on toast etc as DS eats his tea at nursery and we don’t get home until after 6pm.

I usually try and buy things that can be used for the next days meal so it doesn’t go off. So if I do a roast the next day I’ll do a stew/curry etc with the rest of the meat, soup/bubble and squeak with the left over veg the next day. I freeze a lot too which saves money and definitely helps at the end of the month when funds are low.

Aldi Aldi Aldi!

We have now me, dh and 2 adults at home. And bg/gf of our adult kids regularly visiting

So Aldi mince, chicken, steak, pizzas etc excellent value and brilliant quality. I can do a weekly shop + alcohol for around £120,, at sainsburys it is £170/180.

Seriously sadly we have experimented

Aldi better quality too

It use to be about £120 but with mid week top up of bread fruit and veg it's gone up to about £150 that's for me,dh,dd 16 and dss 15 who comes at weekend and school holidays. This doesn't include toiletries and cleaning stuff and very rarely includes alcohol. We are big meat eaters and the shop is mainly meat,veggies,salads,fruit juice and cereals nothing extravagant. I shop at Aldi and Asda

About £75 a week, three adults, one adult sized teen and one big dog. Aldi and farmfoods. We're skint AF so we only use the 'main' supermarket for bits and pieces. We buy lots of frozen veg, i.e. peppers, mushrooms, green beans, broccoli etc. and bulk meals out with these so pasta with loads of veg, noodles with loads of veg. Lentils make things like spag bol/chilli go further and there's usually enough left for at least one lunch for lunch the next day.

Agree with purple also rotate around as many supermarkets as you have access to, to make the best use of offers. There are many items that are always on offer somewhere, so if you have the money and space to keep a few spares in stock, you never have to pay full price. Or shop in aldi or lidl that are cheaper anyway.

Make sure you waste as little as possible and use things up or freeze. Be aware of what is cheap and expensive and include lots of cheaper items in your meal plan.

Me, DH and 2 DC aged 7 and 3 plus DCat who eats ASDA Tiger cat food and doesn't have a litter tray.

I meal plan and make a shopping list.

I shop at LIDL mainly & then get cheaper bits / bits I can't get at LIDL in ASDA. I spend between £35-£60 in LIDL and then another £50ish in ASDA. I do buy non essentials and things that just look nice as well, I bet I could spend a lot less if I tried!

Evening meals wise we eat meat 2-3 times a week, fish 1-2 times a week and the rest veggie.

DH and I take homemade lunches to work - usually some kind of salad and some fruit. DC1 still has infant free school meals and DC2 is in nursery 3 days a week.

DC love Weetabix, so I get the LIDL own brand of that, which is actually quite nice. And then we tend to have a couple of other cereals as sometimes they like to have a choice. Occasionally I'll get a fancy cereal as a treat for DC1 (DC2 is obsessed with weetabix, won't eat anything else!!). DH and I eat either porridge, eggs or yoghurt & fruit for breakfast.

I do buy snack bar type things as DC1 likes them after school. Loads of ham, cheese, salad stuff, fruit, veggies. Tins of soups / beans etc (ASDA are sometimes cheaper for stuff like this.) I also raid the reduced section for veg to freeze or make into soups etc.

Family of two adults and two teen DSs, we shop mostly at Aldi and spend around £75 a week. If we shop at Tesco it's nearer £100 for very similar items.

The DSs snack on fruit, breadsticks, cheese, toast, plain yoghurt with fruit, cereal and nuts.

We cook from scratch on average 5 nights a week, and the other nights might have supermarket pizza or fishcakes and salad.

Typical meals include fish pie, spag bol using turkey mince, salmon fillets with pesto, veg and new potatoes, chilli, curry, lasagne, soup and bread in winter, fajitas, omelette, baked potatoes with fillings.

About £50-60 at Ocado. They always give us free stuff too. That’s for dh, me and ds (9) who eats more than an adult! I used to shop at Aldi and it was cheaper but it so boring and getting more expensive.

About £40 per week for myself and teen + animals. Online only as i can budget better.

I think my main problem is we have 4/5 major supermarkets all within walking distance, and when i am out walking with DCs we end up nipping in to them and therefore end up picking up bits and bobs which we dont actually need, just impulse buys, i do desperately need to nip this habit in the bud as think this alone would save a fair bit

Aldi i do find cheaper, but feel as if there bread, fruit and veg doesn't last as long

@Babybearsporij i also have a cat, i am intrigued if you have no litter tray does she go outside for the toilet ? Cat litter is bloody dear

Ocado don't deliver where we are unfortunately

Usually shop at Asda. Have saved since I started meal planning and making sure I stick to my list or online shopping as I was just filling my trolley with all sorts. Also like the big one near us that you scan as you shop as I find I don’t buy rubbish I don’t need when I see the total as I go. If things are on offer will tend to stock up on them in the spares cupboard. I always check the price guarantee and if shopping in store upload the receipt to a cash back app.
This is for me, my partner and my toddler. I do buy some meat from the butchers and bulk buy somethings like beans and pop from Costco. Works out to about £60 a week. This is for mine and toddlers lunch most days and all 3 of us for dinner. I meal plan for the week, doesn’t take long and saving us lots of money plus not throwing hardly anything away.
We have fish & chips, chicken in different sauces, cottage pie, fajitas, salmon and rice, chicken and rice, sausage & mash, mince stew, pasta & sauce, roast dinner, veg soup, omelettes, Curry - now summer has arrived had lots of food on the barbecue recently with new potatoes and salad.

Around £300 a month for 2 adults, 2 primary ages DC, a toddler with allergies, a 4 month old and a dog
This is including toiletries/cleaning stuff, nappies and 2 takeaways a month

My tips;

• Plan plan plan
• Have designated food money, we have a separate bank card where I transfer the food budget for the month on payday and when it’s gone it’s gone
• Have a designated spot where you keep food you can throw together for when things go off plan
• Cook once, eat twice
• Always know what you have in
• Freeze everything, nothing goes to waste around here
• Never shop hungry
• Don’t be a brand snob

Wait until you hsve teens! You seriously cannot satisfy them food wise 😂 all
Plans go out the window

£120 pw on groceries - not just food, this is everything from dishwasher tablets and loo roll, to beer & wine for me and DH. I do one shop a week and just buy extra fruit at the weekend but it all has to come out of the £120. There's me, DH and 2 dc under 7.

£120 a week, two adults, one child, one toddler and one baby. It includes formula, cleaning supplies, work lunches that I make at home. We spend a lot on fruit, around £30/£40 a week and about £10 of that is on snacks for the kids.

Varies depending on buying exttas, alcohol, if the baby needs nappies etc, but on average spend around £50 a week. That’s not being thrifty either.
Tips : buy own brand basics. Plan your meals!

Forgot to add it's a combination of Tesco, Morrisons and local butcher, I try to get to Lidl as much as I can but it's a faff to get to. Morrisons wonky veg boxes are really good, I'd recommend it.

About £45 including delivery for 1 full time adult, 1 part time adult and 2 cats.

$350 US a week. Can’t wait to move back to the UK!