To ask how much you spend per week/ month on groceries?

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There are x3 of us (teenage dd) . I’m not sure exactly how much we are spending as me and dh do bits and bobs separately.

For food shopping together with things like cleaning products etc you would buy in your normal shop, how much are you spending?

we spend a shit load on food
roughly £40 per day over 2 shops sometimes

2 adults 2 kids(14,8)but kids eat as much as adults due to being big kids(14 y old 6 ft 10 st 7,8 y old 5ft 115 pounds)

both boys have multiple disabilities each and one of these(asd)means they eat constantly(something to do with the brain not telling the stomach its full or the other way around)

they have 7-8 big sized fresh home cooked meals(they wont eat tins or processed food) a day,and as neither sleep we are up 24 hours so feed them when they ask and as they are home educated they dont have to wait and we will pop in for food when out and about
its very rare that they have any left overs
they also have a lot of fruit each

i also have sever acid reflex and go through 4-5 4 pinters of milk per day

youngest is still on 8 pints a day(have been since 10 months) as well as food and oldest and partner shares a 4 pinter so thats 7 4 pinters a day as well

£200 a week

£100 per week for me, Adult son, OH, a dog and 2 cats, including cleaning stuff, loo rolls etc. I shop mainly at Lidl.

Can range between £50-100 per week depending on how long our cupboards get and if dh comes shopping. I found morrisons is cheaper than idll for us. Two adults, one toddler.

About £160 per week. Family of 6 but youngest is only a baby so just nappies for him.

Can get it down to about £100 if we're skint

About £160 a month for me and DH, no DC yet. We do a main shop at Aldi fortnightly, usually about £60, then £5-10 a week on top up bit like bread and veg in between. We don't eat meat but have fish about 3x a week.

£400ish for two adults. I love to cook though and we hate eating the same meals over and over.

Plus, this includes wine and loads of cleaning crap

Around £120 every two weeks for 2 adults, a teenager and a dog. Bread, potatoes and milk are topped up as needed. DH and teen take a pack up to work/school, from the groceries. Dog is fed on raw food from the local butcher. The main meal every day is cooked from scratch.

Plus we have a take away the first Saturday of every month, so an extra £20 a month on top.

1 adult, 1 12yo and a dog. £55ish per week on food/household, plus £20 a month for dog food.

Family of four here - 2 x adults, a 2 year old and a 3 year old

Somewhere between £500 - £550 a month including food, household stuff e.g. toiletries, cleaning products and nappies.

I shop in Aldi, Sainsbury, Tesco occasionally Waitrose (they have good special offers!) and have tried really hard to get it down to £80 a week/£400 a month but just can't do it.

£60-70 per week for two adults, a 6 and 3 yr old. Mostly cooked from scratch, and I’m quite careful to make sure our meals include plenty of fresh veg, etc. That includes lunches for all except the 6 yr old who gets lunch at school obvs. It doesn’t include cleaning stuff or toiletries usually, I try to go to home bargains every two months to stock up on those. We eat meat most days, but do try to choose cheaper cuts and I’m getting quite good at planning meals to avoid waste. What has made the difference for us in terms of how much we spend is eating most evening meals together as a family

At the moment around £70 a week for my 18 year old daughter and myself. That's because my daughter is autistic and demands certain things to eat every day. I could easily cut it down to about half of that.

Family of four we spend roughly £100 per week, that's being careful.

Shop at Aldi and Sainsbury's.

Family of 4. We eat organic. I’m vegan. We spend roughly £120 a week. Cook everything from scratch. We eat out once a week too.

I’m just very good at shopping around 😂

I am really amazed that some people can feed whole families on £50 a week

This always comes up on thread like this. Usually most of the people who say this then explain that it doesn’t include eg

Pet food, toiletries, nappies and cleaning products
School lunches or lunch in a work canteen
Kids breakfast as they get it at school
Some dinners as kids eat at Grans or childminders some nights
Meals out and takeaways
Vegetables from my dads allotment
Store cupboard food as we buy in bulk from Costco
Cheap meat from my mums job in a butchers

Etc etc

And often their “ family of 4” is two adults , a baby and a toddler .

I don’t think there’s many people eating well on £1.80 a meal.

We've never had a budget but I'm about to go on maternity and I totted up we'd spent around 700 in October between supermarkets, top up shops and takeaway for me, my husband and 2 cats. That's including all cleaning products, some toiletries and a few bits and pieces for the baby due at the end of the month, along with a couple of gift cards. I was horrified and we're determined to stick to 400 or below from now on.

We don't really buy branded stuff and we do cook a lot from scratch so how it ends up at that amount is a genuine mystery to me apart from my Revel habit while I've been pregnant, and my husband's Tassimo coffee habit. They're 24 coffees for a tenner and he probably drinks about 50 in a month so still a tiny percentage.

We've banned takeaways and seem to be doing better in November

I feed a family of 6 on £70 and it includes everything. I don’t have a choice. We don’t have any more money than that. We actually eat better on a lower budget because we have to properly plan and cook from scratch.

About £150/£160 per week 2 adults 2 kids young enough to be still on free school lunches. Don’t cook a lot from scratch tbh, we have more money than time (not that we’re drowning in either of them)

On average £80. Some weeks can be less like £60, as I try to buy in bulk so some weeks could be closer to £100 but it usually evens out at £80 a week

Oh and that's for me and DH (who is a big eater!!)

The majority of our main meals come out at £5 maximum

Eg.
Sausage, mash, 2 veg and gravy comes in at £3 odd
Likewise pasta with tuna and tomato sauce with a little grated cheese about £3
Macaroni cheese with mixed veg again about £3
Shepherds pie about £4
Likewise spag Bol about £4
Roast dinner is only about £6

We mostly eat "untrendy" veg though. Peas and sweetcorn (frozen or tinned), cabbage, carrots, broccoli, cauliflower, leeks, Spring greens, swede, onions, potatoes.

I used to do "clean eating" and would spend double what I do now on avocados, mangoes, grapes etc. As well as things like almond milk and cashew nut butter and spirulina powder. I was honestly being ripped off so badly by the "superfoods" myth.

My weight has regulated, I've got better vitamin levels and my energy levels have improved since going back to Meat and veg type fare...

I can't believe how much money I wasted on quinoa when brown rice does basically the same job, or how much I spent on asparagus when peas and cabbage are just as good!

About £700 a month inc cat litter and food for 3 cats and household things like loo roll, cleaning etc. It is just me and DH, we do buy a fair amount of wine.

Without cats and wine it might be nearer £500. We do a weekly online and then a top up.

I desperately want to spend less but we like nice things and are very busy so we tend to get what we like.

we usually order a big musclefood for about £80 that does us between 4-6 weeks and then I plan out all meals and budget so averages out £60 - £70max for me and DH and SD at the weekends. That includes all lunches for me and DH and basics like toilet roll etc

Just checked my budgeting/spending app and monthly spends over the last 6 months have varied between £699 to £849 a month . This includes

-All groceries for eating at home

• basic toiletries and cleaning stuff bought from supermarkets (who has time to split out supermarket receipts!!)
• All eating out/lunches at work/ takeway coffees/ takeaways etc
• All DS lunches at school

So about £800 a month on average for 2 adults and one teenager about £190 a week

For me, DH, DS (9 weeks EBF so doesn’t really count), three rabbits and 5 chickens 23 probably spend £350-£400 per month. DH is a fairly successful amateur level athlete and trains on average 20 hours per week and has an insanely good metabolism so consumes upwards of 4000 calories per day so tbh probably counts as two people.

That includes all food, pet food and associated bits and bobs (hay, straw, litter, grit etc.), cleaning supplies and toiletries. It doesn’t include the odd coffee and slice of cake or whatever as that comes out of our own personal budgets most of the time and not the joint account.

I’ve started using more frozen veg (so easy and doesn’t go squishy in the fridge when you forget to use it up!) and this week we’re eating a vegetarian (almost vegan but obviously we have eggs!) diet and I’ve already managed to shave at least £10-15 off the weekly food shop. We are trying to cut back due to my maternity leave and environmental concerns so hopefully this week goes well!