To ask what you *really* spend on your weekly shop

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I swear I am not being goady, and completely understand that many are genuinely on a budget... however as someone who does a weekly shop or a good £59 for two people (and I shop in Lidl) plus can’t seem to pop around the petrol garage without spending £30 a few times I am in awe of those who do a family shop for £30 a week. Also, upon seeing the “what’s in your fridge posts” which I loved- would love to be nosy and ask - what do you honestly spend on shopping each week.

£100 every 5-7 days. Total of 42 adult meals/week and about 25 meals for dc. Includes alcohol 1bottle/wine and 4 bottles of beer.

Two adults, a husky, two cats, a tortoise and a six year old (we have a pecking order)
I reckon maybe £120 (we're in London), including toiletries etc but not sure as me and DP have separate accounts and pay for different stuff. I'm rounding up.

I spend 40 every other month on meat in aldi and spend anywhere between 7-15 pound per week on a top up. Me and 3yo.

I spend £100-120 on food delivery a week which includes all household products shampoos and face cream. Plus maybe an extra £10 at the local shop. We are a family of five. I really don’t see how people manage on less.

150ish euros a week, me and dh, 2 dogs and 2 cats. that's everything. in awe of some of the pps

Around £70 per week, but we also eat out or get a takeaway most weeks on top of that. That's for 2 adults, a 10 year old and a 6 year old.

£40 at Aldi, about £20 at an Asian food store and a out £10 on top up of fruits and milk. To be honest though, we could do away with the Asian food shop and just live on Aldi and the top ups.

£150ish a week, split between Morrison’s and Sainsbury’s depending on who is offering me the most points that week. 2 adults and 2 teens. That includes all household items as well plus my lunches. I love cooking and baking - probably could spend rather less if I didn’t.

£120 a week at tesco for two adults, two kids and a cat. That is house stuff and toiletries too. I honestly don't know people spend so little, we get cheap brands and my other half barely eats anything! Everything gets used so no waste. Just don't get it..

2 Ocado shops totalling about £150 then we use Gousto at about £40 then top up shops. So about £220 a week I’d guess

£75 pw on Ocado. Two adults, one DS2, one spoilt DCat. That does everything (not nappies) - breakfast, pack lunches, dinner and snacks. Very rarely top up.

I don't know, but we put £700 a month in the kitty for food and family expenses and usually run out around the third week.

@CookPassBabtridge - I thought the same. Until I started shopping at Aldi. Honestly, it's a revelation.

We shop daily. I don't know what we spend in total but it's probably something like £15-20 per day for 2 adults, a mastiff and a beagle. We feed them meat & veg etc rather than biscuit so that bumps it up.

Two adults, no kids, no pets - £100 - £120 per week.

We shop everywhere but mainly Sainsbury's, Waitrose and M & S. We never shop in Aldi/Lidl - there isn't one near us.

We are 2 adults, and one 10 year old. I have tracked every penny so far this year and we spent on groceries/basic toiletries/alcohol/cleaning products: Jan £771.22; Feb £746.27 and Mar £756.99.
Includes packed lunch for child, and we work from home so all meals except for what I have tracked as eating out: Jan £217.36, Feb £347.80 and Mar £360.19.
So total of groceries & eating out: Jan £988.58, Feb £1,094.07 and Feb £1,117.18.
My point here is, without tracking every penny meticulously, I would NEVER have guessed we spend so much. I cook a lot from scratch, batch cook, buy loads of yellow sticker specials, shop at Aldi a lot for basics, use a lot of generic items, and we try to eat almost all leftovers. When eating out, we always use a Tastecard if possible, and try to eat in lower cost places like Nando's etc, we almost never buy coffee, and always take water bottles when going out.
So WHY do we spend so much?

Becca I suspect if I honestly tracked what we really spend it would be similarly eye opening. It’s easy to say ‘about £100 a week’ but actually it’s £80-100 on the main shop depending on supermarket. Then a top up of milk and fruit, which also ends up including some snacks and maybe we need nappies or wipes, so somehow that’s another £30, then I might pick up something in the farm shop, then DH eats at work - which ends up being £25-30 a week, we often go to a cafe for lunch one or both weekend days so that’s another £30-60. I’m on mat leave so I might eat leftovers (or nothing) at home for lunch or I might grab something when I’m out, easily another £10-15 a couple of times a week. This is despite the fact that we only buy alcohol in when we have guests and DH is pescatarian so we buy very little meat
That said, when we do buy meat it’s good quality from the farm shop and we also eat a lot of fish and seafood and far too much cheese.
I know there are plenty of areas we could cut back if we needed to, when I was earning less and single I used to budget much more carefully, shop around, eat less expensive things like fish and barely eat out. However, I like the freedom to just pick what I fancy for the week and not worry too much about it so I do.

One Ocado shop a month - £70.
Then £70 per week for two adults and one SPD child who will only eat certain foods. That £70 includes 2 bottles of wine and some chocolate treats too. (we shop reduced a lot though!)

Becca- I kept all my receipt for January and February, so I could gauge how much I was spending in total January it was £220 then February £197. This was all shopping, petrol, sundries, the odd cup of coffee out ( have reduced this greatly) there is just two of us at home. I cook food from scratch but we repeat meals eating curry for four over two nights, pasta bake over two nights etc

Probably £170 per week, 5 of us. Everyone is a pig basically

I spend around £25 a week but there is only me. Then around £30 a month on my two dogs and about £5 a week on the bearded dragon

About £200 a week realistically, which is appalling - 2 parents (plus our children’s nanny has lunches/ snacks/ breakfasts mon-fri), one 2 toddler and one baby so two lots of nappies and one lot of formula. One Ocado shop a week of about £130 then the rest in top up shops. Because of the DC we are at home more so the ‘treat’ meals we would previously have eaten out at the weekend etc are on are weekly shop (pate, sourdough, buffalo mozzarella, steak etc). We have friends or family for a meal about twice a week too which does bump the costs up a lot too. We just quite a lot of fresh fruit which I find is expensive plus higher end chiller cabinet soup, filled pasta etc.

I keep meaning to be better.

i spend between £40 to £50(sometimes more)per day on food as boys eat 24/7(home educated)

we have to shop daily as we drink a lot of milk,20 or more pints per day as i have severe GERD and need 16 pints or more youngest goes through 8 pints just for him

we eat a lot of fresh food and meals always have meat or potatoes in them and are cooked from scratch.

we buy a lot of fruit per day as both eat 7-8 or more pieces each,they have been known to go through tubs or punnets of fruit each

we never buy takeaways only the odd mcdonalds

my boys are very big for their ages and eat like men
14 y old is 6ft 1,10 stone 7
8y old 5ft 1,122 pounds and because of their many disabilities each(asd kids dont relise they are full,its something to do with the stomach not telling their brain they are full or the other way around ) both eat a lot

both have 7-8 big sized home cooked meals in 24 hours(neither boys sleep)each
theirs also 2 adults a cat and a dog and what ever house hold items are needed gets bought separate

About £50-60 a week for two adults and one young child.

We get a takeaway just over once a week, dp takes a packed lunch to work and I'm a sahm so six dinners each, seven breakfasts and lunch for me and dp (ds gets school dinners)

We don't drink much so it's literally just meat, veg, fruit, cereal and bread, with cleaning /hygiene stuff as when it's needed.

Dp eats like a bloody horse though, and ds has portions similar to mine in size (eg, dp will have two jacket potatoes, three sausages, beans and cheese, I will have one spud, one sausage, beans cheese and a small side salad, ds will have the same as me but just a bit of tomato and pepper and no lettuce).

It's the meat and fruit that is really expensive.

I’m ashamed to say about £150 p/w - 2 adults and 1 baby. This does include a decent bottle of wine, some steaks and things for the baby. We tend to only go out once a week so the rest of the time we are cooking all of our meals. My DP takes a prepared lunch in so we don’t have extra expenditure there.