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How much did your last weekly shop cost?

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JoeyBartonHanson · 13/05/2019 18:58

Mine cost £95 which I don't think was that bad for about 100 items

OP posts:
Youngandfree · 15/05/2019 10:51

I have just been shopping and this my list is attached. This is for 4. My meal plan over the next 5/6days is
Honey and soy salmon, rice and veggies
Sausage casserole
Spring Chicken with rice
Prawn stirfry with noodles
Fish fingers, beans,potatoes ad veggies
Chinese chicken with noodles/rice

I already have a green pepper, Swede, onion, rice beans and noodles at home. I also have milk but will top up in a day or two. I also may buy more egg noodles. I usually have 2/3 non weekly items per list. This week it was tea/coffee and toilet rolls. And the cider for the spring chicken. But this is my average shopping list. I say 80 per week because once I have bought extra milk and we may possibly run out of something else like ketchup. Hope this helps.

Ps this is actually euro as I am in Ireland so this converts to approx 55 pounds (I shop mostly in lidl/aldi)

How much did your last weekly shop cost?
Youngandfree · 15/05/2019 11:18

@BlagMyChicken @bordellosboheme I forgot to tag you. My list is above.

RedWineAllMine · 15/05/2019 11:27

Is it cheaper to buy the same thing and quantity but loose, and bag up yourself, rather than to buy the a
already pre bagged stuff?
The PP who just posted the Lidl receipt, was that 0.69p for 3 red peppers?

PinkHeartLovesCake · 15/05/2019 11:31

Last shop was £240 in a supermarket and independent butchers for 2 adults, 3 toddler dc (we shop every 10 days or so)

I don’t mind what we spend as I like good quality meat, lots of fruit & veg (my dc especially love berries which aren’t cheap) also it includes 3 bottles of nice wine.

Washing powder, toilet roll etc we only need to buy on alternative shops

RedWineAllMine · 15/05/2019 11:31

It's also worth popping to the shops at reduced time for stuff, like Asda & Tesco. That's what do.
I get a few packs of 350g mushrooms for 10p. They last 4-5 days after the best before date.

RedWineAllMine · 15/05/2019 11:32

Missed out the i that's what I do*

Youngandfree · 15/05/2019 11:41

@RedWineAllMine I’m not sure if it’s cheaper but I already had a green pepper and they normally become in a pack of 3 ( I don’t use green peppers often enough to justify buying another) also I try to buy loose when I can so as to reduce plastic (but that is so hard 😩) so in answer to your question no that’s 69 for 1 (but I chose a huge one 😂)

shedid · 15/05/2019 11:56

£120
2 adults, 2 preteens
3 of us are coeliac, 2 allergic to dairy and one allergic to yeast, sunflower oil, tomatoes, cocoa and refined sugar.
One has autism plus allergies and has a severely restricted diet.
Everything has to be from scratch. Rarely eat out as can't risk cross contamination.

Mostly veggie- I get a box from Riverford. Chicken and eggs are all high welfare but can't afford more than two meat based meals a week.

Meal planning is the bane of my life.

SherlockSays · 15/05/2019 12:15

Also agree that no one should be buying £2.50 chickens, it's just encouraging a horrendous industry. Why is a chicken's life worth less than yours? (I'm vegetarian before anyone asks if I buy chickens at all).

As someone else has said, buy some tins of lentils or beans - they're even cheaper.

Ellabella989 · 15/05/2019 12:17

£80 for 2 adults

outvoid · 15/05/2019 12:31

£80, two adults and three primary school aged DC. Had a fair few toiletries to buy this week and cat food which always pushes the price up. Aldi shoppers so save a fortune. Same shop in another supermarket would likely cost £120ish.

bordellosboheme · 15/05/2019 12:42

@youngandfree that's amazing. Clearly I need to menu plan!

Snog · 15/05/2019 12:44

If anyone is looking for ideas on what to cook to reduce your grocery spend there are some excellent YouTube's on this, people cooking a week's worth of family meals and details of what they buy for a week.

Purplelion · 15/05/2019 13:26

Posted too so soon!
My food shopping is being delivered tomorrow, for 2 adults, teenager, toddler and cat!
It’s £96 but that includes a new pizza wheel, shower gel, shampoo, conditioner, nappies, wipes and cat food!
It includes packed lunches for all 4 of us 3 days a week. OH takes 4/5 bottles of drink to work a day so there’s 30 drinks as well!

Thesearmsofmine · 15/05/2019 13:39

We spend around £80 a week total for 5 of us(2 adults and 3 dc aged 3,6 & 8). The dc are home ed so includes lunches and DH takes food to work with him most days too.

I keep our supermarket shop around £55/£60 by meal planning, I look to see what’s on offer first in case anything jumps out at me. I also look at what we already have in. We don’t have much food waste, any veg I have leftover ends up being blanched and frozen or I make into a pasta sauce or whatever. Brown bananas will go into pancakes or banana bread etc.

I shop online so I can keep an eye on what I’m spending and am not tempted by random things(I am terrible in Aldi/Lidl for picking bits up in the middle aisle).

I mostly buy non branded stuff, there are only a few things I will always buy the branded version(tea, cheese etc) of. Some supermarkets do great products, Asda sell a superseded loaf of bread for 84p and it’s lovely.
Stuff like toilet roll we buy in bulk, we pay £11 for 56 toilet rolls and that lasts ages.

Our meat is from the butchers. They do 5 items for £14 so I buy that and sometimes will add extras like this week I added some chicken kebabs in a marinade so it was about £20.
It probably would be cheaper to get it from the supermarket but the meat is so much better, no fat or nasty bits.

Then I do a top up midweek of bread/milk and some fruit which is about £5, sometimes I will pick up reduced bits if I see them to pop into the freezer.

WinterWillow · 15/05/2019 13:43

We spend approximately £150 a week on food shopping and often top up milk, bread etc mid-week so probably more towards £180 overall.
That's for 2 adults 2 DC's, 4 dogs and 4 cats and a couple of small pets (they mainly eat leftover veg but we buy treats now and again)

cindersrella · 15/05/2019 13:44

£108.76 that was an every 10 day or so shop. I have bedding plants in that too

flower76 · 15/05/2019 13:45

£65 2 adults and 2 kids. Never more, this is the budget!

Three Lidl shops and one Ocado a month.

Meal plan always
No meat
Organic milk and eggs

flower76 · 15/05/2019 13:48

The Ocado shop is usually £85 as buy bulk soya milk and other items that Lidl don't do.

Mabellavender · 15/05/2019 13:48

On Monday day I spent 280 pound and I only got 3 meals Shock 10 of us here!

flower76 · 15/05/2019 13:48

Do you have 8 kids?!? Or extremes family or friends living there??

flower76 · 15/05/2019 13:49

Extended not extreme

formerbabe · 15/05/2019 13:54

On Monday day I spent 280 pound and I only got 3 meals shock 10 of us here

£28 per person for 3 meals.

That means each person's meal cost just over £9.

What on earth were you eating?

flower76 · 15/05/2019 13:56

Formerbabe well they weren't eating £2.50 chickens!

Threefaries · 15/05/2019 14:06

Usually around £60- £70 week for a family of 6.
Very few cleaning products, the steam cleaner sorts most things. We have an eco egg which has saved us a fortune on laundry bills. We buy lots of fruit and vegetables. Almost everything is made from scratch. Items like tomato purée are purchased when on offer. I tend to not buy branded foods. The bread is sourced from Asda when it is being sold for 10 pence a loaf and then frozen. We buy little alcohol.