How much did your last weekly shop cost?

[JoeyBartonHanson]

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

Around £150 every 5 days or so that's for 8 of us and 2 cats and includes everything from alcohol to nappies, washing stuff etc

Nooo I don’t mean I literally bought the ingredients for three meals and nothing else, I got loads of stuff but dinner wise I only got three meals.

Fruit, snacks, drinks, it all adds up. I could spend a lot less but I love shopping (all shopping!)

about 100 quid for 3 of us per week....

Thank you Youngandfree. That’s really kind of you to share.
I think I can see where our extra spending comes in. Not so much that it would help us reduce it necessarily, but I can at least see why we’re spending more.

£145 at Waitrose for my husband, 7 month old and I. That's a cheap shop for us TBH. I'm in awe of everyone who spends so much less.

@BlagMyChicken no worries at all.

It helps that we’re not a family that snacks much at all. We use leftovers for lunches and try not to waste much. I don’t buy biscuits etc very often because I would eat them all 😂😂

@karigan

I don't buy meat, cheese, bread or any drinks other than milk at the supermarket and tend to get these items via the waste food cooperative once a week which costs me £2.50 to attend.

Do you just pay the £2.50 and pick up any items you need? Where can I find out more about this. Is it rolled out nationally?

I miss the UK for food shopping.
Here in NZ we can't do a weekly shop for less than $250 and more typically $400. That's not an extravagant shop either.

See prices here are way way more than the list above.

ie from the list above:
180g king prawns - €2.99. They are €8.99 for 200g of the cheapest option
broccoli - €0.89. That was €2.50 here this morning

etc... So virtually the same shop would cost x3 the amount. more like €150-180

All the basics that in the uk would cost 50p-£1 like carrots, celery, onions, potatoes, bread or similar are €2-3

The average wage is around the same as the Uk though, so its not like people earn more to compensate

@WalterIris where are you?

WalterIris where in the EU are you? I went to France last year and food was way more expensive than the UK.

£76 for 2 of us. That's an average. We buy a lot of fresh vegetables and fruit, no meat, just fish.

Mymum - Not france, but in western/central Europe

@mymumdimensionjumps

I found it via fb searching 'waste food groups' for my local town. There were four-each running on different evenings and you can pick which one you go to.
Basically the set up at mine is everyone arrives as 6pm and pays the £2.50 and gets a bottle top with a random number on it. At 6.20 the organiser starts calling people up (starting at #1 and carrying on sequentially) all the food is arranged on three sides of a square and you walk round from table to table choosing between 1 and 4 items from each table (tables are set up with similar ish items- you get to pick more of cheaper items so may only be asked to take only one pack of chicken breasts or mince but allowed to take 4 peppers in one go) Each go round of the tables gives you about 3/4 of a bag for life. Then there is a pause where they draw a raffle for high ticket items (things like packs of salmon/big blocks of cheese) and use a random number generator to bottle caps in order to pick people who get these items

After that everyone is given the option to walk back round the tables and pick a second bag of stuff. Its usually wrapped up by 7pm.

£63 from sainsbury's for 5 of us. I meal plan so only get what we want plus a few extras. No washing powder or cleaning stuff this week though.

Oh and we are veggie so that keeps costs down.

£147 plus will probably spend another £20 during the week. I am on a Keto diet so steak etc is expensive. 4 of us all together plus ddog.

2 adults 3 children aged 2 1 and 12 weeks

Spend about £75 up to £100 on rotating weeks that's nappies wipes lunches for work

£90 for family of 3 & two cats. Including toiletries, cleaning products, cat food etc. We have to buy gluten free food and quite a few items are more expensive than normal equivalents. We spend between about £75 and £100 a week depending on what we need. We all eat packed lunches and aren't currently trying to cut back.

We are profligate. We spend about £150+ most weeks for 3 of us. Can’t be arsed to meal plan and husband likes Waitrose.

2 adults and 3 kids here. Last shop was €120 but that included a giant €15 bag of dishwasher tablets and €15 of food for a family party. I find that I can keep it at around €100 for a while but then I'll slip again and it will creep up 🙈

We cookeverything from scratch and I'm building a list of decent meals that cost no more than €1 a head (so €5 total) and it has been helping.

I just spent £55 in Aldi buying pretty much everything I need for the week. Then I went to Tesco to buy about half a bag of extras that I couldn’t get in Aldi and I couldn’t believe it came to £27.

£65. Two adults, two children but we didn’t need any toiletries or cleaning products.

We also don’t need to buy for lunches, the kids get lunch at school/nursery. I get school dinners and OH either eats out or takes left overs from the evening meal before.

Our food shops are always less than £75 and we never scrimp on it. We’re not a family of big chocolate/biscuit eaters etc though, we don’t drink any fizzy drinks, no alcohol, don’t buy much frozen food either.

We do eat out every Friday, either in a restaurant or we get a takeaway though. Sunday’s are always at my parents so we don’t cook at all then either.

We (4) self catered for a week over Easter and I did a £103 online shop from Iceland. Call me sad but I like to plan quantities so that what we don’t eat makes a slightly strange picnic lunch on the way home. This year it was hard boiled eggs and dry chocolate weetabix minis!

That bought all meals except two, plenty of fruit and veg, packed lunches when not at home, a large gammon roast and fancy cheesecake on Easter Sunday. No cleaning materials or paper goods. Cling film and toothpaste.

The only extras we bought were 4pts milk, fruit and ... Easter eggs!

£78,this week for me and teen daughter.
This is higher than usual as DD if permanently hungry ATM and I am pandering to her while she sits her GCSE and I stocked up with wine.
This includes everything,all meals including packed lunches,cleaning stuff,big pack of toilet rolls etc.