Aibu to ask how much you spend on food per month?

[booklover164]

There's me, my husband and 16month old. I shop at Aldi every week and spend about £300 per month. We have the odd takeaway and I batch cook everything. I'm trying to find ways to cut costs but not sure if it's unreasonable to expect to do a shop any cheaper. We buy a lot of fresh fruit and veg and eat meat regularly. How much do you spend per month? I'm wondering whether it's worth bulk buying at the start of the month...

About 800 a month in the supermarket
Including cleaning stuff,basic toiletries

Wow. I'm impressed! I shop for Myself, 3 adults and grandson who has peanut, tree nut, milk and egg allergies. And my partner eats over quite a bit. He does help with costs. I spend around 950.00 a month or more.

2 adults and a 4year old, 4 cats and a dog and I spend about £400 that includes everything food, toiletries, pet supplies. I shop around but still struggle to keep costs down.

Two of us and a 2 year old. We spend around 350 per month soley on food. Thats without two takeaways a week and eat out once a week.

We are between £350-400 a month, me (pregnant), husband, teenage boy and his mates a lot (snacks after school etc).

Feels very expensive now 😬 we budget £400 for food and don't breach it often. We don't go out much or takeaways much.

About £450 a month, including loo rolls and laundry capsules. 2 adults and a three year old. I scratch cook everything. Am feeling a bit extravagant 🙊

About £350 per month for 1 adult and 1 preteen ..sometimes a bit more. That includes a LOT of veg, salad and fruit ...and organic where I believe it’s necessary

£240 per month / £60 a week for 3 adults & 3 kids. I cook everything from scratch including bread and yoghurt. No prepackaged snacks. We have fruit or homemade cookies/cake.

Low alcohol and bought drinks. Usually tea/coffee/water/squash not cans etc.

I've tried quite hard to keep our shopping to this budget. I meal plan the whole month in one go.

£200 a month for me and DP. DS Is only 4 months. If I was to add nappies and milk into it I'd say around £250ish

To much food is getting very expensive. I usually do an extra monthly shop for water cleaning products, washing powder, shampoo conditioner etc separately.
We need to cut back on shopping but don't live fancy at all as it is.

About £250 for 2 adults a 3 year old and a one year old and probably another £80-£100 on topups which I'd like to cut down

Maybe 300-400 a month in Waitrose - 2 adults 2 kids, one in nappies still and 2 dogs. Booze included.

About £600 a month fir 2 adults 2 kids

I don't know how I spend so much but probably £70 per week at Tesco's for me and H

Everything is from scratch and loads of fruit, veg and salad

Supermarket shop, so food & toiletries for one adult, one 11yo, about £140 per month plus ds has school lunches.

I stopped drinking alcohol which has cut the weekly cost quite a bit.

I’ve drastically cut what I spend on food shopping this year. It’s hugely helped in enabling me to almost become debt free!

I used to spend easily £400 per month and then ‘top up’ with extras totalling another £100 a month.
At least!
At that point I was shopping for myself and my 2 DC and ex and ex’s 1 DC and I now only shop for myself and 2 DC. (One a growing teenager and one almost!)

Now I spend around £150 per month (never usually more, sometimes less) on food and we eat lots of fresh fruit and vegetables and eat meat or fish probably 5/6 nights a week.

I waste nothing.
All leftovers get re-used in something else.
I cook almost everything from scratch.
I do allot of shopping in the evening and get things at ridiculously marked down prices.
I look out for special offers and plan meals around them.
I shop around online and split my shops up into different supermarkets.
I also use coupons where I can.
I get vouchers sent through the post for £8 off £40 shops from Tesco (I don’t know why but I’m grateful!) so I’ll stock up there, and if you pick up the Tesco books you often find coupons for extra points. Then I’ll see what Lidl special offers are (this weekend gone they had chorizos for 79p! They have different things every week) and I’ll pick up the bits that work out cheapest there. Also they often have Lidl money off vouchers in the metro/daily mail.
So many little bits I do that are different now.
We also very very rarely get a takeaway and tend to eat out only on special occasions.

I couldn’t imagine going back to my old shopping habits now.
I used to come from a night shift and getting DC into school straight to the supermarket and think nothing of spending £150 on a tired and hungry shop for the week!

For those who spend £50/£60 per week I would love to know what meals you're eating every day. We have really cut back but still costs us around £90 per week for two adults, one Dc and pets.

Including alcohol? For 4 adults, 1 dd and a dog about £1,300. We eat quite a bit of meat and that is v expensive and otherwise but local, organic as far as possible which adds to the total. Nothing goes to waste - no real massive brands (bar alcohol and chocolate) but e.g if we are eating fish likely I'll buy a couple of Dover or lemon sole, roast is likely to be fillet, and alcohol counts for around £400 of that.

About the same. €400, 2 adults a toddler and a preteen. All of our meals except DH's lunches come out of that. We don't drink alcohol often at all. In a 4-Saturday month I budget €100 a week and in a 5-Saturday month it's €75.

Bulk buying works a bit if you make a note of what your longlife staples are, including things like toiletries and cleaning products, if they are part of your shopping bill, and a note of what the price per (kilo, unit, 100ml, etc) is when it's at a normal/reasonable price and then whenever you see it on offer for better, buy loads. But it's really difficult to calculate how much that's saving you unless you add it all up over a year and then average out.

I find I spend less when I order for delivery rather than walking around the shop.

Just the two of us these days. Spend £30-£40 per week including toiletries and cleaning products.

I spend £60 a month on cleaning products, toiletries and house hold items like tin foil etc etc. And then £40 a week on fresh things & then £60 a month on baby things - nappies, milk, food, toiletries etc (2 adults, 1 baby)

And remembering £200 is a £50 food bank add each week so maybe £150 a week food, cleaning stuff,toiletries.

About £400 per month. 2 adult and 2dc. That's for all food, toiletries, nappies and household products and booze. We don't get takeaways (our local ones are minging) or really eat out much.

We are about to be shafted by childcare costs for the baby when I go back to work, so it needs to come down, plus the quality of food in our local supermarket (asda) has nosedive, so I might give Aldi a go to see if I can save.

Maybe about £250? For one adult and two kids, 11 and 5. 11 yos eat quite a lot though! Also i always seem to be building up stores of non perishable without exactly meaning to.

I pay for school dinners on top for eldest (youngest is infants) and I buy sandwich type lunch twice a week.