To how much you spend on food each week, including eating out?

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A relative of mine recently called in whilst I putting shopping away, and the conversation got onto the cost of food. She couldn't get over how much we spend per week on the food shop (approx £110 per week). She spends about £40. However, she refused to acknowledge the fact that she only has one of her children half the week as he's with his father the rest of the time and she gets takeaway or meals out at least 5 times a week. Her eldest also gets free school meals.

We could probably narrow it down, however that £110 includes formula for my youngest and nappies for both children. We shop mostly in Lidl or Aldi but go to Tesco etc for other bits and includes:
Formula and nappies as stated
All breakfasts, lunches and dinners (we rarely eat out, DP takes lunch to work 5 days a week and so on).
My son (3) has ASD so can be fussy with food/snacks, despite numerous attempts at homemade snacks etc.
Lots of fresh vegetables, fruit, salad etc
Lots of cheese (we all love cheese!)
Few treats thrown in
Organic eggs and dairy
Meat from local high quality butcher

We eat Normally, as in spaghetti Bolognese, chilli & rice, fajitas, pasta and sauce. Most stuff is homemade except for certain things for DS. Meat approx 4 nights a week, plus odd bit of ham from butcher for lunches. Takeaway is handful of times a year. Yes, we could cut down but we eat well and enjoy our food, plus we can afford it.

Relative spends about £30-40 a week as I mentioned then McDonalds, Chinese takeaway, breakfast out, etc several times a week so probably spends more than us in general but wouldn't have it 😂
The recent threads on MN have also got me thinking. So how much do you spend on everything (normal food shop, lunch/coffees out, takeaway, etc) on average each week?

This is for 2 adults and 2 children (3 and nearly 1)

I also didn't mean to enable voting sorry 😆

£50 a week for 3 of us (me and 2 adult size kids) and 4 cats. The includes all house hold stuff cleaning, washing, loo rolls etc, and toiletries. It's a very tight budget though necessity. While you could shop for less I don't think want you spend is excessive at all.

Depends really - some weeks I spend about 75 on my big supermarket delivery, but this week I’ve stocked up on some non-perishable and frozen special offers plus some ‘big things’ that we need (washing powder, 16 pack of toilet roll) and I’ve spent £130. And then we may eat out/have takeaway on a Saturday. We are 2 adults plus a 10 and 13 year old - & this covers their packed lunches too. I’d say we probably average about £100 a week shopping then whatever we spend to eat out over the weekend (£40-50?). I personally don’t think you’re overspending at all.

Between £80 and £150 on the shop depending on what part of the month we're at. About £50 on takeaways.

3 adults, 1 kid, 1 cat.

I just tackled our food budget as although we were 'only' spending £100 a week for the three of us, we were topping up about £150 a month at the local shop too. So now we are down to £70-80 a week average, no trips to local shop except in emergencies. That includes household stuff such as washing powder, dishwasher tablets, etc. and a little baby formula but not nappies as we use reusables.

I budget £50/week for food of which about £30-35 is groceries, a few pounds for occasional treats, and the rest for an occasional meal out (maybe once a month). For one adult.

Oh and we don't really eat out much. Sometimes DD and I will go out for lunch during the week, but we live rurally with nowhere that delivers food (good for budget and waistline!) and DD is only one so we don't really go out for meals in the evening. We do sometimes get lunch together at weekends, but I'd say less than £50 a month eating out mostly at the moment.

£50-£70pw for 2 including lunches, rarely eat out - maybe once a month @£250.

I honestly don't know because some weeks I do a big shop and stock up, and others just smaller top ups.
I do know I spend about £10 a week on lunches (work subsidised canteen); DC1 £10 a week on school dinners, DC2 £9.20 a week. DH probably spends closer to £15 or £18 a week on lunches, but we do tend to have a lighter meal in the evening - weekly shop can easily range between £25 and £90.
Don't usually have takeaways, we'd be more likely to go out for a meal as a treat, maybe once a month or so, sometimes more. Perhaps £10 a week on average?

The amount will range hugely depending on income and availability.

Dh and I have a healthy income so don't need to budget carefully. We also both work full time with long commutes. Our nearest Aldi and Lidl are 10 miles away. We get our supermarket shop delivered.

So, we are prepared to spend a bit more on order to have the convenience of delivery. We hardly ever eat out as I really enjoy cooking at weekends, plus we live rurally so there are no takeaways nearby and if we go out to eat one of us has to drive.

There are 3 adults and 2 cats in our house. Average weekly Tesco delivery is about £100. We have milk delivered to the house and also try to buy a few bits each week from our village shop to support it. So maybe £120 per week in total. That includes all household stuff and most toiletries.

If we had less disposable income then I would be going to Aldi on a Saturday morning and could probably save quite a lot off my bill.

I've just done by Ocado order and for 2 it came in at £104 but this is a 'low' week as the freezer is bursting. It does include about £20 beer.

I'd like to learn more about meal planning as I over-order so that I have a mix of everything in at any one time. That's my goal for Q1.

We eat out most weeks; probably about £100 a head.

We dont eat out, don't go on dates or have babysitters etc so food is our treat to ourselves. 2 adults, 3 under 6.5, about £100 pw.

Between £110 and £140 for a family of 7 (2 adults, 12, 9, 9, 8 and 8 year old children) and 1 cat. This is breakfast, lunch, dinner for all of us, Sunday roast, snacks for Saturday movie night, two vegetarians so lots of Quorn, washing powder, loo roll, shampoo, etc.

We eat like you do, mostly fresh fruit/veg types and meat probably only 3x a week. We are a family with 3 dc though never bought formula and mostly used cloth nappies. Our budget covers all meals and we very rarely eat out. We do have dn eat dinner, breakfast, lunch and dinner with us once a week as we are closer to a training program, so stays with us. We also have gp to lunch once a week and we help out a friend who emigrated from West Africa and have her ds stay for one dinner week so she can do a longer shift at work and earn a bit extra, she has no family in the country so I am very pleased to help her for free as she tries to make a better life for her and her son. So all in all that's 7 extra meals/week.

Right now my budget is £75/week which includes pet food, though no longer kitty litter as I purchase that and it is delivered to my home 2x/month (that's an extra £9/month now). The £75 also includes toiletries, personal items etc. It is definitely tight and I find I have to re-think what to buy each week, putting things back, swapping etc. If I had the spare money I'd probably increase budget to £90-£100 tbh. That would let me have a bit less stress each shop and a Friday or Saturday night take away. Which I miss as it does make things far easier to have a night off cooking each week.

Tbh your relative probably spends more than you do whether she admits it or not. Eating out is 3-4x what it costs to make food at home. For £3 mince and £1 rolls and using extras in fridge I can make 6 homemade burgers with healthy sides like carrot sticks, salad, slices of apples, for the same cost of 1 McDonalds meal (unless value range). And the healthy benefits are huge too.

Far too much, currently 2 adults in the house.

Supermarket shop is around £60+ a week including household goods, toiletries and cat food but I've been doing loads of top up shops in the co-op lately and not doing a proper shop.

Eating out last week for me alone was a toastie and coffee deal in Tesco cafe for £4,a Mcdonalds when I saw the 99p Big Mac on the app and some chips which was around £2.50 and grabbing bits and pieces like coffes from vending machine and bottles of water.

I also spent about £16 on Papa Johns the night I woked late for both of us.

I've been really disciplined in the past and ate loads of very cheap meals out of necessity and I need to get back to that again.

At the moment eating a mix of really good meals with good protein and veg but also eating a hell of a lot more rubbish than I should.

Last week was definitely over £100, I could definitely half that if I made an effort.

About £100-120 a week family of four and two cats including food, cleaning stuff, etc. I have two children that just constantly eat though, and my eldest has autism so is a very picky eater... and my cats are just spoilt. 😂🙈

We eat similarly to you but are 5 (DC are 10, 9 and almost 1). We spend £80 a week. Includes nappies but no formula. DH buys his lunch at work. So a couple of things to make up the difference. We shop at Sainsbury’s and Ocado but I always seem to have a voucher that gets me around 10% one or the other.
We eat dinner out (2 of us) every couple of months, lunch out (4 of us) a couple of times a month and a takeaway (2 of us) once a month. That probably comes to another £120 per month.

We spend about £60 a week, that’s for 2 adults, a 13 year old, 2 year old and 5 month old, oh and a cat!
We have to budget carefully and that covers baby milk and nappies, lunches for the week, all dinners etc. We rarely eat out so that would add to it!

For two adults and kids including nappies for the 2 year old we spend around £70 a week. I have not included any meat in this as we go to a butchers once every few months and freeze it all. Some weeks we average only £30 as we just need the staples eg. Eggs, milk bread, cheese, vegetables for salad and fruit as well as kids snacks. We get a takeaway rarely and would spend £20 at the most.

I thought I only spent £40-60 for a family of 4. But now I think about it I spend £5 on a coffee and cake on a Monday morning after the school run. Buy lunches at work probably £3-6 3 days a week. And do a couple of top up shops. Also will get lunch out a least one day at the weekend. So it’s probably nearer £100 if I’m being completely honest with myself.
All these threads recently have been a bit of an eye opener.

Mine includes all lunches as Dh takes homemade soups for lunch and I will usually have a salad of some sort.

I would say we ( four of us) spenmd c 160 on the food shop per week but obviously if we eat out it will add another 150 to 250 per week. I think thats fairly average in 2020?

£150 a week for 3 adults and one teen and maybe £150 a month on eating out or a takeaway

£130 ish a week plus at least one takeaway between £30-40.

There's 5 of us.

I can definitely spend less!