To think it's too much?

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We spend £400 on our weekly shop, granted we have a family of seven, shop at Ocado and try to stick to organic fruit/veg/meat but still it seems ridiculous!

How many people in your family, where do you shop and how much do you spend?!

Blimey do you run an orphanage?

That's twice my monthly mortgage.

We spend about £80-£100 a week. Three adults, one child and a moggy.

Based on what we spend as a family of 3, one of the being a very hungry teenager, I can actually believe you can get up to spending about £350-£400 a week if you’re shopping at the likes of Ocado.

We have a mix of Hello Fresh, Tesco and then mini-shops during the week at Booths or Lidl.

Seems a lot. 4 kids and we spend around £250 a week (but that includes everything, not just food.).

It only include alcohol bought in supermarket, and most of our wine and stuff is bought separately.

Aldi is great for basic supplies, but they don't deliver so I personally can't go more often than every couple of months to stock on cheap laundry and cleaning products.

My food bill isn't cheap but I don't think I could get to £400 p/w.

What on earth are you buying? Loads of out of season fruit /veg? Decent wine?

Family of three, usually £80-100 on the big shop and maybe £20 on top up shops I reckon. That doesn't include cleaning or laundry products mostly as we subscribe and save for those on Amazon.

That's twice my monthly mortgage.

£200 a month mortgage? I'd overpay that as much as possible and get rid of it quickly!

5 in this house, Aldi/ Asda £100/150 pw respectively. £400 is loads

We spend £150 per week on average for 2 adults, 1 kid and 2 very demanding cats. We're very lucky and eat really well on that. Lots of expensive items like salmon and good quality chicken fillets or steak. Although if I'm really honest half of probably goes on chocolate

Thats a ridiculous amount of money to spend a week on food, even for a large family. Ocado is expensive. You'd be so much better off at Lidl or Aldi. Im family of 5 and we spend about £80 a week and thats being generous, sometimes it's less.

@JosefKeller I think that poster is saying the monthly cost is more than twice their mortgage, not the weekly 😂

£400 a week. Is there a lot of alcohol in that? Twins in nappies?

2 adults 2 children, 4 cats - we spend 90 a week rarely needing top ups

Is this to one up a previous post of £250pw?
The OP knows that’s ridiculous but nice to boast, a minimum wage job is way less than this.

£200 a month mortgage? I'd overpay that as much as possible and get rid of it quickly!

The OP spends £400 a week. I wish my mortgage was that low then I would be able to afford to shop at Ocado

ha ha. chance would be a fine thing. That is about the equivalent of my total salary for the month. Only two of us, eat very well, spend about £80 a week.

We spend around £80 a week for a family of 6. We couldn't afford more at the moment and it's often very very tight but luckily my husband is a Chef so can conjure up brilliant food from basic ingredients.

£60 a week for two of us, this has risen a bit recently £50 used to be easily doable. It does include some products for a special diet.

£200 a month mortgage? I'd overpay that as much as possible and get rid of it quickly!

I know this is beside the point but why are people so keen to pay off their mortgage (unless they have a terrible deal). My mortgage interest rate is less than I could get with a basic 2 year bond.

We spend £75-100 per week, for family of three, so for family if seven, maybe £200 per week, especially if you are buying better quality food.

Ocado is similar price to Tesco, it’s not all Waitrose food. Actually,I spend less on ocado then in an actual shop, because if my bill is too large, I take things out, or try and find something cheaper. In a real shop, once you get to the till, you feel committed.

We use Ocado every week (£150) and then I probably top up c. £30 a week on bread, milk, stuff the teens have hoovered up without telling me!

We are a family of 6 - (me, 3 secondary aged children, one primary and a very tall and hungry husband who trains a lot for tris!)

I agree with JKscot4
if it is "too much" then change it. It's not hard to shop at a cheaper shop and buy cheaper brand food if you want to.

Unless this is some sort of data collection exercise, it really isn't going to change your Ocado bill if you ask a group of people what they spend.
How short sighted to ponder if you're spending too much on groceries when some families don't earn that in a week! Get in the real world.

5 of us (adult male in physical job, adult female, three boys aged 14, 11 and 5). We do the bulk of our shopping at Aldi and top up at Tesco, Asda and the Polish grocery. Pure food spend is less than £80 p/w, when you include cleaning products, toiletries, pet food, cat litter, wine, a 30g pouch of tobacco etc etc etc I think we spend about £120.

I did a Tesco shop online for Xmas and realised just how much cheaper Aldi is. Like for like I spent about double and there was absolutely no improvement in quality.

I was going to ask about alcohol too. However, even if wine is included that still sounds an awful lot to me.

We are not exactly frugal £150+ pw for 4 adults in the house, but that includes several bottle of supermarket wine (Sainsbury's usually) I guess we don't seek out the organic necessarily and we buy few ready prepared things and mostly cook from scratch.

Should have said 3 adults not 4^

Whether it's too much depends on what you can afford and whether you're actually getting value for money. Plenty of well off people with that size family spend £70 on a takeaway or pay a babysitter £30 so they can go out and spend £100+ on dinner and drinks. If instead of doing that you're buying nice bottles of wine and fancy food to enjoy at home because that's what you prefer that's fine.