To ask how much your shopping is.

[Ginandbitterlemonplease]

Afternoon!

There is only my little boy, and rather then doing a weekly shop, I just do it every couple of days but under current circumstances I’ve been doing it weekly and don’t know if I’m overspending.

How much do you spend for your weekly shop? Any advice on saving money and maybe some healthy/tasty meal ideas?

Thank you x

[Feelingpoorlysick]

We budget £300 a month for a 2 adults, 1 5 year old, a dog and cat. This also includes most toiletries and cleaning products.

[Pebblexox]

We’re a household of 3, two adults and 17 month old (also have the cat, but all his stuff if separate to our food shop)
Honestly we average about £100-130 a week on food, and I’ve been told many times by many people that it’s far too much 😂 however it works for us. I suppose I should add I have a 6ft5 husband who eats everything in sight within 5 minutes of it coming into the house and my daughter is definitely taking after dad with her appetite

[NeverForgetYourDreams]

Usually it's average £120 a week for 3 of us and a pet. But since lockdown it's £160-180 as having to cater for lunch too

[Afishcallledbob]

2 cats as well

[Ginandbitterlemonplease]

@OkMaybeNot that is actually a really good idea!

[Afishcallledbob]

£60 a week for me and three children aged 15,12 and 9

[OkMaybeNot]

£60-£70 per week for two adults, three children under 10.

I have a routine. Every week I book a slot with Morrisons, add a bottle of vodka or something expensive to the basket and check out.

When the deadline to edit my basket arrives, I sit down and work out the next week's meals from the day my shopping arrives (usually a tuesday). I take a look at what meat's on offer before I do this so I can take it into account when planning for meals and save money.

I then write a list of what I need by looking at each meal and working out what I have in the cupboard/what I need and add it to the Morrisons shop. Add in any cleaning products/soap/shower gel etc and about £5-£10 worth of snacks and extra treats for the kids.

I try to have a few vegetarian meals a week for our health and to stay below the £70 budget I set myself. I mainly cook from scratch and it helps A LOT. Mostly it's way below £70 so I get a few extra bits like pasta or meat and have it in the freezer to make another week cheaper.

It's effort but it saves money.

[karigan]

£30 a week for two adults and a 5 year old. But I'm on a debt management plan so I'm keeping to really strict budgets until the end of the plan. We meal plan and no real snacking between meals (except for fruit which I get free from work and am allowed to bring back the excess at the end of each day)

[raspberryk]

I used to do 25/30 per week in Aldi for me, 3yo and a baby, inc nappies, the odd box of formula for 1 feed per day, plus a cheap cat.
Now it's more like 80-100 per week in Morrisons, for family of 4 plus odd top ups of milk or bread as and when. Including alcohol and cleaning, might add extra treats.

[Frokni]

On a normal day- £100 a week. Family of 4
During a pandemic- £500 per week just on snacks!
No more like £150-200 per week at the minute

[Aroundtheworldin80moves]

Depends on whether you want to buy steak and raspberries, or mince and apples. The type of stuff you buy makes the most difference.

[Meredithgrey1]

Approx £70 for two adults and an 11 month old.

[CtrlU]

Myself and my 6 year old son and I go to Lidl to get the most and then Tesco/ Waitrose or Sainsbury’s to get the other stuff. I spend roughly £120 but that can easily last 2/3 weeks and every week I may do a top up. Top ups usually £20/30 max.

[SqidgeBum]

2 adults and an 18 month old. We spend about 100 quid at the minute but we have been spoiling ourselves a bit. Normally it's about 75. We normally shop between morrisons and lidl, but at the minute just morrisons. We cook a lot from scratch so no ready meals.

[blancheduboiss]

About £25 - £35 a week for two adults at Aldi. We do normally need a few little top ups during the week though

[Ginandbitterlemonplease]

Apologies, I didn’t know this was a common thread!

I’ve just done a shop on tesco for a week and it did include a lot of meat and cleaning products. I think I may try Iceland though as someone suggested! Xx

[mrscampbellblackagain]

5 of us here and I am spending a lot more than anyone has posted so far. I shop via Ocado, m&s, riverford and farm shop. Decent food is not cheap but I could certainly spend less if I tried and wasn't worried about buying organic etc.

[IrishCream123]

3 adults, 1 teen (15) we spend £130-£140 a week. We also have 2 cats and a dog. We do our weekly shop online with Tesco so 80 item limit. Yes we buy wine in this.

[cicatrix1]

Two adults, around £100 a week.

[krispycreme]

Normally about £200 a week, family of 5 (one a baby), no alcohol though and will have at least one takeaway. Mainly shop in Waitrose and sometimes some things from M&S but I haven't been there since lockdown.

[Scotsmaw]

200 a week on a lot of snacks 12 beers and a million loafs of bread.

[Waxonwaxoff0]

I'm a single parent of a little boy too. I spend between £70-£80 a week including cleaning products, toiletries and alcohol. I shop at Asda and Aldi.

[vanillandhoney]

Two adults, a dog, two cats and a kitten. About £80 a week from Morrisons.

[LakieLady]

Lately, for 2 adults, we've been spending around £70-80, but that includes wine.

We tend to do 2 shops - Lidl or Tesco for the basics, Sainsburys or Waitrose for meat, cheese, fish etc. DP drops me off at one shop, goes and shops at the other, and comes back and picks me up.

We've come to the conclusion that Waitrose isn't expensive when you compare like with like, eg their Essentials mature cheddar is nicer than Tesco's Finest, their Essentials fish fingers are the only ones, apart from Birds Eye 100% cod that DP will eat, their cheapo crisps are really nice. And they do an offer on steak, where you get 3 packs of 2 steaks for £10. It's not as good as rump or ribeye, but for the money it's a really good deal.

[BackforGood]

There are SO many variations EVERY TIME this thread is done.

In my house (5 adults at the moment) we are currently letting ds do the shop. Once a week. Normally touching £100 per week.

Prior to this, I'd do the shop at Aldi once a week and spend about £40.
However, now everyone is eating in all day, every day. I also seem to be paying for alcohol that hitherto would have been bought when they were 'out'. He's also less likely than me to refuse to buy something expensive, as I am the one paying .

Our 'treats' are also now included - so whereas we might have gone out for a meal or even a coffee and a cake, we can't do that at the moment, so can easily justify 'treating ourselves' with things being added to the shopping list that I didn't previously buy.