To ask how much you spend on organic groceries per week?

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As above! I’m trying to work out whether my expenditure is unreasonable but previous threads have been for non-organic produce etc. My spend fluctuates and I’m considering whether organic is worth it so would appreciate others views.

Currently I estimate that I spend about £100-150 a week for two adults and a toddler. Is this unreasonably high for organic??

Our budget is £500 a month for all shopping for two adults, toddler and a dog so includes nappies, fragrance free cleaning products which seem more expensive, dog food etc

I can't get everything organic for that so just go for the higher pesticide associated produce like kale, spinach, berries and apples. Can't afford all organic meat but do buy grassfed organic beef mince, organic eggs and milk sometimes (other times like the end of the month just get whatever own brand milk and eggs!)

I'm pregnant now but once finished pregnancy and children are a little older will return to non organic foods all round I think

Is £500 loads? I do want to reduce it but we don't really buy any luxuries at all, it's just a lot of fruit and veg, chicken and fish (about 80% of the total shop isn't organic)

We don't really buy any snacks or puddings, or alcohol or soft drinks

Go to Tesco because they have most of what we need although happy to bulk buy other stuff like rice, nappies etc at Lidl. Dog won't eat Lidl food though!

Veg- zero, or if I do buy some it's not deliberate. I think the beetroot I like is organic and perhaps the spinach is.
I buy organic milk, eggs and chicken though so £10-25 ,a week, depending on the week.
I don't think £100-150 a week is ridiculously high for food. We spend similar for two adults and 2 dc (5 and 6). I had reduced it to nearer £100 pre covid but it has gone back up with lock down.

We spend around £70-110 per week (depending if we are ordering meat that week or not)
We are also 2 adults and a baby.

£0, I can't find it in myself to pay double for a cucumber that more than likely just has different sticker on it.

nothing consciously on organic products.

Two adults, a nine year old, and a dog (we cook for him) costs £80pw for our standard weekly grocery shop, but we do spend more on bits throughout the week, so it might be up to about £110 altogether.

We are vegan and completely organic.

And not rich in the slightest, our income is in the lowest decile, i.e. 90%+ of the population is better off than us. It just depends on your priorities.

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We spend somewhere between £90-130 a week for four, and try to get organic where possible (meat, dairy, fruit and veg, pulses, herbs, tea, flour, eggs, oils, vinegar). I don't buy cakes/biscuits usually, because of palm oil, and also DD is GF/DF due to intolerances. I've stopped buying organic stock cubes because they have palm oil in (kallo).
I cook from scratch almost every meal to ensure DD can eat without worry, so no ready meals/takeaways etc.
Things like olives, tortillas, mozzarella, cornflour, cornflakes/rice Krispies, berries I tend not to get organic due to availability, and in the case of berries, they're often already spoiling before I even get them home from the supermarket.

But the pp who mentioned taste- organic meat and milk just taste so much better than non-organically produced. Veg and fruit too.

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And also upthread poster saying €1000 is obscene - you need to remember that in some European countries food costs more that twice what it does in the UK. I remember a MNer saying they would drive to France to shop because a chicken for roasting cost £25! (Not organic, I think she was in Switzerland) compare that with an intensively produced chicken here, about £3 in Tesco? Multiply that across your shop. When we lived in France, we spent €16-22 a week on food (just two of us, some time ago, but still)

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I have no idea! I buy everything from the supermarket so I wouldn't know how much the organic stuff costs on its own. I try to buy it but sometimes you can't get it. We do spend around £250- 300 a week all together but that does include everything, including wine etc.

The replies in this thread are surprising, I thought that the 'stereotypical' Mner always bought organic.

I rarely buy organic, as I do most of our shopping in Lidl and they only have limited organic ranges.

Around £40 probably on average on fruit, veg, milk, eggs and pulses for me and DP. Then around another £20 on other stuff that’s non organic (juice, bread, rice, Flora, soy yoghurt etc). Don’t buy much meat as I am vegan and DP doesn’t like to eat it every day so that saves quite a lot. We used to get it from Riverford but have been using Sainsburys since Riverford restricted their range. We supplement it with homegrown stuff as well from the garden and allotment which also keeps costs down. Obviously we can’t grow some stuff like grapes or bananas but we have masses of onions, potatoes, courgettes, tomatoes and beans at the moment and they’re so easy to grow. I think organic flour is easier to find than organic bread and pasta so I really want to try making my own.

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I actively avoid organic food except for chicken, some meat and free range eggs.
I think it is overpriced and I’m not always convinced that it’s really organic or any better for you.

Probably £15. Mainly milk and eggs.
Don't eat much meat (had chicken at Xmas) but try and only buy organic if I get ham slices for the kids during the year.

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I do buy free range though where possible - esp eggs.

A lot of the dairy I buy is organic and some salad items. So all milk and cream and sometimes cheese, oh and always organic eggs.

I disagree that spending £1,000 )or whatever the poster was spending) a month on food is obscene if this means you are paying a fair amount of money to suppliers and ensuring animal welfare. In other countries where they do this food is more expensive than the UK.

What is obscene is expecting to get food for less then it costs the farmer to produce it if you are in a situation where you could afford to spend more money on your food if you re-prioritised your spending habits.

Thanks for the responses! I sometimes question whether organic is worth it due to the cost (hence my post), but I don’t spend much on anything else so it’s one extravagance that I spend on because I think it might be beneficial for health. I might switch a few staple items to non organic though to save a little.

Nothing, have a very tight food budget and quite simply can't afford organic

About £5. But it's just me to shop for. I am vegetarian and only tend to buy organic eggs & dairy where possible because of the generally better animal welfare.