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??

I agree that it’s not obscene if you can afford it. We were trying to save to buy our house last year and we’re shopping in Lidl and trying to keep to £25 a week for two of us. Now that we can afford a bit more I kind of feel like I should (not saying that everyone can and should! Just how I feel for myself) spend that bit extra so that agricultural workers in developing countries don’t have to inhale carcinogenic pesticides so that I can have cheaper bananas and avocados 😕

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We buy fruit, veg amd meat from a supermarket.
I could'nt afford organic.
£100-£150 is insane!!!!!

I always buy organic carrots, but that's my only real line. I won't buy eggs that aren't free range, but as most of them come from my neighbour I guess those are organic too...

£20 on organic fruit and veg (weekly box)

£100-£150 is insane!!!!! for a weekly shop for 4???

That is easily our weekly shop and I don't feel we buy anything out of the ordinary apart from perhaps my weekly treat which is a carton of sun dried tomatoes (£2).

I cook from scratch probably 90% of the time (frozen pizza/ chips and sausages the rest) no takeaways at all and I do spend extra on good meat but I don't think that amount for a weekly shop is obscene/insane?

I do wonder if the people who think they don't spend much on their weekly shop are dropping £10 - £15 or more a week on takeaways plus a few 'bits' from the local shop mid week and aren't adding it to the cost.

There are quite a few studies where it is proven that some organic food (beetroot was one of them) are worth the extra money, and some aren't.

Maybe these will help you OP?

@ScarMatty thanks will have a google!

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We buy more milk midweek but no takeaway/eating out so still think over a

I buy organic food but why on earth would I separate the cost of what was and what wasn’t?

Zero, I am happy with the food legislation we have, and don't need the scaremongering.

Zero.

Organic food is hype.

I have a good friend who is a nutritionist. She said to prioritise dairy and things that grow in the ground. As a result we buy organic milk, carrots and potatoes! I would guess the cost is around £20 a week? I think you can only do what you are comfortable with and it’s not worth making massive sacrifices for. Basic good nutrition trumps organic head nodding.

things that grow in the ground.

?? What does that mean? Root vegetables|?
So apples or satsumas are not good food- they don't grow in the ground.

Nothing, organic food is not better for you just more expensive.
I do try to buy seasonal local food though. Will get veg and eggs from the farm shop. I won't buy imported food if we can produce it here and never imported meat.
I also grow my own in a very small way. Having said that I probably used to spend £130+ when there were four of us, more if we had takeaway.

We spend the same and are the same number of people and I buy everything I can organic x

Aren't imported produce fumigated at the border? Which kinds makes the whole organic part useless?

Probably £70? Don't eat that much meat and, as other posters have said, I'm never convinced that in the UK organic meat is farmer so differently from grass-fed, a known British farm etc.

At the moment I feel I spend a lot more than I 'need' to buying British food, eg apples, pears, lettuce, earlier in the summer peas, now overcooked strawberries and sometimes these things would actually taste better from another country.

OP, how much do you spend on non-organic shopping? You must buy some stuff that isn't, I imagine, eg cleaning products, various cupboard items (crackers, crisps, baking powder etc), alcohol (some self-labelled organic wine available, sure, but the overlapping set of organic wine and good wine seems small). I spend a lot more on non-organic food than organic food.

What I can't FULLY understand is how I now spend about £250 a week on food (for four people, plus one more in our 'bubble' but that's only a couple of times a week). Probably £40 of that is alcohol, and £20 stuff that is obviously treats/ unnecessary (fancy nuts, magnum lollies). But the rest seems to be stuff that we actually eat... I know I could spend much less, but I don't know how to organise it to do so...

2 adults, about 80-90% organic as we have at least 2 meals a week of atlantic/north sea caught fish/seafood. Abel & Cole's Cod is the best I've tasted in years.

Before covid we were spending around £70 a week ( all household shopping). Since then there has been a reduction in deals and it has gone up to about £85-90. Could reduce it by making my own soups but I've never managed to get chicken broth right and I like the variety of soups available.

Why is organic no better than crops sprayed with chemicals? I’m curious about all the ‘organic is a con’ comments on here. Please elaborate.....

OP we spend approx £140 per week on food for 2 adults and 3 children plus one pet. Most of it is organic, free range or wild caught in the case of fish. (No flabby farmed fish thanks). That includes a veg box of locally grown seasonal veg.
We can afford it and cook most meals from scratch with it. Rarely do we eat out or get take-aways. It also includes all toiletries, cleaning stuff, pet food & a bottle or two of wine as a treat.

I’m of the opinion that you should buy the best quality food you can afford. It matters to me a lot what my family eats. Especially my children. Obviously I realize that not everyone can afford higher quality/welfare produce.

I think organic is still too expensive. I use this app that I found, it is called Your Best Option, to research the best prices in the supermarket, and always I can, I go for the Organic products. I think this app is only for iphone.

Nothing. I think it's a total waste of money.

I buy organic carrots and tomatoes so no more than £5pw

Fruit and veg about £20 a week in our local market gardeners place. Some of his suppliers are organic but I couldn’t tell you what proportion, I just pick the stuff I want to eat up and put it in the basket.

We produce most of our own meat and a proportion of our veg. A monthly Tesco shop for storecupboard stuff and some booze is about £100.