To ask how much your weekly food shop is?

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2 adults and 1 or 2 small children.

Please include all things such as laundry/households items e.g. kitchen roll, toilet roll etc.

2 adults 1 toddler with multiple food allergies which ups the shopping a bit but normally around £80-£90 but weeks when nappies, wipes and household cleaning stuff etc is needed can be up to £120

How do some of you get by on £60 a week ? 2 adults and 1 teenager and 2 dogs in our household and our weekly shop is about €150 to €200 per week. Where am I going wrong?
I will admit that I like good ground coffee and will not use own brand detergent or fabiric conditioner.

One adult female, one teenage boy - about £45 a week. We eat well on that with plenty of fresh fruit & veg.

I generally don't buy brands or alcohol.

About £200 a week at present as adult ddx2 are living back at home so
4 x adults 1x teen and a cat.

@DollyPartBaked

£150 - 2 x adults 2 x small children.

Would love to see a meal plan for £40 a week.

Ours is just for 2 adults but for dinner this week we have: 1 & 2 tofu stir fry (two days as it made enough leftovers) 3 linda McCartney meatballs and pasta, in a tomato sauce with spinach and mushrooms 4 pizza (leftovers for lunch the next day) 5 nando’s style vivera tenders in ciabatta rolls with spicy rice and corn on the cob (this will have leftovers for lunch as well) 6 Linda McCartney sausages and colcannon 7 spinach dal As you can probably I am vegan (DP is not but he doesn’t want lots of meat - he had a chicken pizza though) and that saves so much money, even when buying meat substitutes which I did a lot more this week than normal because I was bored of cooking. For lunch I usually have leftovers or soup and DP has hummus rolls or a bagel. For breakfast we have porridge or cereal.

Where am I going wrong? I will admit that I like good ground coffee and will not use own brand detergent or fabric conditioner

Haven't you pretty much answered your own question here? lol.

We buy own brand coffee and own-brand fabric conditioner, washing up liquids, soaps etc and that saves us a fortune each month.

For example, I pay £4.50 for a massive bottle of washing detergent - that does (according to the bottle) 60 washes. The Fairy equivalent bottle only does 54 washes and costs £7.

I also buy own-brand washing up liquid for 35p a bottle. Fairy is £1.30 for the same amount.

Add all those savings up each week/month/year and it's a pretty decent sum of money.

Between £150-£200 a week. 2 adults, 2 primary school kids and one cat. I don’t meal plan and I shop mostly at the more expensive local shops, so I could probably reduce the bill if I could be bothered to drive to the next towns Lidl and Aldi.

£500 per month - 2 adults, 1 tween, 2 elderly felines. Includes wine, toiletries and an occasional takeaway. Oh and 3 meals per week for my parents.

I'm going to say roughly £130 for 2 adults and DS13.

In the interests of fair comparison that includes 1 takeaway and DS canteen card at school (I know some people won't have takeaways and will make packed lunches).

I WFH and DH takes lunch to work with him so that really is everything all in, I've also included the milkman delivery.

I haven't included dog food as we buy that separately and DDog is on a special diet so not really comparable 🤷🏻‍♀️

Probably about 160 a week for me, DH, 16 and 11 year old DSs.

About 40 of that is on booze which is totally disgusting and needs to stop.

£150 pw - 2 adults and 2 teens (so effectively 4 adults)!

We've had to do the absolute budgeting before when we spent 3 years living on as little as possible saving for our current house. We had students most of the year and BIL/Sil lived with us too - so I had a lot of mouths to feed on £400 a month - sometimes 12 people. I lived in the reduced aisle, stock clearance shops and any freebies I could come by. It worked well as we saved loads.
I'm very glad I no longer have to do that although I still buy a large amount of fresh food reduced and time my shops for thr bext bargains - it's a hard habit to break and indeed, why would I want to ?

Wow I'm so shocked by some of these responses, I've always felt so guilty about our food shop bill (£80-120 depending on what's needed, 2 adults 2 kids) some of these amounts are astounding!

Here’s this weeks meal (vegan) plan too. I’m currently calorie counting and DP counts all of his macros and is trying to bulk (eats more calories so bigger portions and more snacks) so I know it’s balanced. The weather has been a bit warmer this week so some of the meals are a little ‘lighter’ to reflect that. Shop cost around £35.

Sticky sesame cauliflower (homemade sauce) with sushi rice
Peanut butter tofu noodle stir fry with dumplings
Cauliflower & chickpea tacos with refried beans & elote
Chinese ramen with tofu, Chinese veg & spring rolls
Black bean burrito bowl
Chinese fakeaway
Roast dinner

Breakfasts we either have oats, toast (with nut butter or avocado) yog with granola.
Then we have a few things in to make lunches such as salad bits, bread, wraps, rice, pasta, sauces etc. We don’t eat many meat alternatives as neither of us as particularly keen so save a lot of money on that.

£70-80 per week
2 adults, 1 6yr old
Includes cleaning/household products

£60-80. I thought it was alot when some weeks creep up to £90 but seeing some of these I don't feel so bad. 2 adults and a toddler.

I reckon I average about £100 pw for me, my 14 yo DS and wet food and treats for our dog (dry food for her is purchased separately). It includes all meals for me and DS. My supermarket shop is usually 70-90 and we have a milkman and the occasional veg box or delivery from somewhere else. I aim to get it down to £300 per month but it does tend to slip away from me most months. We always have loads in though (and we don't waste much).

£90-120 a week for everything plus at least 1 small top up shop for milk or fruit or bread. That’s for everything though, all food, toiletries, cleaning stuff, pet stuff and dishwasher/washing machine tabs.

I struggle to get it in under £100 tbh. Prices have risen a lot in the last few years, we used to average about £80pw and that was with nappies as well.

2 adults, a 4 year old and an 8 year old and 2 cats.

250ish. 2 adults, 2 young DC, and 1 small ddog

On average €110 a week that's with everything for 1 adult & 2 kids,that includes general food,fruit,veg,snacks,treats,household

43p p/wk for 3 adults and a small elephant...

Roughy £120 per week. Live in NI. Two adults plus a 3 year old.

@icedcoffees

Where am I going wrong? I will admit that I like good ground coffee and will not use own brand detergent or fabric conditioner

Haven't you pretty much answered your own question here? lol.

We buy own brand coffee and own-brand fabric conditioner, washing up liquids, soaps etc and that saves us a fortune each month.

For example, I pay £4.50 for a massive bottle of washing detergent - that does (according to the bottle) 60 washes. The Fairy equivalent bottle only does 54 washes and costs £7.

I also buy own-brand washing up liquid for 35p a bottle. Fairy is £1.30 for the same amount.

Add all those savings up each week/month/year and it's a pretty decent sum of money.

But anytime I buy own brand detergent or fabric conditioner, it just does not wash the clothes properly and I end up having to wash them again or the towels are rock hard. So this is false economy to me. Can you tell me which detergent you use? Also the cofee, I have tried so many different ones and they just do not seem to work for me. You are prob right, I could save a lot more I guess by buying cheaper brands. But it is not as if we are fine dining or buying really expensive produce. I shop in Tesco or Lidl mainly.

£90-100 per week. 2 adults and a toddler still in nappies. We also get the occasional Simply Cook/Hello Fresh/Gousto too but that’s included in that money as I then spend less in Tesco.