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.

£100-120 a week for me, dh, ds12, dd7. It's £120 budget in school hols and £100 when kids are at school and have school dinners a few days a week. That's a Tesco delivery once a fortnight and coop(with staff discount).

60-90

Two adults
Two children

Plus 4 pets.

£90 per week for 2 adults. £70 Ocado delivery and £20 top ups. We are vegetarian and I meal plan. We don't eat any readymeals and I cook from scratch every evening. It would be less if DH was not coeliac, his bread etc. is very expensive.

Approximately £70 per week. 2 adults and a baby.

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?

Well, all mine and DH's clothes come out perfectly clean and we do both do jobs where we come home mucky and filthy each day. I just buy Morrison's own brand detergent - never bother with fabric conditioner as I think it's a total waste of money.

Also the cofee, I have tried so many different ones and they just do not seem to work for me.

But that's why you're not saving money as you're choosing to buy pricier brands of stuff.

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.

Have you ever seen Eat Well For Less on the BBC? The amount of peope who can't recognise their "must have favourite brands" in a blind taste test is shockingly high. They even give people their own "favourite" stuff in plain packaging and they sit there on camera and say they don't like it lol.

We were forced to cut back on our food spending during the first lockdown when I was out of work due to the restrictions, so we switched to own brand for loads of things - now we can afford to change back but we haven't as the own-brand stuff is fine (or better in some cases).

@Snuggleworm I use white vinegar instead of fabric softener. 50p a bottle.

About £60 per week.

Not got a clue tbh. We buy washing stuff etc from smol & Costco in bulk
Used to be about £600pcm for 5 of us.

I also have no idea. We buy to keep a store cupboard and get a lot of stuff in bulk when on offer, or from Costco or Aldi so we don't do a weekly shop in the conventional sense.

But cleaning products and toiletries must be fairly trivial and not worth worrying about, maybe £5-10 a month, tops. A bottle of fabric softener costs about £2 from Aldi and lasts for months.

But the question overall is a bit pointless. Everyone's budget, preferences and priorities are different. Some people only have £2-300 pm, some people with the same size family are spending that a week. Some people realise that they can't spend £2-300 pw and have a disposable income for other things, so they adjust their spending. You just have to make the most of your own circumstances.

Have you ever seen Eat Well For Less on the BBC? The amount of peope who can't recognise their "must have favourite brands" in a blind taste test is shockingly high. They even give people their own "favourite" stuff in plain packaging and they sit there on camera and say they don't like it lol

I know. Shop Well for Less is even more extreme. They have people thinking that a £30 Next jumper is more expensive/better quality than a £200 designer one. Same when comparing £2 face creams vs £80 ones. Without the price and the brand to guide them, people often really can't tell.

Average SMKT home delivery is around £60 a week, more when I restock wine. 2 adults.

We also buy fresh fish and flowers weekly. Another £10 to £20 -ish.

2 adults and 2 teens, around £100 a week. I shop and cook very frugally.

2 adults, 1 baby on formula and 1 toddler still in nappies
Including baby stuff/toiletries/cleaning stuff I spend £100-120 per week on the main shop from tesco. I wish I could get it lower, will be better in 6 months when no more formula and the toddler out of nappies

I don't economise on cleaning products but we do cook almost everything from scratch. This is because DH is diabetic plus we don't really like ready meals.

I feel so much better after reading this.
I feel bad spending £50+ a week for 2 adults.
Breakfast £1 (toast/eggs/cereal etc)
Lunch £2 (sandwich)
Dinner £4
No brands, reduced meat that I have frozen and all cooked from scratch.

I can absolutely recognise Fairy liquid vs cheaper brand. Agree with pp that sometimes cheaper is false economy.

Has the OP said theirs yet? Have i missed that?

About 120 per week for 2 adults and a toddler.
We cook pretty much everything from scratch.

I can absolutely recognise Fairy liquid vs cheaper brand.

So can I, but the difference in quality isn't worth the difference in price IMO. I can buy 4 bottles of own-brand liquid for the same price as one bottle of Fairy, and the Fairy certainly doesn't last 4x as long!

£60 - £80 for 2 adults and a 10 yearold.I aim for nil food wasted.

40 pounds a week for two adults and one child, plus hosting others occasionally. It includes all meals and household bits and bobs. We eat well. It is done with meal planning, minimising waste, making own bread (machine), eating veggie/ vegan occasionally, shopping at Aldi, eating seasonally, batch cooking -making good use of the freezer. Going for cheaper cuts of meat. Cheaper types of fish etc.

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I can absolutely recognise Fairy liquid vs cheaper brand.

So can I, but the difference in quality isn't worth the difference in price IMO. I can buy 4 bottles of own-brand liquid for the same price as one bottle of Fairy, and the Fairy certainly doesn't last 4x as long!

I biy the 1200 ml (or thereabouts) for about £2 usually. I think the yesco cheapest is 40p? But that's small one so about a pound for the same amount of liquid? In my experience it lasts double than the cheap ones I tried. But of course some are better than others so yeah. As I said, sometimes it is a bad economy (so sometimes isn't)

Live alone and spend between £30-60 depending what I need
Brands.. I buy what I like. So Lidl mayo is fine to me, but if I want cola, then it's brand name! I also only buy stuff on offer for the cupboards. If the peanut butter I use is on offer, I buy it whether I need it or not then I never have to pay full price
Cleaning stuff i usually do a b&m/Wilko shop every so often and stock up

At least £125
2 adults and a toddler that is fed at nursery 4 days.
That’s everything inc 1 cat

Usually around £90 - 2 adults, a 5 year old and a 19m old.

We seem to spend loads on detergent and soap/shower gel but everyone has allergies so we tend to stick with the brands we know we won't have reactions to.

Up to £200 a week -
2 adults, 1 teen, 1 cat.

All four of us eat quite big portions, and the adults drink quite a lot of booze, but we don't do takeaways etc.

I've tried cutting the bill down but it's never made much difference, I think it's just that we are hungry people. We almost always have a "proper dinner", when some people have "bits" or something on toast. That's because DH and DS like a big dinner - when I lived on my own, I was happy with soup or hummus and things to dip in it.