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.

Anywhere between £70 and £150, depends how much of the more expensive stuff I happen to need to get that week (nappies, washing stuff etc). Average I’d say is around the £100/110 mark.

@Basilandparsleyandmint

Between 600/700 per month. This includes all food for breakfast, lunch and tea. Plus cleaning products for house/ personal cleaning stuff I.e deodorant- shower gel.

It may seem a lot but my kids eat adult portions and snacks. I don’t do many extravagant meals so would love to know how people keep it down. Don’t buy lots of alcohol either. 3 bottles a week maybe and a few beers no spirits etc x

3 bottles of wine a week and beer is a lot of alcohol What sort of meals do you make, so people might be able to give you some ideas? Are you buying a lot of branded stuff? How many kids do you have?

Forgot to add 2 adults, 6 year old, 1 year old and my brother in law who sometimes has bits and bobs.

I'm very lucky in that I don't really need to budget though, so I usually buy what we want, rather than looking at the price to decide.
When I'm focused on just buying what we need, (not including pets) rather than what we fancy, as I've been doing for the last few months, I'm spending no more than £50pw.

I'm a bit of a prepper, and I'm trying to reduce my stores atm, hence not spending so much as I'm not really replenishing my large stores, so I'm only buying what we need to eat, which is mainly fruit and veggies, plus the odd chicken, which is the one meat I buy free range from the supermarket.

A teen and a tween both are very sporty and eat lots.
Really 3 bottles a week a lot? We share a bottle or two over the weekend and maybe a bottle mid week. The beer is 4 pack that may get drunk but nice to have in the house if my DH has friend come over and chat over the weekend. I personally don’t find that a lot but of course am happy to stand corrected.

Nope no branded stuff as such tend to shop in lidl or aldi and home bargains for household stuff.

Meals are a roast most sunday and left overs make lunch next day. pasta/ chili/ spaghetti Bol Tray bakes, Mexican etc nothing outrageous.
My kids eat lots of fruit and snacks and we like to have nibbles on a weekend such as nuts/ olives / crisps and dips. I make cakes when I have the time. We all eat good breakfasts cereal / toasts / yogurt/ fruit and healthy packed lunches.
I don’t buy very cheap stuff but do look for offers. I don’t pad out meals with oats and lentils but I guess I could 😊

£20 a week if I am sensible. Just me and the dog.

@Basilandparsleyandmint

A teen and a tween both are very sporty and eat lots. Really 3 bottles a week a lot? We share a bottle or two over the weekend and maybe a bottle mid week. The beer is 4 pack that may get drunk but nice to have in the house if my DH has friend come over and chat over the weekend. I personally don’t find that a lot but of course am happy to stand corrected.

Nope no branded stuff as such tend to shop in lidl or aldi and home bargains for household stuff.

Meals are a roast most sunday and left overs make lunch next day. pasta/ chili/ spaghetti Bol Tray bakes, Mexican etc nothing outrageous.
My kids eat lots of fruit and snacks and we like to have nibbles on a weekend such as nuts/ olives / crisps and dips. I make cakes when I have the time. We all eat good breakfasts cereal / toasts / yogurt/ fruit and healthy packed lunches.
I don’t buy very cheap stuff but do look for offers. I don’t pad out meals with oats and lentils but I guess I could 😊

Your shopping basket sounds much like mine. I also don't think three bottles a week is a lot, it's within safe limits.

Anything from £80-£180/90 a week. 2 adults & 2 children.

I buy things in bulk mainly so spent £100 at the butchers, that will last us 3/4 weeks depending on the meals I make.

Dog food is a bag a month at £60. (2 dogs)

Cat food again in bulk is £100 per month for both wet & dry food (4 cats)

Laundry stuff I buy from a country store every month or 2 (ish) is normally £25 that’s washing powder/fabric conditioner/stain remover if needed.

So I spend £71 a week on just the above. Then the rest is all supermarket aldi/Waitrose/where ever I go.

I do have 3 freezers which are quite full so could do with having a evening meal planning and using it up.

Oh and a home bargains/boots/Superdrug every 8-10 weeks for shampoo/conditioner/toothpaste etc which normally comes in at £30-40 cause I also buy other random shite

I have noticed a massive hike in prices.

No booze as we don’t really drink!

£60 2 adults 2 kids, we don't drink and we rarely eat meat.

Why "one or two small children"? Are you unsure how many kids you have OP? If you count them you may find it easier to budget for them. 👌

Ooh cotswold do you meal plan? Want to share a sample menu...?

£60-70 a week, 2 adults, including beer and the odd bottle of Whiskey or Rum - the only brands I’m loyal to are Yorkshire Tea and Branston beans. I also like Iceland’s own loo roll.
DD spends £80-100 for 2 adults, a 2 year old in nappies and they have her partners 2 kids every weekend, she buys far too much in the way of cleaning products and toiletries 🙄 , when they moved house recently she had 18 bottles of Zoflora/Fabulosa 😱.

I sat down today and crunched through the numbers. £800-900 a month, 2 adults and 2 teenage boys. I suspected it was a lot but this is sobering. The figure includes everything we buy at supermarkets so it will include laundry powder, bog roll, fairy liquid etc. We probably have two bottles of wine per month and a few beers for DH and the boys. I have determined to curb my Waitrose habit and shop more at Lidl. One positive is we very rarely throw food away, nearly everything does get eaten.

Two adults and a toddler at £100 a week.
Gasping at the £2-300 a week comments although appreciate different areas of the country have different pricing!

Agree with beautyqueen food prices have definitely risen. It happened a few years ago when the price of commodities went up partly due to China’s increased consumption. Then there’s been brexit and Covid. There are fewer discounts in the big supermarkets.

With two adults and two tweens we're at the lower end of the range (£80 ish) and imagine we could get it to the lowest (£40 ish) if I shopped at Lidl/Tesco and bought own brand, non-organic, non-eco friendly stuff.

We're vegan and aiming for (!) zero waste. When you stop buying meat, processed food, disposable stuff and fancy packaging you save A LOT without sacrificing quality.

It varies, partly because we have two Big Shop vouchers a month. The last few I have struggled to make the most of, which presumably means we spend £120-£150 twice a month and £5-£25 five times a month. So £350? For two middle-agers and two young men (21 and 18).

Ooops, that's per month, obviously

You do know that you’re not going to get many honest answers, don’t you?

On the one hand you’ll have the compatible undereaters/underspenders who will claim they feed a family for 2 weeks on a chicken and 3 potatoes. Then you’ll have the stealth boasters who will say they spend 100 a day at Waitrose or somewhere, purely because they want you to know they have that kind of money to play with.

What’s important is you buy what you and your family wants and needs. And that you can afford everything you need.

I would say roughly £120 a week. That would include cleaning products. Shop mainly at Aldi and home bargains

On the one hand you’ll have the compatible undereaters/underspenders who will claim they feed a family for 2 weeks on a chicken and 3 potatoes. Then you’ll have the stealth boasters who will say they spend 100 a day at Waitrose or somewhere, purely because they want you to know they have that kind of money to play with.

And then you have people like me, who have no idea, but know it's not tooooo much, but don't know exactly how much is not too much...😳

Also. I don't think OP is ever coming back bte

Basil it sounds like you eat fairly similar stuff to us but we eat the meatless versions so if you do want to save money I’d suggest trying meatless Mondays or something similar. Making a bean chilli is so much cheaper than chilli con carne, and so on, especially if you use dried beans rather than tinned.

I remain of the opinion that buying three bottles of wine a week means you are spending quite a lot of money on alcohol though - that must be at least £15 a week or £60 a month. Probably buying spirits would be cheaper since a bottle is about £20 and lasts a lot longer!

Then you’ll have the stealth boasters who will say they spend 100 a day at Waitrose or somewhere, purely because they want you to know they have that kind of money to play with.

I probably have one of the higher figures on here and it's not a stealth boast, it's just paying a lot of money for convenience.

I know it's "too much" and I do know how to lower it, but that involves a time investment I just can't make and still function. I have no desire to peel, boil and mash a potato at five AM prior to work, or at 7 pm after getting home from all of the various after school/work activities.

Yes, I realise I'm paying £4 for ready made mash instead of £1 for ingredients. Once you do that across all of the components, for all of the meals for a family of five, it adds up.

It's nothing to brag about.

Average is £120/week for 2 adults and one child.