Is £80-£90 a week grocery shopping tomuch?

[Newmumlake]

My partner has recently had a go at me that our weekly shop is far to expensive.

I usually shop at Asda using the click and collect service.

I will spend £80-£90 on groceries for 7 days. This includes 7 lunches, 7 dinners, snacks, cleaning products, baby produces, and dog food.

Is this too much?

I spend £120-130 per week for 2 adults and 4 dc under 7. That doesn’t include our two dogs as we get their stuff elsewhere & monthly. Your spend sounds about right.

I would say it's pretty good going if it includes cleaning products, pet food and baby products.

Family of 4 here, 2dc and a dog and around £100 a week plus a top up so likely £130. I don't understand when people only spend like £50 a week when they have a family - I wish I could do the same.

Let him do the shopping then.

We spend about 90-100 a week for two adults, a teen, a toddler and a cat. Nothing extravagant in there at all really and we don't eat meat...so no I don't think you're being unreasonable!

Depends on your budget if it's too much or not

You need to either take him with you, or make him do the shop so he sees how it all adds up. It sounds normal/towards the lower end so you're hardly stocking up on caviar and champagne.

Ours is much less. 2 adults 2 children and spend about £30-40 a week but we’re skint to have to make it work

It sounds fine. But you probably could cut back by buying the cheaper brands. Tell him to take over the shopping if hes not happy.

Food costs have soared recently. DP and I (just the two of us, we pay for dog food seperately) struggle to stay within a £50 per week budget, and we shop at ALDI. This time last year we could comfortably get a Sainsbury's shop for £40. So no you're not being unreasonable at all, in fact I think £80 is impressive with extra heads!

Seems quite reserved to me for a family. We spend at least that plus usually a few extras through the week. If he wants to give it a go, perhaps he can do better?

Four of us here, 2 adults and 2 teenage boys.

We spend £100 every Monday and another £75-100 for the weekend shop if we're buying booze.

We don't buy any food out of the house (except the odd takeaway) so the food shops cover all breakfasts, lunches and dinners.

Ours is much less. 2 adults 2 children and spend about £30-40 a week but we’re skint to have to make it work

Not being rude but what do you eat?
Just me and ds and I spend at least double that

I have to shop online to make sure I have control my buying.

Today however I had to pop into Waitrose and did my usual in store thing of buying things I just had to have there and then like dates, a whole large watermelon, sticky toffee pudding and goats cheese

I just can not be trusted to run loose alone in an actual supermarket. God help me if it's a Tesco or Asda superstore with clothes, make up, gadgets etc

Normal controlled spend is £50- 60 a week. But then there's money for 2 teen school lunches on top of that which averages £5 each a day

Three adults in this house, we budget carefully, meal plan and cook from scratch for most meals. We spend £90-100 every week at Morrisons, for everything including cleaning stuff, toiletries and a bottle of wine or two. It feels like a LOT of money.

It’s a lot yes. We spend £120 in Asda for 2 adults, a teen, 5 children and a baby.

@Funnylittlefloozie

Three adults in this house, we budget carefully, meal plan and cook from scratch for most meals. We spend £90-100 every week at Morrisons, for everything including cleaning stuff, toiletries and a bottle of wine or two. It feels like a LOT of money.

Personally I find Morrisons lovely quality but a tad pricier than the rest.

Another vote for him doing the shopping!

Either ask him to do it, or ask him what can be cut from the weekly shop.

He needs to shop for a few months, not just a one off whilst food and supplies are still in the cupboards. It also means he needs to vary the food he buys.

Do next weeks 'click and collect' then invite him to edit your basket - what changes would he make - what stuff would he get rid of? See how he gets on with that. Would there be enough food to cover all the meals? Ask him what he would make for lunch and dinner the day before the next delivery!
I think many people who don't shop regularly are out of touch with prices. Groceries is an area where you can usually cut down if you really need to- but do it you need to?- if you can afford it then what is the problem?

We were allowed more than that nearly 20 years ago when we were in an IVA, which is a formal solution to serious debt where you have to live a fairly frugal lifestyle and use all your spare money to pay off debts.

If your partner is like most men I know, most of the budget will be going on things he wants like expensive cuts of meat, snacks and alcohol, so step one would be to reduce the spend by anything that he eats most of and replace it with cheap vegetarian meals like baked potatoes and beans on toast.

If he says anything, hand grocery budgeting, shopping and cooking over to him and let him show you how it's done. Make sure you point out to him anything that's forgotten or if the food he buys runs out before the end of the week.

Only someone completely clueless about how much grocery shopping costs would be dim enough to make such a comment.

I spend about £100 a week on our big shop for 5 of us (2 adults, 2 teens and a toddler) and 2 cats. But toddler gets breakfast and lunch at nursery 3 days a week and quite often have to do a top up shop too.
Tell your partner to do the shopping if he thinks he can do it better /cheaper.

@gingerroot

I spend this on two adults

Same! Our weekly shop includes some treats, but isn't massively extravagant (although we do spend an embarrassing amount on diet coke )

Can he do better then?!

We spend between £60 and £70 a week, 2 adults, 2 young DCs. We shop in Lidl though and our cupboards and fridge are almost bare by the end of the week. I'd love to stock up a bit more and have a bit more variety in, but we do what we can afford.

If he thinks he can do better, he can do it.