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?

@FinallyHere

Challenge him to produce a meal plan for seven days, and the supermarket shop required to produce it.

Let's see what his attempt would cost.

It's pointless to argue out of context if what you are all eating.

Nah, one week isn’t nearly long enough. At least a month, so that there isn’t a stock of things that he can just skip buying.

@Hortonhearsadoctorwho

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

@Hortonhearsadoctorwho a lot of baked potatoes And big pots of soup

If you search on here for a thread called ‘what do you eat when you are really broke?’ That’s me… lots of cheap meal ideas from people on here.

What really helps us is using our local community fridge. (Give it a google if you’re struggling financially). That and I bulk out almost every meal with some form of veg/pulses etc.

@Hortonhearsadoctorwho this is what I got from our community fridge last week - it’s usually short dated so needs freezing and good planning but all this for a £3 weekly subscription. (Although only helpful if you’re reviewing UC or other benefits and struggling financially).

I spend about £100 a week for two adults, DD14 and DD of 7 months. Also two cats. We have a lot of sneaky treats in that so could probably do it for less if needed. I think what you spend is fine!

Sounds reasonable to me. Spend about £115 for 2 adults, two kids and dog. We shop in Aldi, so reckon it would be at least £15 more than that in Asda.

Men are sometimes so absolutely useless.Let him do the shopping for a whole month.You OP are budgeting brilliantly.I could not do as well as you do.

@Prattypitel

Men are sometimes so absolutely useless.Let him do the shopping for a whole month.You OP are budgeting brilliantly.I could not do as well as you do.

If you don't buy brands, limit expensive things like meat/cheese/alcohol/avocados/berries, and plan to have cheap meals, then you could spend less than OP. Jack Monroe's website is a good resource for cheap recipes and her books are available in libraries. Also the Budget Bytes website although it is American.

I'd say that's super cheap and you must be buying only the very basics. What planet is he on? As many PP have said, tell him to do the shopping himself if he has an issue.

If you don't buy brands, limit expensive things like meat/cheese/alcohol/avocados/berries, and plan to have cheap meals, then you could spend less than OP. Jack Monroe's website is a good resource for cheap recipes and her books are available in libraries. Also the Budget Bytes website although it is American.

Yeah you could. If you had to because you were in a period where you are struggling. I have done before for many years. But my understanding was that the OP was talking about a standard week's shopping in normal times, not "Jack Munroe" times: not buying huge luxuries but also not the bare necessities. Her budget sounds totally normal in that context, if not quite stringent!

That sounds ok to me. I have recently started to use Asda for home delivery, and think they are reasononable price wise,and always get a quick delivery. Their meat and fresh fish is always good,, and the fruit and veg and salad stuff also.
I think I spend more on my cats than anything , i have three cats who get fed twice a day, so get through a lot of cat food, and cat biscuit things.

OP I think that's doing really well, honestly. Our family don't even eat any meat, buy alcohol or smoke, and I spend more than that. I don't buy treats like sweets and crisps. Everything is so expensive! I shop in the cheapest places like Iceland now, and still spend more than you.

Ask him to take over for a couple of weeks to see if he can do better, with the agreement that anything he misses out that you need (eg baby wipes) he needs to go out for

You spend way less than me.

I should say 2 adults, 2 DC. The DC have school dinners. We have to shop at Sainsbury's which is way more expensive than Asda as it's all we have around here and we don't have a car.

I don't think that it is too much. Baby stuff can add a fair bit to a weekly shop.

I also think it depends on how you shop. For example I spend between £400 / £500 per month for our family (2 adults, 17, 14 & 12) for 98% of all meals and house hold products. But this is only possible because over the years we have built up a pantry so we are only buying what we use.

If we were buying a shop that we used each week/month that it would be a lot more expensive.

I agree with getting your DP to either do the shop or even come with you, I did this with my DH as he had no Idea how much food costs had risen since he last did shopping as I was the one at home.

£80-90 a week, or £12 a day, sounds like quite a small spend for two adults, a baby and a dog if that covers all your meals. We're similar for two and a bit adults (our resident adult DC buys some of their own food). We could easily double that if we added a few premium brands, alcohol, or a couple of takeaways every week. Maybe your DP doesn't understand that prices have risen recently, or realise that you don't have time to trudge round all the shops looking for special offers.