How much do you spend on your weekly shop?

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I am just wondering if what I spend a week on my shop is average?

£160/£200 per week for food, drinks, alcohol, dog treats and usual house stuff like cleaning products and toiletries for 2 adults and 1 child.

I shop at Tesco and don't do top up shops etc.

The reason why I am asking is, my friend thinks this is a really high amount. But they shop in different shops eg Asda/Aldi plus do top up shops. So when I pointed out she must be spending more than me, adding in petrol etc to get to different shops, plus more time going to different places. She was adamant she wasn't. I get home delivery.

Thanks very much wise ones

*2 adults 1 child even

That’s a crazy amount! We have 5 DC and don’t spend that much. We shop at aldi so save a lot of money, spend about £100-110 max. We don’t drink or eat meat and don’t have pets to consider but yeah, family of seven and we spend a lot less than you.

£50 a week 2 adults and 2 bottomless pits, sorry children

2 adults 2 pre-teens, spend around £100 on delivery from Sainsbury's but always end up over in the local Tesco for extras / treats / alcohol. Around £150 a week in total. Dog food is extra as on a specialist diet.

Kids have school meals but DH takes a packed lunch and I WFH so that is included in the main shop.

For two of us I spend about £70-80 a week but I keep freezer and food cupboard well stocked.
I get online groceries from mainly Asda or Tesco, occasionally Ocado or Sainsbury’s.

About £120, slightly more or less 2 adults, 4 kids. We shop in Aldi and Lidl and that's what we spend on a full shop there, but we do have to do a couple of top ups shops a week, costing around £30 each.

Yes prices have gone up for sure since then. Fruit I but two fun size packs of apples at 80p I think. Bunch of bananas are less than £1. A pack of onions does me two weeks honestly. Lasagna bits are half a pack of sheets and half a pack of cheese. I dont like eating too much cheese its full of fat. Herbs etc on bulk from Costco.

It's not £50 a week for all 6 of us but you can see it's totally doable. It' not that we eat less, we just eat differently. Kids have lunch at school. All three are free lunches.

It can be done honestly

This how much cooking bacon 75p buys you. Half a block of this cheese and 500g of pasta I will show you what I cook tonight.

I'm not saying its standard way to eat but it is doable if you have flour etc t most definitely feeds 6 too. I will post a pic tonight

OP I think you are right though, people are forgetting all the other little bits they buying during the week.
Our weekly shop for 2 adults and a toddler, Inc everything is £150 from asda.
But that literally covers everything. We take pack lunches to work. We don't eat out. We never do top up shops.

Honestly, I don’t see how anyone can feed a family of 6 for £50 a week. And it’s rather disingenuous to claim it can be done but not include all the costs or have minuscule portions of some ingredients. Even if 3 DC have FSM that still leaves 3 people needing lunches during the week and DC still need lunch on weekends - that’s 27 lunches a week you need to buy.

2 packs of apples and 1 bunch of bananas is not enough fruit for a family of 6 for a week. That’s not even one portion per day per DC. A 1kg pack of onions does not do 6 people 6 meals, that’s not even 30g per portion, especially when there’s little other vegetables in the meal e.g. only tomatoes in the bolognese.

Wanting 30g of cheese (which is the ‘official’ amount of a portion) per portion is not a lot, but one 400g pack of cheese does not even give you that, per person for 3 meals a week. And actually it is 4 meals a week - 2 mince, carbonara and fajitas, so not even 17g per portion.

We are two adults, one toddler and we are struggling to keep a lid on it - food is one of the small joys we have left!

We normally spend £20 a week on a local fruit and veg delivery and lasts the whole week unlike Lidl or Aldi.
We can easily then spend 60 on the weekly shop plus 20 on top ups for milk and bread, but where we spend more is things like picking up snacks when flagging through the work day, an ice cream out as treat etc.

I think that's high.
2 adults, a 4 and a 6 year old. No pets and we spend less than £100 per week all in.

I spend £80/90 per week at Tesco. I would say that we may top up buy about £10/20 per week. This includes nappies for my toddler as well but no alcohol as we rarely drink.

About £500 a month for 2 of us .I meal plan every 4-5 days, shop at big Sainsbury's with fruit/ milk/bread top ups at Tesco express.
We eat out each week, and dh takes a packed lunch. Our bill includes cleaning products, toiletries, alcohol ( usually 12 bottles of wine and a bottle of gin each month).

Really high. I live alone with my dog and spend about £25-30 every fortnight in Aldi, with top ups from the little Tesco at about £10-20 a time. I do the top ups weekly ish. Dog food I have delivered and is £80 a month.

In the main Aldi shop I get veg and meat substitutes like quorn that I can make into big portions and freeze for the week. I’m veggie so don’t buy meat. I’ll cook a veggie curry with cauliflower and sweet potato for example, or a veggie bolognese with quorn mince, and freeze 3-4 portions to have over the week. I buy cereal bars, nuts, fruit, yoghurts and sometimes crisps as snack foods and also lunch things like salad and falafels. I haven’t found Aldi stuff to go off any quicker than other shops. I also don’t buy any alcohol and walk to the shop and back with my own bags.

It seems very high.
We spend probably £120 a week for a family of 6 (young though not teenagers). I shop in Aldi or Tesco depending on what i need. Sometimes home delivery with asda or ocado.
Veggies are delivered. We get fish at the fishmonger but not every week.
Dog food is separate as supermarket pet food is a bit rubbish. Not sure how much we spend on this but cannot be that much.
Some toiletries are on a subscription and same with other bits and bobs. Nothing major but may add up to a tenner a week. Every 3months or so will do a Costco shop too which costs quite a bit then.
All in it is about £120-150 max a week I'd estimate.

It doesn't include eating out though which we do enjoy occasionally.

I spend about 250 quid a month, if that. People have their own priorities though.

The Joseph rowntree foundation minimum income standard for 2021 has the figures of £111.94 for food and £10.47 for alcohol for a family of 2 adults 2 children (that's the closest they do to yours) per week. This is a bit less than yours. It is however a minimum standard. Also it depends how much alcohol you buy.

Ours seems to vary massively. Some weeks it's £70 but other weeks it's £100 or £110.
Two adults, two teenagers and a toddler plus one cat. Having said that I work in a supermarket so we do get a 10% discount.

£600+ a month is a lot, I'd hope that all the meat was fresh and good quality, and the fruit and veg organic for that.
I don't think my spend is particularly helpful - I'm a small single person and I like good quality food, but I don't eat huge amounts of meat, and I do lots of batch cooking and rarely throw away food. So the luxury foods balance out, and I also grow a lot of veg which is starting to come through now (salad bits at this time of year). I spend £150-200 a month which I think is a lot for one person, includes all meals and snacks and cleaning products.

I think I must eat a lot of food. I do always feels hungry and get frustrated with how I never feel satiated. I am bedridden with severe ME so am incredibly inactive but have a strong appetite. I think it may be partially due to the disease process (some other people with the illness say they are the opposite and never hungry) and some due to the medication I take. Anyway after all that preamble, my weekly shop for one is never below £50 which always seems so high compared to other posters. My carer cooks everything from scratch, I meal plan and have a mix of cheaper chicken thigh fillet, fish and veg dishes.

Blimey I spend too much.
2 adults and 2 cats - about £100 a week. Plus wine, plus coffee pods and plus a top you of about £20 a week and that's just for breakfasts and dinner - and not even for the whole week as we eat out at least twice a week too !

I'm going to try and so a really frugal shop (no steak, cheaper mince etc) and see what I can get it down to.

I will say I do like convince - £2.20 bag of casar salad over making my own salad for example.

Need to have a closer look at what we are buying because we don't even have 'treats' in the house and I do buy what's on offer.

Sounds high to me as well. Family of 4 (young kids) and dog and the weekly shop of food and household cleaning things is about £75-£85 a week, although we do get Tails for dog food so I'm only including treats, poop bags in that for her. DH maybe tops up the shop for about £30 throughout the week. Main shop is Asda, top up tends to be Morrisons.

I think these threads are pointless because it really depends if you eat meat , drink alcohol or cook everything from scratch. Obviously vegetarian or semi -vegetarian families will be able to shop much cheaper.

Def high. We are 70/80 a week. 2 adults and one child

shop in Aldi