To think £56 for a food shop for a week is expensive?

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It's just me and my 8 year old daughter. I've been trying to save money and usually shop daily so decided tonight to do an online shop at Asda for Monday. The total came to just under £57 for the week, that's for 10 breakfasts, 5 lunches (for me as daughter at school) and 10 dinners and some snacks. This included two bottles of wine (£10) and two cat foods (£8) so I suppose these could be ignored.

However, I still think it's an excessive amount for the amount just the two of us. Is that a lot or pretty average?

I said I didn't eat much vegetables. Not that I didn't eat much in general.

That is so cheap! We spend about £80-100 a week but when I did the calculations we spend about £50 on fruit and veg alone. We eat a lot of fresh food and do two mini shops a week online because fruit and veg doesn’t last long.

I’ve spent £37 for just me this week

1 adult,2 teens and a 9 year old. 2 dogs and 2 cats. My weekly shop is about 100 depending on what I need that week.

Mine is £48 for me, DH and DC ( baby)
Are you cheaper getting a box of wine?
will the cats only eat that brand? Can you change to biscuits? A bit cheaper and last longet?

I spend about £75 on 2 adults.
If I lived with a clone of myself, that could be £55 for 2 adults. DH likes nice coffee, more meat than me and so on. But I think £75 is very reasonable.

Yabu to think that’s expensive when £10 of it is on booze.

But it's not £56 on food for a week.

It's £39 on food for five days, not including lunch for one of you.

Which is very cheap but not surprising when you list your meals - eggs on toast for breakfast, soup for lunch and then beans on toast for tea is hardly substantial or filling food.

And you're clearly not struggling for money as you wouldn't be splashing £10 a week on wine if that was the case - bit of a weird thread really

This is a pointless thread. Everyone is replying as if that expenditure covers 7 days - when in fact the OP has now said that they shop again at the weekend - but she doesn’t say how much they spend for weekend meals.

Our milk & veg bills alone are £46pw...

That sounds cheap to me. I spend that for just me without alcohol, although I do like fish and meat so that raises the cost

We spend approx £50 - 60 a week at tesco for DP, me, two older primary school kids, two cats. That includes cat food and the occasional wine. That doesn't include school lunches or DPs lunch if he's in the office, though that's only once or twice a week. Occasionally we'll do a small top up shop for soft fruit or salads.

I'm racking my brain to think if we spend more than this which I'm forgetting to include, but I think this is it. We do a few veggie meals a week and one evening the kids eat at their dad's. When they have a weekend at their dad's the food shop is cheaper.

I am expecting it to go up as DS hits puberty though!

I agree that this thread is pointless. A snapshot of one shop to cover five days worth of food tells you little about whether it is cheap or expensive, affordable and how much you'll end up spending on groceries over time.

It could cost more, it could cost less. The OP doesn't mention cleaning products or toiletries and presumably she won't eat those five meals every week, so other weeks could be more or less expensive, or could include ingredients that will take weeks/months to get through (eg spices, stock cubes, flour, sugar, dried lentils etc) so while you get all the cost in one shop, the item is used over time.

Plus everyone has different budgets, family sizes, priorities and dietary requirements so comparing with others tells you little either.

yabu- that’s cheap- you want a weeks of food to be the same as 2 bottles of wine?!

Very low amount - we spend that on a midweek 'pop into the shops for bits'

Maybe try Aldi if you can, you might be able to save a bit more. I’d say we spend £100-120 a week in Aldi and we have 5 DC.

£39 on food for that many meals is very good. Did you have to pay for delivery or was that free as you sent over a certain amount?

We will be a bit more relaxed at the weekend and eat what we fancy, will go to shops on day and decide.

OP’s THIRD POST.

I was going to say you could do it cheaper, then saw the wine and cat food, so it's really £38. I spend £50 on myself and my 16 year old DS, cat food is bought online separately. So £38 for an adult and an 8 year old doesn't sound expensive.

You need to weigh up if spending this amount once a week usurps shopping daily.
Often people don't consider petrol and parking costs which is much more if you shop every day. If you can walk to the shops, you need to consider the impact on your time and how much you actually "save' - it's probably only pence

We spend 15-30 a week (depending on what’s in it/which one I choose) on an organic veg box so I think your shop is quite cheap! I budget £125-150 a week for DH, me and a cat. The cat will only eat one sort of cat food though which is very annoying.
We waste very little - I tend to batch cook and freeze meals for mid week. I do buy a lot of fruit which is expensive so I’d probably cut that back to more basic fruit and cut out meat/fish if I was looking to save.

So minus the wine and cat food, you’ve spent £40 per week or let’s say less than £6 a day for meals for 2 people.
I don’t know how much cheaper you want it to be, except you want to be eating food that’s not nutritious. So I say yabu, food is more expensive now but what you’ve just paid is very cheap

Missed that it's only five days! So you are spending £7.60 a day. I'm spending £7.14 a day and DS is 16. Is it similar at weekends? I think you could cut that back a bit if you needed to.

That's super low to me!!