WTF have I done?

[Supermercado]

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How much has your supermarket shop cost including top ups, how big is your family and what do you make with it? I've just spent a small fortune on food for one person, which included fresh vegetables, yogurt, cheese, sphagetti, tinned beans and tomatos, and frozen fruit but it amounted to a bit over £60. Shopping in asda. Not including dog food, wine, or toiletries. NO lobster or anything of the sort. A multi pack of tuna. Besides a box of lollies and tea, no treats. It didnt even include the top up milk that I'll have to get and I've forgotten ingredients still. I cant afford to do this every week but is it the price you pay to have a good diet or is it possible for less?

I should add mine might be for longer because I only buy perishable stuff I use when it's reduced/on offer
So a weeks shop could contain 3 x peanut butter if it's at a reduced price which will obviously last me (until the next time it it reduced!) same with toilet rolls, washing up liquid, chutney, porridge etc etc etc

We spend about 80-90 a week for 2 adults and 2 primary age children. We used to joke that we couldn't spend more than £50 five years ago but price rises and another child put paid to that.

NO lobster That made me laugh

I see what you mean now. You've found it hard to shop just for yourself when you're used to buying for the whole family?

As someone else pointed out, I doubt you'll eat all that food in a week.

Some of it will keep, you could cook the mince and freeze several portions.

You bought food, you didn't kill anyone.

It's more than I spend, but I rarely buy cheese and opt for frozen fruit and vegetables.

I think that is expensive for 1 person, I spend on average £90 for a family of 3 plus 3 pets and that is everything, its gone up by £30 in the last few months,

£130/week for 2 adults and 6 kids. Small kids though, I shudder to think what this will be in a few years time.

2 adults 1 toddler and a dog. Our food shops gone up from an average of £60ish a week including dog food and cleaning/toiletries (dh eats the same 5 meals every day which has helped me see the hike) to almost £100 a week.
The biggest increase I've noticed is fruit (berries) and meat.

You need to post what you bought really because you could have bought large quantities or you could have bought pricey items, very hard to say.

@MarvellousMay how do you survive? A family of 4 on £80 is bonkers! I do a weekly shop for about £180 plus a few trips a week to the veg shop and butcher once a week. Plus top ups at the supermarket. There’s only three of us and we eat very healthily but if I had to live on £80 per week we’d be buggered

very dramatic title for food shopping …

Tbh I can’t believe that you’ve spent this amount on fresh vegetables, yogurt, cheese, spaghetti, tinned tuna and tinned tomatoes and frozen fruits at Asda unless you’ve bought a lot or some products were organic.
Could you post your receipt? It’s difficult to say anything otherwise.

😂 I was just about to type this!!!

Our budget is £80-90 a week for 3 adults and 1 child. This includes everything. Toiletries, pet food, wine, treats. We have a veggie in the house so tend to buy processed veggie meatballs etc, everything else is from scratch with a meal plan. Roast on Sundays lasts 3 meals - stir fry and then final leftovers in pasta later in the week. We like salmon, eat a lot of berries etc. We all eat breakfast which is usually porridge or egg based.

Plenty of families survive on £80 a week. Our family of 4 do. It's not "bonkers" it's just the reality of living on a fairly low income and prices sky rocketing.

It's rather meaningless without quantity.

Surely you won't get through a whole pack of spaghetti?

Send a photo of your till receipt and it would make more sense.

4 adults here, DH, me, DD and her BF. We cook all meals from scratch, all take lunches to work, don't have takeaways. Spend £200 - £220 in the main shop, and then around £30 on the organic veg box. No lobster or caviar here, just simple good food. Works out at just over £60 per week per adult, so I don't think it's bad.

Sounds like you need some lessons in managing on less. £80 a week for 4 people is £20 a day. That should easily cover a main meal, lunch and breakfast.
Yes, it's not including laundry stuff, loo rolls etc but it's certainly do-able.

So you spend £1K a month on food?

That is ridiculous.

What's your net household income ?

@Dita73 homemade soups, jacket potatoes, beans on toast, frozen pizzas. Porridge oats for breakfast with half milk half water.
We do buy a lot of fruit and veg but I always get the ‘ugly’ ones, bent carrots etc or the £1.50 Lidl boxes. Supermarket brand for almost everything.
We don’t spend much on toiletries or cleaning products(!)

I agree £1k/month is very high

Oh we don’t eat a great deal of meat either, I think that helps.

We shop in Aldi, unless I grab top up milk/bread through the week from our local Tesco express. We are a family of 4 (soon to be 5!) with a dog, we spend an average of £60 a week. We tend to buy a big bag of dog food (James Wellbeloved) when its on offer in pets at home, but only need to buy it every 5 ish weeks.
You could possibly shop around to help keep costs down? Look on the supermarkets websites before hand and see who has decent offers on of the things you know you need. Hope this helps! x

Aldi genuinely is a lot cheaper than the mainstream supermarkets. If there's one fairly near you, I'd recommend. I mainly get whole foods (which are just normal foods.) I do go off plan during the week if I'm not careful though.

If I buy chocolate treats for the week or whatever in my main shop, I just eat it the first night. But that's my own issues.

I spend less than that for 2 adults and 2 teens (gluten free diet for one plus asd fussy eater). I spend £40-45 including all laundry and toiletries (I do online shop to keep it as near to £40 as possible). I'm a single parent relying on disability benefits so have no choice. I'm also limited to how long I can stand in the kitchen so do lots of slow cooker batch cooking. Lots of pasta, rice and potatoes. Frozen vegetables, tinned foods, own brand or basic ranges. The most important thing is meal planning all meals. We eat fairly well. I do have one day a week when the main meal is beans/egg on toast to save money.

We spend around £130 a week for 2 adults, that includes Hellofresh x 4 evenings and most weekday lunches. I feel like it's a lot but I think it's ok when speaking to others x