WTF have I done?

[Supermercado]

Posting in AIBU for traffic

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 do a big monthly shop. I just did the shop for this next month and spent £127 for 2 adults and 2 children. Works out at about £31 a week. It includes fruit, pasta, spaghetti, veg, tuna and meat. I then top up fruit, veg, bread as needed.

There's 2 adults, a 13 and 2 year old here and we spend between 40 and 80 a week on the household shop, including any washing powder and softener, Bog rolls and cleaning products

I refuse to believe the people who are saying they can feed a family of 4 AND A DOG for £60. I cook for 1 most of the week two and the weekend. I Cook from scratch. Fresh fruit and veg. Make other meals with left overs etc and I spend over £60 a week. That includes cleaning products, washing powder(when needed ) etc. It’s not junk food that costs loads it’s fresh food. Eg: pack of three mixed peppers 99p about a year ago £1.79 last week

Under £54.
Few quid to play with in case I forgot something.

I bought my son's weekly shop in Aldi which included prawns for about £40.

Family of 5 and I spent between £90 and £130 a week. That includes everything for the week tho. Packed lunch stuff for the two older ones, dinners and a few treats for the weekend.
I've got a larder tho and tend to keep that fully stocked with tins, biscuits, cereal ect. I'm not a hoarder tho; I'm talking packs of four of everything.
I also do a monthly shop of £30/40 at Iceland to fill the freezer. I also freeze bread or rolls so it lasts longer.
I just stick to what I need really.
Sometimes I can get away with a £60 shop and we have a week of dinners where I empty the freezer and it'll be a real pick and mix. I also like to freeze leftovers for another day. I think it comes down to how well you organise food.
One of my faves is lasagne - 500g pack of mince, 2 peppers, 2 courgettes, mushrooms, jar of passata and herbs. I can get 2 large lasagne's out of that plus a spaghetti bolognese.

Weirdly, in this thread on my android MN app, it seems if you put square brackets around a word it turns it into flowers.

But if you don't have more than that to spend that'll have to do 😳

Replacing expensive meat with lentils/beans/pulses can stretch things quite a bit or adding these to stretch chicken/beef stews. It probably means cutting out treats if you want to have sufficient fresh fruit/veg but it is doable.

I think ‘receipts’ should become the new ‘diagram please’!

My Tesco does measly reductions - and what’s reduced is either slimey (anyone fancy beansprouts with oozing juices puddling in the bottom of the bag) ot seriously off colour (meat)

Same I did a loong trip to the nearest town purely to try to get some bargains, the tescos only knocked 20p off items that were going OOD that day and despite really needing a break from eating bisto gravy soup, I did not buy as they were, quite frankly , rank, and I'm way past being fussy, fingers going through a rotten cucumber anyone? Obviously blown packs of meat? Wasn't just one item it was most of them. I'd rather pay full price for edible and safe food or else go without TBH