Over 40K household: How much is your weekly shop?

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Can I ask if you have a modest household income (for MN) of under 40K, how much do you spend each week on food?

Get your title edited as it's the opposite of your OP

These threads (& there seems to be a new one every day) are utterly pointless, people have different numbers in the families you might have one DC or three... might be babies who are breastfed or hungry teenagers; some have pets; many mumsnetters seem to buy an inordinate amount of 'cleaning products' every week ; others include alcohol; some only eat vegetarian; others only want high welfare meat; what about allergies etc where food is so expensive; others spend £x but have two takeaways a week; do you include school means etc etc.

What exactly do you expect to gain from knowing how much another family spends?

If you really want to know - our household income is circa £4Ok and we spend approx £150 a week on average.

I have to say that I agree.

If anyone is interested in the actual financial side and saving ir crunching doen, there are lovely sections money matters and credit crunch.

Here you will end up with 700 a week or a tenner.... Not much in between....

i have 4 teenagers - im trying to cut back to 150 a week and only go once a week, but there has not been a biscuit, crisp or any snacks in the house for about three days now and I think if I don’t go shopping today I might have a mutiny on my hands…

Obviously the mutiny won’t start until mid afternoon when they all surface though

Eh? Surely the number of people you have to feed makes more difference?

FWIW our household income is over £40k but we spend about £80 a week.

Two adults, a 3 year old and an almost one year old - so you'll already see a massive difference between us and PP's with older children or teens.

Two adults, two kids under 5, two spoilt cats...

Around £160 a week, ish.

Over 40k income but I'm confused by your title vs OP.

We are an over 40k household. We spend £100 to £120 PW. That is 3 adults plus DS GF makes a fourth most weekends. We hardly drink alcohol.

It's all academic op because different households have a different number of people of varying ages to feed.

There's proper data available if you really want to know, although as everyone has different budgets and priorities, what others do shouldn't influence what you do in your household.

Asking on here is no better than setting a random number generator to return a list of results between 50 and 200 but does serve as an interesting statistical exercise in how not to generate data because the question is poorly defined (all food, just in the supermarket or including takeaways, lunches etc, food for meals, or including snacks, drinks etc) and the sample isn't representative of the population as a whole.

Two adults and four primary aged kids here. I spend about £190 per week inc packed lunches for all, every week. We also have a takeaway every week which costs. £50ish.

Under or over 40k?

Our household income is 100k and we spent about £60 a week. Two adults, one weaning baby, vegan and teetotal.

@TimetohittheroadJack have you had a look at approved food? I have 2 teenagers and you can pick up lots of snack things v cheap on their website - saves me a fortune

I'm interested in this. I earn nowhere near 40K, quite low income but I live alone so I can suit myself re. shopping. No pets. I was trying to keep my monthly shop down to £100 but now it's shot up to nearer £200 per month (I don't shop every week, just every so often so monthly is easier to calculate).

I was wondering what everyone classes as "weekly shop"? Just food? Food and toiletries? Cleaning products? Medicines, the odd pair of socks, a couple of cheap mugs because I've dropped and broken one??

My shopping bill includes everything, nothing else bought at all except for petrol for the car, (calculated separately, obviously). I don't buy clothes any more....I have plenty and can't afford more anyway. But I am on my feet all day at work and wear out socks a lot so cheap supermarket ones are easy to throw into the trolley.

We only have Tesco or Sainsbury's (rural area, nearest market town) so no chance of going to a Lidl or Aldi anyway (I'm not driving 30 miles+ for my shopping!) With a clubcard, Tesco wins hands down for cheapness in this part of the world.

We have a combined income of about 45k and I try to keep the weekly shop under £100 (£75-95), plus top up shops of milk and bread. So i'd say it proberbly averages out just over £100 all in. We don't eat meat or fish, but do get through a lot of dairy.

This is for 2 adults and a 4yo.

I was wondering what everyone classes as "weekly shop"? Just food? Food and toiletries? Cleaning products? Medicines, the odd pair of socks, a couple of cheap mugs because I've dropped and broken one??

Food, toiletries and cleaning products generally.

If we need the other stuff it just gets put in the trolley but we're not really on a tight budget most of the time as we're quite frugal.
If it's a bit tight close to pay day we'll only buy the exact things we need and any extras have to wait.

Joint income of 52K.
2 adults, a 17 year old daughter, 2 greedy cats.
Averages £65 for everything (including cat food, toileteries etc). I don’t do top up shops.

Household income of 100k, family of six and we spend around £125-130

Are you a “journalist”? If not - your OP and title don’t match. And how much people spend depend on not household income
alone but who they are feeding. An infant guzzling formula is rather different than a breastfed baby is rather different than a hungry teen is rather different than a vegan GF adult.

@FinneusMum so she can see how her question won't get her the answers she needs. The previous posters have a lower household income and higher expenditure.

You're constantly berating people about being thick on every thread. At least try and use a bit of initiative.

Btu the OP hasn't even specified a criteria.

It's not clear whether she means over or under £40k (I think under, but not sure)

What size family and how old are any DC?

Any dietary requirements, are they vegetarian, do they spend on lunches, takeaways, meals out on top or is her spend all meals at home for everyone?

Even the income isn't clear - they could earn £40k and be mortgage and child free and the amount they can afford to spend on food will be many multiples than if they have a mortgage/rent to pay and are in debt or have high childcare costs.

Plus people's priorities differ - is food their main pleasure in life and/or they're interested in organic and sustainble food? The spend could look very different to a family who see food as just fuel and want to eat as cheaply as possible so they have more money left to spend on other things.

Plus what shops do they have available. Someone who lives next to a Lidl will be able to feed a family far more cheaply than if their nearest shops are Waitrose, Co-op or convenience stores and they can't get to cheaper shops easily.