How much do you spend on food per week?

[Hummusontoast]

I did a quick search and this isn’t been discussed since July I don’t think. There’s been lots of price hikes since then even. I spent 150 pound in Asda earlier and that’s for a family of 3, and I was buying all the cheap brands, no alcohol or treats, and limiting fresh fruit and veg. I did buy cleaning stuff, laundry power, etc. This seems so expensive to me. Am I being unreasonable and unrealistic in my expectation of how much it should cost to feed us in a week? Any advice on how I can further cut the bill would be appreciated.

Family of 4 adults and I spend £100 a week on average.

No doubt we will soon see posts of ‘I feed my family of 20 on £20 a week’.

About £120 a week for a family of four.

About £120 a week. That's between Aldi Iceland and home bargains.
Did Tesco this week and was horrified at some of the prices, only spent £82 but that won't last all week.
We're a family of 4 with two teenagers and at least a quarter of the bill goes on cereal and milk!

Around £80-£100 per week at Sainsburys for a family of four, plus top ups during the week.

I spent £128 in Aldi yesterday 2 adults 1dc it will last about 10-12 days

I’ve got the supermarket shop down to 3 x £40 in a month — but that is for just me, one vegetarian adult, no alcohol. I’ll probably spend £6-8 a week on odds and ends on top. Dog food bought separately.

Depends on the week, but average is £70 for 2 adults. Just food, no toiletries, loo roll etc.

We are actually saving money by having a hello fresh or Gousto box for dinners (4 a week) and then just buying lunch and breakfast bits… we often have leftovers for lunches and also noticing so much less food waste. The weeks we buy a box that might be around £35 we tend to spend maybe £30 on a shop work everything else we need.

Circa £120-150 a week family of 4

Too much. I can't even put a figure on it because it's the constant small grocery top ups and vending machine snacks at work etc that are killing my budget. I feel like the majority of my money goes on food.

Which one do you like better?

Just me, spent £42 yesterday for the week.

@xogossipgirlxo

they both have their own pros but Gousto is our preferred because we just seem to enjoy the choice of recipes a little bit more.
We’ve had some really delicious meals that have been fun to make and that our toddler has really enjoyed… always a pleasant surprise 😂
I’ve got a link for 65% off of first box and 25% off of first two months (you can cancel
after first box if you just want one really cheap one) I’ll stick it below if anyone wants it.

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About £60 for 2 adults and a toddler (not including meat).

We realised if we do click and collect from Tesco then we end up spending a lot less especially when using club card deals.

Sainsburys 100 -120 three adults for full week. It used to be 80. I menu plan five good meals snacks packed lunches and Sunday lunch and an ad hoc sat meal. I find it cheaper than Tesco and Asda
I buy dog treats too. Washing up liquid etc

£150 a week for 4 adults and 1 dc. Maybe a tenners worth of top ups a week and £200 at the cash & carry every 6-8 weeks.

About £70 one week because the monthly animal food goes in, and then down to £35-40 a week.

That's one adult, once child a dog and a cat.

DS loves tinned food 🤦🏻‍♀️😳 tinned veg, tinned potatoes, tinned peach slices, tinned soup, freybentos pies. I'm not sure why, but he does, also pasta dishes, he will occasionally have fish fingers and chips from the freezer. Kid also like tinned mackerel 🤮 and other tinned oily fish! My toes curl when I open them to put on his plate to have with pasta or cooked vegetables. And he must have the best joints in South Wales! Well oiled...

But....it does keep the shopping cost down so cheers son! 👍🏻

One adult and three kids between Asda and m&s £130 a week roughly

I've just screenshot and attached our Asda deliveries so you can see what our weekly spend is - 2 adults, 2 kids full time, 1 kid every other weekend and half holidays. Sometimes my adult child is here for dinner too.
Since September we have been doing 2 x kids packed lunches. We also get 10% off from staff discount so our bill it would obviously be higher if we didn't.
First screenshot shows since sept when we started doing packed lunches.
Second screenshot is before the summer hols when we weren't.
Costs have definitely risen, because I've just averaged out over 5 weeks and current cost is £121, where as it was £98 before the holidays - and we definitely aren't spending £23 a week on the kids packed lunches - it's less than £10.

Disclaimer: this doesn't include the extra £10-20 a week that inevitably ends up being spent on items that were out of stock on our deliveries, or short dated, or need to be bought elsewhere. So the reality is £130-140 probably.

£125-150ish for 2 adults and a 3yo that eats at nursery 4 days a week.
But we haven’t had a functioning kitchen for months (living in a renovation) and we have no freezer space and only a single hob/combi microwave so options are limited. Too many ready meals etc.

We do buy high welfare meat and the better end of some food products (not brands though). I think we could get it to £100ish (that includes toiletries and cleaning plus some alcohol) when we have proper cooking facilities. At the moment we waste a lot and it’s unhealthy/convenience plus an extortionate amount on berries for DD.

But it is hard when you are rural and have very limited choice of shopping plus a small cottage with very limited space. We are never going to be able to freeze bargains or batch cook.

The new kitchen starts this week though!! So in 2 weeks or so we will have an actual oven and fridge/freezer. Oh the excitement!

Ffs. Forgot screenshots.

£100-150 per week for 3 of us.

Plus extra for takeaways/movie night treats/ice creams/ trips to costa, etc (probably an extra £100🤯)

I know it’s ridiculous.

Im cutting back from tomorrow - made a plan and I’m sticking to it!

I live alone and it’s around £20-25 a week

Family of 3. My Asda collect shop is costing about £90 a week. I purposely don't go into the store as I would buy a load of extra crap we don't need.

3 adults. About £150 but that includes cleaning stuff, toiletries, a few beers and gin. Dh and DD buy or get lunch at work. I tend to take leftovers. Personally, I don't think that's excessive - fairly simple family dinners although I don't adopt the MNetn chicken philosophy.