How much do you spend on weekly shop?

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2 adults and 2 dc and dog. I'm spending £230 a week. I'm buying brands. I'm wondering if this is unusual or should I cut back. It seems a lot. How much are you spending?

That’s me! It’s two adults and 4 pets (two dogs, two cats), vegetarian, no alcohol. I was guessing at £250. I’ve checked and it looks like I over-estimated. It’s about £200. I have a calcium deficiency, even with a supplement, so eat quite a bit of yoghurt and drink milk. Both are organic in the interest of animal welfare and have dramatically increased in price. We also buy quite a lot of veg and fruit, but otherwise nothing expensive that I can think of. We don’t buy processed meals and they are often cheaper than meals made with fresh ingredients. We eat porridge, home made chilli, Shepard's pie, lasagna, soups, using soya ‘meat’, lots of various types of beans, veg, cheese etc. It’s a crazy amount of money, but that’s what it costs.

120 for 2 adults, 2 kids & cats.

I feel like we arent particularly careful, that includes relatively expensive things like quite a bit of meat, breakfast cereals, fresh soup, loads of fresh fruit, a lot of milk, cheese, treats eg desserts.

Anniesnap where are you shoppinh? M&s or waitrose?

£165 approx for a family of 4 plus a large dog, 2 rabbits and a cat.

Me and 17 yr ds. Easily £100. £80 Asd a online then the rest Home Bargains Savers Iceland.

For the first time in years have stopped buying light soya milk and using skimmed milk again. It was getting so exorbitant.

Sainsbury’s. 😲 I’ve tried Aldi for some stuff, but it made little difference. They don’t sell a lot of what we buy and for some basics, Sainsbury’s price match Aldi. I don’t understand either 🤷‍♀️ We do buy good coffee and our cats have big appetites (they are not bought posh food though).

About £90-100 a week for 2 adults and 2 teens. We have a dog but that figure doesn't include his food.

Oh yes and we buy a fair bit of Soya Barista milk. As @Zippedydoo123 said I t’s expensive.

£80-£120 per week but to be honest we can probably last 10 days or so on that. No pets and includes a box of beer - we don't buy "brands" necessarily

£125 average total over a week for all meals and snacks for 2 adults and 3 full days of meals plus 7 days of snacks for DD (she is fed meals at nursery on 4 days). This includes all toiletries and cleaning products, basic medicines (paracetamol/calpol etc) and a top up mid week (usually £100 in main shop and £25 top up). We don’t buy many brands but do buy some plus the ‘finest’ type ranges and can’t bulk buy as limited storage space.

Some weeks it is more or less but the budget is £500 for 4 weeks and we more or less manage it without scrimping. We don’t have cat food/litter now though sadly, so that’s made a difference. We’d be over budget if we did as we used to have 3 cats but lost them
all close together.

About £70 for me, oh and ds.

We shop in Aldi mostly (with a few thigns from the Food Warehouse and Tesco). This includes, meals, snacks and general household stuff.

6 months ago I was shopping for 4 adults. I could easily do a shop with a few luxuries in it for £120 most weeks. Then my eldest went to uni. Now it's £130-140 a week for 3 adults. No luxury items. Shocking price rises.

My teenager FINALLY grasped the cost of living crisis today when they came back from the shop and their favourite crisps have risen in price by 25%. Normally they would spend £5 on specific treats for the sleep over so each would get their favourites but now the prices mean they no longer get 5 x £1 bags of crisps/quavers/haribo. They only get FOUR. The SCANDAL !! 😂🤷🏼‍♀️

About £120 a week for two adults

Seems alot to me. We spend £150.00 ish. It doesn't include lunches though and we don't drink at home so no alcohol.

Genuine question for vegans / vegetarians... if you have pets do you feed them a vegan / vegetarian diet?

No. Cats are carnivores and need to eat meat, so we provide that for them. Dogs are omnivores, but still need a high proportion of meat in their diet, so they get meat too. Some businesses are beginning to work on meat free pet food. It will take some work to make a healthy equivalent for cats though. Humans are also omnivores, but with no need for meat, so long as enough protein from other sources is consumed.

We don't eat 3 meals a day.
The boys have toast for breakfast, and ds15 gets school lunch money "on his finger" for the free school meals, but it's use it or lose it, so 2 days he has to try and spend it at break or he's too late, and the canteen prices and selection are such that he basically gets a muffin or flapjack and a hot drink. He gets standard school meal amount govt allow, but the school are under no obligation to provide affordable or "proper" food for that anount.
We all eat a main meal later on.

£50 a week for 2 adults.

I shop in Aldi, meal plan and batch cook. We do eat the same thing (pork stew, chickpea Caribbean curry, chicken pesto with cous cous) a few days in a row which helps keep costs down, and the main bulk of meals is vegetables and beans/lentils.

So, what does the 18yo eat?

What is a typical food day?

Toast for breakfast and whatever we have for tea. He is at sixth form and although he gets a bus pass for his travel, his so called "food bursary" which they said he would get because he'd had fsm in yr 11 never materialised (and would have been less than £2 a day anyway so would have got him a hot drink or crisps etc) We filled in the application four times, supplied all the info, but it just never happened.

£260 a week. That’s for 2 adults, 2 primary school children.

non drinkers, no pets, no toiletries in that.

it does include cleaning stuff.

all done at Ocado

£50 a week for 2 adults and 2 kids (does not include pet food, toiletries, cleaning supplies. Literally just food)

We shop between Aldi/Lidl and eat well.

To keep costs down I never buy frozen potato products like waffles or oven chips. Just a large sack of potatoes for £3 which lasts all week making chips a d mash.

I mostly cook homemade and we eat meat every meal- roast dinners, sausage egg and chips, chicken wraps, cottage pie, lasagne, pasta bake etc.

This includes Lunches and breakfasts too.

BUT my children go to their dads every weekend and I eat at work so the £50 a week is effectively for 5 days food out of 7

About £200 a week. 4 people eating adult portions, 1 teenager. 1cat. Shop at Tesco.
That includes all household stuff, alcohol and pet food. All meals for a week. We don't eat out or get take aways.

I could do it cheaper, but we can afford it and we like food. When we earned less I spent less.