How much are you spending on your food shopping?

[Supernova23]

How are prices STILL going up? I went in for a couple of meals and lunches for the week for just two of us and spent £50. I'll be back there before the end of the week. How on earth are people with big families, teens that eat them out of house and home etc, coping?

Not casting doubt but I'd love to see how someone feeds a family of 4 on £70 a week, ditto @Fundays12 We are a family of three adults and I take out £100 on Mondays, but realistically it's more like £150.
I do shop at Waitrose as Sainbury's is further afield, but it's still basics of a kind, can't believe it's that much cheaper elsewhere?
I fritter £10 easily on coffee and cake at Costa Coffee which I ought to knock on the head, also a £10 bottle of wine but still...
Would love someone to post a basic level food guide for the week to keep to though it ought to be easy - brown rice and tinned fish, soup etc.

About £140 a week for 3 of us - me, DH, and DS (not a teenager so not eating us out of house and home). That does include alcohol and household cleaning stuff. Not toiletries or dog food, though. We are fortunate that we don't need to worry too much, so I could get it down if I wanted to, I expect, but same shop this time last year was about £100 a week, so a pretty big difference.

I'm not finding the "budget" supermarkets much better value these days, either. We went to Lidl the other day and it was only £10 cheaper and much less convenient than just getting Sainsbury's or Ocado delivered. It used to be markedly cheaper.

Lots of people are saying Lidl is actually more expensive since December!

I spend £50 a week on food for teen ds and me. Ds also has school dinners.

I buy meat, dairy, fruit & veg, fish at least once a week. I don't buy brands though, or alcohol.

Prices have definitely been rising. I've cut back on biscuits/cakes and swapped salmon for trout. I've downgraded my coffee brand and my loo paper.

My weekly shop this week was 150 quid! 4 adults in the house.

No alcohol, no treats, no cleaning or toiletries. The biggest jump I noticed this week in my basket was tinned tomatoes (the cheapest at Tesco) has jumped from 28p to 32p in less than a week!

Also for anyone who uses Sainsburys if you download the Nectar app and shop around your offers (so if eggs have extra 100 points then choose omelettes) - I made £6.50 doing this in February! Was quite weird tailoring my meal plan around offers but it worked out nicely 😊

Lidl is so expensive at the moment. The only thing I get from there now is malt loaf for 75p!

About £60 a week for 2 of us.
And to achieve that, we're eating very simply (more or less student food), with meat in only about 2 of our 21 meals a week.
That £60 used to include salmon en croute, 'fancy' oven pizzas, a whole free range chicken, lovely salad/vegetables/fruit, and treaty bits like croissants for the weekend, as well as a scented candle and bunch of flowers!
All of that has gone.

I was finding it cheaper to use gousto for my 5 main meals- have soup on the other two days.
then do a food shop for breakfast and lunches.
so gousto with the discounts was 30-£40 and then I’d spend another 50-£60.
until this week-
I needed to top up toiletries, toilet roll etc. ended up spending £90 between Asda and Aldi on top of the gousto box.
and I didn’t even splurge on toiletries maybe £20 total with the £7 pack of toilet roll (18 rolls)
I bought asdas essential labels for most of my food.
teabags and cereal were my biggest spend.
perosnally I’m happy to eat porridge or toast but the rest of the family want cereal and don’t want to eat the same thing every morning.

i don’t see an end in sight for the price increases either.
once council tax kicks back in next month and the £67 fuel help ends I think I’m going to be stretched to my limit.

It’s gone from £110 a week for 2 adults 4 kids to 200 here for roughly the same. We are managing but I feel sick for those struggle seeing how much things are going up.

£47 I spent today, that's for me for 7-9 days (I try and inch the food shop out to 8 days at least which makes a difference over time)
WFH so that's all my meals but I only eat breakfast on weekends

As a treat we went to M&S instead of a takeaway only on pay days do we have one where as we used to have one a week

Was shocked to find the pizza meal deal had gone up to £12 used to be £10 and to be honest it was bloody awful, however £2 for a block of salted butter was reasonable

So far this week I’ve spent £65 in tesco £32 in M&S £40 in aldi and another £30 in tesco again yesterday and my fridge is empty…it’s freezer food for the rest of the week!

Aldi is actually really expensive nowadays…my basic shop has jumped over 35/40% and I’m actually buying less and less.

It’s cheaper to get school meals for the kids at £2.40 a day than lunch boxes (fruit & veg are getting ridiculously expensive and the list of foods they can have is almost as stupid as the cost of food) £24 a week on school dinners is a bargain now!

I can see major issues over the next few months with food and cost of living.

By way of money saving I’m making lentil and ham soup. It’s niiice , does three main meals before boredom
sets in. Ditto pea and ham with budget frozen peas.

My other £ saver is buying decent bread at £2 a loaf - fills you up and isn’t depressing.

It's going up every week and I getting quite worried. Two adults and two kids who eat as much as adults. We do like to buy quality food from reputable suppliers so could do it for less if we really need to. Currently organic veg box inc 18 eggs £20 a week and two Ocado deliveries at total £140-160 a week. Milk and juice delivered twice a week at £9. = £169-£189 a week. Mostly eat veggie. Have stopped buying fish and working out where else we can cut down before I switch to a cheaper supermarket.

Family of four - two tweens. My ‘big shop’ at Aldi is about £130 and there’s top ups during the week too. It’s extortionate.

@IAmMeThisIsI your budget is far from luxurious but I don’t think you need to be skipping meals on £50 a week for two. MSE used to have a thing where people shared their shopping list and others suggested ways to make the money stretch better; don’t know if they still do but people here could probably do similar.
(my family is bigger and my pp budget is a bit bigger than yours but if I cut out treats/booze it would be less.)

last month was 270 per month - divided by 4 = £67
this month 240 for the month. - divided by 4 = £60. not planning to go tomorrow

just 2 people with occasional visit from dds

We spend £50 a week for two of us, no takeaways or lunches out.

That's £50 for an adult and a teen boy. £50 for a couple of days is a lot!

Goodness, I’ve just had a look at the Lidl app as it tracks receipts… it’s about £400 ish a month now, two adults, one toddler. We don’t really drink alcohol at home but we all eat meat, it does include nappies, wipes, cleaning gear and some toiletries, not to mention DS eats an awful lot of fresh fruit and veg. It used to be more like £250ish I think. The kids eating us out of house and home already and we’ve another twelve years before he’s a teenager yet 😂

Spent £150 today in Aldi. Two adults, 1 and a 3 year old. Never used to be able to spend £100
in Aldi even with bits from the middle aisle and a decent amount of booze!

Ours is about £150 a week, for a family of 5, 2 adults, 2 tweens and 1 teen. Shop at Aldi with top up shops at Co-op. Very little meat and fish, a small amount of alcohol. Cat food and toiletries extra.

About £120 over 2-3 shops per week . About another £20-30 wine m fresh OJ
Three adults plus a dog that eats fresh roast chicken!

I spend about £90 a week at Tesco for 2 adults, a toddler and a school age child. Lunches for the adults and toddler as well. That doesn't include milk which comes from the milkman or dishwasher tablets which my mum picks up when she goes to Aldi. I swear every week there's less and less food coming. Last week £90 wasn't even 2 trays off the delivery van

Not casting doubt but I'd love to see how someone feeds a family of 4 on £70 a week,

I can do it if money is tight, it’s not hugely luxurious but nutritious. Porridge and frozen fruit for breakfast, home made soup and part baked rolls for lunch, I’ll buy a chicken which will do two meals, spag bol and lasagne with left over sauce with lots of hidden veg, egg and chips one night, make flapjacks for school snacks in packed lunch. My shopping is usually around £90 a week but I can get it to £70 if need be.

My shop is high but we eat loads of fruit and veg. I try and use frozen where I can, but still have fresh fruit especially. I could definitely trim my shop down by omitting a lot of the fresh stuff and having more processed food (we eat very little).

It’s awful really that budgets will undoubtedly be pushing people to processed food. I am gluten free too (and have been for 20 years before anyone suggests it’s a fad) I buy very little processed GF foods but do buy pasta, bread, wraps occasionally. This morning wraps were £4.40 for 6!!! I am making quesadillas. Thankfully I just do my own GF and the family have normal ones, then I freeze the rest but that’s so bloody expensive.

I really prioritise healthy/nutritious foods for my family but it’s getting harder!