Just had a shock, how much do you spend on groceries a month?

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For March so far not including tomorrow’s shopping delivery of £230, I have spend £970 on groceries this month. Including tomorrows shop the last of the month the grand total will be £1200! Wtf this time last year it was about half that amount.
How much are you all spending? We are a family of 5 the 3 kids are aged between 11-16.

2 adults at home full-time, adult DS at university, so here from time to time. I have been bearing down hard on groceries and since Christmas am keeping it to about £80 -£100 a week, which includes cleaning products and basic toiletries (so not the majority of my skincare, and DH buys his own razors). We also have a dog, and his food is not included in that bill. And DH buys lunches at work out of his own account.

However, I do also top up DS with extra groceries and toiletries when he runs short. And, for complicated reasons of her own, my mum is always pressing £20 into my hand. When she does this, I have taken to running to Waitrose/M&S for some nice, ready-to-cook things, or posher biscuits or puddings, because keeping the food bills down can get bloody boring!

About £500 for two adults. That includes booze, from Waitrose! What the hell are you eating?

£500 a month approx. 2 adults, 1 toddler

We don’t really buy any of the snacks you listed.
I try and bake once a week with Ds which he likes so we have some kind of cake or biscuits each week.
Usually seasonal ie I wouldn’t make a strawberry cheesecake in January unless I had lots of leftover strawberries from our garden frozen, it would be say apple muffins.

We buy a variety of fruit and veg, but I wouldn’t buy every type every week. Ie this week we had apples, bananas, grapes and melon (Ds takes cut fruit to nursery also), and we had mixed frozen berries with our waffles and Greek yogurt for weekend breakfast. Homemade waffles or pancakes btw are super cheap, and can make much healthier.
Today I topped up fruit and bought more apples and strawberries this time.

I don’t tend to buy any chocolate or crisps etc unless it’s an event like Easter or birthday party.

Toddler snacks on toast with cream cheese, breadsticks, variety of fruit, cubes cheese, Greek yogurt. Plus anything we baked that week.

scones are a super cheap and easy bake with children. Can make sweet or savory options.

Including cleaning products, toiletries and alcohol, just for me 170pcm. I'm vegetarian. I could get that down, but only by spending more time and petrol doing the shopping and I quite like the balance where it is. I grab yellow sticker stuff whenever I can. I shop locally most of the time. I don't wash clothes, beddings and towels all that often by MN standards and I use soapnuts, which are very economical.

The price of everything keeps going up, so I buy fewer nice treats and eat more and more plainly. Still, blue passports and sovereignty and all that shit. Don't mind me, I'll be a in corner, gnawing a turnip.

March for 2 adults inc eating out £600.

I had to laugh at the "surprise rise" in inflation 2 weeks ago as a result of rising food costs. Only the rich economists and government ministers could possibly be surprised. the rest of us have been dealing with rising food costs for months.

We are in the lucky position that it isn't a crisis that the costs have gone up. But we have absolutely 100% noticed them going up.

Wankers.

About £200 now - 2 adults and a hollow-legged teenager. I could trim that though.

I agree! No.surprise to anyone who has a budget to work to.

Also.makes me nervous when they talk of near future forecasts. If they can't see the bleedin obvious are those forecasts worth giving any weight to at all

6 of us, plus an animal.
Just went through my online orders, for March I have spent £688 which is better than I thought

I've just checked. I've spent £300 for March for me, one 12yo and a cat. That includes toiletries etc

Family of 3 and around £800+ including cleaning/laundry and basic toiletry items

£250 - £300 for 2 adults.

@gogohmm yes all the fruit gets eaten every week, sometimes I have to get a bit more for the last days packed lunches. There is 5 of us eating it though and I only buy the extra special berries when they are out of season as the ordinary ones taste of cotton wool.

The cupboard snacks don’t get eaten all in one week I just like to a big variety and the dc to have access to them so they aren’t seen as a treat or a big deal because they are always there. The dc have crisps at lunch, fruit after school and then a chocolate, ice cream like a feast or a waffle and a scoop of ice cream after dinner. Dh takes a few snacks to work each day as does four 13 hour shifts and I obviously get biscuits and stuff out when people pop in for coffee.

We can afford the bill I was just shocked it had risen so much. I am very lucky in the fact the the dc will eat whatever is put in front of them so like to buy and cook a variety of things.

I spend about half of that for me, DH and 18 year old GS. I thought that was bad.

I spend half of that but I only have porridge for cereal. I don't buy milk. I tend not to buy soft drink or junk food.

In March we have spent - 398.43 on food shopping (household of four). Toiletries/cleaning items we tend to bulk buy from Amazon every three months (on a subscription). We mostly shop at Lidl.

Budget £130 a week for a family of 4 but that doesn't include lunches or household stuff. It's fine to stick with if I do a comprehensive online shop, but go over if we are out and about and buy snacks, top ups, Costa etc.

since last autumn, possibly before then, we rarely buy any fresh fruit or veg (buy frozen veg so very limited). Annoying when fruit is tasteless or going off suddenly. We find we’re not buying as much food for meals anymore and cutting right back on cleaning products. Even so four of us and struggle to keep it under £100 per week.

£500 this month, used to be £350. Although that did include restocking the freezer after running it down to defrost it.

About £450 a month for 2 adults and 2 cats. That's with me meal planning efficiently and eating less fish and nicer meals then we used to

Last few months it's been £200-300PM on food shopping. Thats a house with 2 adults, one preteen, one toddler and a newborn. I'm meticulous with planning and make sure we use up everything we have. Only shop in Lidl and Asda and use their reward apps. Toiletries/cleaning supplies are all bought in bulk 3 times a year so not sure how much that would add per month.

450-500 per month. Two adults and two kids. Chop and change between Tesco and Aldi!

About £500 a month, for 2 adults and 2 teens.

About £100 a week for 2 adults three children.
I used to be able to do it for £65-70 a week but everything has shot up.
I meal plan and only cook from scratch.
Dont buy branded at all.
That includes toiletries , just buy the cheapest shower gel and Alberto balsam shampoo / conditioner etc at £1 a bottle.
Typical daily meals - Breakfast is either cereal / porridge or toast
Kids get free lunch at school
Dinners can be spag bol / cottage pie / mince and potatoes / chicken stir fry / chicken salad wraps / etc.
Snacks for kids are bowl of cereal / rice cakes / sandwich / cheap fruit like apples or a banana.
Don’t buy any branded products.

I sympathise, fruit is a massive expense in this house too, I balance it out by trying to meal plan and be mindful of costs when cooking meals. But it's good for them and something they enjoy, and us too.

Try to see how you go by simplifying the other elements of the lunch and drawing up a meal plan so everyone gets their preferred option some days.