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.

About the same as you OP, 2 adults and 2 kids (similar ages to yours) and 2 cats. It's scary how much things have gone up. We'd have been less than half that a few years ago

When it’s just my husband and I at home we spend £70-80 per week. When our 2 children are home from uni it’s about £130 per week. I plan all meals and buy exactly what is needed.

I suppose this is one of those thing we know there’s a lot of well off people on mumsnet and people could be spending £1000/ month on food because they’re on six figure salary and it’s a small percentage of their income so they can afford it we have £5400 coming in and spend max 10% of that on food and that includes all normal day to day food for the four of us and the dog plus an v occasional takeaway it doesn’t include socialising were foods involved

I am careful though as I said previously because were in the kids driving lessons and saving for Uni stage of life we probably put a £2500 of what comes in in some sort of savings pot so then taking away money for bills and for living there’s not £1000 left to spend on food maybe there will be one day but by then I’ll be so conditioned I wouldn’t know how to spend that much 😂 we all prioritise in different ways and have different peoples needs to consider and that’s ok

Between £950-£1100. Family of 4, two adults, a teen and a toddler still in nappies.

That's the same amount as nearly my entire income budget for the month!

Just don't have the option of spending more!! Although I'm feeding two people 5 days a week and 5 people two days a week and two pets all the time

my daughter amazes me she can do it for £200.00 for everything. toileteries, food, cleaning stuff . thats for 2 children 5 and 8 and 2 adults but shes only got a small fridge & small freezer, The eldest has packed lunches and the youngest free school dinners Eat well for less says i should be 75.00 per week per adult, half this for kids. that would work out at £300.00 for the adults 2, and for the children £300.00. so for 2 kids 2 adults 600.00 omg. ive cut down just buy what i use eg 1 tin of beans just buy 1 tin not a 4 pack this is weekly as i shop weekly but still cheaper for the whole month. dont go shopping when hungry dont go for bogoff deals , if you dont need it, want it or use it dont buy it but use this tip for everything not just grocery shopping. saves a bit

I think it's a myth that for a much lower budget your eating processed freezer crap. There is 6 of us, under £100 a week on food and £200 every 2-3 months in Costco. I don't buy alcohol, 2-3 multi packs of crisps a week between 6 kids. 1 tub of ice cream max. It's rice, noodle and pasta dishes mostly and a roast dinner. Porridge or hot cross bun for breakfasts. Eldest teen lives off Dahl as its quick for him to cook ( he makes it every day and eats it for every meal and then also Has cooked evening meal with us. We are mostly one pot meals and they are easy to bulk up therefore cheap.

Where are you shopping? What are you cooking? Have you tried watching Jamie Oliver £1 meals? There's 2 of us and we're about £200 per month

I can't believe how much people are spending. More than my (part time) wage per month.
2 adults, (1 eats an insane amount of protein so they cover that) 4 year old, 1 baby, 1 cat. I try to keep to about £200 per month. Other half sometimes tops up but not very often. A lot to bottom shelf products. Some are more than ok & very used to it anyway.
Includes cat food & cleaning products. The later doesn't cost much as I use 1 or 2 products for everything. Long live washing up liquid.

Hoping schools still have free dinners come September as that will really help with a hot meal 5 days a week for eldest.

I'm generally very stingy, batch cook a lot, simply don't buy certain ingredients due to cost & substitute them. Baby is now weaning but remembering last time it really didn't cost much as I made all the food & batch cooked that too for the freezer.

To be fair though if I could afford it I would spend hundreds every week as I love food.....I really do.

About £90-100 a week for three adults and a cat. We look for reduced items and meal plan. We also really cut back on how much meat we eat and branded items. I shop in a mix of supermarkets but not Aldi/Lidl. Waitrose is actually the best place for cheap meat as they have a meat counter.

About £400. Family of 4 and a dog

For all food, toiletries, nappies, wipes etc we probably spend £500 a month. Two adults, 4 year old, and 9 month old. We shop at Aldi and Asda, buy mostly own brand.

About £500 month for 2 adults and a cat. It's increased quite a bit in the last year. A year ago we probably spent about £100 less.

We can afford it, so don't really watch what we buy. We'll often buy fairly expensive vegetables (aubergines, avocados) as well at fake meat products like Quorn mince or chicken pieces. However, I buy either at Lidl or buy supermarkets' own brands for many/most things.

I've just looked at my credit card bill and think that we're spending not much more than the £75 per adult suggested by Eat Well for Less. I suppose it would be easy to spend more but years of living with four children taught me how to feed ourselves relatively cheaply.

We're living alone now as our DC have left home, but our budget was very tight when they were with us and everything was cooked from scratch. Our diet then included lots of pasta, chicken, fish pie, meat sauce in various guises, loads of cheese, jacket potatoes - followed by filling cooked puddings. Cheap supermarket Weetabix type cereals and porridge for breakfast. And certainly no ready meals, though some people suggest that many people live almost entirely on them now.

I have to confess to being a bit stunned that we're spending upwards of £600 a month as I can remember when our weekly bill for all six of us was under £100, slightly more when we had a couple of lodgers.

Today we probably eat more fruit and vegetables and definitely less cheese, but other than than our diet is pretty similar, except that we always have eggs for breakfast.

I should add that we would bring our food bill down quite a lot if we could go to Lidl, but there isn't a convenient one near us now that we have moved house.

You can't seriously think that the Waitrose meat counter is cheap in any way at all?!

Yours seens kind of low to me at £1.66 per meal per person.

£300 divided by 30 days divided by 3 meals a day divided by 2 people.

If I take out the £100.00 a month for cat food and cleaning products/loo roll/toiletries ours is

900 divided by 30 days divided by 3 meals a day divided by 5 people = 2.00 per meal per person.

That didn't sound too bad too me until I realised it was £30 a day for the family.

About 450 for 3 of us, an elderly cat on fancy food and a dog with allergies. Then maybe 60 on a couple of takeaways?

We have fruit and nuts and now and again I buy a multi pack of crisps if I'm trying to save on the fruit and nut bill

Other than that it's hoummus on toast or a peanut butter sandwich or something like that and I bake something sweet at the weekends.

We try to avoid avoid palm oil for the environment, our arteries and the orangutans so that knocks out most packets of biscuits you can buy.

What's this "eat well for less" thing £75 people are referring to? I

Probably around £600 a month - 2 adults and 2 teens. Had an almost £200 shop arrive today but it should last 10 or so days, and we cook a lot from
scratch which keeps the cost down.

2 adults, I teen and 1 primary school child, 1 dog and 1 cat £400 a month

Spending currently 150/175 per week for 5 people but having to really watch spending cut back changes to lidll and aldi and cheaper stuff all around. 1000 seems a lot but then j guess that's getting the nice stuff not watching the pounds etc.

Teenage boys will eat you out of house and home. Many teenage girls too.

There are probably bits and bobs you could cut back on, but they can be ravenous.

About £500 a month, 3 adults. No alcohol included in this as we don't drink.

Yeah, this is OTT.

Eliminate the smoked cheese, extra special ham, chorizo - ordinary ham and cheese are perfectly fine. Different special bread rolls are not necessary either - sliced whole grain bread works well and is filling. All those pomegranate seeds - expensive and not necessary. You could cut back on the fruits and sweetened yogurt and increase Greek yogurt and hummus. Baby carrots work well with hummus. The crisps and doritos - buy in bulk, everyone gets the same snack. Flavoured water is an unnecessary expense.