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.

£720 plus this weeks shop due tomorrow is £170ish. Then £80 at the butchers, £40 on cleaning materials and £21 on loo roll from Amazon.

Thats for 3 adults and 1 DC but we also give student DS £60 a week for her shopping including toiletries and loo roll/cleaning materials.

A horrifying total of £1320 as it’s a five week month (send money to DD every Thursday).

@QuickNameChangeForMeToday you’ve made me fells slightly better.

£490 for 2 adults and 2 children, not including school dinners or booze. Happy with that - mostly vegetarian though.

Where on earth are you shopping? Does that include school dinners?
DH and I spend about £350 per month. That includes about 6/7 helpings of fruit and veg each day, and we are not vegetarian so meat/fish every day. It also includes cleaning products and other bits like a birthday card or handcream.

You are not doing anything wrong. Other people have different food habits, dont have teens, don't eat meat or don't drink.

370 average in each of last 3 months. Includes cleaning products and toiletries but not alcohol.

2 adults 2 kids but thryre only 7 & 4. Includes 3 meals a day plus snacks except school lunches for kids. Weekly big shop at aldi, top up in sainsbury as its in same village.

Keep costs down by batch cooking and baking, have big chest freeze well stocked up. Eat vegetarian at least twice a week.

About 350 a month. 1 adult, 2 children (4&7), 2 dogs. This includes toiletries, cleaning stuff and dog food. I'm vegetarian (so only little bits of meat for the kids on occasion) and don't drink. Kids get fed at school/ nursery during the week which I suspect helps. I meal plan and rarely buy anything over and above what's planned in apart from snacks for the kids (fruit, crackers, rice cakes, malt leaves... that kind of stuff). I suspect this will double once the kids no longer get free school lunches and hit the teenage years.

So -

Cereal for breakfast (small range available plus milk and oat milk to choose from)

Lunches - sandwich/wrap/pizza and salad and then eg crisps / popcorn - same for packed lunches or at home really

Snacks - pop tarts, toasties, toast and peanut butter, etc , satsumas, bananas (berries are a rare treat) , actimel

Dinners - vegan or vegetarian. Jacket potatoes and chilli; toad in the hole; roast; spaghetti and meatballs/bolognesi/ fajitas/

No pudding unless they want one of those pots of sponge cakes in the microwave

All three kids take packed lunch, Dh takes lunch and dinner (what we had the night before) to work as he works a weird shift. No alcohol as tea total, I’m thinking I might need to look at what I’m buying as a good £30-40 of that each week is fruit alone.

about £100 a week. 2 adults, a baby and two pets.
It was £100 a year ago as well, its just now we shop mainly own brands (and value stuff), try to be very selective and meal plan.

Wow that’s a lot! I’ve just added it up and we’ve spent £360 this month. That’s for two adults and three children (2 primary age and a 1 year old) and a cat! The older two do have lunch at school but me dh and baby at home. We cook everything from scratch and years of being on a tight budget means we’re very good at eating cheaply! Im sure it’ll get a lot more once they’re teens though.

What type of meals are you eating? Are you buying thinks like canned drinks and unnecessaries? Family of 2 adults and 2 teens is £500 per month on big shops, prob another £50 on bits.

About £250 a month, but we both fast for health/weight loss reasons (DH eats twice a day, I eat once) and shop at Aldi if that makes a difference!

Yeah, we're hitting the grand mark now that we have run down all the store cupboard items.

I found a receipt the other day from during the pandemic. The prices made me weep. A good wholemeal loaf was pennies not pounds, toilet roll roll was a fiver not £13, teabags, coffee, margarine, were all a fraction of what we pay now. Harpic for the loo was 80p. (It's 1.80 now)

I wasn't paying much over £5 for any single item. Now several things are over £5, and loads at the £4 mark too. That adds up fast.

I haven't got that kind of money to spend on food.
I'm a single parent on disability benefits. 3 teenagers and me (including dc with allergies and afrid).
This month I spent £180 including all cleaning and toiletries I try to stick to under £50 every 8 days. Cook mostly from scratch, batch cook, lots of casserole, chilli, spaghetti bolognaise where you can bulk out with cheaper ingredients. A couple of extra cheap nights like beans/egg on toast or jacket potato. Bulk buy rice/pasta. Buy things when on offer. Online shop helps to stop impulse buying. I think people often live to their means and for me that means a very tight budget with meal planning all meals and snacks. I dont have waste because I can't afford to waste food. Even a small bit of cooked chicken can be frozen and when there's enough I can use it to make a sandwich or pop in an omelet I suspect many would chuck that slice of meat in the bin/give it to the dog.

Ours is about £500pcm for 2 adults and a 3 year old that is mostly fed at nursery. We shop at Aldi/Lidl mostly.

Pre DD and CoL when we had money we easily did £800pcm at Waitrose.

We are about £80 one week then maybe £50 the following and so on. However we are both away for work a lot or visiting family. This will be the first month in ages we are both here the whole month so will be interesting to track expenditure. I’m aiming for £250 for the month but we will see what the reality is. 2 adults and shopping in Lidl.

About £550 including toiletries and alcohol for two adults and DS15. No one buys lunch, that's included. We could do it for less and then there are some products where we can only have certain brands due to dietary requirements. If I include DS's lunches in there then it's just pushing over £600.

Ours is slightly more I think, generally between £300-£350 a week, but that's 2 adults and 8 children. Yours seems quite high for the number of people.

Similar! That's shopping at Aldi, too. Teenagers and one in particular into lots of protein, so chicken, steak, salmon etc and protein powders, all of us like lots of fresh berries etc. and probably too much wine! If it were just us we'd probably eat more vegetarian meals than we do currently.

About £200 for me + toddler.

About £150 family of 3 maximum. I make lots from scratch or we have toast and poached eggs etc we don’t do a weekly shop.

Tonight is chicken casserole / veg is frozen or from the fridge and chicken was £3.15 and it will do us for 2 evening. Onions, carrots, tomatoes etc. and plenty of rice

Excluding the dog, around £700-800pm for 3 adults.

We’re a house of 1 adult and 2 boys (9 and 11) and I spend between £70 and £100 a week. We are mostly vegetarian, might make a bit of a difference.

It is getting on for £500 now for 2 adults and a dog.

So:
75 pw average at Tesco online
15 pw Milk and more
50 pcm Tails
40 pcm top up shops at Tesco express and co-op.
10 pcm cleaning products (Smol, Koh, WGAC)