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.

Ours is around £300 per week online shop. It’s sometimes a bit more or less depending on how much ~~wine~~ toilet roll and detergent etc. We are a family of five almost adults plus pets but dog food is extra as bought elsewhere. Also one child buys school lunch so that’s approx £60 per month and maybe an extra £10 per week on top up stuff so around £1300 a month. I buy bulk pasta and own brand stuff mainly but do “waste” money on alcohol as we like it sometimes.

Good response!

I put some in my pink gin and tonic last night!

Berries in drinks are an abomination

I haven’t worked it out because I’m trying not to think about it, it’s just got so mad. Every single time I’m in the supermarket things have gone up, week on week. I walk round in disbelief half the time.
We can afford it, but I really feel for those who can’t. It’s actually scary.

Agree completely, my 2 are 16 and 18. DS1 literally empties the kitchen cupboard when he gets home from 6th form. And that's just his afternoon snack before a giant dinner.

Regarding berries, we planted a strawberry patch in our small garden as well as some extra plants in pots. Each year we take runners to make new plants. We also have a small area of raspberry canes. We eat our berries in June and July when they are in season and love picking them fresh every day from outside the back door. The rest of the year we eat apples, oranges, bananas and pears. I never buy berries from the supermarket.

2 adults and 3 kids, all boys ages 14/10/7 - Spend 650-750 a month and that includes everything at different shops and takeaways. I keep a spreadsheet and input everything at the end of each week. We used to spend more than this sometimes, even before prices shooting up. I keep a tighter rein on things if I can see what I’m spending. Couple of freezer meals a week and kids all have packed lunches. Aside from that I cook from scratch or have the odd meal from leftovers I’ve frozen. I try not to waste anything and I plan meals from what we have in. 2 of my boys are autistic so a lot of their meals are repeated which makes it easier if I batch cook. Gone are the days where I budgeted £100 a week for food 😬🥴

Raspberries are middle class now?!

Actually they're aspirational.

Fifteen years ago nobody bothered with berries. Now they're indispensable.
https://aeon.co/ideas/conspicuous-consumption-is-over-its-all-about-intangibles-now

Family of 5 here. Spend £150-180 in aldi and top up £20 inbetween. Horrendous. And no we don't live on caviar!

This thread reminds me a bit of slimming coaches I have had who advise their classes to cut out cheese and fruit to save calories even though the plan they work for "doesn't count calories."

I never took that advice. I thought the nutritional cost was too high.

I can't afford to be ill or break my bones easily through osteoporosis.

My understanding of good nutrition does include berries, nuts and seeds.

(I don't drink, but the frozen raspberries from Iceland are lovely in Prosecco I'm told.)

That was really interesting, thank you, but it didn't exactly say that, did it?

I would say that being able to invest in health, pensions and education is a luxury not everyone can afford.

Many Americans live in food deserts and might never even see a raspberry.

I'm going to try and grow my own this year but I suppose gardens are becoming aspirational in this country too, with so many children growing up in flats.

I buy berries because I like berries and because I can afford to buy things I like. My autistic son doesn’t eat any fruit except strawberries, so I buy them for him too. I don’t think he’s aspiring to be middle class (he’s 4 and non verbal).

I always thought spending a larger proportion of your income on food was a lower income thing.

I thought the well you do donated to charity in order to evade the pension contribution caps, send their kids to fee paying schools, and have very good private healthcare and dentists.

But no, in Brexit Britain, berries and seeds are luxury items now.

How many punnets of raspberries a week is the equivalent cost of sending your child for to Eton for a year?

300 punnets a week for a year?

More?

Fucking fruit is "aspirational" in this country now.

Jesus wept.

I buy berries for my hens and throw them liberally about my garden, does that put me in oligarch territory then? 😂

The OP spends £1200 a month on food. I spend £400. The OP spends £9.6k more a year on food than I do. That is a staggering amount. I do spend my children to private school but I wouldn't be able to afford it if I was spending that much on food!

Our nearest fee paying school is £7000 per child per term. (Breakfast club, supper club and medical insurance extra)

Since I'm not paying that I can afford £2.20 for a punnet of flipping raspberries.

I spend about £550 a month on food. Family of 5, DS's 4, 8 and 13. All they do is eat. This time last year I could do our weekly shop for £90. It's awful, we really can't afford to go higher than that.

Same. Around £850 for a family of 3

Is £500 a month normal for 2 adults?? We shop at Sainsbury’s. I was told that excessive

Sounds excessive to me

Sounds normal to me @Ourbabs