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.

That seems very high. Ours is £250-£300 a month for 2 adults. And we eat well!

I've spent £460 this month including cleaning stuff and a couple of bottles of wine.

We've also had two takeaways that are not included.
There are three of us (all adults) and DS tends to buy his own lunch 3-4 days a week.

When you dig into those you either find out that they have some or all of: access to a lot of free/cheap food; eat lots of meals that don't come out of the grocery bill (whether that's school/work meals or takeaways); have small children who don't eat much; eat a very simple and monotonous diet; don't have any meat or alcohol ever.

I spend less than you with 2 adults and 2 teens, but I'm very savvy about bulk buying when things are on offer, and I don't think your total cost sounds unreasonable (there's a current thread in CoL where a family is spending around £500 a month for 2 adults and 2 small children for another comparison point).

I allow for £240pm for me alone

£600

2 adults 2 kids but we’ve also had quite a few meals out this months

We budget £350 for the month and I thought that was a lot!
Family of 4 plus 1 dog, 1 cat.
Includes toiletries, cleaning products, nappies etc..

Thank you @OneFrenchEgg that is helpful, I think I am over spoiling the dc with the packed lunches after seeing you example. Todays lunches were:-
DC1: 1 Asda Extra Special seeded sun roll, with smoked cheddar and tomato. Pack of Walkers chilli sunbites, Greek yogurt, blueberries and pomegranate seeds, a pot of mango, baby cucumbers hummus and a bottle of flavoured water.
DC2: 1 white bakery extra soft roll with extra special ham. Pack of Doritos, a peach yogurt, strawberries, banana, baby cucumber and a bottle of flavoured water.
DC3: Ritz savoury crackers, cheddar cubes and chorizo. Greek yogurt with blueberries and pomegranate seeds, Skips, one the vine cherry tomatoes, raspberries and a bottle of flavoured water.
Writing it out I can see I’ve been spoiling them by letting pick what they want and buying three different types of rolls, crackers, bagels etc each week.

About £300 pcm for 2 adults Including packed lunch stuff and cleaning products.
Also get a takeaway or eat out once a week though 🥴

2 adults 3 children under 10 we spend at least £1000 on food each month. I shop in lidl, aldi and asda 😬

We are about £400 per month for 3 adults + 1 cat including all toiletries and cleaning stuff.

I have a good store cupboard which makes things easier as I never have to replace everything all at once.

That being said, I do have to keep a closer eye on things and put stuff back of it is over budget

I used to drink and spend A LOT on booze, now I spend nothing. H drinks minimally. Yay for alcoholism ;)

I don’t buy fizzy drinks either now. Just squash so that’s cheaper

People who say that are lying!

About £500 a month but that’s only for 2 adults and 1 5 year old.

About £60 a week (not including loo roll or cleaning stuff) for 2 adults, a 3 year old and 2 cats.

However, one of the adults has the appetite of a child due to bypass so think of it more like one adult and 2 kids 🤣

We're 2 adults and 2 primary school children (1 has free school meals as in KS1 and the other has packed lunch 3/4 days a week). I'd say we're spending around £500-£600 per month on our shopping (including toiletries, cleaning products, etc). I do our main shop at Aldi and then additional items from Tesco, with top ups like milk and bread from the local CoOp.

Around £400.00 for two adults and 2 DC (age 3 and 6). Last year it was around £300.00 but everything seems to be going up in price every time we do a shop.

Wow. That’s mad!! Where are you shopping? I’ve got ours down to £350 a month for two adults and a toddler (although he eats at nursery three days a week). That includes most of our adult lunches, all nappies and cleaning products. We don’t put booze on it though (not that we drink much). That’s a monthly shop in Asda with a 10% discount and top ups in Lidl and Morrisons

I spend £70 to £100 per week and I do not have access to “lots of cheap food” nor do we do take aways more than once a month coz I can’t afford it. I work at home so it includes my lunch and the kids’ packed lunches.

We are pescatarian, I think the most expensive thing I buy is an £8 half side of salmon a week, but the rest is vegetarian diet with no processed quorn crap. We don’t have a monotonous diet either. The only repetition every week is salmon.

We spend £350 a month for 2 adults and 2 DC

600 pm for 7 of us dinners this week are, tacos, curry, homemade burgers, roast, chicken & chorizo and a freezer dive, lunches are pasta salad, pitta pizza and sandwiches. breakfast offerings are cereal, toast or pain au chocolate. snacks yogurts, bread sticks, sandwich or fruit. Its nothing fancy but keeps costs down & kids fed, I don't want to be spending a fortune on food when we could be using it for fun.

2 adults, 1 6yo 1 1yo we spend about £150ish a week on all groceries- food and household shopping such as cleaning products & toiletries.
Shop mainly at Tesco.So about £600 a month, maybe abit more.But we do try to buy own brands where possible.

Yes, I cut the berries out a year ago - they go off, they are expensive and the teens are happy with satsumas and cucumber etc. They are all slim, active and not malnourished for it (they have blood tests (full blood count) due to medication, which is handy!). I also make quorn curry with chunks and left over veg and potatoes - they love it as it tastes like pot noodle 😂 (fry it all in oil and curry sauce, add can chickpeas and water with stock, simmer).
I think it's easy to make some changes.

Family of 5 kids age 6-13 we spend 350-400 a month. We spend about £40 a month on takeout. Includes all meals for all of us.

2 adults, 2yo that eats all day and a baby - we spend roughly £350 a month inc toiletries and cleaning products as required. Always meal plan and have a shopping list whenever I go.