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.

I’ve spent just shy of £300 with Ocado this month (including delivery due tomorrow) and I spend about £20 a week at the butchers. Milk and bread and occasional other bits are about £10 per week. BUT that doesn’t include detergent and cleaning products or toiletries. Three adults at home.

So you do satisfy some of the points on my list then? (not eating meat, takeaways once a month, younger children ... )

Around £600 for 4 adults and 5 pets. I used to spend around £400 then suddenly it jumped to £600 one month last year

Cat food is extortionate .

I shop online at Asda, several people have asked.

Should say there are 1 vegan , 2 vegetarians and 1 meat eater who buys his own meat.

Oh and this might sound daft but find out where your nearest car boot sale is for detergents/cleaning products. I last bought some fairy non bio pods 3 months ago and we are still working our way through them with loads left and we do a lot of washing! Paid a tenner.

I think your money is going on snacks?

Probably a good £800 to £900 a month, for similar size family. But we have stopped takeaways almost completely (one every other month from one a fortnight last year) and my husband has been taking packed lunches instead of buying from the sandwich van so although our supermarket shop has skyrocketed we have saved elsewhere

I budget £500 per month for food, 2 adults 2 kids 12 and 9. I aim to spend £100 and are usually within £10 either side of that. I buy a mix of brand, shops own brand and budget shops own

Family of 4, I spend 75-100 each each depending on what needs restocking.

I think we spend about £400 but not very good at counting 'top up' trips to local shop and my kids are all under 10 (5 of us in the house).

I spend Approx £700 a month for 4 adults, we have 2 cats and this includes (packed type) lunches for both DH and DS.
The most part of my grocery shopping is with ASDA online but I go into my local town once a week to places like Iceland, B&M and Sainsburys for various bits and bobs that I can get cheaper there, or that ASDA don't stock.

2 adults, 4 DC - who eat a crazy amount. Spend about £135 a week, so £550ish a month which includes a bottle of wine and most of the pet food except the small pets that get it ordered separately.
One child has school lunches the rest have packed lunches.

2 adults, 1 child age 5 - we are about £600-£700.

We eat out and get takeaways at least twice a week (not included).

Worth mentioning that we only eat free range food so people saying £3 for a full mean - this won't even cover one free range chicken breast! We eat lots of berries, buy bread from bakers so a loaf is £5 etc. I won't scrimp on food - it tastes so much better when it is better quality. (If you need to budget - I get it, but I don't)

We’ve spent just over £500 this month. Online shop in ocado, milk and more, occasional top ups in local shop for more milk. Two adults, two pre-teens. We meal
plan and cook mostly from scratch. Meat, fish and veg, I think we eat well. Haven’t bought alcohol this month, as lots left over from Christmas, that would be maybe an extra £30-40 per month. That doesn’t include school lunches (£2.80 a day for one child, the other still gets free lunches), but does include all other meals. We were spending a good £20 a week less just a couple of months ago (although I’ve recently taken over the meal planning from dh, so could also be me being more ‘extravagant!’)

I think where you’re spending extra is the snacks. We don’t really buy them. One multi pack of crisps a week (for my lunch!), some sausage rolls, babybels sometimes. Otherwise they have fruit. We buy packs of bagels that do for lunches or after school snacks.

I spend about £800 per month for two adults and a cat. We're both at home all day so that includes lunches as well, but we don't drink, so no alcohol. I think I'm spending about £200 more each month compared with this time last year but buying fewer treats.

Just totted my March online orders up and it has been, including todays shopping delivery, £858.21 for 4 adults, one has a dairy free diet, all cleaning and toiletries and cat food and booze included.
I used to go to the supermarket todo our shop, but since doing it online it has been much cheaper. I think the shock of the running total helps me keep my bill down lower, and I am less tempted by what I see on the shelves as I wander round.

To ask an obvious question, does it all get eaten? If there's things regularly going off before you can eat them, or just languishing in a cupboard, that's the starting point!

Then trim down brands/variety of options maybe?

We spend just under £1100 in Feb in grocery’s and a few meals out, so are seriously cutting back. We’re two adults and a toddler.

March final total is £360

Family of 2 adults and two teens
(17 & 15)

I cook from scratch, buy seasonal and don't buy branded.

Honestly in my opinion you are buying far too much!

I don’t buy my children any extra snacks really, I buy what they need for their pack lunches and that’s about it.
If they need a snack after school they can have either an apple, grapes or some tesco crackers!

I do buy a 30 pack of crisps but they are only allowed one bag a day and I buy some 60p chocolate digestives for the biscuit barrel so they can have one after dinner but that’s about it!

I think you need to look at your shopping list, separate what’s essential and then see where you can cut back on the luxuries like the Doritos and branded cadburys treats etc, that stuff is so pricey!

This month we are up to £435 on food. That does include a couple of takeaways, the local milkman, and one Too good to go! It is me, DH, one GC that we look after three days a week and two other GCs that we feed after school two days a week. But that is supplemented with a meat delivery that we froze on receipt around two months ago. DH and I are now actually eating less as we are using 'portion caution' to help with weight loss as DH is diabetic but even so it's scary to see how much more everything costs.

£400/500 pm for 3 adults 3 kids , dog & two cats

I buy a lot of snacks too, treats for the kids and us!

I get the kids fruit shoots (Aldi equivalent) and little bottles of water. Sometimes also get them smoothies. Kinder mini bars, little haribo bags, chew sweets, party ring bags and little bags of cookies, yoghurts, pancakes, fridge raiders, ritz crackers and so on 🤦🏻‍♀️

My husband usually has lager maybe a 12pk every second week and a bottle of spirit maybe every 2 months.

For me 🙈 it's crisps, I can easily eat 4 packets a day. I'm trying to cut this down to 2. Also chocolate bars, biscuits etc oh and pickles I love them 😂

I probably spend about £20 on fruit and veg a week plus at least £20 on crisps and sweets.

We try to keep to 400 a month average but we do a lot of batch cooking so some months are nearer 550-600, others down nearer 250. We have gone slightly over that since the beginning of the year though.

2 adults, 1.5 DC (one a DSC who is here part time). Both WFH a lot so that's including breakfast lunch and dinner most days, coffees during the working day etc.