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.

2 adults 1 toddler, 100 a week easy. We are trying really hard to meal plan and take in packed lunches otherwise the total food bill was approaching 600. Trying to stick to 400 with no coffees/impulse meals out.

Wanted a KFC as a payday treat, and saw that a MEAL was now £10 a person. It used to be a tenner for the bucket!

I've just added up my supermarket spends since 1st March and it comes to £368 for 1 person......although that does include a fair amount of alcohol (including gin which will last a while), household items and toiletries, and a hefty butcher's shop order for a weekend away with friends. I take breakfast and lunch to work and we're provided with coffee there.
I've also been away with work a couple of nights so no lunch or dinner to fund those days and i've been out for lunch/dinner 3 times and had 1 takeaway so about another £120 on top of the groceries (I'd say that's been an exceptionally busy month for eating out though).

Bloody hell, we're spending £200-£250 a month!!! Two adults and a 1yo. It probably helps a lot that we're vegetarian, so no meat to purchase. We also don't buy meat substitutes etc, and just go for a whole food vegetarian diet which is naturally very cheap.

OTOH, we do only buy organic dairy and eggs and a few other indulgences, so we're not totally frugal either.

I do think, though, that if you have room in the budget then food is one of the most important things to spend money on. Eating well is one of the best ways to improve life imo! So I don't think it's a bad thing to spend more money on food.

About £600 a month, me, hubby, 3 adult kids (19,19,21) and a younger teen. Also covers cat and dog food for 2 dogs, and 4 cats. But, the 3 adult kids buy all their own snacks, sweets, fizzy drinks etc. And they buy their own ingredients for evening meals a couple nights a week. I always meal plan and stick to a shopping list every week, hardly ever do a top up shop in between big shops either, if I do it's for a bottle of milk or loaf of bread

I reckon I spend about £100 a week main shop then another £50 on top up - but that's for 5 adults. Bit more when youngest home from Uni. I don't buy alcohol though, bake any cakes we have and cook probably 4-5 times a week from scratch. can't imagine spending £300 a week!

I’ve kept track for about 6 months now & i’m
averaging about £1200 a month. 250-£300 a week which includes toilet rolls, soap powder, toiletries, some treats (no alcohol) all our meals (kids take packed lunches) & snacks & i’ve included any lunches out or take away coffees. There are 5 of us but it’s up over £100 a week since last year & rising each week as well as most things still going up week on week by 10/20p

Around £400 per month for myself and DS(9). I put in a virtual pot on payday and then monitor throughout the month. Approx £80 week. We don’t eat a lot of fresh meat just chicken for Fajitas weekly. Also includes daily greens (Kale, Sweetheart cabbage etc) for two rabbits. Takeaway and eating out is on top of this and I try to budget around £150 per month on all ‘entertainment’ and food extras.

Apart from too many (you said it) snacks, what else do you buy from Asda?

Can you cook?

I shop mainly online for 2 adults, & spend £40-£50 weekly. So far this month I’ve probably spent about £300, but I’ve stocked up on various things. We have whatever we like, but not too many snacks. No, a chicken does not last us a week either.

£90 a month for 2 adults, 1 toddler. But we only shop at aldi, and even then we get all the really, really basic stuff. Never got over the poverty of our student days so really good at making the pounds stretch.

2 adults, 3 kids 9-15 years. Lidl shop inc cleaning products, toiletries etc about £140/£150 a week. Usually top it up with bits from Tesco at weekend by £20 and may have the odd takeaway during month.

About 900 for 2 adults and a 3yo.

We do a big shop once a week but then we nip in the week a couple of times too, we are spending around £180 all in (so nappies, toiletries etc in that) each week, maybe slightly less, for 2 adults and 3 children age 2-7 (they eat like sparrows too!). It's ridiculous, we shop at ASDA and Aldi not waitrose or booths!

I should add that we don't eat meat or dairy either, so that keeps costs low!

£850 for 2 adults one 17yo dd 2 dogs BUT DH away for a week and DD away for another week in that time

@GreenFingersWouldBeHandy apart from the selection of snacks that I top up every week no not much processed/frozen stuff. The freezer is full three drawers of fresh meat I have frozen and the bigger bottom drawer of frozen veg like peas, sweetcorn, sweet potato etc.

After looking on tomorrow’s order I spend a lot on fruit, the kids eat a lot of it and like all sorts.
2 for £5 extra special strawberries
2 for £5 extra special raspberries
2 for £5 extra special blueberries
2 for £5 extra special blackberries
4 mangoes £3.60
3 packs of Granny Smith apples £4.50
4 punnets of grapes £4
1 water melon £3.50
2 packs bananas £2.20
2 packs easy peelers £2
2 packs of kiwis £2
1 pineapple £1
That’s £43.80 on fruit alone and it all gets eaten over the 7 days between the 5 of us and the kids friends which visit regularly. My sons friends mum asked him why he likes hanging out here so much after school and he told her it’s because we have better snacks 😂.

3 adults
£140 every other week for Ocado
£28 a week for vegetable box and milkman.
So just under £100 a week. Quite pleased with that, given I think we eat very nicely and don't eat out or have takeaway much.
Occasional add ons (eg my husband buys flour to make bread, and in the non-Ocado week we buy a bit of fruit) but honestly not very much on a normal week. Maybe 110 a week?

I would say thats alot of snacks. Mine have 1 snack after school (e.g a cereal bar) and thats it. One a day at the weekend between breakfast and lunch. So you could easily cut down snacks to just a couple of choices every week. Ice cream/lollies - only buy in the Summer. We do yoghurts, rice pudding or jelly for pudding too. Fruit we tend to have apples, satsumas, bananas. I buy more things like peaches in the Summer and they are often about £1 a punnet. The cost of blueberries/raspberries etc is ridiculous (for a tiny amount in a plastic tub) so I just buy them occasionally.

Where are you shopping? Fruit and veg is cheapest in Aldi.

The veggie box is actually quite expensive. It would be cheaper at the supermarket. But they are a local business that I like to support. Milkman also quite expensive, but I like the glass bottles better than lots of plastic.

About 320 a week for one adult.

Also have to say we are all out for lunch so spending money at work/school, that doesn’t include booze and soft drinks which we buy separately and we have chickens so produce our own eggs

About £400 for 2 adults 1 child, mostly shopping at Tesco, vegan diet

Thats close to half my half my shopping bill some weeks on fruit 😅 If you can afford it and enjoy a range of fruit, then go for it. But I dont think we could afford £43 a week just on fruit. That reminds me of the fruit on offer in All Inclusive hotels 😂

myself my oh and 2 adult dd I spend £100/110 a week most main shops are at lidl maybe one a month at Morrison or Sainsburys if some branded stuff or harder to find stuff is need

I’m astounded by what some of you spend but we’re all adults so no fruit is required just tons of veg and I meal plan and cook from scratch I appreciate I have the time to do that a lot of you must not

though don’t get me wrong I’d love access to so much money that I wouldn’t think twice about doing our normal shop at Waitrose Ocado M&S I buy pretty much nothing from places like that Christ I think Tesco is extortionate I must be really tight!!

2 adults but DC and grandchildren that come home at the weekend and empty the fridge with glee.

£200 Waitrose or Ocado shop, £30 a week Riverford veg box and usually 1 supermarket trip over the weekend of at least £20. I do keep our fridge/freezer really well stocked though and the pantry cupboard so I buy all sorts of random things weekly especially spices/cooking ingredients that last ages. I've also got some massive joints in the freezer for Easter that I need to remember are in there