Weekly shop cost!

[Thehonestbadger]

I know it’s nothing new. I see these threads every few weeks but yesterday I had a proper ‘what the hell?’ moment. I sat and worked out how much we spent in supermarkets last month. Honestly felt sick when I realised. I won’t start this telling you as want to see what others are spending before I own up to ours 🤦‍♀️(it’s bad)

So my questions.

1. how much are you spending per week/month in the supermarket?
2. Do you do ‘big weekly’ shops or multiple smaller shops?

To avoid a drip feed, two of our household have allergies and one has ASD. Two adults, two children both in nappies and a cat. clothes (rarely for us mostly for kids) and gifts/special occasion items included in supermarket shop. I used to do big weekly shops but now do multiple smaller. Definitely think that’s made it worse.

How much did it come to?

I do my shop online weekly. This weekends was £154, the week before £198. Plus top up shops. Myself, DP, DS18 and 2 cats.

2 adults and we are currently spending between £70 and £80 a week - this includes toiletries, toilet roll and cleaning products.

On top of that we eat out may be once or twice a week.

2 adults and 1 toddler in nappies. Between £60-£100 depending on what we need. Used to be £50 for the big shop. Sickening.

Two adults - around £100 a week.

This could easily be cut down if necessary though.

We also spend around £50 a week to feed three cats and a dog, and that includes cat litter.

How you compare to others isn't really relevant as everyone has different budgets, priorities, dietary needs, family size, shop availability etc.

So if you've spend £1000 in the last month and lots of others say the same, it doesn't help you if you can only afford £500.

Look at what you can afford. That's the ultimate limit. If you can't afford to eat, you need to look wider at the overall picture.

Are you getting 'best value'. Using cheaper shops, buying offers, making swaps to cheaper brands/own brands/cheaper meals (eg less meat/fish, cheaper cuts, more pulses and seasonal fruit and vegetables etc).

Do you waste any food? There's always reports about how the average household wastes hundreds of pounds a year on food that they buy and throw away without eating, which I find very hard to believe, but if you are wasting things, can you change how you shop to avoid this?

I don't know how much we spend, because we don't count it, but we waste very little, eat a lot of cheaper meals and mostly buy own brands or on offer, so it's not likely to be above average for our household size.

But we don't do big shops or a regular weekly shop, but go less often and shop around, to get the best combination of value/quality that suits us and we keep a stock of essential non perishables in that are bought when on offer to reduce the spend overall. It's very likely that if you buy the same things from the same supermarket once a week to last the week ahead, you're spending more than you need to, unless you do all your shopping in Aldi or Lidl and you're very careful about what you buy.

Eg I see no point in buying a £1 item every week if you can get 4 for £2.50 every month.

2 adults plus two kids in nappies, cook most meals inc most lunches at home. Around £100-120 a week now (inc most cleaning stuff plus small amount of alcohol)

For 2 adults I spend about £150 a week.

I should add that we eat a lot of meat and I only buy food quality meat, not supermarket

march it was more than jan and feb
about £85 per week for 2
i was also shocked

3 adults 3 children , 2 cats and puppy , typical average spend 100/120 pw

including all cleaning supplies, animal fed , work & school lunches etc

2 adults one teen DD. £50 per week. We don't eat a lot of meat.

Roughly £100 a week, give or take. Two adults, one toddler (who eats like an adult 🤣). All eat meat, I buy a bottle of wine maybe every other week, doesn’t include any toiletries but does include cleaning stuff and loo roll. Also the occasional ‘middle of Lidl’ bargain 🤣
I would prefer to do weekly shops but I tend to need to do a top up of fruit, veg, milk and bread at least once between big shops.

2 adults, a 6 year old and a dog about £100 a week, last month we spent £390 over the whole month that include cleaning stuff but no clothes or anything.

Prob nearer 200

Mostly 1 big shop. Sometimes 1big shop and a few top ups.
2 adults 2 teens

Two adults and a teen. Have made myself plan and do a weekly shop the last few weeks. Cheapest £95, most expensive £130. But we don't drink, only meat is mince /chicken thighs. And we buy things like soap powder and dishwasher tabs, coffee in bulk off amazon. Add in maybe a tenner for top up fruit and veg. It's all a but grim isn't it!

I had a shock yesterday when we went.

£205 for 2 adults and 2 teens.

We didn't need washing powder or comfort but deodorant for four of us as we had ran out alone was £19

I don't think I've ever spent that much even on a Xmas food shop in my entire life for a normal weekly shop

Every single week it's going up and up

We didn't even need cheese or butter this week because it was on offer the week before.

2 adults around £75 a week, DP eats a lot so could probably keep the cost down and we are quite money savvy when it comes to food

Two adults, 2 kids - nolonger have allergies but still only drink oatly and one cat. We budget £900 a month. Usually £200 a week at Tesco and the rest on top up shops. I keep meaning to go back to Lidl but life gets in the way and online shopping is more convenient.

2 adults, 3 DC ages 9, 11, 14. 1 cat. Usually spend around £60 main shop at Aldi then £10-£20 on top ups. Includes cleaning products. DS2 has autism but none of us fussy. DSes have dinner at my mum's once a week. All take packed lunches every day.

We keep the cost down by: not eating lots of meat (do eat meat but often eg one chicken breast in a risotto, mince heavily bulked out with veg etc), pop to the Co-OP on the corner a few nights a week for 75% off discounts, buy value ranges, eat cheaper food eg apples not berries etc.

I have noticed costs going up, used to spend £50 plus similar top up.

@wtfisgoingonhere21 what deodorant are u buying that is £19?! 😳

I won’t start this telling you as want to see what others are spending before I own up to ours 🤦‍♀️(it’s bad)

Honestly, what's with this. So you want others to "own up" but not you. If you just wanted to read random numbers from people there are abou 398 threads running in last few weeks

See I just wouldn't pay that, I'd get whatever was on offer for £1/2. Not so long ago I paid £1.50 and that was a Branded one from Boots at a train station, so not the cheapest available either.

About £100pw for two adults and three children. 2 of the children are small and dont eat much.
Only one child has a packed lunch, the other two eat lunch at nursery & school. The nursery child quite often has most of her meals at nursery. Husband and I both eat lunch at work a couple of times a week.

2 adults, 1 teen and 1 dc.

Currently spending around £150 a week. We have been careless lately and just picking extra bits up as and when we fancy. I do think we could cut this down to £100 if we really tried.

Groceries have got extortionate branded items are ridiculous and completely unaffordable.