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.

So we bulk buy fresh chicken breast and put them in bags of 3 for example. Large 5% mince half it and freeze it. Try to plan meals. Buy clothes from vinted it'll be a fraction of the cost. Lots of pasta variations and jacket potatoes for example with leftover bolognese we turn into a chilli con carne and put on top or in wraps. But yes it's absolutely ridiculous we spend about £100 a week minimum for 2 adults 2 children and a dog not including clothes.

2 adults £350 a month. Used to be £600.
Ruthless meal planning.

We are around £1k a month (mix of main shop, top up shops, milkman and school dinners)

2 adults 4 children. One disabled so very limited diet (around £5 just for their evening meal each night).

Main shop around £150. Top ups around £50. So that's around £800 a month altogether.

Milkman around £70 a month.

School lunches £5.50 a day so just over £100 a month in term time.

So yeah all in around £1k 😱😱😱

Desperately trying to get it down eg some nights DH and I will just have leftovers or bits but then I've still got to do seperate meals for the DC which adds up.

Two adults
4 dc 17, 12, 9 and 8.
Two on packed lunches and dh and I have lunch at home everyday.
Between £280 and £300 every week that's with no alcohol but no top up shops either.

Just me and I allow £240pm, some weeks are cheaper, some more expensive so average £60pw
That's all my meals as WFH, laundry stuff included but cat food separate
I buy toiletries wherever they are cheapest, the deo I use is cheapest on Amazon and I buy 6 for about £20 (the sure max that's usually £5 in store)

Love reading all your responses.

So last month we spent around £1200
That did include a few clothes for the kids (when the 20% off Tu offer was on) and some new underwear for me and DH.

Through the month I’d shopped everywhere, Waitrose (literally just their allergy stuff and some bread), Tesco, Asda, Sainsbury’s and Aldi. Basically feel like a supermarket tourist at this point. I was certainly much more disciplined when I used to do one weekly shop from one place but DS’s ASD and allergies have made that impossible.
Whilst I can’t avoid going to multiple places I have a real issue with actually just buying the 2/3 items I go there for and almost always throw in an extra couple of bits ‘whilst I’m here’.

2 adults and one ebf baby in nappies, we spend 80 per week. Usually £60 on a weekly shop, 15 on a top up shop and £5 on milk delivery. V strict budget and we spend right up to the last penny but it's just about enough for us

Between £150-200 a week for a family of four...two adults, two teens

No alcohol and shopping at Lidl and Aldi

Both DC have packed lunch and DH WFH.

It's scary how much it is.

Ours will definitely go down one we aren’t buying nappies. We spend approx £35 a week on nappies/wipes so that’s quite a lot. DS has to have disability nappies and DD has had a lot of soreness when not using pampers. DD is close to potty training though.

We did also have one of our kids birthdays in March and a toddler buffet for 18 kids so I keep reasoning to myself that is why it was so high. (Realistically it only accounts for around £80 including cake)

2 adults, 2 primary aged children.
Around £100 each week and the only cleaning products that come in that are bleach and dishwasher tabs. All others, toiletries and toilet roll etc are not purchased with the food shop so not in this amount. No nappies and use variety of shops/greengrocers

Pre-covid (when children were admittedly pre-schoolers), we would comfortably eat on £50 each week so the increase feels massive.

We are veggie, fortunately no allergies and rarely eat out or have take away so it is almost all our food spending

I'm on health kick that has blown my budget to bits.this week, I spent £126 on our weekly delivery from Sainsburys, usually around £80. I also spent £47 in the butchers. We shouldn't need anywhere near as much this week, around £40.

Anywhere between 70-120 a week, 2 adults and 1 baby and 1 toddler, so still buying formula, nappies and wipes. This includes cleaning products and toiletries but it varies depending what we need. Also normally eat out/takeaway once a week so that isn't included.

I worked ours out the other day and it was £628 for the month for two adults plus £62 for
eating out!! Given that we’d only budgeted £350 I can see where there are some potential savings. Payday was 8 days and 4 days ago respectively and so far we haven’t eaten out yet which is really unusual for us. Have spent £162 so far which, again, is good. Going to try and hit the £350 this month.

2 adults 2 kids
Weekly online budget is £80-90 if it goes over I knock stuff off we manage without

Our monthly food cost has to be around £150-200 a month now. Two adult, two children. No pets. No alcohol. We’re definitely eating less meat and less branded goods. Lots of reduced items and the dirt cheap version of things like rice/pasta.

• a week that should have said 🤦🏻‍♀️

We can do actual meals really cheaply but its all the snack shit that adds up - I love yoghurts, crisps, biscuits, juice, fruit. All the extra bits are what bumps our shop up, but I would be really miserable on three meals a day.

2 adults 2 kids at secondary school- some allergies so gluten free bread, dairy free milk. We spend £150 a week.

😂
I think I might just start putting two lots through the till.
One lot for food and another for nappies/clothes/gifts…etc just so I can separate the two amounts in my head. I’m certain that would pull our ‘food bill’ down by at least 1/3

Two adults 1 DD3, no alcohol or pets at £100 a week including taking packed lunches to work. This includes household bits like washing powder or loo roll.

~£100 a week. But could be more now, I haven't forensically gone through our spending recently 😬

2 adults, four-year-old and baby in disposable nappies some of the time (cloth nappies days we're home).

We eat very little meat, do a big shop every fortnight at Asda and top up milk, bread, fruit, yoghurts etc in-between, cook most meals from scratch, don't buy brand names, DD has lunch at nursery four days a week, but even so our grocery stop still seems very expensive.

1 Adult, 2 Teens and 1 dog - £100 - £110 a week at Asda. Would love to cut down to £85 a week, I try with meal planning but it still goes over.

There's just me and my 7 year old (who I have half the week and every other weekend). I tend to do a monthly online shop for pantry items, coffee, snack etc which comes to about £100-120, then I do a weekly shop which costs about £30-40. Also a monthly home bargains happy for cleaning stuff and toiletries which costs around £25. We do eat out or have a takeaway once a week. So in total around 300 tops. It can be more than this if we're doing baking or we fancy some treats

2 adults, 2 ten year olds and a cat.
Eat out or take away 2-3 times a month

Monthly

Online shop at Tesco's - £350
Egg delivery is £10
Toiletries approx £20
Cat food £50
Top up shops are rare but sometimes extra milk etc so maybe £20

Overall around £450 a month/£110 a week.

2 adults, 1 cat. Spent £135 last night but that included 6 bottles of wine (Tesco currently doing the 25% off 6 bottles) and a bottle of Tequila rose, also used one of my 10% off big shop vouchers. Will need to go again on Thursday to get veggies/desserts/ picky tea bits for Sunday, and bits for Friday/Sat/Mon. Usually spend about £120 a week. Take lunches to work with us so no extra spent there. Usually get a few bits on top for the weekend, and spend on a takeaway on a Saturday.