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.

I dont count clothes or gifts as part of the weekly shop because they aren't weekly or even monthly costs

Ours is still £40/week, 2 adults. Alcohol comes out of personal spends.

Keep it this way by: simple but nutritional, tasty, mainly veggie meals, buy seasonal, on offer & reduced - large chest freezer. Never pay full price for bread. Long life milk. Value range for a lot of staples. I also use / rate Farmfoods a lot (mainly branded stuff funnily enough - some amazing deals). Meal plan & use up what we have in / hate waste.

Also, most employers have some kind of employee benefits / discount scheme ie. where you can buy shopping vouchers at a % off - you can use Morrisons ones for petrol (equivalent to 7p off p/L) and 5% off many supermarkets. Also take full advantage of the loyalty schemes where poss.

2 adults and Dd (16) in termtime have managed to keep it below the ton. When DS is home add another £50-70.

About £200 per week but that includes my ciggies (ten per day) & everything else, cleaning materials, make up, shower gel, meds.. I get them all delivered to the door.

Not sure of weekly spend but I know the price of everything and will stock up on non perishables if I see them on offer eg I don’t spend more than 1.50 on deodorant but would buy 10 at a time when it’s on offer. Same for washing powder. I buy the biggest bag I can of things like rice and pasta but always keep an eye on price per kg as biggest isn’t always cheapest.
I avoid buying expensive out of season fruit like raspberries or strawberries as we grow our own. Potatoes are bought in half hundred weight bags to last a few weeks / a month . We spilt a bag with my in-laws at this time of year as they bud more quickly.
When my children were smaller I bought a lot of their clothes in the Boden sale in the next size. They didn’t have lots of clothes or shoes but what they did have were good quality and could be passed on to their cousins. The winter coats etc will be going on sale soon. There are lots of bargains if you can afford to buy now and put them away.

We're 2 adults and 2 DC. Both teens and eat like adults. Our average grocery spend for 22-23 (we maintain a spreadsheet) was £715. That feeds 4, plus 2 cats plus includes things like toilet paper and cleaning materials.

I thought we were in on the high side but perhaps that's not bad after all?

We do one main shop and then top up shops as needed. We often try and "do without" to avoid a top up shop as you always spend more than intended.

For a laugh yesterday (not that funny in the end) I added up everything I spent on food in March, every pop to the shop amount, weekly online food shop… includes some toiletries and cleaning stuff but don’t spend much on those…. total for just March £914.19 !!!! 2A 2C

I have a monthly delivery from Amazon for things like toilet paper, teabags, dishwasher tablets etc If you have prime and order 5 different items you can get a 15% discount.

I’m too scared to add ours up. Especially if I included takeaways ( weekly 😱) in the total spend.

2 adults, 2 adult DC. Around £200+ a week now. Six months ago buying essentially the same stuff was closer to £150-160. I bulk buy stuff that will keep- loo roll, kitchen roll, dog food etc and use refill soaps and washing liquid etc. Don’t eat out much, tend to menu plan weekly to try to reduce waste/overbuying although that doesn’t always go to plan.

I have the nectar app and I was horrified to see a breakdown of my most bought categories on the app earlier this year - 20% of my Sainsbury’s buys were ‘sweet treats’. Horrors.

It gets worse, takeaways were another £236.96 on top of that!!! WTAF!

Oh and at times like this (Easter) when they have the veg wars deals on for 19p etc, we buy loads and store, prep & freeze etc 👍

It's becoming really overwhelming to do the food shop right now for me, my DH works so hard (he has his own company and more often than not he works 7 days a week) and I'm on maternity leave and I actually felt sad putting a bottle of red for DH back the other day.

He enjoys a glass of wine in the evening, just one whilst watching the tv and I felt really fucked off that we can't justify £7 for that when the man works so hard, as so many other people do.

It doesn't take me long to remember that people are starving, freezing and kids are going without breakfast and dinner in this country due to COL. I always pop a couple of tins of beans or a bag of pasta etc in the donation box on my way out. It's horrific the state this country is in.

3/4 adults (my elderly mum struggles to cook for herself now so comes to us 5/6 evenings a week for her dinner) plus 3 fussy cats.

We do a big shop at Tesco once a month for everything except fruit and vegetables and spend around £300-350. However, DS works for Tesco so we get 15% off plus any special offers so usually save around £60. I then spend another £250-300 throughout the month at Sainsburys. I try to keep our monthly spend to £600 but its getting harder, especially now we are feeding my mum as well.

Mmm i done cloth nappies with 2 of my children and i dont think i saved anything- washing powder,electricity to wash and tumble dry as weather is not always reliable,also adds more laundry to sort out etc.

2 adults, 2 DC (one in nappies) and one dog.

We do a weekly big shop of around £90 and spend around £10-£20 on a top up mid week usually.

This includes formula, nappies, wipes,
dog food, toiletries and cleaning products.

£1200 a month is a lot. Are you throwing away a lot of food? How much can two toddlers eat?
That's £800 more a month than we spend. £9.6k a year. If we spend that much on food we wouldn't be able to afford to go on holidays and we would have to cut back on days out.
I guess we all have different priorities. Or perhaps you a very wealthy and cam afford to spend this much in food and have lots left over for holidays, days out and other treats.

Five people about £120 at Tesco every week with top up shops from Aldi. Probably about £600 a month. Last year it was £400 a month. I think we eat well but it’s become more basic. Lots of peas and carrots as veg whereas last year I might have sugar snaps and broccoli. Fruit is apple/ pear/ bananas berries are definitely too expensive these days.

I do think more when I shop whereas I’d just chuck in lots of cupboard basics before. I think a lot of the food I buy has gone up by 50-70% things like milk,cream cheese, peanut butter, tinned pineapple, frozen pizza, broccoli, lamb chops

I have 3 teenagers, including 2 boys that are much bigger than me. it's shocking how much everything is costing these days.

Prices are really quite disgusting. You uses to be able to get 6 packets of Walkers for £1 when they were on offer, now they are £1.95. You literally can't get a single snack item for a pound now, when the shops used to be full of them. Mini Rolls were £3.75 at Sainsbury's the other day. For Mini Rolls?! again, I always used to get them on offer for a pound!

I think between two of us with spend £100 a week. We eat a lot of meat and fish, but I've had to reduce the quality of the meat and fish and it doesn't taste anywhere near as nice. It's about £5 for two tiny salmon fillets that wouldn't fill a three year old. Steaks are out of the question - not bought one since the COL crisis. So main meat staple is chicken, as this still relatively reasonably priced.

That also includes booze, as let's face it, we need something to look forward to.

I could cut this back and need to improve my fresh food wastage.

Around 500-600 a month for me and dh but that’s just the Ocado, not including eating out usually once together and separate nights out a week or weekend stuff

2 adults and 4 cats all with dietary issues so their food alone is about £150 a month. We spend about £150 a week including wine. That’s with very little meat, nothing sweet and a lot of fish and veg.

£105 a week but more around high days and holidays.

It was £80 a week a year or so ago.

2 kids 3 adults.

£100-£150 a week in aldi. It can be doubled if i shop in other supermarkets