How much do you spend ?

[Justmeandthem]

Just has this conversation with a friend we both have 2 children
and a dog.
our food shopping bills are miles apart
I do small weekly shops and a big quarterly shop.
but averaging it out monthly I spend around 400-450month
this includes
cleaning supplies / dog supplies / treats / hair / soap
basically everything.

Easily that if not 500 to be honest. Things have gone up. There’s just two of us atm

Very similar amount to you - also 2 children and a dog. It’s about £80-£100 per week on the delivery but then around £20 top up on additional milk etc at the end of the week.

2 kids here, no pets. I reckon we average £150 per week.

We are 2 adults 2 kid and 2 pets. We spend loads more than you. Probably £150 a week.

5 adults - £100 a week plus milk and bread through the week.

What are you all spending it on?

I probably spend more than you too. We do one/two big supermarket shops a month (food + toiletries + cleaning products etc) and then will often stock up on bits that we run out off, normally milk, fresh veg. I'm not a particularly thrifty shopper though and prefer to pay more for some higher quality versions of some things like meat.

2 adults and 1 nine year old here.

Spend on average £100. That includes toiletries/household stuff such as loo roll/bleach etc.

That does breakfast, evening meals and snacks for all. Plus lunch stuff for me and dh (ds has school dinners).

Your post made me think, so I just went onto my online banking and added up my supermarket spend during August and it was £600+ which makes me feel quite sick. We are two adults, one primary aged child and a cat.

@mynameiscalypso yeh I’m not a thrifty shopper either
I wish I was but I’m not 🤣
I can not sacrifice weetabix for one !

About the same as you (albeit cat rather than dog). Friend with same set up insists she only spends £50 per week however if I ever text at the weekend and ask what's she's up to she's having a takeaway (fish and chips for us 4 would be £25)

I think a lot of people just don’t count some stuff in their ‘weekly shop’ budgets. And never actually track it month by month or over a longer period. So they’re under-reporting - not deliberately.

If not they just eat and use WAY less than us of absolutely everything from toilet roll to tinned tuna and whatever in between.

suppose it depends on what you eat as well.
I am not going to lie we eat 4 home made meals a week or at least semi home made with a bit of effort 😂

and 3 easy meals a week

Family of 4 (5 when dc is home from uni), about £250 a week. Butchers for meat, we eat meat at most of our evening meals.
Pets but their food is bought elsewhere and not counted in the food shop.

Me, 19, 17 yr olds, cat.

I'm on about £250pm spend on those items.

My weekly online shop is rarely under £150 now, for two adults and a cat.

I get a big delivery once a month for £100. Then i spend £30 a week on fresh and bread etc. 3 of us and 2 cats.

£200 a week, 3 adults and 2 young dc. No pets. Excludes nappies and some toiletries. Lunches for 1 adult and 1 child covered by work/school. We don't make a big effort to be frugal, eat meat every day, often get premium own brand and overpriced snack things for the dc, and spend a bit more for convenience.

We're often around £150-160. 2 adults, 2 young DC and 2 cats.

Just me here. I spend about 80 pounds. Don't drink or smoke- no idea where it goes 🙄

2 adults and a 3 year old - average around £70-80 per week

I also think there’s quite a lot of leeway in the ‘£100 on average’ types of responses - psychologically we’d probably call £107 ‘about £100’ and then if you x 4.33 that’s actually £463 not £400 a month, without any extra top-up shops that people usually don’t mentally count, so you could easily get to £500 a month when you only really think it’s £400, for example.

Easily £150 a week here for 2 adults and a 16yo and an 11yo. That’s without toiletries too. No pets here.

I spend about £300 a month for one adult, one child. I think I'd spend the same on two adults and a child because the cost is pretty much dictated by packet size? I have a fairly well stocked freezer because I hate eating the same meal twice so a portion often gets frozen and/or rejected by an ungrateful child.

£100 shops still take me by surprise though. I did one last week and, to look at, it really wasn't anything interesting.

2 adults, 1 teenage boy, 4 dogs, 3 cats. Around £600 a month

Too much.
150 a week.
20 ish a week on DS school food
Two adults and a bottomless pit of a 13 year old