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.

Just looked on my Morrisons app. About £100 a week. 3 of us, 2 adults and a full-size teen and 2 cats.
That's everything toiletries, booze, snacks, etc, but we have takeaway every week and eat out a couple of times a month. So food spend is much more.
Also the odd milk/bread top up

Family of 4 (5 when DSS is here EOW). We spend £150-200 a week on food shopping (one big shop and one top up usually) and between £50-100 on a takeaway and wine for Friday evening (ILs often come over on a Friday and we feed them too). We budget £1000 a month.

2 adults 1 dog. Between us on food, takeaways, doing stuff at the weekends I'd say maybe £150-200 a week. We don't go out to eat or out drinking very much so do spend more at the supermarket for cookiing fancier-than-weeknights dinners and wine at the weekends.

I am not saying anything new here- just venting- but it's mad how prices have climbed. Utterly crazy.

2 adults only (no alcohol as I'm pregnant and he doesn't drink) = £500 a month 🙈that doesn't include takeaways and we'd usually have at least 1 a week. I honestly didn't think we were that extravagant with the food shop but seems a lot compared to people here. That also includes an asda blue light discount/asda rewards which is about £10 a week off.

I bulk up mince with grated carrot and oats.
Lentil and veg currys
I use a lot of frozen veg as less waste.
Loads of homemade soups in freezer. We eat a lot of rice. That might help @apples

I'm not sure exactly but there's only 2 of us and we shop in Lidl so not too bad i don't think. Luckily the cat likes Lidl cat food. Supermarket shop amount varies because sometimes I have weeks where I'm eating down the freezer and barely buy anything for example. Get a weekly veg box with milk and eggs, that's about 15 quid.

We worked ours out recently and we've been spending £800-£1,000 per month for 2 adults and a small child. Shocking. We're working to reduce it right down.

Exactly this.
A friend of ours was outraged that our supermarket bill was double theirs (£120 to their £60)and said we were wasting loads of money.
I then asked what they’d eaten for that £60.
Breakfast? Oh the boys go to breakfast club so it’s just us two
Packed lunch? The boys have school dinners and we usually buy something at work or have leftovers, sometimes make a sandwich.
Evening meals? Two nights a week the kids eat at grandparents, one night we eat out or get a takeaway and one night we pick up something easy like a ready meal or pizza, that’s extra.
Snacks? We don’t buy snacks in the supermarket, if we want something we go to the corner shop.

We were not only making three meals per day 7 days a week plus all snacks from our £120 but also had two extra people and a cat to feed! Their actual spend was way more just less in the supermarket

I wish we only spent £120/week now! It’s more like £150/week in the supermarket and another £40/ month on coffee beans, cat food, cleaning stuff, loo roll, toiletries etc.

We find it more expensive as due to current house we can’t buy in bulk as lack storage that is rodent free (no garage anymore
and small kitchen).

Excluding the pets we are £600ish monthly for 2 adults and 1 DC which is toiletries/cleaning etc too but does include some wine weekly, £500ish if you take off the wine but we don’t spend any money going out/takeaways so that’s our only treat so to speak.

If we could bulk buy we could get that down further but we can’t. We also have very limited freezer space.

We are 2 adults, 2 young children. DD(5) gets school lunches free, DD(3) gets preschool lunch 3 times a week which we pay for (will be stopping and sending her with a packed lunch soon). I work from home full time, DH not currently earning. DCat has his own budget and monthly order from Zooplus as he's on a specific food type and weighs 7kg...

Our August bill for food, toiletries, household and cleaning products was £313. September's will be about £380 I think (have foolishly lost a receipt for a shop paid in cash, have assumed £50, I have vague recollections of it being around that).

Our budget is tight because it has to be. Thankfully we have an allotment share for all of our veg (and some fruit) and I cook everything from scratch including bread, pizzas, puds, cakes. Being able to do dried beans in a Ninja Foodi is a revelation. The rest of the family are pescatarian, I'm mostly vegan. Trying to cut down on UPFs, so lots of pulses, nut protein, and plain soya protein. I bulk buy toilet roll, oat milk, soya protein, sometimes flour, on Amazon subscribe and save where it works out economically viable.

Forgot to add, no takeaways and very little eating out, certainly not full meals. Picnics and snacks decanted into containers if we're out over food time. When I go away for work I take packed lunch/dinner and a fancy noodle pot I can make with a kettle, and an excellent flask for hot drinks on the move.

2 adults.
Dishwasher only goes on about once a week, maybe twice. (we buy the 100 tablet bags!)
We do top up washing of items we need everyday (like lunchbox or non dishwasher safe items), so there's a fair usage of liquid and sponges, but muktipacks go a long way.
Kitchen roll and toilet paper get bought about 1x a month.

I use reusable sanitary products, so haven't bought any in years.
I guess with teens you do go throughmore toiletries, but it is still not an every week occurrence!

My daughter is a SP to 3 teenage boys.. 2 cats .. one rabbit.
She spends about £300 per week on shopping.. including boys deodorants/ shampoo etc.
Plus cleaning products.
Teenage boys have very hungry appetites and all stick thin lol.
Ages 18 16 and 15.

Well obviously two adults aren't going to have to use as much cleaning and toiletries as families with kids. Our washing machine is on every day, ditto dishwasher (sometimes twice if we have people staying), kids have baths most nights, one in nappies full-time, another in nappies overnight so all the various stuff for that, usual wear and tear of cleaning clothes, surface cleaner, floor cleaner, toilet roll. We don't buy all those things every week, but we buy at least couple of them most weeks.

I honestly don’t think a 2-adult household is comparable to a 2-adult + 2-teen household. Everything is doubled!

I guess with teens you do go throughmore toiletries, but it is still not an every week occurrence!

You’d be surprised how much shampoo and shower gel alone can get used by teens out doing active hobbies, I think! Not to mention plasters, I’m always buying those.

2 adults and 4 dc (Inc a 16 Yr ds who eats like an adult) and we spend £180-200 a week. Thought it was a lot but looking at some replies I'd say we do p retty well

5 of us, 2 adults 3 teens. £800-£900 a month but that includes alcohol, loads of soft drinks (cans Fanta, coke, appletise) toiletries, cleaning products, birthday cards etc. Generally go to shops twice a week.

We pay all on a credit card with cash back and pay off in full each month so the total is right.