How does this compare to a U.K. food shop

[Onanotherlove]

Price wise?

Went shopping on Saturday for a (supppsed) weekly shop, had some fruits etc already at home. I‘m looking in the fridge now and there’s literally barely anything there, certainly not enough to last until Saturday

I bought:

Brown seeded bread
parmasen cheese
snack pack for Dd
mop cleaner
furniture polish
window cleaner spray
mosquito plug
onion x 2
garlic
carrots
brocolli
cauliflower
potatoes
blueberries (1 small box)
5 tangerines
oats
4 greek yoghurts
4 small kefir drinks
2 x milk
mint tea (small box)
pancake mixture
12 eggs
400 g mincemeat
3 chicken breasts
3 tins tuna
jar mayonaise
chopped tomoatoes x 2
worcestshire (sp) sauce
spaghetti
4 x bottled water
fishfingers
yorkshire puddings

Total: €90

Don’t know about price but you’ve only bought enough for about 4 family main meals (assuming 2 adults and a child) so no I wouldn’t expect it to last a week. Price will entirely depend on brands and place of shopping

I reckon that would total less than £50 from Aldi here (not counting the mosquito plug as they don't sell them and the Kefir drinks cos i dont know wtf that is)

@VanCleefArpels I realised that, but can stretch it to five, if having a very simple omelette/egg on toast meal one of the evenings as we’re out for ballet etc. But it’s rubbish, not enough proper meals, I’m finding it more and more. This is at an average supermarket, probably equivalent to a Tescos. Lidl here is not much different price wise to this

I spent £100 at the weekend and the fridge looks empty already...

How much were the cleaning products and mosquito plug, that might skew things?

@idontlikealdi Exactly the same here each week now. I got own brand cleaning items, so b cheap, mozzie plug is probably around €7/8

I live in Italy (do you, OP?) and when I go to the UK I find these comparisons at British supermarkets (usually ASDA or Tesco):

Fruit and Veg cheaper in UK but faster to go off due to refrigeration.
Meat same but more choice.
Bread cheaper but lower quality.
Milk cheaper and better quality. I buy UHT in Italy, Jersey whole milk in UK.
Cheese and yoghurt more expensive and soooo much gimmicky stuff like fruit shoots.
Snacks and cereals, same.
Anything “Italian Style” is obviously more expensive, including pasta and coffee.
Frozen food is really exciting with so much variety in price and quality.
Alcohol way more expensive. I just don’t buy it.

So I’d expect your shop to be about 10% more expensive in the UK.
M&S can be surprisingly good value and convenient to cook.
LIDL is LIDL wherever you go!

Presumably you meant mince rather than mincemeat which nowadays doesn't have any meat in it (apart from the suet)?

No that isn't enough for presumably 3 people for a week. I can see main meals based on 1) mince 2) chicken breasts 3) tuna 4) fish fingers 5) cheese 6) eggs but you're a bit short on accompaniments and lunch/breakfast. It looks much the same price as here. You'd have been better off buying flour and extra milk rather than the pancake mix and yorkshire puddings, but that's not going to transform things.

Since you queried it - Wor cester shire (cester = castle, shire = county).

Not sure where you are but when I was in France last year, the supermarkets seemed pretty expensive for most things compared to the UK. The only thing that was significantly cheaper was wine.

That cost wouldn't necessarily surprise me. I think it's because you've bought cleaning supplies and some more expensive convenience foods (bottled water, individual yoghurts, pancake mix). Cleaning supplies are expensive. But there's not loads of basic meal ingredients in there. That would at a push be about 3 days worth of food for us, if we already had basics and snacks at home.

Well I shop from a meal plan for this reason. I couldn’t just buy random stuff and hope to feed us all for a week. You do have a lot of cleaning and household products in there though . And I’m confused at the pancake mixture when you’ve already bought eggs, packet mix stuff is such poor value for money.
But yes I think you could easily spend that much on that shop in UK.

Granted I don't buy some of this stuff but without looking at your total I tallied up to £80
But wasn't sure what mop cleaner was or a snack pack
you also don't state volumes or if there are any brands in there.

Depending on sizes and quality of food, about 60 pounds I would think.

Im an Aldi shopper and would guess around £55-£60

About £60. But it could be a lot more depending on quantity and I wasn't sure what a few of them were.
I spend £120-130 a week for 5 of us. I don't buy many cleaning products, I dilute multi purpose cleaner and use it on everything.

I'm not in the UK, but I do a big food shop once a month for DD who is at university in the UK. I use Ocado and spend about £100. She then tops up and says she spends about £25 a week for fresh stuff.

Here, I spend (for two of us) probably €20-30 a day. More if we eat fish. Cheese here is astronomical - 100g will be €4-5. Meat is slightly more expensive than what I pay for DD at Ocado but inferior quality.

I got to £70 - so €80.
But no idea what some of the items are, so just had to guess!

We spend £220ish for a family of 4 ( 2 giant sport playing teens) a week in the UK - it’s ridiculous. We spend a good part of the year in our house in Europe - it now costs the same for a shop there. The days of Europe being a cheaper option are long gone, restaurants cost the same too.

I got something pretty similar to yours £62

I live in Italy and mostly agree, although I sometimes think in Italy, meat is more expensive (especially when considering there’s not really such a thing as free-range pork here).

I used to think the UK was way cheaper, but since my last visit have realised that they’re now about the same - inflation has really hit hard!

We do a £100 shop every week with a veg/fruit box delivery. Every Friday.
By Monday I feel like the fridge is empty and we are chucking dinner together from tins/freezer.
It's insane.

I meal plan and allow £30 per adult per week for food. I cook from scratch and don't buy gimmicky stuff or alcohol.

So £60 for two of us this week got;
Chicken breasts
beef mince
Fresh Trout
Pork steaks
Breaded haddock
Two basic pizzas
cheese
A big bag of assorted veg
Good quality bread
wholemeal pasta
brown rice
4pts milk,
butter

I already had coffee, couscous, frozen sweet corn, tinned tomatoes & olives in the cupboard.

I buy mostly from Tesco, bread and fish from Waitrose.

I'm in Ireland and food shop every 3 days or so. I buy a lot of reduced price food items from our local Supervalu to freeze or eat fairly soon as they usually have at least 2-3 days to go on them. They're usually reduced by 50%.

DH also cooks fresh food for the dog in the pressure cooker using reduced priced beef mince and sausages in the mix.

We recently spent a couple of months in Spain and I was shocked at the supermarket prices (and the quality of lots of the fruit and vegetables). Only things that were cheaper were oranges and wine.

Priced this up on Ocado's website as an experiment (obviously some guesswork e.g. how many fish fingers, what is a 'snack pack' etc) and came to £77 which at today's exchange rate is €89.82 so almost bang on the same.

Yes looks about right, but list your exact weights and sizes etc if you really want to know.