How much is your weekly shop?

[MidoriNoRingo]

We’re a family of 4 and ship at Sainsbury’s. It’s costing around £170 a week and o just don’t see how this is sustainable, especially as prices are only going to go up. What do you pay and where do you shop?

We buy 6 pint bottles, lasts ages in our house. Also have a coffee machine so not using it for tea/coffee every drink.

DS refuses to eat any fruit other than apples and grapes, DH is the same so myself and DD are the only ones eating the rest.

We are similar to you op, we have two teens who snack a lot and a cat. Around £170-180 a week, including toiletries and cleaning stuff, sometimes with additional top ups of £20-£30. We do meal plan, but DH and DS like big meal's with lots of meat and wouldn’t settle for something simpler, which DD and I would be ok with. We are back at Tesco, Aldi was definitely cheaper but having it delivered is do convenient especially now Aldi have stopped click and collect.

*so convenient

Every single meal is meat heavy. That’s why.

We spend £50-60 per week in Lidl for two adults and a baby (baby doesn’t need much as she’s breastfed, it’s really only toiletries). We meal plan everything and probably have meat/fish 3 or 4 nights per week and rarely for other meals - though I love a fry up occasionally.

Nothing branded, use tonnes of eggs for protein.

We spend an extra £25 per month on dog food.

Family of 4 and average is around £150 a week for the big shop. But there’s always extra bits needed. Shop at Sainsbury’s.

About £100 in Lidl + Morrisons for a family of 4 (feel like the toddler should be cheaper than average but he eats his weight in fruit!)

Around £120 family of 5 shopping at Tesco, Morrisons or Asda. Whichever has cash back on offer through my bank!

3 adults. Food aspect of weekly shop is probably around £110. But DS is night shift worker, so we don't sit down to meals at the same time, so we could economise if we all ate the same thing at the same time.

I shop at Morrisons and buy own brand for most things.

£50 for 2 of us, it goes up when dd is home from uni.

Family 5, three kids under 8. Vegetarian and buy alcohol sparingly. Shop at Tesco and spend roughly £110 a week.

Sainsbury’s is expensive.

We buy what’s on offer and some weeks includes treats, others I pare it back (for health more than money).

80 quid today but husband wanted 2 bags of big prawns from farm foods at 20 quid a pop. 40 quid in Aldi.

Absolutely!

At 15, they are eating twice as much as you.
2primary does not equal even 1teen!

(1 x skinny DD 16)

YANBU OP

(I spend 90 a week, roughly. All meals are from scratch and no UPF, me, 1x teen 1xcat) For everything. I plan within an inch of my life.

What are your meals? We do at least two "cheap and cheerful" a week.

Always have, used to make a bigger difference than it does these days but it helps.

For example, sausage chips and beans. Pasta with tuna, cheese and olive oil (throw some frozen sweetcorn or peas in if you can get away with it). Scrambled egg on toast (with diced bacon for the carnivores). And so on.

Then we batch cook the more expensive meals because the packs of meat are cheaper if they're bigger.

@bibliotek a typical day would be:

breakfast: oats with fruit and nut butter. A bag of oats goes a long way. I also make a tray of baked oats and we have this for two breakfasts.

lunch: at school/work

Dinner :

Monday: Dhall, rice, chickpea curry, roasted sweet potatoes
Tuesday: Grilled salmon, leftover lemon rice, grilled veg
Wed: spatchcock chicken roast with veg, garlic bread
Thurs: leftover chicken shredded in a pasta bake with mushrooms and sun dried tomatoes, and garlic bread with salad
Friday: Takeout
Saturday: chicken curry
Sunday: out with friends

a bag of veg is entirely used up in different ways, breads or rice is used up as leftovers, I make an entire bag of dhal and freeze in portions.

a variety of fruit is also used up and goes into smoothies for the kids. I also make batches of waffles and pancakes for the freezer. Great for breakfast with yoghurt and fruit.

I think if you know how to use ingredients in different ways and pair them well with different foods it feels like you are not eating the same food all the times.

we shop at M&S as that’s the closest to us and we eat very well for a very very reasonable amount imo.

£300 but that includes wine, food for large dog and 3 cats. We eat well, buy quality stuff too which can be expensive. Family of 4 including 2 teens

I work it out over a month, so:

4 x £80 weekly shop
2 x £40 fortnightly fruit and veg grocer shop
1 x £150 Costco shop
plus £50 for bits in between

Total monthly budget from the above is £600, so I guess it averages out at £150 per week.

I always think we must eat loads compared to some of these lists. I mean 6eggs for 10 days? We probably use 15-20 eggs a week, more if baking.
1 cucumber and 1 pepper as entire week salad for 4 people?

Theres dh, myself and 1 fussy school age child who doesn’t eat huge portions, and we def buy much high quantities. None of us overweight ( low if anything)

About €160-200 a week. We cook everything from scratch due to allergies, and grow a lot ourselves in summer ( and freeze). No wastage.

About £120-£150 a week in Aldi. Including one in nappies and one in overnights. But they go to nursery in the week so only have to give them one meal (and endless snacks) on weekdays. That does include some lunches, some cleaning stuff and some alcohol.

About £200 a week for everything, food , cleaning products , toiletries and alcohol

Yeah I don’t bake, we rarely even eat eggs and rarely bake to be honest. 6 eggs would do me. Mostly used for lunch when I wfh and pancakes for breakfast on an sat/sun.
one cucumber a week is plenty as it’s mainly for dc. Peppers I use 2-3 a week.

It's bad for you to eat so much meat. If you swap to 3 veggie meals, you'll save loads.

We spend £100 per week, family of 4. This week our lunches are: eggs and black bean salad, avocado cheese toastie, tuna salad, eggs and kale salad, cheese and cucumber sandwiches. Dinners: chickpea and cauliflower curry, spinach& mushroom pasta, roast chicken, frozen fish with veg and rice, butternut squash and asparagus risotto, spaghetti bolognese.

We have porridge with with banana, apple or kiwi for breakfast, loads of apples, bananas and oranges for snacks, buy blueberries once or twice a week. Kids have Greek yogurt with honey for pudding and we also buy a few packets of biscuits.

Was about to 200-250 a week last year. Made a New Year’s resolution to finally get it under control. Tried meal planning, cheaper shops, bulk buying and freezing, searching for deals. All too much effort nothing stuck. Completely out of control.

Managed to get it down to £55 last week with cherrypick. That’s my best yet. On an average week it’s £80-£100 on cherrypick and that’s with quite adventurous recipes & premium ingredients.

About £100 for 3 adults

£200-£250 with top up shops considered in that price too. I shop at Ocado. Adult and 2 children.

This isn’t planned out meals to a T and included a lot of snacks.

Feel absolutely awful for anyone a lot worse off financially than me. How can they afford to live?