Has your weekly bill gone stratospheric ?

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We are a family of four - 2 adults and 2 DC. Last week we paid £260
This does include household cleaning stuff but still....
Just shopping at Sainsbury's and a top up at the Co op.....

Lentils are lush if you can cook properly. Had a lush spaghetti with roasted pepper sauce tonight. No stodge in sight.

Most Italians use dry pasta.

We’re 3 adults and a baby, we’re averaging £130-£180 per week with no alcohol.

Before lockdown we spent considerably less but we’re stuck at home and indulging in good food is nice 👍🏻

Yes definitely more. For one thing the cost of all the lunches has added £100. Plus the offers in supermarkets have vanished so they must be raking it in

And you can tell the difference between a tin of watery 30p tomatoes and a decent tin of Italian ones unless you have no tastebuds. I don’t like lentils and eat very little pasta which is just stodge. All a matter of personal choice.

Or you are a prententious wanker who likes to boast and wouldn't have a clue in a blind tasting.

People who can’t cook rely on expensive ingredients in my opinion. If you know how to cook and add flavour ‘, you don’t need to spend a fortune.

My grocery bill had gone up because I am eating all my meals and snacks at home now.

And because grocery shopping Became such a lottery I joined hello fresh. It’s expensive, but I live alone, and get sox evening meals and two days brunch delivered a week. All the ingredients are there, meat, fish and vegetables. I’m not a great cook and it means I have decent food every night, plus an activity. Work is really stressful so I have something to look forward to😊

I can't tell the difference between a cheap and an expensive tin of tomatoes. Guess that means I have no taste buds. But I'm the one saving £££.

I've worked out I'm probably spending £200 a month more... But..... I've been shopping at tesco as opposed to Aldi as its much closer. Hardly any offers on either. Whether thats to stop people from over buying, or they are cashing in 🤷‍♀️

I am a single parent of 1 child. I have gone from spending about £80 a week in Tesco to £150. I don't scrimp on food though I buy what I like.

Yes BUT we are not eating out, not going out for coffee and cake, not buying lunches at work, not meeting friends, not doing anything so costs are even.

£150 a week for one adult and one child?

Wow.

A few people on this thread need Mr Potato Head in to put hazard tape over their kitchen cupboard doors.

There is always a lot of judgement on here about what people spend on food. Not sure why people get so worked about it. What difference does it make to people how a stranger wants to spend their money?

Mine has gone up by between £30-£50 per week. I honestly don't know how my two eldest kids survived on their packed lunches at school because they're having full lunches every day now!
I can't fill our 12 year old up. And, judging by how tight all of his shoes have suddenly got, all the food is going directly to his feet!
I do a lot of baking with our toddler too, just to pass half an hour. But baking ingredients are the new toilet roll it seems.
My husband said we must be the only family spending more on lockdown than we need when we were free!

Yes, there are five of us here all the time now (2 dc usually at school and dh usually at work, me and dd are normally home alone) our bill has gone up by 40-50 a week. Dh not impressed. Stop eating so much then I told him!

What difference does it make to people how a stranger wants to spend their money?

Makes a difference to everyone if diet is affecting their health.

Unavoidable truth that no one wants to take ownership of.

@RedToothBrush well that's true I suppose,
but I spend 65 on a week's grocery's and I eat healthily but just Incase it's not good enough I spend 290 per month on private health insurance. 🤣

In the UK even if you have private health care there are plenty of scenarios where you'd still get referred back to the NHS or enter the health system via an NHS A and E...

Around €140 myself, teenage son and adult son wfh, think we have all increased the eating, when one is having some thing, sure the other two joins in. Doing extra baking, got my big freezer well down but then I bought good bit of meat on offer (Aldi specials) so back up the freezer goes again, ( no defrosting yet)
make our own jams, tarts and have 3 hens for eggs, no booze in that but fair few snacks, was feeling bit bold today so 2x2 litres of coco cola 😁, I will cut back again once we get fairly back to normal, same here in Ireland, no great offers and Lidl has stopped doing the weekend savers, just as well that they had their own brand 36pk wheetabix on offer before they stopped doing it as got 10 boxes that day and half price, the teenager eats about 5 wheetabix in one sitting, usually he goes to his dad for the weekend ( break for my fridge 😂) but since Covid he is with me 24 7, not thinking too much about it as haven't put diesel in car for ages, no eating out and keresone heating oil great price.

A few people on this thread need Mr Potato Head in to put hazard tape over their kitchen cupboard doors

And someone needs to lay off the hash cakes on a saturday night

@redtoothbrush again with the judgement. Big grocery bill doesn’t necessarily mean unhealthy diet.

Could mean expensive cuts of meat, exotic fruit and veg, premium quality cleaning products, only organic food. Just is the same way cheap weekly bill could mean onto frozen pizza and fizzy drinks.

I really don’t think we can draw meaningful conclusions from cost of weekly shop and health outcomes, Too many variables.

But I think some people just like to feel superior and criticise others😊

Yes we’re up to somewhere north of £200 per week, two adults two children. I don’t think that’s bad given it includes pretty much all food and a few non food items too like cleaning stuff, toiletries and pens/paper for homeschooling. Also given DH eats enough for two normal adults.

Spending more doesn’t mean eating more necessarily, it can mean (in our case) treating ourselves to really nice ingredients to make up for all the other stuff we can’t do.

Both the competitive low spend and high spend are v annoying on MN.

Mine has tripled. More wine, more vodka and three six foot teens who eat huge amounts and seem to drink gallons of milk and orange juice. one dog and a cat, a growing 10 year old girl who eats mainly fruit
I keep trying to cut the shopping bill but it's going up each week. I. Too embarrassed to ad it how much (and too afraid of reactions) but it is A Lot