Has your weekly bill gone stratospheric ?

[ladybirdsarelovely33]

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.....

Yes because I'm having Tesco deliveries instead of shopping at Aldi & Asda.
Can't seem to get AsDA delivery at all. Tesco is extortionate.

Yes has gone up loads but am also buying weekly for the local food bank and my cleaner.

yes, 2 extras at home plus shopping for DM, and there are less cheaper foods available. and a delivery/click and collect which I just keep adding to!

also no asda deliveries, just tesco

Two adults here and we have been spending so much more on food. I think it's because I have more time. I used to just eat cheese on toast during the week as I could not be arsed and was tired. Now I'm home and not working food seems so much more central to my life and I keep buying posh bread and meat and things I wouldn't normally.

Gone up here, mainly because we now have 2 children and an adult at home for lunch, who would usually eat out of the house at lunch. We also only stick to one supermarket which is more expensive - usually I would do the main shop at Aldi and get bits and bobs from Tesco, but now we just do one big shop at Tesco to get everything, and it’s more expensive.

Ours has gone down marginally - we went from 1 Morrisons delivery plus 2-3 top ups from Morrisons a week to one big Aldi shop done in person. I get lots of treats from Aldi too - considering a permanent switch to this arrangement!

Ive noticed that the supermarkets dont have many 'deals' like they normally do.

Yes, our shop is much bigger now which makes perfect sense as we've more than doubled the number of meals we have at home.

I'm also not skimping as my logic is that we're saving so much on travel, activities etc that we can afford some luxuries, and I don't want us feeling deprived at the moment. I'm normally very frugal but I've almost gone the other way now...

Yes.
4 adults all home for three meals a day and snacks and beer and wine!
Shopping must be hitting £1000pcm but balanced against two people paying no fares, me saving two tanks of petrol and not having to pay for dd's accommodation for next term.

We always used to shop at Aldi with a top up shop at Morrisons some weeks if necessary. I have a disability so we are all saying at home, since before the official quarantine period begun. Having to rely on deliveries, spending much, much more every time we can actually get a delivery. £180 a week on average for our family, DH & I and two DS 18 & 17. We are having some treats which are essential for us at the moment.

Yup.

I got too much food last week though so hopefully we can level it out next week and finally start to get the food budget back on track!

It's a combination of psychological (ohh, I'll get that just in case because we can't come back for a week) and the new store rules (no multibuys and not being able to back up and back to different aisles to check prices)

Really hope I get used to it soon 😅

The prices in the shops are shocking. I'm spending much more

Yes! I was impressed with last week's shop because I kept it under £200. Normally we spend around £120 a week including alcohol. I've been ordering wine online during lockdown.

Most of the special offers have disappeared. I think the variable levels of stock and the one way system makes me grab stuff 'just in case' because it's hard to meal plan effectively when some items might not be there eg I wanted to do homemade pizzas, the mozzarella and meats were way before the pizza base mix (no hope of flour here) so I had to take a chance on getting them because it is hard to go back down the supper market. I only really ever do a weekly shop and don't top up but the pressure of only allowing myself out once a week to shop means that I pile the trolley very high too!

We bought a bbq in the Easter holidays so have been eating much more meat that we normally do and are obviously all at home for every meal too.

@Fortunesfave, 'cleaning stuff' in many households would include items like washing powder or detergent, washing up liquid, dishwasher tablets, and any specialist products like furniture polish or wooden floor cleaner as required. They probably wouldn't be needed on a weekly basis depending on frequency of use / household size etc. Hope that helps.

Family of 4, 2 adults, 2 DDs. Ours has increased from £80 pw to £100. That includes everything for a week including cleaning but I use ecloths mainly so hardly any products as such. Also includes wine. We shop at Aldi and eat well. Can’t think what you could be spending £260 on.

Just DH and I in the house (oh and a cat who gets expensive prescription biscuits!)

We don’t shop particularly sensibly anyway, alway just buy what we fancy, quite often more expensive brands. Maybe if something we like is on offer, we’ll stock up. Used to nip to a city centre supermarket for bits most days on my way home from work.

Now, I’m doing a week’s shop at a time, so planning more sensibly than just buying what we fancy, but it’s definitely gone up. But then we’re eating far more meals in the house and I’m cooking elaborate meals with lots of ingredients most nights, when quite often on a weeknight I might just chuck some gnocchi and broccoli in a bowl with a bit of Parmesan and squeeze of lemon and call it dinner. We’re also drinking endless coffees.

Overall, though I’m better off. We’re lucky to both still be working and I’m no longer paying for a haircut every five weeks (today I’ll have missed my second appointment), nail appointments, travel pass, petrol, coffees, meals out or clothes...I’d probably have made a few purchases for my spring wardrobe, but instead I’m just wearing gym gear all day.

Yip my weekly shop has almost doubled. £70 ish to £150.

Buying beer that I wouldn't normally buy. Lunches that are normally bought out. And normally we have take away at the weekend or dinner out. So we are making savings elsewhere. But I think there are less offers in the shops too.

And yes we are going through more cleaning stuff to. Even the dishwasher is doing overtime.

No it hasn't @ladybirdsarelovely33

I've not read the entire thread.

Our bill feels higher though I'm not exactly counting.

For me, I'm shopping online as far as possible and I've found all the supermarket own brands sell out first so am having to buy branded more than I would, or sometimes larger sizes (but they will keep.)

Our weekly delivery is around £80-90 ( for me of us) including cleaning stuff and maybe 1 bottle wine or a few beers, and I'm cooking 99% of food from scratch as I always did.

I’m glad we’re not the only ones finding this! I know we’re saving on school dinner costs, work lunches, takeaways, coffee out at weekends (that was a big habit!), but our supermarket shops have doubled in cost! I expect it will balances out in cost overall but it’s a bit alarming every time we do a shops and we are not getting treat stuff really, just our normal shopping but more of it.

Yep, my weekly shopping has gone from around £70 to around £120, and I have not bought anything I wouldn't normally buy. There's not a stockpile in sight here. Most of the supermarkets are posting fabulously increased profits. Glad to know they are really in the "heroes" mood and are keeping prices down to support people with bigger bills and less income.

No.My two always took packed lunches.We've been eating less as.I have a physical job and don't want to gain weight and dh who is overweight has been cutting back.Extra coffee is all we be had.

Ours have probable evened out.

We used to do a big shop monthly then a smaller weekly one for fresh items/top ups plus pay for teen school lunches and snacks/drinks they get throughout the day. We’d also have a takeaway once a month.

Now it’s two online shops a month and milkman weekly. No takeaways as I can’t bring myself to eat food we haven’t cooked ourselves currently.

Yes ours is nearly 400 quid I am appalled

It’s a combination of eating more through boredom, buying nicer things to make a shit day a great day, everyone being at home when they’re not usually and all the “two for four quid” offers not being on.

Throw into the mix, avoiding Aldi because it’s too cramped and running round Sainsbury’s throwing random shot in your trolley because you can’t stop and read the labels and check the prices because some covidiot is walking the wrong way down the arrows and standing two inches from you.