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.....

Not too bad, I did spend £106 yesterday for a full week for 4 which is high for us but I did grab a few things that would make meals the following week. I only spent £70 the week before. We switched from Tesco to Aldi before all this started, and thank goodness as I think I'd have seen a huge difference otherwise, I used to spend about £90 a week in Tesco and that was with the kids eating out in the week and me not having lunches. Also it's a relief as it meant I had just gotten used to not online shopping and my hand wasn't forced!

We are spending around £50 a week more on groceries as we don't normally all have breakfast and lunch at home everyday. But we are saving money on commuting, gym membership and nursery, so not feeling the pinch quite yet. I've noticed the online shop is more expensive even without the extra stuff as there are not many money off or multi buy deals lately.

Yes, used to spend about £80 per week but am more like £120 a week now (family of 4). However, I do have full cupboards and a full freezer which I didn't before lockdown (probably half full) so I have clearly panic bought at some level although goodness knows how as so much stuff is unavailable for online delivery every week. We now don't have a delivery for the next 15 days so some of it will get eaten and bring us back to normal levels.

Yes, due to 3 adult men at home with me. Also we're not going out as much to shop so it's a ' big' shop every time too! You notice it more then.
Prices have gone up a lot. Its all win win for the supermarkets! I hope they give their staff a bonus.

Ours has increased by about £50-£60 a week, family of 4. Having the kids at home obviously, plus it's partially by choice. If we can't pop out for that coffee and cake or the odd lunch here and there, yes I will enjoy that extra bag of fudge and a bottle of something lol. So happy to put some of the leisure budget towards the food, just to help keep us all going through these times.

it went up for us too. Kids don't have meals and snacks at school makes a big difference even though we are not on FSM.

I started cutting back on how much I eat now as it's getting too expensive to maintain esp now there question marks regarding my job. I started having lunch and dinner only (no breakfast, no snacks, fruits or treats) to save money. but I need to lose a few pounds anyways.

Prices have gone up A LOT! Before all this happened, my local co op was selling 4 pint cartons of milk at 2 for £2.00. Now I can only buy one at a time for £1.50. None of the usual multi buy offers are available. The cheaper options don’t seem to be available.... the only veg available yesterday was organic which is always more expensive than my usual choices.

I used to eat for free at work. That’s probably what allowed me to be a Waitrose shopper on a waitress’ wages.

At least I’m not paying £500 a month on nursery bills.

Yes the supermarket bill has gone up absolutely loads.

But I do need to offset that against savings we're making like DH having lunches at home not work, not paying for school lunches, not eating out or having takeaways, no coffee shop trips etc.

Yep

Around £225 for four of us each week

We spend about £100 PW for 5 (2 adults, 3 children 16,12,11)

No idea how you do this unless:
a) you have tiny appetites and rarely snack
b) only buy the essentials

That’s less than £1 per person per meal, including non-food groceries!

Ours has gone right down. No top up shops and meal planning because we don’t want waste.

My food shop for 3 adults has gone up - probably from about £100 a week to about £160. But then we are not buying coffees and lunches out or going out for meals or spending money on transport. It seems fair enough to me. I am still saving loads of money - because I am lucky enough still to have a job.

Gone up a bit but overall food spending has gone down as not eating out or buying lunches at work.

Yes it’s shot up but I wonder what we are saving by not going to Leon and pret all the time.

Food bill's right up with having kids and everyone home from work (I'd normally be buying lunch at uni out of a different financial pot of money, and one kid gets infant free school meals) and the "ballad of the really really hungreeeey schoolchild" starting at about 1 minute past breakfast.

On the other hand not paying for train, parking, petrol so it's balancing out a lot.

Are still getting takeaways since our fave restaurant opened for a takeaway service.

There is some weird maths going on in some threads here...

people say they are spending more as they are all home for lunch...errr...didn't you buy lunch at work or give kids packed lunches? (Excluding those on free school meals.)

You should be totalling weekly food spending across the board.

Mine has gone up about £30pw
What I have discovered is that I can get everything I need for the full week by being more organised which I’m not usually. I normally end up in the supermarket 2-3 times a week

@Derbygerbil It's actually £14 a day

That sounds very do-able to me.

Main course around £5-6 for a casserole perhaps, porridge for breakfast, or eggs, and homemade soup or pasta for lunch. Plus fruit and veg.

I mean about 400 a week on average I'm getting some bits for in-laws
I am appalled
I use ocado once a week atm
There are no offers
We are eating almost the same as we used to maybe a few more beans
All of us drink different milk so milk alone is almost 20 a week
The kids eat a lot of fruit
I don't actually do meat every meal but it's the butter which is £2 a pack and I bake a lot so we use 4 a week etc
It's just expensive and no deals on
I want to change it but can't really at the minute
There are no deals on
I am not willing to go out to the shops and risk being sick

Ours has gone up quite a lot. Partly, this is because we normally do a fortnightly Ocado shop and a weekly Lidl shop. We’re currently getting everything from Ocado and they have few offers on. We are also all eating at home every meal. DC normally get some lunches at school/ nursery (free KS1/included in fees).

I’m not sure why but I kept a tab this month. I never have before so I’m not sure if it’s really high or it’s just easier to keep tabs on as obviously no lunches out, takeaway coffees etc that usually go unaccounted for.

We spent £700 on 2 adults, one toddler and half a child (my DSS so isn’t here all the time). That includes all nappies and toiletries. But not two orders of gin and beer - which were atleast £80. So if you count those nearing £800.

I usually spend between £90-110

Penelope

I think it varies. Quite a lot of people get lunch for free at work, or work away on expenses, so will be spending more, although that will be balanced out by all the people for whom the amount their supermarket shopping has increased is less than the amount they are saving by not eating out, or buying lunch at work.

Because it's far cheaper to make a sandwich at home than buy it from even a cheaper place like a supermarket or Greggs. Same for home consumption of coffee, alcohol etc. Like for like, food and drink at home is much cheaper than 'out'.

Although that doesn't account for people who are eating and drinking more because they're stuck at home with not much else to do. Or the increase in costs due to having to buy more expensive brands, shop in more expensive places, lack of multibuy offers or people treating themselves to nicer/higher quality food.

Ours has gone up massively but we are all now eating 3 x meals a day at home x 7 days a week but we are still saving as usually me and DH buy breakfast / lunch during hte week, cafe stops at weekends with the kids nad take aways or eating out. Not spending any money on socialising.

Last week I worked it out around £9 per person per day which isnt so unreasonable.

Of course your supermarket bill will have gone up, but how much are you saving by not eating out, buying coffee, lunch and snack whilst out and about ?