How much does your groceries cost you?

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Regardless of being frugal, cutting back or just buying what you want?
How much do you spend weekly or monthly on food & toiletries/cleaning stuff.?

How anyone can feed 2 adults and 2 kids on £45 a week is beyond me! I spend about £140 per week, including wine, and we have a cat.

About £80 a week, 2 adults, thats including general household (soap powder, shampoo etc) We don't drink alcohol very much.

About 50 for a big month shop - give or take depending on whether or not i need cleaning/laundry/etc supplies. Then around 20 a week give or take. That is for me and ds who is 6. I know i could reduce it further but I we have a lot of treats!!

We average around £60-70 per week for groceries. That is for me, DH and toddler DC1, and includes a number of good quality items and health foods, and some convenience items (mainly individually packaged snacks like oat biscuits, dried fruit).

We average £11 per week on all household and toiletries, inc. nappies.

What we spend now is what it costs for us to live quite comfortably, but I keep an eye on costs so as to not go too extravagant (eg I buy meat/fish when under certain per kg prices, we make use of offers, more expensive items are more occasional treats).

3 years ago we spent £30 per week on DH and me.
4 years ago it was £15 per week.
5 years ago I spent £8 per week on just me.

About £50-£60 a week. Two adults, one 4yo and a 1yo.

We don't drink or smoke, buy nappies in bulk and I breastfeed, so no formula. That total includes all toiletries/household items, food for one cat and caters for an allergic diet.

I spend about £70 a week in the supermarket. Most stuff comes from there so that includes things like nappies,cleaning stuff and a bottle of wine.
I've not got a clue what my husband spends at lunch time. Could probably add another £20 to that with what he spends on food and coffee! We also have a takeaway/eat out once a week, but not every week if that makes sense!
I've been trying to be more careful and recently started trying aldi and that's brought the bills down.

Oh and that's for 2 adults 2 small children and a cat.

We spend about £120/week - two adults + a toddler (and I am pregnant). I am housebound so eating all meals here and DH also works from home a lot, so that includes quite a lot of lunches (which are often leftovers). That sum is the main Ocado delivery once a week (including nappies, wipes, most toiletries, washing powder, cleaning products etc; mostly fresh food and store cupboard stuff but a few treats like biscuits, good chocolate and cereal bars for DS) + a fruit/veg box, but doesn't include a few extras like bread/bagels from the bakery and a takeaway about once a fortnight. I do all the cooking and meal plan carefully but we are not economising - I meal plan in the sense of looking through books and choosing recipes that sound nice each week (and which work with the veg box), and because I can't get out of the house for 'top up' shops of missing ingredients so need to be organised, we are not trying to be frugal. I cook a lot of new recipes and probably buy one or two 'special' ingredients for a particular recipe each week. We eat meat almost every day - perhaps one meat-free meal a week - and I generally buy fresh fish and meat. Our freezer is quite small. We don't really drink so hardly ever buy alcohol (except small amounts for cooking), though we do buy expensive coffee. I am a confident enough cook that we could definitely eat a lot more cheaply than we do - I could fairly easily manage £80/week I think and probably less if we had a big freezer and I put my mind to it. I actually really enjoy e.g. dhal which is incredibly cheap and filling. But for the moment we are fortunate that we can afford to spend this and DH in particular likes to eat good meat regularly.

Also - we are in a flat (London) so while I have a good stock of spices etc we don't have the room to bulk buy anything, which would probably make a difference.

Just spent £85 in Aldi which should pretty much last us the week. Didn't have to buy much cereal, cleaning stuff, alcohol etc or it would have been closer to £100. There are 2 adults, 3 teens, 1 child, 2 cats. We all take packed lunches.

I have no idea how people spend so little. I totally understand if you're struggling you don't have a choice but it just sounds unbearably grim :( ... there's 4 of us - 2 adults 2 dc - and we spend £120 ish a week and it's more than we should really but I find it near impossible to spend less without everyone complaining about the food!

We are 2 adults plus DS(5) and a cat. I spend c£40 weekly plus a midweek top-up of c£15. Includes all meals except Sarurday night takeaway and wine which DH buys.

Over a full year £80pw. That covers food for just the two of us in uni term time, 3 of us plus assorted hangers on in uni holidays when DS2 is home and 4 of us when working DS1 is home too. It also covers extras for Christmas as in the second part of the year I shop on an 8 day cycle to get spare money for excess over the festive period. DH is gluten free, DS1 and I are vegetarian and DS2 eats anything, so it is a bit complicated and I often have to cook two dishes (e.g. extra quiche with GF flour, second pasta dish with GF pasta) Feeding dog is £21 pcm extra as his food is on Amazon standing order.

Fairylea We are thankfully by no means hard-up but I honestly don't know how people can spend so much.

Minimum £150 p/w for 3 adults and 2 dc.

All nappies, cleaning products, toiletries, booze and lunches for everyone including weekend guests.

£150-£180 per week for all food, cleaning products and wine for 2 adults, 2 teenagers 1 large dog and 1 cat.
We also eat out once or twice a week otherwise generally cook from scratch.
If we entertain then that's on top.

Fairy

Do you tell them you've swapped or down graded? I don't tell dh because he complains but if I don't say anything he eats it without comment.

Cleaning products bump the bill up, I only use smartprice multipurpose cleaner watered by 50%, sp cream cleaner, washing up liquid and thin bleach. The house is still clean but I probably spend under £5 a year on cleaning.

Fairylea it is grim. But sadly that's just how it is for lots of people.

I was working but am signed off now and will not be going back. I have fibromyalgia and my job was just making my health worse. Dh was a sahd before I stopped working but he is getting an op next week and won't be able to go back to work for a while, plus he is my carer and needs to be around for me/the kids.

At the moment while we sort out all the benefits we are living off of child benefit (47.60 per week) and my pip (304 every 4 weeks) plus my sick pay which is 87.55 per week. We have to pay all our rent/bills and food etc on that money and our expenses amount to more than that so we are getting into debt. The benefits take ages to sort out

I don't want to live like this at all, I wish I could go back to work but I just can't do it Everything is so expensive, I don't get how people can spend so much, you must all earn loads!

We spend about £150-£160 a week, more if we are having people over, there's 7 of us, 5 kids under 9, I breastfed so haven't bought any formula for the last baby, 1 child in nappies.... We don't include alcohol on our weekly order, and we don't eat meat...I would love to get it lower but don't seem to be able to...

About £200 a week.

2 adults, 1 teenager, 21 month old and 9 month old.

Less than £40 a week for two adults, two dogs and two cats.
Once every six weeks I buy a 12kilo bag of royal canin boxer breed for £41 and add supermarket own brand complete to make it go further.

We shop at Aldi, Lidl and the pound shop.

We buy whatever fruit and veg is on offer/reduced that week, turkey, chicken, mince, rice, pasta etc and cook all meals from scratch plus bake puddings/cakes/scones.

We quite often have leftovers the next day.

We eat lots of fruit and veg and the occasional chocolate/sweet treat and don't feel we're going short of anything.

£90 for two adults, a cat and a toddler. All vegetarian except the cat. That is all in, with toiletries and cleaning products included. I buy quite a lot of organic so I could probably save £15 a week if I didn't buy this.

I can't understand how people spend so much either jammy, we aren't struggling, it just works out to about £50, we but don't buy things like alcohol so maybe that's why it's quite cheap.and I cook pretty much everything from scratch.