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.?

80 a week - 2 adults & 2 year old twins. This includes everything.

About £30/40 a week here, including all lunches, dinner, weekend food and booze for 2 adults.
started buying a lot of frozen veg as our fridge is too small and we were wasting a lot of food.
Treat is usually a nice matured steak every couple weeks.

Ninety a fortnight for two adults and two cats, plus about another £20 for top-ups.

Over £100 a week for 2 adults and a baby.

I can't see how you could be buying what I consider normal amounts of fresh fruit and vegetables for £40 a week! DD eats at least a punnet of fruit a day (I help ) and we get through probably two avocados a day.

That's £30 a week just on that!!

trying to control sugar intakes so not eating much fruit apart from bananas all year round and either pears, plums, apricots etc depending which one is in season (cheap-ish) Plums went from £1 a punnet in the summer to £3 now!
Salad in lunch everyday then dinner is typically a roasted sweet potato, cauliflower, courgette or mushrooms.

£120 per week for 4 Adults (Me, DH & 2 grown up kids) and one fussy cat.
That includes everything, food, toiletries, alcohol. DH takes homemade salad and coleslaw and yog and strawberries each day.

O, and the alcohol is just for cooking purposes. One bottle of white and one red. We don't drink.

Anywhere between £80 and £150, depending on whether we're entertaining, away etc. I shop in Waitrose but do try to buy cheaper things (cook almost all from scratch, cheaper cuts of meat, lots of veggie meals, lots of own brand stuff). That includes all household products and alcohol. That's for two adults and two primary age DC.

Salty, some fruit and veg are cheaper than others. I buy for a fortnight at a time, and this fortnight I've bought:

Fruit: 1.5 kg bananas, 3 bags of apples, punnet plums, 500g grapes, bag 10 satsumas.

Veg: 2.5kg potatoes, cauliflower, savoy cabbage, kilo courgettes, broccoli, huge butternut squash, punnet tomatoes, 750g carrots, leek, 1.5 kg onions, red onions, 4 cucumbers, an iceberg lettuce, celery, 1 kg frozen sweetcorn.

I think that's a normal amount of fruit and veg. I stick to £50pw (so £100 per fortnight).

Oh - and a bag of basics peppers! And a punnet of mushrooms!

Nearly all of that is seasonal, btw, and nearly all from UK (with the exception of grapes, bananas, satsumas, butternut squash and courgettes).

I went shopping today and it cost me £59. That's for 2 adults and 3 primary school age dc. Couple of treats in there too eg.

Includes plenty of fruit and veg, meals for about 10 days, packed lunch stuff for DD (other two have free meal) and lunches for dh at work.

Doesn't include washing powers and cleaning stuff. I buy that in bulk when I see it on offer.

100 per week. that includes everything. 2 adults, 2 children, 1 cat, 1 dog.

will do about 200 for xmas. :-/

Anywhere between £60 and £150 a week for 2 adults and 2 cats. That includes toiletries/wine etc.

I was thinking that's a lot of fruit & veg, but I buy mine a few times a week, when I need it. If I got it in one go I'd have a list like that and the spotty bananas would be left.

£150 (approx) a week
2 adults
4 kids ( 3 teens)
4 cats ( only eat pouches, and have 3 a day each) that's a box of cat food pouches a day!
I don't do top up shops, when it's gone it's gone. We eat cheaply during the week, have some more expensive meals at weekends, a roast or fresh fish.
I make 3 packed lunches a day. The teenage boys eat masses.
At least they know that when all the biscuits have gone, they have to eat Jam sandwiches or have a bowl of soup or something.

We spend about £60-£70 per week, that's for two adults and two children, although one gets free school meals so that probably brings the cost down a bit.

We were talking about this recently and my MIL's head nearly burst that I spend that much when I don't even buy meat.

A£80 per week. That's 2adults and 2dc 2-3 days a week and 1 adult, 2dc 4-5 days a week.

We spend £70-80 per week. 2 adults and 1 9yr old. That includes everything, toiletries cleaning and wine....maybe some beer lol.

My dteen eats loads chickydoo. He's just polished off chicken curry & double rice plus poppadums. He'll be in the fridge later looking for "stuff". I hide the biscuits from him so they last for me & oh. Cruel mother!!!

I normally spend around £50 a week, but occasionally have a shop that's more when I stock up on things. Today it was £90 but that included a few Christmas things to hide away and some general nonperishable/tinned goods to stock up as well as some over the counter medications that we were low on. Oh, and a bottle of wine. It all adds up quickly. That's for one adult and 2 dcs.

I used to shop around more, but now I'm trying to just be more mindful of whether or not the shop is on my way somewhere else or whether going the extra trip to another shop will save me enough money to justify it IYSWIM.

£600-£700 a month for two adults, two big children and two little children.
Rarely buy alcohol, doesn't include dinner money, only one in nappies now.
I don't know how to reduce it really and there's rarely any waste. I threw away a muzzy kiwi fruit and a yoghurt that was opened when I bought it last month.

About £100 pw for 2 adults and 2 children (7&1). That includes weekly shop and a couple of top ups.

I am sorry if it came over that I was being naive. ... I totally understand how awful it is to struggle. We have debt and health issues ourselves so I said I don't know how people manage to do it on so little with a bit of envy - I wish we could get ours lower but it never seems to happen.

Even if I don't tell dh and dc that things are a cheaper brand etc they know, they can just tell and they say it's horrible and won't eat it. They won't eat meat unless it's the best bits, they won't eat anything with lentils added. And they are stuck in the 1950s - without meat it isn't a meal. It's ridiculous. And makes me angry.

I'm sure if I was living alone I could live on very cheap meals!

Have you looked in B&M? It does groceries very cheap but all brand name.