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.?

We budget around £500 a month for food but always go over to about £650 for me,dh,3dcs.
We don't meal plan at all , I need to get more organised.

I spent £6 yesterday on fruit and veg and got 3lbs of bananas,
Bag of gala apples
2 big punnets of raspberries
Bag of peppers
Cucumber
Punnet of strawberries
And a melon

It was at a local market, so would be more expensive in a supermarket I would expect.
Freezer full of frozen veg as I don't like waste and homemade veg soup that ds eats at least twice a week

I only have specific things I buy branded versions off, like Nutella or Pepsi max

There are four of us still living full time at home - 2 adults, a 15 year old and a 12 year old. In university holidays my 19 year old comes home and we go back up to 5 again.

Generally, I spend between £80 and £100 in the supermarket, and then possibly another £20 or £30 on meat from the butcher (better and nicer than Tesco) and additional bread/milk as and when needed.

£100 per week... mum, dad, grandma, 3 kids
£120-£130 when we get nappies and washing powder

I spend about £45 a week on a Tesco delivery, to include cleaning products, cat food etc.
Probably pop into supermarket in week and spend an extra £8 ish, but not every week.

That is for 2 adults, 1 child and 2 cats.

Some weeks I don't have a Tesco shop at all and just pop to Supermarket to buy a loaf, 8 pints of milk, apples, bananas, carrots, peppers and courgettes and ham. Prob costs £15 ish. This is when we can live off the freezer - ie there is enough meat/meals already frozen and probably a mound of potatoes left from the previous week, along with pasta,MRI e and other store cupboard stuff.
If that week is a bit dull, that's fine. Who cares once in a while.

About 120 a week 2 adults, 2 teenage boys - that includes my lunches as I make to take to work.
Have cut down a lot since I filled the freezer with frozen veg - much less waste now as can use eg just the right number of carrots, and fill stews with a few handfuls of different veg - when mostly bought fresh threw a lot away...

£170 two adults and two children under 5.

A LOT of organic fruit and veg, and either meat or fish in every evening meal. I shop at ocado.

Katherine, you say you buy for a fortnight at a time. Honestly, how fresh is one of your four cucumbers by the end of the fortnight. Or your iceberg lettuce?

They don't last that long Enjoying! If they did I wouldn't buy four of them! I meal plan (I know, dull, but it works) and work it so that the short shelf-life stuff gets eaten first, then other stuff is made into soups/whatever and goes in the fridge/freezer. So at the beginning we're eating more salad for lunch and by the end it's soup/eggs/beans. Shopping was delivered Tues and most of the lettuce eaten this eve, for example.

I would do a weekly shop if I had a car but I don't so I order online.

I spend £65 a week on food for 2 adults and 3dc not including washing powder from costco at £15 for a huge box that lasts around 5 months.
I have a bread maker and I make all snacks in the house. The main thing that costs is fresh fruit which we always have. I could probably get it down to about £35 if I cut right back on fruit.

£90 a week for 2 adults, 2 small dc and cat. Includes lunches for both of us and (kids get school meals) cleaning, toiletries.etc. No booze but fresh flowers and loads of chocolate:).

Includes stuff for Sunday roast. We usually get takeaway Saturdays which dh buys.

Between £90 and £140 a week, depending on what's on. If we have friends over for dinner, or the kids are going to a birthday or it's the run up to a family birthday/Xmas/Easter then it's closer to the higher figure. We do however keep a store cupboard with a months extra food in case of redundancy/zombie apocalypse and this figure includes all the things for that and toiletries, dishwasher/laundry gubbins, cleaning products, some clothing and the odd book or dvd and animal food. (We have various cats/pigs/chickens)

Oh and all medicines, makeup etc...we are a family of four.

And we all have packed lunches.

Spent 65 today

20 ish in butcher
40 ish in lidl

Me, dh and one year old. That's fairly typical. Can do it on a lot less if dont need as much meat in.

( That doesn't include nappies btw or wipes and neither if us drink ATM )

£120 2 adults and 2 teenagers, includes a packed lunch for all of us every day at work and school, rarely have takeaways or eat out.

About £100 a week. That's x2 adults, x2 children. All organic/ butchers/ or Waitrose.

Around 160 a week that includes baby formula, nappies, and tobacco and maybe a couple of bottles of wine.
I could easily cut back if we wanted , but we live on Tescos doorstep and I'm in there all the time

Sorry 2 adults 2 children under 5 there.

£100-£110 per calendar month excluding alcohol which is another £10 per month. Also have fish and chips once a week which costs around £6 each week. That is for 2 adults.

I don't really know but guess at around 100 a week all in. Then maybe DC's school dinners on top of that, perhaps mine and DH's work lunches extra too.
Shop at Co-op (too often?), local Asian food store, Sainsbos, LIDL, Tesco's in roughly that order

Hmmm......ok

Including alcohol, we spend about £250 a week

We tend to eat quite well... I mean steaks a couple of times a week (don't really eat anything other than fillet, but occasionally rib eye) maybe chicken fajitas or tacos, potentially a takeaway if we fancy. Bacon, sausage, eggs etc. for breakfast (combination of), usually innocent vegetable type foods for lunch or covent garden soups. Maybe pasty

We also have heaps of fresh fruit and vegetables- and keep things like cleaning supplies, baby milk, nappies well stocked up. (Currently have 2 tubs milk and wipes and 4 packs nappies)

Don't really buy value things as we just don't like them as much. Value cornflakes, for example, are gross. We do a shop pretty much every day of about £30/£40 and get through about 8 cans and a bottle of wine per night...

No animals- but we do have a fruit-hungry dd (4) and a 6mo dd.

I just thought maybe those who spend astronomically (like I'm aware we do) aren't posting mu ch? Or maybe it's just me

It might be worth mentioning that we earn about £28k a year between us.... So are by no means 'minted'

Run - how do you afford £12k a year on groceries then?

Dp gambles a fair bit so it is dependant on what he wins- if he doesn't win thn the billa sometimes don't get paid until he does, just the life we live. Pay what needs to be paid, take a chance on what can wait and end up usually having a fair bit mor.

Obviously it's not for everyone- but different views and all that :)