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.?

Sorry, the sky dropped mid-post and ended up with atrociously spelled words :)

£80 a week all in, two adults, two kids, one toddler and one 3 month old. That' s including expensive formula for refluxy baby, but no nappies as both little ones are in cloths.

About £45 a week on average just for me. Not including wine! I don't know how some of you spend so little.

I rarely waste anything/ chuck anything away, don't eat huge amounts, love Aldi and reduced items - but I suppose I am quite fastidious about certain foods because I'm diabetic and big amounts of carbs every day would soon make me ill.

Bloody hell run! How do you afford to keep a roof over your head? I'm secretly jealous of the fur coat no knickers kind of life but that's something else.

Haha it doesn't work all the time (hence we keep such a big stock of important things - baby milk, kids food, nappies etc etc) in each month. Then if we have loads of money, we have the fur coat, no knickers- however there has been times when me and dp have ended up knickerless with a tenner to last us the week eating pasta and beans for four nights running.

I must 100% clarify this affects the kids in no way at all!!

It's a bit like saving..... Only with saving you end up with a axe out of two years saving £50- and when you stick £50 on the football each week for two years, chances are we get our car a lot sooner- but obviously the chance we don't get it at all- thems the breaks I guess :)

And we consistently run debt free- we rent, no credit cards, no payday loans etc etc so if there was a huge problem and we suddenly needed to rustle up £5k or so- I expect we could do it (without stealing- mizz fur coat )

And not with 'a axe' in the PP

I meant a car g'night

Currently 4 of us, 3 adults and a teen boy. DH and both DS eat loads. We spend about £80 pw in Aldis, followed by about £20 Sainsbo/Asda top up for everything we couldn't get at Aldi, plus about £10-15 on milk and bread during the week. Aldi shop includes wine and beers, and packed lunch material.
Used to be nearer £150 plus top ups before we discovered Aldi!

We shop monthly(I hate bloody shopping and it wears me out)we spend between £275 and £300 a month.That for 7 of us 5DC,DH and myself.That also includes the food for our pets.

We used to spend about £170 when we shopped weekly,god knows what we were buying then though.

I find these threads so interesting. There seems to be a range of what I would see as fairly frugal spending (£40-80 per week) and then a higher range (£100+ per week). We're around the £100 mark for a family of 5 - I shopped at Lidl 8 days ago, £135, and now all the fruit and veg are gone but there are

Oops, cut off.
Our last shop was £135 and will last 2 weeks for meat and dry goods but the fruit and veg are gone now and milk is topped up every two days.

It's amazing that some of you shop for £40 a week. £40 is a basket of food from Asda which would probably be a couple of dinners at best. It'd be cool to see photos of the weekly shop unpacked. Lays everyone open to a lot of nitpicking, but fascinating!

I met a girl who started Weightwatchers recently and said her grocery bill had gone up significantly because of all the fresh fruit and veg. Some posters have said that buying only frozen veg keeps the cost down - that does sound grim but I appreciate that budgets can be very tight.

We're working hard to not do much ad hoc shopping as that's where it creeps up - you go out for milk and end up bringing home extras. For the 5 of us I feel happy with £100 a week. It's very revealing to watch the spending and account for every pound for a month or two until a new routine is established. I'm budgeting much more closely now as we're on one wage for a while.

I am amazed at how low some of these are. We buy fruit/ veg, meat/ fish, and some dairy. Plus the odd rice/ spices/ tin tomatoes/ pasta etc as needed. It's rare we buy anything processed/ crisps/ cake/ soft drinks/ alcohol etc. But we could never feed a family of 4 on £10/20/30 a week as some on here do!

Our approx £100 a week is:

£40 fruit and veg
£30 meat and fish
£20 dairy (milk/ cheese/ yogurt)
£10 odd bits ( ie rice / oil/ flour)

Could some of you post what a typical days food would be?

Ours yesterday for example was:

Breakfast: porridge with stewed apple and pear. Crushed nuts. Glass milk for kids.

Lunch: tuna, egg and avocado salad ( mixed leaves/ tomatoes/ cucumber)

Dinner: lamb, mashed root veg, broccoli and kale. Gravy. Greek yogurt, honey and stewed plum for desert

Our meals across the week are similar to this, and some vegetarian

I spent £39 at Lidl yesterday:

carrots
onions
green beans
cauli/broccoli mix tray
new potatoes
punnet pears
fun size bananas
punnet cherry tomatoes
pk 2 avocado
frozen turkey (will last us three days plus soup and stock to freeze)
500g pack best mince (will make two days main meals)
pk chicken goujons
2 pack bacon
pk bratwurt sausages
cat food pouches x two boxes
box dry cat food
cat litter
tin dog food
2 packs dog treats
2 tins chopped tomatoes with herbs
breakfast tea bags
2 x large milk
1 x cream
6 free range eggs
hovis wholemeal loaf
british salted butter
stork type butter for cooking
toilet roll

Art I would say a major difference is that you must be buying quite a lot of the more expensive fruit and veg that other people spending less won't be buying - asparagus, fresh berries, posh tomatoes, pink lady apples and the like.

People spending less will be sticking to Aldi super 6 and cheaper things like potatoes, carrots, cabbage and cheaper apples etc. Basic fruit and veg from markets and cheaper supermarkets is very cheap or you can spend astronomical amounts on the naice stuff from waitrose.

Between 80-110 per week. Thats for me, DH and 3 dc's, one with SN and a self imposed restricted diet, one dog.

Shop at Aldi and Morrisons - the price includes a ton of fresh fruit, veg and meat, bulk of our weekly shop is at Aldi, but i like to buy cheese, greek yoghurt and dog food from Morrisons.

Typical days eating for us is -

Lunch - Granola with fresh fruit and milk/eggs/Toast and marmite/brioche

Lunch - Kids and DH take pack ups, mostly consisting of sandwich/pasta, fruit, yoghurt, cereal bar and crisps. Mine at home tends to be soup/omelette (sp?)

Dinner - Beef in ale casserole, mash and cabbage, fruit, yoghurt or small piece of dark chocolate or cake for pudding.

Onllkley - nope not really. I would say at least 90% is seasonal.

£250 a month for two adults, a six yr old and a cat. Soon to go up as another baby on the way so nappies, food at home instead of work and milk will probably add another £50.

If I go to Waitrose, £150 per week.

If I go to Lidl, £90 per week.

Not just because the prices are lower; there are more tempting goodies in Waitrose to sneak into my trolley, which bump up my weekly total. Whereas in Lidl I just tend to stick to my list.

Obviously I'm not including the random Lidl purchases like slippers, socket sets and tapestry kits which "call out" to me from the centre aisle.

Family of five.

Oddly, I find that because I know the overall shop is going to cost less, that I'm much more tempted by goodies in Lidl and Aldi. So while I mostly shop at Waitrose, I am more aware of the prices and am more careful to stick to the list and only buy junk or treats if there is an offer. I have been trying to allow 1-2 small treats for the week and leave it at that. Or make one treat last longer.

I do buy the pink lady apples though (yep, guilty of that!!) and the granny smith ones only. They are the only ones my ds1 will eat (disabilities including food issues). But I think that's not a huge issue. Most of the items in my trolley are "waitrose essentials." And I still have a few items I will pick up at other shops if I am in the area and the dcs are not with me. (ds1 struggles in supermarkets, and it's worse in crowded noisy ones - as if there are any other kind, right?)

I do online deliveries. I pay £6 a month so I can have a delivery anytime any day. So I do two deliveries a week. Mostly on Sunday then on Wednesday or Thursday.
For me this has saved us loads as they cover the bits you'll need midweek I.E fresh veg and bread. Also it stops me going to shop and buying the bread and buying a load of stuff we don't need! Because lets face it we never go in buying just what we need!

I seem to spending a lot less now I'm doing Slimming World (6lb down, 2 weeks in woop!)
I had loads in the trolley today but because I'm eating so much veg at the moment it came to £29. That will do me most of the week as I have some frozen meat. I will need to buy cat food and litter during the week though. So, I'd say £40/week for me and the cats. Maybe more if I need stuff like laundry gel, which I don't skimp on.

About £150 - £180. 2 adults, 3 children, 1 dog.

90 quid a week main shop, about thirty quid in top ups during week. about sixty quid in meat every three weeks or so.

2 adults.

About £100 per week for 2 adults, 8yr old, 12 yr old, 1 cat & 1 dog. When times were tough I tried to keep to a budget of £10 a day. (If I spent less 1 day it would roll over to next day etc). I managed to do it once within a 3 month period and the other 2 went over. If I just get what I need from a local shop during 1 week then the next weeks big shop goes way over budget. This includes all food, toiletries, cleaning, pet food, pack ups etc.