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.?

About £125,, 2 adults, 2 kids and cat with expensive taste.

Can be £150 If buying wine etc, would look to knock £50 off my weekly bill.

Around £150 a week, for 3 adults, a 4 year old and a 1 year old. No alcohol but it includes nappies, wipes, etc. I could get it cheaper if I shopped around, did meal planning and switched less expensive fruit/veg

Wow, I spend so much more than everyone else. About 475 NZ$ per week (that's about 240 GBP). We are a family of 2 adults and 2 teen girls. We all eat a lot, and we like cooking. Food is definitely more expensive here, but I think we spend more on food than most people. I get my fruit and veg from a separate fruit and veggie shop to save money, and I only buy what's in season apart from tomatoes. I'm a bit embarrassed about how much we spend. It all gets eaten, none goes to waste, and I grow my own veg and have chickens. We make savings in other areas by buying a lot of stuff second hand.

For me, DH and DD (4) we spend 100 a month on the big shop in Aldi then out a tenner a week on top ups. This includes 2 bottles of wine, dish washer tablets, laundry stuff and cat food. Then a tenner in pound land on toiletries and cleaning stuff every other month. We eat well, meal plan and cook from scratch. Mind you, DD is in nursery full time so just dinner and weekend meals for her, DH takes pack lunch and I usually take left overs or just have fruit and yoghurt so I guess that saves quite a lot. We have a five year plan to clear an embarrassingly large amount if debt so are trying really hard to economise but to be honest, it really hasn't been that bad. We still have the occasional fish and chip supper or happy hour Pizza/pasta too but that is in the 'fun' budget!

The difference in my food bills between DS aged 16 being home, and him being away are about 50% more.

He eats as much as DH and I put together.

Oh, when in think back to the days when a sandwich, a small yoghurt and a few grapes would do for his lunch! That's what he eats an hour AFTER lunch.

Oh. Food bills when DS at Home. £150 a week for the 3 of us.
About £70 when he's away.

ishouldcocoa - when DS came home from university our shopping bills went up from £80 to about £150. When there are teenagers in the family especially boys, shopping bills can be enormous.

£90 weekly for me and ds. I go to Home Bargains Store first, then Asda. Ds is only 9. We are a bit fussy with food. For example I buy light organic soya milk, and also light amond milk also organic. Ds drinks organic semi-skimmed etc.

Is everybody including toiletries in there too and cleaning agents. I have.

For 2 adults, 3 children, a cat and 3 guinea pigs we spend £50-60 per week on a big shop, and then probably another £10 on extra bread or little treats.

We spend about £120 on two Tesco,deliveries per week for a family of me, DH and three primary aged children. The big ones (and DH when he can be arsed to make one before work!) have pack-ups during the week and smallest has school dinners. There's also wine in there and the occasional take away treat but I cook most of our stuff from scratch.

This thread has been very interesting: I do all the shopping and its about £70/week for 2 adults and 2 DC (2 and 4) but then sometimes dishwasher tablets (BLOODY expensive) and washing powder bump that up. My DH might be asked to pick up a bottle of wine or some milk and bread mid week.

I have recently started going to Lidl which has been a revelation!

Typical days food on a weekend for us all at our £250pm budget for three of us

Homemade pancakes with Nutella and fruit, poached eggs on muffin with fresh orange and tea.

Homemade soup or leftovers, bacon sandwiches

Roast chicken, roast potatoes, yorkshire puds, onion gravy, roast parsnips, carrots and cauliflower cheese. The leftovers will feed the two adults for lunch next day.

I have to say that H works away Mon to Thurs so eats on work expenses for those days. Me and son are invited out for tea normally twice a week, son eats school dinners which don't cost anything as he is in primary and we normally eat out once at the weekend.

I think it would be closer to £400 pm without these factors.

We aim for 100 pounds a week but it is probably more like 120 with odd top ups. 2 adults, 3 children. Includes all cleaning stuff, nappies, wine, toiletries, lunches.

I try to spend not more than 150 week for 2 adults and 4 children (one in nappies). This includes cleaning things, some toiletries but not the majority, nappies, wipes. We eat a lot of fresh fruit and vegetable and meat or fish every day but very little alcohol/ read prepared food, 'treats', etc.

We are so lucky that pil have lovely luscious kitchen gardens and are always giving us tons of seasonal stuff. Overloaded with butternut squash, potatoes and Apple's at the moment, also had some great sweet corn, courgette, French beans, runners, broads, it's never ending! So because of this we spend about £80 a week for family of 4 with 3 cats and 3 'packed' lunches and we eat like kings, no processed food bought, lots of baking and cooking from scratch so cheap. Local eggs and meat are in abundance around here too. For everything else Lidls.

40-60 per week for 2 adults and 1 year old, depending on if I need to stock up on nappies and wipes, includes all toiletries and cleaning products.

Approx £80 on 2 adults and 2 young children, maybe small additional topup for milk,snacks for kids. My dd makes the most of free school dinners. I use the convenience of ocado or tesco home delivery as iI don't really have time to go to the shops and end up spending more usually.

Around £90 a week here for 2 adults, 10 year old DS and 1 cat. That is everything all meals (including lunches), toiletries, cleaning stuff, alcohol as well as milk bread top ups. We eat meat 5/6 days out of 7 so could probably cut down further if we had less meat and cut out alcohol. We shop Aldi/Asda or Tesco depending on specials for that week. We do a meal list every week and try to stick to it.

Of great relevance here are the ages of the children, and number. I have 3 teenagers and a 21 year old, and two of them eat vast amounts. All four eat adult sized meals, the the gannets graze as constantly as I'll let them. I struggle to keep the food bill under £120/week for the six of us, and that is cooking pretty much everything from scratch, the only convenience foods I buy are baked beans and sliced bread. I shop pretty much only at Aldi, with the occasional treat of Waitrose.

2 adults, 2 children, 4 and 1.

We spend between £60-£65 on the main (online) shop each week. By doing it online I'm not distracted and can keep track of what is being spent. We usually pick it up at the supermarket (for free) as can't abide trawling round a busy supermarket at the weekend.

This includes nappies and cleaning products.

I meal plan for evening meals each week, definitely makes a difference - it means there's very little waste.

Sometimes have to top up on bread and milk midweek though!

I spend about 40 quid every two weeks but manage to plough through about five quid a day extra on cappuccinos from Starbucks.

Manage to get the weekly shop cost down in price as I have an allotment, which saves me quite a bit on potatoes, carrots, onions, courgettes, strawberries, parsnips and runner beans etc.

On the topic of carrots - anyone know how to peel one properly? Just discovered I've been doing it wrong my entire life. Turns out you need to do it down AND up -> amyfwillis.com/2014/11/16/youve-been-peeling-carrots-wrong-your-whole-life-this-is-how-to-peel-one/

Approx; £120ish for 2 adults, 3 teenagers (inc 2 rugby players) one small dog and one fat cat. This includes 50 packed lunches a week!!

I think we eat really well, tons of fruit and veg, good bread, maybe too much milk as the kids go through 4 pints a day!

Its about £22 a week per person when you balance it out.

£60/week for 2 adults. Includes all food (we never top up shop), tea and coffee, all laundry and cleaning stuff, alcohol and basic toiletries. Always includes higher welfare meat and eggs (free range at least) and organic veg. No fruit juices, squash, cereals etc, we always eat porridge for breakfast. Never any cakes or biscuits as I make those myself if I want them. Cat food for 3 cats is bought in bulk. That probably adds £10. It's not too bad but I wish it was better.

Oh and that doesn't include how much it costs to feed the horses. I don't add that up, it's not good for my health.