Grocery bill

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Can I ask how much people play for their weekly/ monthly groceries?
I pay €170 one week and approx€ 130 every other week.
Works out on average €600 per month.
That's for food / toiletries and cleaning stuff.
There's me, DH, 3 Dc's and the dog
Just wondering if that's reasonable.
I shop in Lidl and a small shop in super valu .
TIA

What country are you in ? As cost of living varies in different countries.

Ireland. I suppose I see people's grocery totals on here sometimes and it seems much cheaper than mine, even allowing for conversion from euro to sterling.
I do 90% of my shop in Lidl ( sometimes Aldi) and about 10% in supervalu, (probably like Tescos ).

I would have expected groceries to cost more in the Uk.... not sure where i got that idea from though

Just saw other thread about this....sorry ....Will read through it !

Groceries are so much cheaper in the UK then Ireland OP!!

Glitterpixie, thanks, I had presumed it was the other way around. I'd say I could cut back a bit and save, but it won't be drastic.

We allow £350 a month for groceries and that’s me, DH, DS (16) and 2 stepkids who stay 4 days a month. We just about stick to it most months and batch cooking helps with that. Mostly use Aldi and Sainsbury’s.

I spend around £140 a week. There are only the two of us now. God knows what I am buying 😔

We are in Germany and spend around €100 per week. 2 adults, 2 children (one of which eats adult amounts of food).

We eat well but try to have a few cheap meals a week (tuna pasta, baked potato etc). Leftovers get frozen in individual portions as they don't seem to get used sat in the fridge; we then have several freezer nights later in the month when everyone chooses what they fancy from the leftover stash so our last weekly shop of the month is quite low.

If we don't plan and do a big weekly shop we end up spending way more than that though. Planning makes a huge difference here.

I've been spending around £100 a week for me, DH and two older boys..trying to keep it at this...don't drive so using Iceland recently for frozen and veg market for fruit and veg...veggie so we use lots of quorn, which maybe keeps down costs. Iceland is free delivery, so trying it after Waitrose and Ocado were getting expensive. It has less of the tempting stuff though.

I spend roughly £100 a week £70 in aldi and £30 in tescos. Theres me dh 3 boys and 2 cats. The Tesco shop is all wheat and dairy free for the youngets as he has allergies.

Around £120 a week Tesco/Sainsburys with odd £5-10 in local spar.
2 Adults 2DC 1 Dog

I spend £90 a week .. 2 adults , 1 toddler and a cat

€500pm for me,dh, a teen, a tween and a food obsessed cat - split between Aldi and SV. I only do SV once a month now - if I’m not in there I can’t get tempted.

We spend about £80pw when DD is at home, that's for us and two cats. We have our fair share of treats, but I guess I've carried on been careful in some regards, as we had 18 months when money was so short we'd got without so DD could have meals/snacks.

I’ve just meal planned and done a weeks food order living of soup, baked beans, jacket potatoes, fish fingers and the like and it has come to over £90. There is 5 (sometimes 7) of us though, it still seems expensive for what it is though.

I spend around £65 per week but we eat out twice (3 of us). I eat less than the DC. I cook a lot of things from scratch including all the treat items like cakes and fancy breads. I would never buy pre made sauces or ready meals either. It may be a bit less than that but stocking up on certain bulk items may push it up or some weeks, I will use Amazon for a bulk buy item.

I'm fairly careful, always looking for cheaper offers and buying a few of a product if it's something we use and on offer.

However, with cost of living going up, I've been monitoring what we spend and trying to assess what we can cut back on.

Over last six weeks, it's averaging £50pw for two adults (this includes a couple of cheap bottles of wine). Includes household cleaning items and the odd toiletry (I work for a shop that offers double discount so buy quite a lot of toiletries from there when that's on though).

We have two cats, so far averaging £17pw.

Why do Veggies need meat substitutes like Quorn? That's crazy - and not only because Quorn is more expensive than mice and chicken thighs.

I'm flexitarian and most of my veggie dishes do not attempt to replicate meat at all. They are hugely tasty due to spices and herbs, and filling from pulses and beans.

Mince!!! Not -mice. Hahah