2 adults 1 child a cat and a dog monthly groceries budget

[yapperpapper]

Hi, I’m trying to work out a budget after bills which covers groceries. Will include cat food and litter and dog food. We generally have a mix of buying meat packs from the butchers and supermarket meat. Mix of wfh and if we by lunch out that’s usually our our own accounts not the joint. Does £850 sound about right? For similar size household does anyone have a comparison? Thanks.

Also may want to include one meal out a month and a couple of take aways in that budget.

That's very generous I'd have thought, it's £200 a week! We currently do 2 adults and 2 teens who eat adult portions, but no pets, on vastly less than that, around £120 a week. So you can certainly cover 2 adults, a child and pets on £850 a month. And your eating out too.

Thank you, it’s good to try and get a comparison. I really want to be more mindful and put a set amount in an account. I think I might start with £800 and see what that’s like for a month. I do try and bull buy too so I might over over estimated it but whatever isn’t used can go into savings I suppose.

Wow, that's a huge amount. We spend around £600 a month, and that includes all lunches apart from one child who gets free school dinners. Two adults and 5 kids (3 teenagers) and we are not particularly budget conscious.

For me, adult daughter (who to be fair eats out a fair bit) and 3 cats I spend about £60/70 a week, £20 of that is cat food and litter. I'm veggie so no meat cuts costs, but even so your budget sounds very generous.

2 adults 1 toddler, 2 cats and a dog. Currently around 250 a month.

60 quid butchers plus say 10 a month for kibble. Cats around 40 a month with litter. Our food generally about 200 a month batch cooked mostly fresh. Excludes takeaway/eating out

Right I clearly need to work out this much better and budget. I feel
miles off what it could be from the responses here!! I’m going to bill buy the dog and cat food, and any general items at the start of the month. Same with the butchers meat packs then see how lean I can do the rest. Any tips on how you guys manage it? I need to improve meal planning for definite, but anything else?

Depends were you shop and branded products etc. We moved to Aldi years ago and in all honesty apart from coke that’s the only brand I buy now for us really. Batch cooking helps a lot buy larger meat packs and it’ll work out cheaper than 250/500g packs and saves the nights we’re you think I’ll just get a takeaway. Pet food you can’t really change but we swapped the cats from royal canin to felix wet as I didn’t like the cost to begin with. The dog gets butchers as value for money and quality of what’s in it means I won’t change.

Exactly the same household. If we don’t count for pet insurance, the beasts cost us roughly £50 each a month. And we humans eat another £400 of the budget