250£/week on groceries for 2 people!

[FrogOnSaturn]

How crazy is it? We buy everything organic and don't have ready meals.
Strictly speaking, we can afford it (i.e. we still can save some money at the end of the month), yet it seems to me quite of a huge amount. Unfortunately it's not something I can control, since she manages the orders. I read that 2 people should spend around 100 a week!
We are in London.
Note: the bill also include shower gel, toilet rolls. etc...

Do you bin much?

Why not switch to a Tesco/Sainsbury’s/Asda delivery for a month and see what can be saved?

Unfortunately it's not something I can control, since she manages the orders.

Feeling a little uncomfortable that you're getting a load of strangers to analyse your partners shopping habits - is this to gather evidence or something? Could you not just do the shopping one week and see if you can do it cheaper? (And do the cooking if she does the cooking too)

If your DP is spending that much and is happy with the quality/quantity of food and sees no reason to economise then all you can do is suggest that you shop and cook separately... obviously that would be a bit petty but if it is really getting you down then what other suggestions are there? My DH likes spending a lot on food (we can afford it) whilst I am genuinely happy with a jacket potato, sandwich meal so we quite often eat separately... he can have his fancy fish and I just love cheese on toast or similar

Why? How is this news to you? When did you last do the shopping?

If you don't like the way 'she' shops maybe you could give it a go?

You surely don't need to buy bog roll and shower gel every week. Monthly more like. Organic is more expensive but not that much!!
Do you actually check your fridge/freezer and cupboards weekly while making your shopping list? Do you throw a lot of food away?

I don't know why you're smiling. That would get the bill down. Partner can eat organic and you can choose whatever you want for dinner

Taking over the shopping would require a good amount of political and negotiating skills.
The issue is that my partner really likes the best ingredients (that particular brand of tomato, that very nice potatoes, of course striped aubergines, tuna from Azores, etc...) and she can taste the difference between these premium ingredients and the normal one.

I shop in Sainsburys, and spend on average £80 a week for 2 people.

I bet she can’t. She’s a food snob, but that’s ok!

I spend the same for 5 people and I thought I was overspending 😂🤣

I’m not being judgemental at all.

Literally, the first sentence of the OP asks ‘how crazy is it?’

I’m answering that question (in my opinion, obviously).

I’ve no idea why you’ve chosen to fixate on my response, which was a direct answer to a direct question.

2 adults, one child, 1 dog and 3 cats....£100 a week. We eat well, drink to much and 1 of the cats is fat.

Your spending 600 quid a month you don't have too, because DP wants to shop organic at Ocado and Abel and Cole 😂

Maybe you need to approach it from the other direction. Look at your current pension position and work out what you will both have in retirement. If you are going to be a long way off affording your current grocery bills then you need to make adjustments to those bills now.

I really want to see your receipt.

I’m in Dublin. Food in Ireland is a lot more expensive than in the UK. I love to cook so don’t buy ready meals/convenience food, all meats/poultry/eggs we buy are organic, as are most veg/fruits. Love good food so would typically have steak, chicken, pork, lots of premium stuff/treats like olives, interesting oils, nuts, chocolate, expensive butter, hummus etc.

We spend about €120/week on food for a household with two adults. This is about £105 sterling. We could easily reduce that by a third with some budgeting, if we wanted to.

I’m genuinely struggling to see how you’re spending as much as you do.

2 adults here and 2 DC 50%. We spend £45-50 on Gousto (5 meals) and then £40-50 Tesco. So £85-100 for us per week. We eat well and that also includes lunches for work and packed lunches for kids 2-3 days.

I really don't see the point of spending on organic premium stuff to be more healthy live longer etc if the flip side is you can't afford to live when you get to retirement as you spent your retirement fund on food?

It's all relative. We spend about £120 a week for 2 adults plus on average anything between £40 and £150 a week on eating out. That's fine for us because we can afford to do that. We also know that we would have more savings if we cut back on our lifestyle. But we like our lifestyle so we won't!

Get yourself down to Aldi! Spend a lot less there!

How often do you cook? You, not 'she'.

OP, we buy all organic and spend around £70 PW for two. Which I thought was a lot!

Do you actually eat everything you buy, or are you throwing a lot away?

I could easily spend that - I don't
Shop at Aldi for myself and spend between £40 and £60 a week

If I wasn't watching the money then would shop at booths or Waitrose. If you buy the nicest balsamic, olive oil, organic fruit and veg, organic dairy, branded names/extra special of everything it adds up. Even something like sensodyne toothpaste bought there instead of at b&m can be £2 more expensive
So if you buy 80 items but each are £2 more...

That's a lot but I shop at Tesco and Aldi. I spend less than £150 and feed 6 people. For half of this week I will feed an extra 3 people for those figures