How much is your weekly food shop?

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I’ve just done the food shop online (we usually do it in person) in an attempt to get costs down and not just buy things we see but it was still so expensive…

I managed to find a £25 off your first shop voucher so it should have been £116.06 but it went down to £92.56 with the £1.50 delivery fee.

This will do 7 teas (with half of one frozen as leftovers for next week), lunches and breakfasts (there will probably still be breakfast for next week as I ordered a big box of Weetabix and long life milk) for 2 adults and a 2 year old. The only ‘extras’ are orange juice, dilute juice, bananas and yogurts 🤷‍♀️

Without sounding like a lentil weaving evangelist,I have managed to cut out costs significantly ( 4 adults) by being " greener".
I have one bottle of cleaning spray which I make myself and keep refilling. It does kitchen and bathroom. Bar soap is cheaper than shower gel and hand wash,shampoo bars last way longer than bottles as you use less. I never buy fabric conditioner,cling film,wipes,kitchen paper,air freshener etc. Saves a fortune.
Like many other pps, padding meals out with pulses and making soups helps cut costs. Oh, and making your own yoghurt is really easy. We get through a lot of it.

About £140, including toiletries, some cleaning products, some wine. 2 adults, 13 yr old, 7 yr old and 5yr old.

3 x adults

I try to keep it around £120 a week with the odd top up like bread, milk or something I’ve forgotten. Maybe 1 takeaway a month. 1 bottle of wine a week.

However, the last few weeks has had xmas stuff, so probably £150-£180. Currently trying to keep it below £100 whilst we finish the xmas leftovers.

About £80 to 110 per week for food, basic toiletries and cleaning supplies for 3 adults, but we are mostly vegetarian and don't drink alcohol. DH will have chicken or prawns maybe once a week, but no other meat. Also cook everything from scratch.

About £120-130 a week. 2 adults, 2 teenagers, dog, cat and guinea pigs which all push up the cost!

My fortnightly shop is about £50 sometimes less but its just me no one else.

Two adults. Hardly drink alcohol. DH housebound so we don't go out, and I try to buy delicious things, as well as the ordinary food, to compensate. About £90-110 a week atm. Two dogs but I buy their food separately in sacks so £60 every six weeks.

That's everything, cleaning things, toiletries, the lot.

@EmmaGrundyForPM I don’t know if it’s all ALDIs but ours does click and collect. It’s extortionate (£5) but it’s worth it to me to not have to battle round the supermarket.

I do my big shop fortnightly alternating between Aldi and Tesco and I spend between £70-£80, with another £20ish a week for milk and fruit top-ups. That’s just for 2 adults and we’re both vegetarian.

DD and her partner lived with us until September and I naively thought the shopping bills would halve when they moved out but the way prices keep going up, I reckon I’m only saving about £100 a month.

We are four, kids are 8 and 10 and not huge eaters and we spend between £60 and £100 a week in Sainsbury’s plus around £30 in Aldi which I find better for certain specific things.
however we’re lucky to be able to afford it and imm quite sure we could spend a lot less if we were a bit more organised

About £200-£250 a week, 4 adults, 1 16 year old and 1 SEN 4 year old - we don't drink so no alcohol in there, but 4 year old as specific needs and we still needs nappies etc which adds to it, includes toiletries and cleaning stuff too

£160 :( but i guess that is 2 weeks, as we bulk shop, all washing stuff, cleaning, toiletries, food, formula, nappies.

It was 200 today :( but we had to get some baby clothes on top as they grow so quick.

I generally cook everything from scratch, sauces, hummus, pesto ect and freeze for the week, i bake cakes, cookies. So i guess some weeks are cheaper if we have stock 😂

It does make me cringe, the formula alone is 40 a week. We get 1 tub, but a pack of premade as its easier when we are out, or when i am working for the family.

I guess also when LO is older it will be cheaper, as i am buying more expensive bits. Like i could of got her yoghurts for 75p but they were made with sweetners and artificial flavours, so i had to get the £2 ones made with fresh fruit. When shes older i wont stress as much. So quite a lot i had to get more expensive items purely due to this.

£100 a week for 2 adults and a 15mo

I do 3 x meals a week from gousto. Massive portion sizes mean there's always left overs for lunch. Then everything else is a simple supper/lunch/breakfast. Probably spend 200 to 250 a month on all food/milk/juice/coffee

Around £145 for 2 adults and 3 huge very sporty teens.

Probably about £160/£180 a week. 4 adults (1 is vegetarian and 1 a total gym bunny) All take lunch to work.
Ive always cooked from scratch, a lot of home made soups etc, but have no long got an additional freezer so will be doing even more batch cooking

£100-£120 a week for 2 adults & 4 yr old DS

£35 per week for one adult. I've whittled down my shopping list to the bare essentials.

This pays for:
-Vegetables & bananas
-Oat milk x 1
-Free range eggs x 1
-Small piece of cheese from fancy cheese shop
-A pack of tofu x 1
-2 x loaves of crusty bread
-Any tinned stuff or store cupboard items, tea, chickpeas, butter, porridge oats, etc
-Small pack of all butter shortbread biscuits
-Large bar of dark chocolate

Vegetarian, small appetite, no snacks, no alcohol, no fizzy drinks, etc.

What about the other stuff? It's that I find that adds up sometimes!
Washing up liquid, laundry stuff, bin bags, toilet roll...

Currently £200, there are 7 of us. All adults. I need to try to reduce it.

I see a lot of you saying family of 4 for around £100, can I ask if that includes ‘top up’ pop ins to the co op etc? And does that include cleaning toiletry etc or just food? We spend about 150 (inc top ups) and I just can’t seem to get it down! I have two kids with allergies so have to get alot of free from stuff, other than that everything is own brand, basics, I cook from scratch every day, no take outs, no alcohol, I do buy nappies/wipes/baby Ella’s stuff. No junk just fruit. I’m at a loss!

@Strictlymad i don’t do top up shops..I buy absolutely everything when I go shopping. It was a conscious thing a couple of years ago and whilst it probably put about £25 a week on the shop, it probably saves about £30 overall

That covers absolutely everything. The only cleaning products I use are washing powder, a general liquid cleaner, washing up liquid, dishwasher tablets and bleach.

Im aiming for this amount as ours has been over £100 for months now.

We are the same as you, lots of fruit and veg and everything cooked from scratch and no brands.

I budget £500 a month which works out to around £115 a week and generally I do manage to stick to that. 2 adults, a 5 year old (gets free school lunches) and a 2 year old still in nappies. Includes alcohol other than DH wanky craft beer every so often but I count that in our social spending categories as he gets this instead of going to the pub. We get online deliveries and tried to cut out top up shops as much as possible last year, the excuse was always going in for milk and bread so now I buy double milk and just check the date is long enough and I freeze an extra loaf of bread. It means we don’t pick up all the extras that were inevitably adding £20 a week onto the shop.

Ours is between £120-£160 a week. 2 adults, 1 teenager and 1 primary age child. All meals are prepared at home, we don't eat out. So is for breakfast, lunch and dinner plus snacks and drinks. It also includes all toiletries, cleaning products, household items such as toilet roll, kitchen roll and lightbulbs as and when needed as well as cat food.

Seems so high now as used to be between £50 and £80 and was only ever £100 when we had nappies, wipes and baby milk to buy