How much is your weekly food shop?

[Zombieof3]

Hi all,

Im struggling at the moment with the amount of money I spend of a food shop and just wanted to be able to compare it to others.

please state how much your food shop is, how many people it is for and where you bought it?

Thank you everyone! I’ve been trying to cut my spending where I can and realised I’m spending easily £150-170 a week on a food shop for us five from Tesco. I might try shopping around a bit but it looks like it’s not much above what others are spending either.

Its actually terrifying how we’re supposed to live with these costs and yet I don’t see anything being done about it 😞

If I do it online with Sainsbury's, £120 a week, two alders and two hungry 13 yos. School lunches on top of that, and a couple of top ups, maybe £80-£100 a week.

If h goes to Tesco (I hate the website, he goes to the store), anyone's guess, £200ish plus top up.

£80 2 adults, 2 adult sized teens. Tesco on line. Try to avoid top ups, but happy to buh deals if I spot any.

£350 a week, two adults and a cat. Try to manage chronic illness and autoimmune condition with diet. So £3 for a small loaf.

For the same reasons we don’t eat out/take holidays etc any more so we do spend more on food to make less a bit easier and more enjoyable.

About £700 per month, 2 adults, 2 teens that eat SO much.

About £70 per week for 4 people - 2 adults (both working from home) and 2 children, and almost all vegan, from Sainsbury's.

2 Adults and 1 teen boy. I spend about £120 per week for food shopping but we eat out once or twice a week.

About 150 a week. Me and 3 teenagers, 2 of them are boys and eat loads. That includes cleaning stuff, toiletries but no alcohol and no drinks other than tea.

2 adults, 2 children l, 1 dog. About £120 a week, Asda

About 70 quid. Aldi and Iceland. 2 adults and 1 teen.

Just back from Weekly food shop, £105 for 2 adults and 3 DCs (one baby) that doesn't include things like toiletries, washing powder and cleaning products etc..
it's slightly higher than I would normally spend but Half term means extra snacks for growing DCs!

Family of 4, £125-£150/wk.

Today I spent about €100 and it was a random shop really. More like a top up of bits and pieces, things for the kids packed lunches and a few dinner items. I already had pasta, rice, carrots, onions etc at home. But I got…
Breaded Chicken Fillets

Variety 18pk Crisps

milk
24 pack toilet paper
Pepperoni pizza

Wafer Bars

Snack a Jack crackers

4 Beef Quarterpounders

Lean Round Mince

Soft Cheese

Strawberry winders

Microwaveable Basmati Rice X4

Soy Sauce Light X2

Mozzarella cheese
Unsmoked Bacon x2

Kids Fromage Frais X2

Microwave Popcorn Butter
Butter

6 Free Range Eggs
Trolli Jelly Mix

Curly Fries

Roast Chicken Pieces

jar of Black Olives

Broc/Cauliflower Frozen Mix

Hawaii Pizza 2 Pack

French Baguette

Jar of Pesto
Extra Fine Beans

Cucumber

Mature Cheddar

Wholemeal Bagels 5 Pack

Butter Croissant

Dried Mango Pack

Pretzels

Peaches 500g

Pastel de Nata 4pk

Sushi pack x2

That will do a long with what I already have until this time next week. I’ll need more milk and I will buy tomato’s tomorrow though as I forgot them.

2 adults 2 tweens
£150 a week, Sainsburys then Lidl top ups
It includes cleaning products and cat food for 2 cats but it’s definitely a lot!

@Zombieof3 do you want to share what you buy and make and see if people can make suggestions.to lower it?

Also forgot teen has £20/25 PW on lunch card.

It's around £500pm. Family of 4.

I buy meat in bulk from a butchers cash and carry, split down the huge packs and freeze.

Main shop is Lidl or Aldi. Pick up some bits from B&M and do a small branded shop at Sainsburys or Morrisons every 8wks or so. Any left over fruit going a bit soft is chopped and frozen and used in smoothies. I hate waste and like to use leftovers where I can. Happy to do cheap meals too, jacket potatoes with tuna, chilli and gnocchi or chunky soup and homemade french bread. The kids love homemade pot noodle (chopped chicken breast, mushrooms, sweetcorn, chicken stock with a couple of packs or ramen noodles).

I've been making huge strides into cooking from scratch, bake my own bread and make my own ice cream, pizza and muffins in an attempt to reduce UPFs. Stocking up on the raw ingredients for this has been expensive but I have plenty to keep me going for a while. I have a big collection of herbs and spices so make my own sauces/ rubs etc.

£200
2 adults 3 kids

Probably top up fresh £10 a day.

One adult and one teen - usually between £65-70 per week which includes cleaning products, toiletries and wet cat food. I can’t get the weekly shop cost any lower unfortunately.

I usually get our shopping on Sunday morning and by Wednesday evening the fridge is starting to look a little bare and have to be more creative with meal ideas!

£15O to £200 a week 4 adults.

That's probably about average for your family size, but comparing with others isn't that helpful when everyone has different budgets, priorities, dietary needs and available supermarkets. Spending the same as someone who doesn't need to cut down doesn't mean that you can't cut down if you need to or want to free up money for other things.

You could probably reduce your spend by 10/20% without anyone going hungry by cutting out things that are not strictly essential like soft drinks if you buy them. Buy the cheaper fruit and veg so bananas, carrots, normal broccoli, not fresh berries and asparagus/sprouting broccoli. Cheaper cuts of meat, less meat and more pulses and seasonal vegetables, own brand or Lidl/Aldi, that sort of thing. Don't waste anything and get all your cleaning products and toiletries on offer/in larger packs and use less than the recommended amount.

We are about £300-£350 a month

Main shop about £60-£70 and once every 2 months I do a big shop at booker which is about £150

Family of 4 - 2 adults, and 8 and 11 year old boys. Husband and I work from home and kids have school lunches which are on top of this.

Top tips I have...

Use everything. Bendy veg becomes soup (I have as my lunch) or I will batch cook things before they go off and freeze. If there is enough to make 1 portion then left overs are put in a tupperware and frozen (make sure you label unless you want to play freezer roulette- I am better at this than my husband. Black bananas become banana muffins. I freeze milk and bread. I freeze excess veg which can be frozen. Usual stuff. Every so often we will have a freezer week where we use up the freezer meals which have accumulated.

We shop at lidl

We split meat into portions and freeze on day of purchase. Never goes off then.

We cook from scratch and batch cook but I realise working from home makes this easier.

I use the olio app. This has saved me a huge amount. The meal type things are usually listed around 9:30pm for pick up that evening which is tricky for me as I can only really do daytime pick ups due to kids but e.g yesterday I picked up - sourdough loaf, two loaves of bread, two bags of salad (we have 4 guinea pigs which will help with this), some herb new potatoes, some spring onions, two mangoes - all for free. We freeze what can be frozen and plan meals around what can't. Going to have a go at making mango sorbet later. We have some wonderful food waste heroes near us and I am considering joining them and volunteering myself. Olio isn't about poverty, it is about preventing food waste.

3 adults 3 kids 2 dogs 4 cats

Try to keep it 100 or under for weekly tescos delivery shop. We don't do top ups every week maybe twice a month if that. Usually £50 or below from aldi or lidl. Add on another £50 for cleaning products from b&m every say 3 to 4 months.

I don't drive so that really cuts down opportunity for just picking up stuff.

I remember our weekly food shop being 60 including some luxuries and treats.A £100 shop would be like a Christmas mega treaty shop. life has gotten so ridiculously expensive.

Have been feeling like we've been spending way too much recently, but glad that we're in a similar position to a lot of people. It's really hard to cut down.

2 adults, 2 primary-aged children. Spend around £120-40 a week usually on main Tesco shop, then around £20-30 on top-up, from Morrison's.

150 ish a week morrisons based on 5 people 2 dogs 1 cat .