Weekly shop

[SavvySquid]

How much many do you currently spend on shopping £

Mines; £120 - 3 adults at home

Depends what I'm buying. 2 adults and 13yo Anything between £70-£100. Usually Tesco as it's the most convenient (club card + get often offers and vouchers so save few quid here and there). I cook from scratch , don't buy ready meals or loads of snacks, just what we need day to day.

But that doesn't include work lunch 3 days a week or school lunches.

Yup, we spoke about it recently. Although we don't watch every penny, I can clearly see how everything gone up in price! I remember going shopping during Covid. Big-ish shopping trip was about £50.

I spend a similar amount to you and it’s also 3 adults.

Last night we had a flatbread each, I covered them with a mixture of roasted gammon pieces, baby sweetcorn, red and yellow peppers, red onions and chickpeas in chilli sauce topped with fresh chopped parsley.

Tonight it’s a homemade veg soup, that’s has 6 different types of veg in with bacon sandwiches. I’m going to make some homemade rice pudding as well.

I don’t buy much frozen food but when stuff is on offer I buy and freeze.

Usually spend about £60-70 for 3 adults. That includes cleaning products (just have a couple) and toiletries and pet food. Tend to cook 6/9 portion meals, so there’s enough for another meal to go in fridge or freezer. We have biscuits and cakes and crisps. Not big drinkers and maybe buy alcohol once a month, as there is always some left over in our booze cupboard for the odd weekend drinks we have. Don’t tend to drink in the week.

I try to avoid top-up shops….thats where the total mounts up in my experience.

Unless it’s milk or bread, if we run out of something, we wait until the next week’s shop to have it again. Our cupboards are pretty full so there are always lunch bits (cheese, baked beans etc) which can be used if other stuff has run out, and always fruit such as apples or satsumas. We don’t just ‘nip out’ to the shop for random stuff we fancy. We eat what’s in the weekly shop.

I also find shopping online and having it delivered saves money. I’m not tempted by seeing stuff and if my ‘basket’ is looking pricey, it’s easy to go through and remove some bits.

Of course some weeks cost more - lots of people coming over for dinner, or friends staying for weekend etc. But I also manage the odd week where I can do a £30-40 shop as I don’t need to buy meat as we live off the freezer, and there’s no toiletries/cleaning stuff/pet food needed.

@WombatChocolate that's very cheap, teach us your ways please!

Around £200 at the beginning of the month using the 10% voucher at Lidl then whatever is left at the end of the same month to bring us to £250 to get the voucher again. On the £200 monthly shop around £80 is meat to freeze. Weekly just top up milk, fruit, bread etc so around £10-20. Probably another monthly £50 elsewhere for other bits. 3 adults. So around £350 monthly. occasionally buy stuff in bulk on offer, so fruit squash, pepsi cans, curries etc.

I’m not sure I have anything exciting to share.

I try to manage portion sizes for meals so we have good sized meals, but don’t dip into the bowl for seconds, if it’s intended to serve another meal.

I add in lots of veggies to bologognase etc to bulk it up a bit. I don’t add lots of extra ‘sides’ beyond veg (ie extra breads, dips etc) for standard weekday meals.

We don’t have pudding as standard. Do have biscuits and cake snacks though.

Pet food is mostly supermarket own brand. Fruit is usually bananas, apples, grapes, satsumas and one tub of berries when in season. Veg is carrots, mushrooms, peppers, leeks and frozen broccoli.

We only drink tea, water and usually have one bottle of high-juice in the cupboard - so no fizzy drinks or fruit juices.

We don’t tend to buy ‘lunchables’ but have bread, cheese, hummus, salad, beans on toast.

Use own brand laundry liquid and value dishwasher tablets.

Tend to think of weekday meals costing about £1.25-50 per serving.

I think what you spend depends on where you shop.
Compare Aldi to Waitrose, Lidl to M&S, and I imagine there would be a big difference in the amount spent.

£80-£100 for 3 adults and three kids. But that's just food. No cleaning stuff as I get that every few months from Costco. I'm eating the dregs of my freezer so I have only bought two M&S pizza meal deals for 12 each this week. I'm going to try to just buy what I need going forward as I always have say 30 tins of soup, chopped tomatoes etc and it's taking up too much room. Plus I threw out a fair bit of out of date food after a post Christmas clean of the cupboards.

I bet if I looked at my monthly spending I get more top up shops than I register. It's probably way more but we are pretty frugal. Very few snacks. No booze. Boring sensible meals full of carbs. We eat so much pasta and rice. I did a biriyani for under £6 that we ate for two days with more left over. I was thoroughly sick of it on day two. I think because we eat few meals like that a week and get rice in 20kg bags that brings the overall cost down. But maybe I'm also a delusional and I'm.spending more than I think

I shop online.

It's just gone up again to about £100 a week for 2 adults and 5 pets. That's for everything though. There's no top up shops at all. And it includes tobacco and wine and toiletries etc.

It was about £40 for food but it's gone up to about £50. The increases are mad. I don't mind paying more for wine and cigarettes. It's an addiction but I could get help cutting them out.my choice.
Basics have sky rocketed though. We've got rack of lamb this week cos it was only £2 more expensive than the chicken thighs! I'm finding more and more that a pack of sausages, for example, is the same price as 2 duck legs!

I cook everything from scratch, barely any upfs, we rarely snack, loads of fruit and veg and salady bits with every meal. I feel that weighs up with my smoking and drinking!

I do like cream cake but I make them and freeze them and take them out to defrost when I fancy it .

I do wonder what people eat that they spend so much. Is it all convenience food or eating out?
I don't really scrimp. We've had moussaka, chicken Kiev, chicken schnitzel and the rack of lamb this week as posh proper dinners, and left overs or omelette chips and salad for the others.

I don’t count my dogs food in the general food budget.
the amount I spend varies massively. Why do you ask? The amount you say you spend is really good