Food shopping

[travelmadmum23]

In total how much does your weekly shop cost and your location?

Also are you branded, non branded or a mixture?

Interested to see how this varies throughout the UK

my bank app tells me I spend about £900 a month, 2 adults and 2 teenagers who eat a lot! Includes veg for pets, alcohol and all basic toiletries. We eat a mix of branded and non branded, I try to keep an eye on offers and stock up.

Aren't prices in any particular supermarket fairly consistent across the country, eg Tesco in Cornwall, London, Yorkshire etc will be pretty much the same. I travel nationally for work and don't see any particular variation.

What does make a difference is which shop - Aldi vs Waitrose, also the convenience versions of Tesco etc are more expensive.

Also what you actually buy, carrots vs asparagus, value chicken vs organic, dried chick peas vs jarred ones etc etc. Likewise your budget and priorities, some people seem to think a punnet of blueberries per person per day is a basic essential but this is nowhere near affordable to others.

Do you shop around and buy on offer or do you buy week to week from the most convenient shop so likely pay quite a bit more on average?

All likely to be far more significant than location. But £85 pw for a family of 4 is probably below average - they quoted this on Eat Well for Less and I'm sure it was more than £100 and that was before the recent price rises.

Gloucestershire. Approx £50 for two adults per week, buy shop own when possible. Times were very hard approx 20 years ago and I learnt how to be a lot more careful - we're a lot more relaxed now and have things like salmon, but some adjustments stick. Either way, we have regular meals (with veggies, protein etc) and as well as snacks.

Family of 4 (kids 2 and 6) - £120 a week

Just me, about 90 a week.

It depends on the week but for 2 adults, average around £100 a week. All meat from the butchers and organic fruit and vegetables bought from the farm shop. Fresh seafood from the fishmonger. Milk in bottles from the farm shop too so all good quality.

We make everything from scratch so that £100 will do 2 adults a breakfast, lunch and dinner everyday.

Does not include cleaning supplies, loo roll, toothpaste, dog food, etc.

I have no idea how someone can do a full food shop for £30. My milk costs me £4 a week 😂 I bought two steaks for one supper and that was £25. This is also doesn’t include the £80 per month on coffee beans!

It varies from £50 to £150 per week depending on what I already have in & if it includes cleaning products. I split my shopping over 3/4 different shops; the butchers, home bargains, aldi/lidl & Tesco to get the best prices.

Household of 4 plus a cat.

Me, dh and our 16 year old ds (who eats me out of house and home). Roughly £140 a week. No brand names, that's an Aldi shop.

1 adult, 2 children and 2 dogs, about £100 a week.

I cook mostly from scratch, avoid UPF's and try to buy organic where I can.

Dairy, eggs and bread £18 delivered / week
Fruit and veg box £25 per week delivered
Local whole hoggett (older lamb), butchered - lasts 2 months ish £200 = £25 ish per week
Wholefoods order every 6 months for everything else £430 = £18ish per week
Top up from local shop if we for example run out of milk £10

So about £100 for 3 adults.
This is cooking from scratch, eating meat a couple of times a week, and vegetarian food the rest of the time. We eat out a couple of times a month, which costs extra.

If under £200 a week I’m happy, for 2 adults and a pup. It used to be less than £140 not so long ago!

London. 2 adults and 3 teen dc. About £250
"big shop" and probably another £100 on top up bits. Mix of brand and non. Only dh drinks so alcohol is included but only accounts for about £30 of that.

About £70 a week, not including alcohol. 2 adults, one vegan and one pescatarian. Dog food is £60 a month. We also average about £30 a week on takeaways. West Yorkshire.

According to the "spending insights" on my current account, I spent £4695 on groceries last year - so £90 a week, which is higher than I thought. There's me, DH and two adult children, one of whom is away at uni (the other has hollow legs!)

We’re in Yorkshire. 2 adults and 1 teen and ours is about £100 PW. A Morrisons shop every week and once a month a shop at Lidl for basics (pasta, rice etc). All meat from the butchers, about 1/2 fruit and veg from greengrocers and milk from milkman.

This doesn’t include cat food for 5 cats that come from Amazon subscribe and save.

I cook form scratch, batch cook and have very little food waste.

I do a muscle foods order at the start of the month for around £120 that includes all meat for the entire month.
Then about £150-200 a week! I have a type one diabetic so their snacks cost a wee fortune as they always need fast acting sugar in the house. I also have 4 cats and the price of cat food has near enough tripled over the years.

How I shop for on average £30 per week is say
Week 1 £50 Morrisons online
Week 2 £50 Ocado online
Week 3 £30 Morrisons online
Week 4 Use up cupboard, freezer stuff etc.
I use UHT milk, make bread & some times yogurt. It's just me and I don't tend to eat crisps, drink fizzy so I'm sure this keeps it down. A very different story if I had a husband & kids to shop for.

Well if you don't have the money for £ 25.00 for steaks and £80.00 for coffee beans you don't buy them.

2 adults, 2 dc around £100 a week.

Two adults every day and one adult about three evenings. Includes breakfasts, dinners and my lunch. Also includes toiletries, cleaning stuff, a few beers and the occasional bottle of gin. £180 to £200 per week.

Mostly scratch cooking, lots of fish and chicken, a bit of red meat and a roast or special meal at the weekends. Plenty of salad, veg and fruit.

We have good food and hardly ever have a takeaway and I hardly need to buy top ups.

The cats are separate - about £120pcm - they may be a tiny bit spoilt.

My £100 a week doesn’t include those items, those are additional items. When I was in university, and lived off the bare minimum, my food shop was £20 per week and that was a decade ago.

My comment still stands, £30 would not stretch far enough to feed two adults a healthy meal all week.

I made the comment about the coffee beans because before covid, I paid £26 a month for the exact same coffee. I recognise it’s still a luxury but was said to demonstrate how expensive food is now.

3 adults 1 child 1 cat roughly £40-£60 pw
I cook from scratch and shop at Lidl , no branded products . I often buy the £1.50 box from Lidl and I make so many meals from it usually big lot of soap which I take to my work and some muffins from the fruit

Forgot to add I'm
In Fife

£130 a week. 2 adults, 1 teen(adult size), 1 tween. We aren't one of those cook everything from scratch type families. That does include toiletries, cleaning etc though, not just food.

Rural Wales.

£160 a week for 1 adult, 2 children and 1 teenager.