how much on average do u spend on your weekly food shop?

[jenk1]

We spend too much roughly £80.
I say too much cos its 2 adults and 1 child and a baby and half of what goes in the fridge gets forgotten about and binned.
I blame it on the "buy one get one free" offers, why do i fall for them?
anyway im on a mission to see if i can knock a few quid off my weekly shop and put the rest towards something else

We normally spend £40 except for once a month when with cleaning stuff it goes up to £60.

I bought Aldi washing powder this month - no different to the one I usually buy. Let's face it, it's all probably made in the same factory!

Definitely researching cheaper options than just buying everything in Morrisons (which I hate btw!). Wilkinsons is good for cleaning stuff and toiletries. Shoping around is the answer but who has time?

I dont buy ready made meales (except fish), dont drink alchol and buy meat from butchers. I do my shopping any where mostly local sumerfield. Sometimes I go to lidl.

Sorry I wanted to say the other cleaning stuff from lidl in not as good.

Aldi laundry and cleaning stuff is fine even if you have sensitive skin (use the non-bio). I'm spending about £60 for the main shop per week (for 2 adults and 3 children)and that includes nappies, cleaning stuff and cat food. Spend £5-10 in the week on milk and bread. Iceland offers can be good too.

Please tell me how. id love to cut our bill down...any money saving tips.......

carly - menu plan (or as I do it count each 'meat/fish' portion in the freezer into days at least 30 mean's a months supply then I pick out stuff each day. also shop on line definatly recommend it. before we would go to tesco and spend at least £250 for a month for the two of us, and £30/£40 for the dogs, (we did switch to lidl for the juice kwick save for this iceland for that) but we were mainly buying crap (even thou the bill reduced to about £160/£170 + milk & bread money) and we always ran out of food. now thou we shop at tesco.com (DH is happier about that) and meat from the butchers (much tastier meat and althou slightly dearer worth every penny) we don't run out of food and all the 'impulse ooh I fancy that' buys are not an issue which was our main thing, have also cut portion sizes down as we would always leave food after meals so cut it right down now we eat everything - and have manged to reduce the bill to £150 incl the bread and milk money.

i do menu plan and cook for us nrly every ngiht. however im using the you are what u eat book, and things are exp. i think i need to find cheaper recipes! love shopping online as its def cheaper. think ill have to start again!

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lol - r u what u eat??? - never did go in for that much we're probably on a v poor diet that programmes mad I like watching how much junk ppl actually eat at the start of the programme.

I spend about £120 per week for two adults and one preschooler. I blame waitrose. There are things that dh insists on like best quality steak once a week, posh french cheese and wine and organic milk for the boy. I buy expensive vegetables and readymeals . He has demanded cassolet for dinner after watching Rick Stein last night. He sees fancy food as his reward for working so hard.

To be honest I am a food chav and could quite easily survive on beans on toast. I hate cooking and I am very bad at it as my concentration wanders at the crucial moment without fail.

budget is £78 for food, pharmacy, nappies, clothes and toys for ds. only 3 of us. clearly could do better!!

whoops, 78 per week!

about £120 per week for 2 adults and three children. It's too much, and would be much better if we had an Aldi or a Lidl here. I usually go to Waitrose as it's much more compact and emptier, and thus quicker, than our huge cr*p Asda, so that doesn't really help, either.

£50 a week for two adults and three kids. But I spend another £15 on school meals for two of them. I make ost things from scratch, and find we eat really well with lots of fish, fruit etc- the only things I don't buy are cakes and sweets.
Dh heard Aldi are planning on aiming for the M&S market and there might be a price hike coming? Not sure, but their foos is far nicer than you'd expect. Personally, i find Tesco cheapest, and I deliberately shop in the smaller store, as I spend too much when there's lots of exciting new things to try out.

Piffle - where do you get your organic fruit/veg/eggs box delivered from?
I am a sucker for BOGOF deals - spend about 300 per month I think - 2 adults & 1 hungry bulldog - would love to cut down.

oh I hate these threads

we spend about a million pounds a week on our food

I'm not sure exactly, but we get an organic veg box and fruit box once a week which is about £15, then do a monthly supermarket shop at about £70, plus a few top ups each week, maybe £20 worth? So that would be £210 a month, so £50?

im going to be moving out of my parents soon and was wondering about how much i would have to be spending on groceries for me, dh and dd (and possible a new bump on the way), what would be a reasonable figure on a low budget?

oh and does anyone know how much aldi/lidl nappies are compared to tesco ones (£6.71/70) size three?

Four of us plus cat, usually spend £100 a week. The more I try to cut it down the more it climbs upwards.

I use alot of Aldi cleaning products and find them fine (apart from washing up liquid, can't find anything that beats Fairy). Always buy washing powder, fab conditioner and dishwasher tablets there. Have recently discovered that they do a daily shower spray so am trying that this week.

Tortoise - or anyone else - where do you get these organic fruit/veg boxes from?

I used to get an organic box delivery from Abel & Cole, although I stopped it because they sent loads of stuff that just didn't suit the way I cook.

We spend about £75 a week including cleaning and household stuff like toilet rolls, laundry liquid. We have talked about this before jenk, so you know I try to get everything organic which does make it more expensive, but I keep it down by cooking in bulk and freezing it (saves on waste and you can stock up on special offers without it all going off).

The way I plan our food is to cook at least one batch of food every week, and make say 5 to 10 days worth. Eat one that night, put one in the fridge, freeze the rest. The first few weeks you need to cook 2 or 3 times each week, but after about a month you have enough meals in the freezer to eat something different every night for a week, and then you only have to cook once a week to keep it going. In between we might have fresh things like salads, pittas with hummus, pizza etc. I think it really does save money as you don't keep having to pop to the supermarket and end up buying loads of extras. Also I only end up spending one day a week in the kitchen

We spend £40 in the supermarket every week, which is just meals. I don't meal plan until I get to the supermarket then will pick up a chicken and say right, that's for such-and-such, and so on, so we've got 7 dinner type meals. Quiche, sandwich fillings, salad, cold meat, eggs and cheese do lunches if we're in... spend probably another £10-£20 on extra milk, bread, biscuits, cakes etc, and fruit and veg. Also buy nappies, cleaning stuff and cakes and biscuits from Wilkinsons etc and a shop I love called Home Bargains where I get toothpaste, moisturiser, shampoo etc.

I don't really eat a lot of meat, mainly chicken and fish so we don't buy other kinds of meat that often (except mince and proper sausages).

So total about £65 a week which includes everything, but we do go to cafes for lunch a few times a week, and out for coffee etc far too much (and then there's takeaways )

I really don't know how you do it. Our only treat is 2 bottles of wine a week and we still spend 120 ever 10 days. One of the probkems I ave is a DP who ears enough for 3 people.

I am not kidding I will cook a big dish of something easily enough for 4 people thinking we can have the rest tomorrow. Yeah right, he polishes it off. Thing is, he is really slim, not an ounce of fat on him so when I complain he says 'I'm clearly not eating too much, otherwise I'd be overweight'. When he puts it like that I can't really argue.
He is one of those people who stands up all the time, even watching telly. Sometimes I feel like saying 'sit down and save us some money'

I was spending £100plus a week in Sainsburys and have now swapped to Asda shopping every 10 days and planning meals. I spent £90.00 this week in Asda. I budget £100.00 now every 10 days and have £20.00 float for break milk, extras in Aldi. Its working so far. Asda do two small chickens for £5.00 which can sort us out for 4 meals, (2 adults 2 children). Id love to buy organic but the price is just too much currently.