How much do you spend a week/month on food?

[Badgoushk]

I'd be really interested to know how much people spend a week or month on food?

I'm on maternity leave and have a weaning baby and a toddler, plus a husband!

We get a weekly online shop that costs approximately £135 for food, £15 for toiletries, loo roll, nappies, etc. So £150 a week or £650 a month.

I cook everything from scratch and we have meat or fish every night, plus plenty of fresh fruit and vegetables. We don't buy alcohol (can't afford it and I'm breastfeeding!) or any sweet treats.

I'm interested to know if this is a lot? (Ocado!) or whether others spend a lot more/less.

I take my children to the supermarket to see the rotisserie chickens roasting. That's 17 meals for all 9 of us for a month sorted! Plus then there is the soup after...

30quid a week for 2+1, usually100 a month overall

from waitrose! if you have a good meal plan, plan it out on a sunday for the rest of the week, it's easy.

(mind you, that's not including weekly wine required.....)

Bluecoat, would you mind sharing some of your meal ideas please?

hey badgoushk

Very "whatever takes our fancy" really. I get emails from BBC good food and read some food magazines, and we'll pick out some recipes we like the look of, and make them.

so we'd buy whatever is required for that - and then (crucially) plan something to do with whats left. a healthy store cupboard helps a lot - never run out of cous-cous, rice, pasta, oils and vinegars, dried species etc. (buy all of this in bulk when on offer)

Thanks Bluecoat. I shop in Waitrose too but spend far too much. Do your meals involve meat/fish?

In the last month we have spent £700 on groceries and wine. . That said, we have done quite a lot of entertaining in that time (friends staying for the three day bank holiday weekend for example), and it just seems to have been the month to stock up on EVERYTHING in the cupboards and the bathrooms and so on.

I imagine we average £5-600 a month (including wine) for two adults and two children (who eat as much as we do).

£120-125 a week, doesn't sound so bad when I put it like that! Combination of Aldi and Waitrose and sometimes Tesco if I go that way.

Two adults, two kids, £160 to £170 per week.
Includes one bottle of wine and a ton of fruit and veg

mine is about 170 a week. for 2 babys. 2 kids. 2 teens. 2 adults. includes everything we need

I keep it under £100 a week for all food/non-food groceries for us - 2 adults, 2 tweens.

Mix of Lidl and Waitrose + Tesco Express for the odd bottle of milk etc.

We are a family of 4 , 3 adults ,1 teen . I spend about £450-500 per month that's food and toiletries , no alcohol ( we are all t total) and includes gluten free stuff for dd ( eg £2.00 for a loaf ) , I buy a lot of fruit but we don't have much red meat . I shop at Tesco and Marks mainly . I never buy loo rolls / washing powder / cleaning products as my mum gets all that in Costco / wherever it's on offer and I just shop from her stockpile for free ! I also spend at least £300 per month on eating out .

Two adults (one 6.5 mo pregnant) - we spend between £60 and £100 per week depending on whether we use Ocado or ASDA delivery.

That includes, fresh food, cleaning products, a small amount of alcohol (we mainly buy alcohol to cook with).

we spend around 70 a week on all food, drinks, toiletries etc from aldi, £20 a week for mid week top ups (whatever is left from that goes in the holiday spends jar) and about £10 on chippy tea one night.

Can't use, I have a large family with adult and teen boys. At present I have 4 of the kids at home, boys 23, 19, 14 and girl 16, plus dh and I. I spend well u der £100 a week. Wish I could spend more, but I just can't. Meals are quite simple and veggie several times a week.
Breakfast is cereal, pancakes, hm scones or similar
Lunch tends to be sandwiches/wraps, fruit, yogurt and maybe a packet of crisps. Sometimes pasta with pesto or something, sometimes left over soup etc from the night before.
Meat is stretched, so a kilo of mince will make, for instance, bolognese, pasta bake and lasagne and then chili for tamale pie and jacket potatoes. So more of a flavouring than a main event. I do t eat it cos I'm veggie, so that helps.
I plan meals around which carb I use, so a pasta meal, a rice meal, a potato meal and a bread meal and repeat..kind of but not quite.
Snacks for the boys tend to be fruit, home baking, cheap noodles, things like sausage rolls. I usually have something like pasta salad in the fridge or egg mayo that the can use as well. Also we tend to eat beans/lentils regularly.

We're a family of 6 (me, Dh and dc aged 15, 12, 9 and 2). I spent roughly £70 in Aldi every week on food and toiletries. Nappies I buy in bulk from Amazon every 6 weeks or so for around £23 and I buy washing powder, fabric softener, cat food and bottled water from Costco and spend around £80 per month on that. So it's roughly £380 per month on shopping on average.

We've been on a very strict budget, shopping wise, whilst I've been at home with the youngest for 2 years but I start a new job next week so can hopefully begin to relax and buy a few more treats when I do the weekly shop from now on.

Well I think I spend about £150 a week and it's just the 4 of us, though one is an extremely sporty rapidly growing teen , he eats twice as much as me at least. I buy meat and fish a lot, and sometimes get expensive joints and a big variety of veg and fruit, again not cheap. I usually shop at Sainbury's , but also top up in Budgens and the Co-Op as I pass them on the way home. We usually eat a chicken at one sitting, quite unable to stretch it to 2 meals or the to me mystical 3 mumsnet meals. And that includes toiletries and cleaning products. But it doesn't include lunches during the week. The DC have school lunches, I use a subsidised canteen at work and DH pops out. It also includes a box of 10 or 12 bottles of beer most weeks. We are not on a strict budget, though I hate waste and meal plan to avoid it. I reckon an extra £65 for lunches a week, bringing us to a total of around £200 a week. DH tends to go a little overboard on lunches and gets expensive sushi, fruit salads etc.

On average , for myself And three dd, everything included I would spend around 300 per week. I feel this is a bit excessive and that I could probably save, but this is it for just now.

Shop at Aldi and spend roughly 80 a week, this includes toiletries, washing powder,loo roll and enough for ds and dh to take packed lunches.

I have 3 kids still at home and 2cats(that are fussy eaters and won't eat cheap catdood
Grrr)average £100 a week.that incl a dairy free diet for 8yo,son on strict weight gain from dietician who eat like plague locusts in house and a veggie tween that also eats for england!lots fruit and veg eaten,meal plan,bulking out any meat dishes,making soups and home baking helps us