How much are you spending on food now?

[DarthVader]

Food prices seem to have rocketed recently...so how much is your monthly spend on food at the moment?

• supermarket shopping
• shopping at local shops/veg boxes/etc
• school lunches/ lunches at work
• take aways
• meals out
• coffees & cakes out
• sweets & chocolate

TOTAL

How many adults & kids is this for

Have you changed your food buying habits recently and why?

Well, between £60 - £90 a week, so around £300 a month, which is what our budget is! That's for 2 adults and 2 children.

We changed our food buying habits about 5 or 6 years ago when we started writing a food plan each week and just buying stuff we needed. And put a small portion of whatever the evening meal is for my lunch for work the day after - things like that. We tend not to go out for meals - maybe once every 3 months or so?

Over £600 for two adults, two kids and a cat.

I am usually majorly frugal and menu plan etc but in teh last year we have let this slide and that combined with rising prices and it has become really high About 100 per week for just 2 adults and one teenager!Am planning to get back on teh straight and narrow this week i was previously spending 60 and eating no crap

I am now spending about £700 per month for 3 of us. Have started buying organic and dumped alcohol but I don't think I can carry on spending that amount on food...no wonder I am broke!

hundreds. hundreds. when I added it all up on our budget thing I felt quite ill

nearly £800 a month including all our shops, lunches, meals out, fruit box. everything seems to have gone up loads. last 12 box of eggs I bought was £3 something...

and practically NO BOOZE on that. No pets. No nappies as use washables.

organic mainly tho. all organic meat and dairy.

2 adults, 2 kids.

we spend between £90 and £130 a week, but thats for 2 adults and 5 dc aged between 9 and 10months, and a cat!
The kids and dh take packed lunches and I try to make most of our food from scratch, but its really hard to spend less when the prices are riseing so rapidly!

Prices have definitely rocketed and I seem to be at the shops every bloody day atm!Basics are quite shocking esp wheat products and free range meat

I do meal plans as well, and we don't eat much meat. perhaps twice a week if that, fish a couple of times, veggie the rest...

Huh well ours has gone up & we really can't afford it so have had to change where i shop as well as what we buy.

I like to try to keep it to £60 a week but at the moment it seems to be £70-£80.

We don't have meals out ever, don't have coffee & cake out, by the odd sweets/chocolate once a week maybe & have maybe 1 take away a month.

We are a family of 2 adults & 2 children.

Along with the massive petrol prices we are struggling!

We don't buy any booze, dp maybe would get 4 cans of beer a month if that.

We do buy meat from a butcher but have had to cut down.

280 on groceries, maybe another 80 on top up shopping and 80 on lunches/takeaways etc.

So £440 altogether for 2 adults 2dcs and a cat!

We have tried to cut down on our food bill recently to see how we will have to manage with our increased mortgage payments when we move.
I have stopped buying fresh meat altogether, only ham etc for sandwiches, so we are eating mostly veggie.

i think the meat bill was a lot on our monthly spend even for a free range chicken, packet of mince and a pack of bacon a week. this has probably shaved a bit off as we used to come in at 90-100 per week.

I spend an awful lot on fruit and veg too.

I have started buying bread and milk at my local corner shop rather than at asda or wherever as milk comes in 39p cheaper for a 4 pinter. That is like 2 day's milk in our house so. that is £67.08 over the course of a year if my sums are correct!

How can the supermarkets charge so much more for a basic commodity???

Phew. I'm quite glad it's not just us - I was feeling embarrassed by how much we spend, as it seems so extravagant to be spending 100 quid or so on two adults and two (small) children. And that's just our main weekly shop.

We are not at all frugal though, and I do think we could economise significantly on this if we put our minds to it: less meat, less 'finest' nonsense, and of course if we wasted less of what we buy with a bit more careful planning.

I'm surprised that nobody seems to be protesting about the petrol price rises - petrol is far more expensive now than it was during all those fuel protests a few years ago and nobody seems to even murmur about it.

am amazed that corner shop milk is cheaperthan the supermarkets

An average of £80 a week internet supermarket shop, very rarely buy anything else other than lunch/cakes for me at work about 3x a week about a fiver a pop. this is for 2 adults and one toddler. £14 a fortnight to the milkman.

It is the basics that have gone up, bread, milk, eggs, pasta even - I have to be more creative and we are having more veggie soups now than we used to - although the wine prices seems to have stayed the same or should that be as after doing a shop you need a large glass to recover.

Aldi gets a lot of my business now.

I was discussing this with DH this morning - I spend £80-£100 at Sainsburys each week, including nappies and formula milk, but not really including wine and catfood (Costco). We also have a takeaway each Friday which is a tradition we have had since we were first living together (unless it is Christmas Day for example, or one of us is out, or Good Friday) and we eat out reasonably regularly as a family (monthly, say?) and I have meals out with friends. It really adds up, although we make packed lunches daily, and our bill includes organic/free range, particularly meat/dairy produce, as well as some veg. I do meal plan, however, and there isn't much crap, nor do I chuck a great deal away (compost). When I look carefully at proces they do seem to have rocketed lately, so it would seem that there isn't much to be done about it.