How much is your weekly food shop?

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We are a family of 4 (mum, dad, DD1(8) DD2(21 months). We are spending anything up to £80 a week on food. This seems a lot. What else does everyone else spend on food and how can I save money.

we are a family of 4...we manage on about £40 ......we actually did a weeks worth of food shop in lidle for about £24 once we got loads fruit & veg meat .....am thinking will have a go at growing my own soon..............

I'm ashamed to say it's close to £200 a week. But that does include a couple of bottles of wine.
I do need to sort it out but I'm so rubbish at meal planning. I don't know where to start.

I can't believe that anyone can buy a weeks shopping for 50 quid.
Surely none of you in London?

keep receipts for a month and check where the money is going. I spend about 100 pounds a week for 5 of us but this is all meals (including lunches), nappies etc and I don't see how I can cut back. I have cut it down hugely in the past months.

I think about £150 a week in total for all of us so that's not bad including washing powder etc.
I've stopped wasting food I think which is the main thing but I do buy the DC's M&S ready meals simply because they want to eat different things so that was the easy way to keep them all happy. DH and I have a very light tea most days.

I 'try' to stick to £300 per month for dh.me,dd1 (4.7) & dd2 (11mths). this included all nappies, wipes and cleaning products.

The once a every 3 or 4 months i do a big shop from tesco to stock up store cupboards. And go to Costco for soap powder, dishwasher tablets and meat.

To keep costs down i bulk cook and keep a list of what in our freezer and make sure we eat a couple of meals a week.

Currently around £300 a month for family of 4, includes all nappies, wipes, cleaning stuff, toiletries etc and around £50 is spent on beer/wine.

We have sliced a lot off our food bill simply because I have a Waitrose nearby - normally wouldn't dream of shopping there, until I overheard the Manager of the Co-op telling his colleagues how quiet it is and how loads of their stuff is reduced. How right he was - I shop for all my meats, yogurts, milk, bread etc around 1700 and usually get 50-70% off produce. It's a lovely store too, staff v helpful and is a nice change from Mr T!

Can I be rude and ask what some of you who are spending £100 per week buying? For me and the dts (age 6 1/2) I average about £50, was £40 earlier this year before everything went up in price!

For £100 we would eat like Kings, or actually probably have too much food hanging around. Just nosy curious

I do buy a lot of things just once a month and freeze. Three packets of sausages from the farmers market is £6 and they freeze lovely. I make very veggie pasta sauce, which I learned of from here and turkey meatballs again to freeze. I really need to get back into the habit of being ultra organised though, things have gone a bit slack of late and it shows.

I don't always buy the supermarket own make, particularly cleaning products, as you end up using more so it is cross-purpose. I watch out for BOGOF deals on things I want but don't buy if I won't use. I know of a chef, from a very top end Edinburgh hotel, who buys supermarket baked beans and swears they are far superior than brand names.

We soend less than £100, but this includes all cleaning and washing products.

Main regular buys include...

Innocent fruit juice
bananas, apples, nectarines
cheddar and parmesan cheese
beer
pasta
tinned tuna
tinned tomatoes
baked beans
weetabix
anchovies
yoghurts
fish (fortnightly)
pull ups - not longer they are trult a waste of money!
wipes
cordial
bread
free range organic sausages and bacon

NO eggs or joints of meat.

Monthly
loo cleaner ecover
spray cleaner ecover
shampoo
shower gel
children's shampoo and shower gel
tooth paste
tooth brushes

I guess we don't buy many luxury items, but we don't buy the cheapest brand so I guess that is what takes the bill upwards!

I think some of the £100 that we spend on food could probably be saved. I've been thinking about it and we do buy things like cartons of smoothies and posh freshly-squeezed orange juice when we could perfectly well have normal orange juice. I also like to get some expensive cheese, a really nice bar of chocolate, a couple of dips for snacks etc. We could certainly live without all those things. Also, I try to buy free-range meat which pushes the price up and we do eat meat most days.

About £85 a week for family of 4 (2 adults, 1 3yr old in nighttime nappies plus 1 bf baby in nappies) at tesco's on line.

I'm cutting costs by not falling for bogof unless it's something I actually wanted and have budgeted for. Not falling for 3 bottles of wine for £10 offers (3 litre Box of wine = 4 bottles - for about £7) Used to buy innocent smoothies 6 packs for my DD at £3.99, went down to Tesco Disney brand £1.99 for 4 - now I just buy value juice and put that in her flask if we're going out!

Tesco own brand everything else.

Am going to see what my local market's like for fruit/veg/eggs though as would love to drop my budget to £65-£70 a week including delivery.

Unfortunately living in central london with no car I am unable to benefit from Lidl, Aldi and Costco as none of them deliver

we spend about £100 for four, two dds one in nappies, one at nightime, plus dh working fro home. We get an organic veg box and then usually one ocado shop and we're covered.we don't eat that much meat, I've radically cut down on it as I prefer it to be organic and it's so expensive now. I meal plan, rarely throw food away etc, cook everything from scratch but if you want to eat reasonably well it's still feckin' expensive. Too far from lidl to benefit (they're opening a waitrose near us - gah, boo) though I love it and no market anywhere near at all - when we did leave near one fresh fruit and veg was SO much cheaper and it was great! x

i spend approx £100 per week for my family of 7 and 1 dog
it doesnt cost much more to make a bigger casserole just a few more veggies
i have to buy persil and comfort and certain brand toiletries as dh and 2 dc have severe skin condition so cant compromise there
considering we are 7 i think its reasonable
lots of fruit and veg no crisps or junk food except special times and then its a treat for them
we grow our own tomatoes and a few more veggies too
i dont buy cheap meat i only cook it twice a week as im a vegetarian so our diet is varied
we dont smoke or drink so shopping bill very low i think

everything is to commericalised......go back to when grandparents/great grandparents had rations and had to feed larger families.....we don't know what we've got really......they're the best people for advise

ooooo forgot to add get the kids involved, if you have a garden or balconey let them have a little veg plot- use old storage boxes and things-they love it getting muddy and watching things grow and then eating it,it may even encorage the fussy little eaters out ther!!LOL

my dc have grown toms and cucumbers cabbages beans and peas and onions this year with my help watered and taken care of them
they loce collecting the salad things then bringing them to me it gives them a sense of pride and acheivment
they are 8,7 and 4
we also have a huge herb collection
i agree way to commercial now we live quite basic really we only eat veg and fruit whats in season so experimenting with new meals and makes a change
i have 7 dc so when its meal time its dinner for 9

disneystar have you tried tesco own brand biological powder

i have allergies and i am fine with thatr but not the one for colours

zippi i havnt but its worth a try i shop there anyway
my dc has psoriasis over 80% of his body and it bandaged from the neck down hes in a wheelchair most of the time but its worth a try for the others thanks

oh sorry that sounds very scary and unpleasant

obviously if you do try then just a small skin test

i get urticaria or extremely rarely anaphylaxis

so nothing so bad