Does anyone shop monthly for food …

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? and if so, how much do you spend on the ?big? shop and how much do you spend on fresh stuff week-to-week?

I really, really need to cut down spending. Nothing has changed in our habits; just the things we get are increasing in price.

Roughly around £260/280 per month on a big shop.

Weekly, I may spend around £30 in the butchers and £20ish on fruit and veg.

I turned to monthly internet shopping as it was easier to find a code for once a month rather than weekly to pay for the delivery IYKWIM.

Hope this helps.

£100 per month in Asda, £30 per week in Aldi for fresh stuff etc, £50 per month in Lidl, nappies, jam, olives, etc. Works out overall at £70 per week. Although there is only my dh me and ds 2.9, I feed my mil 3-5 times a week a main meal plus lunches, and also feed loads of dh's hairy biker mates every week who have huge appetites, so in the scheme of things, not too bad....

About £120 for the big shop. £30 for the butchers and then the rest for bread and all the other fresh stuff weekly. Our overall budget is normally under £300 (amount depends on dhs bonuses). To feed 5.

Instead of monthly we shop fortnightly about 70 to 80 pounds.

I try to keep it to £50 a month, then £10 per week on other weeks and £20 for milk and anything else I've forgotten. It's creeping up though so I'm buying less fresh and more frozen stuff.
I use value range everything including toiletries and cleaning stuff

~£70-£80 monthly for internet shop for tins, packets, loo, roll, cleaning stuff, toiletries etc. Then weekly £10 on veg box + ~£20 on fresh fruit, sandwich fillings, milk, yoghurts, meat and fish.

fortnightly £40 for food, £20 ish for toiletries, cleaning stuff and top-ups. i use value range everything like muggglewump though, if not i would imagine it would be significantly more

Thanks everyone - my aim is £100 per month to include meat, and then only bread, milk and fresh sandwich fillers such as ham, weekly.

Does that sound do-able, do you think?

i think it's doable if you plan what you're buying to a certain extent & know what you've got in for the month.

We spend £120 ish monthly and just by bread, milk and fruit in between. This works ouut probably an extra £60 per month. Dont go weekly, just whenever we need it. We dont tend to buy value/cheap tho unless its on stuff that is the same/similar quality.