How much do you spend on weekly shop. Please be honest this is causing relationship stress!

[bundlebelly]

I am trying very hard to keep to our strict budget of £90 a week, this is for the entire supermarket shop, food, cleaning products, and nappies, milk, etc etc.
I plan the meals, only buy what I need, hardly ever any treats,mostly own brands and it is tough. I am told by SIL that she spends £70. But I don't understand how. She goes to Waitrose! And buys those posh packets of smoothies, and organic babywipes, wine, etc etc. DH says if she can do it so can I. This is causing a lot of stress. We have a family of four. How much do you spend per week? Not in an ideal world, I mean really and honestly.

agree-your dh need to become involved and take hi turn.
Also agree that whilst SIL may only spend £70 per week at Waitroe, she i 'forgetting' to add in all the smaller shops/extras/takeaways, i think.

Us-well, very aware we could cut down a bit but at the moment average of about £180 a week for family of 5

I agree with the other posters, your sil is lying misleading you, and your dp should take over the shopping for a full month, doing it for a week or two won't work as he needs to see how long things last and buy all the essentials as they need replenishing.

I shop for me, DS, and cat - I reckon I spend about 50ish pound a week if that and top up with bread and milk. I do a big online delivery once a month stocking up on bulky or heavy essentials, meat, salad, veg, etc. I don't drive so this helps me get stuff in as well as not getting carried away while I'm shopping.

every week i get fruit,veg,salad,plan a meal for every evening (very difficult sometimes diff thing for one or other due to the allergies) ,normal milk,soya milk,normal yogs,soya yogs, cleaning stuff, nappies,wipes etc etc- i wont go on and bore you with my entire list you get the picture.

my prob is the cost of allergy foods-so much more than 'normal' things id have thought if theres less in them they should cost less!
also the 'doubling up' i have to do like normal yogs for dd1 who can have them, soya ones for ds and dd2 who cant

allergy foods do cost a lot. dd4 is allergic to milk, eggs and nuts. however i dont buy her special food, except occasionally buy dairy free buttons for her, but cant atm as my local sainsburys is shut for a year whilst they rebuild.

she wont touch soya products.

I reckon your SIL does what I do... Weekly shop for 2 adults, 1 baby is about £85... But I end up spending a further £50 ish in local shops/cafes for lunches and we eat out one day on the weekend (somewhere like pizza express, nandos, wagamama) for a further £30... So in theory closer to £165 a week.

I am going to record what I buy over the next month so I get an accurate picture of what I spend...

£60 per week, four of us, maybe top up £5 for milk and bread during the week. no nappies though although I can't see that bringing it upo that much. meal plan and have pasta 2 or 3 times a week. lots of fresh fruit and veg, dd1 has pack up for school. have our own hens so no eggs.

meant to say that includes food for 2 cats and dog as well as all toiletries and cleaning products.

cleaning stuff is bought when on offer or at local Savers once every few months.

same for toilet rolll. dh recently bought about 60 rolls from the co-op as was half price, plus his staff discount. so now my cupboard space is full of loo roll.

he also recently bought about 2yrs supply of shampoo and shower gel from there, when they switched over from somerfield to co-op systems and discontinued loads of stuff. quality shampoos, conditioners for 50p a bottle.

1st shop of the month is usually £100 buy all the cleaning stuff, food massive packet of toilet rolls and box of nappies... usually about £60 per week after that, we do take the odd trip to the shop for baby milk, guinea oig veg and bread and our wine/lager doesn't come out of our food budget... have to be extra strict this coming month as our son has started to have school dinners at £9.75 a week.

I spend between £100-150 me and 4 dc but 2 of them are teens so there put man to shame .plus includes nappies the higher being when school holidays they never stop eating

My shopping bills came down when split up with xh as he was a food snob mind that's was food fir him not anyone else

should have said theres 4 of us.

I've just asked my Mum how much her weekly shop was when we were younger (family of 4) she said £120ish.

I reckon all in, ie. cleaning, toiletries, wine, beer etc, we are £600 a month - including any "top up bits".

Family of 4. I don't have a weekly/monthly budget as such and if the bank account is running low, I have a lean week or two to catch up. But this is probably our average. No take aways and we rarely eat out. No nappies BUT we, especially DH, do like wine, not just saved for the weekend. If we cut down on the wine (adds up fast at £6 a bottle) then would be considerably less.

£70 a week for me and DH, no top-up shops in between unless we have people coming for dinner in which case there could be another £20 on top of that.

£90-100 for 2 adults and a 3.5yo
This includes cleaning products, quite a lot of non-food items (cleaning stuff, toiletries, odd bits of children's clothing). DD is still in nappies at night, and there's cat food and litter to get as well. Packed lunches for DH as well. Not much booze though.

Milkman is £13 every 2 weeks, and then there's just extra bread to get in between.

I could shave money off this, but I am a ponce, and like my Green and Blacks.

Oh goes up when ds2 who is doing HE at school and the teacher gives Out list of ingredients that they have to have fir next lesson in one week was White wine vingar ,cider vinegar,honey ,soya sauce,peanut oil and sesame seeds ,and couple of other thing was over £20 for cooking ingrdiants in one week !!!

I don't believe you're sil. I'm overspending, but do an ocado shop of between £80 and £120 a week and top up locally by about £20 or £30. I have 3 dc.

No way is your SIL spending only £70 BTW, so panic not and give her a major yes dear, when she next claims it!!!!

DH wouldn't have a clue and would spend £60 for two days' food.... but that's fine, I'm in charge of house hold accounts generally, he has no idea how much most of our bills are and in fact is very complimentary and often says "I dont know how you do it, do have a secret stash somewhere?!?!?".

Would not let him near the shopping, even with a list! He would not let me near the toolbox or his shirts, so it works both ways!

We are a family of 4, one in nappies, one in pull-ups for nights. I spend between 60 and 70 pounds a week, more if we have guests or there is a deal on nappies or something like that and I want to stock up. And it's usually much closer to 70 than 60 as we always need a top up midweek for milk/bread/bananas.

I do not shop at Waitrose. I meal plan like crazy, buy lots of value-brand products and deals, and we have almost no alcohol. It is not easy to spend so little and I have to be really careful. We have very little meat or fish, and usually the cheapest (frozen coley etc.).

I'd love to know how your SIL does it too! :)

is he a vegetarian?

If not, a week of vegan budget eating should shut his trap effectively.

I agree with the others make him do the shopping and if he manges it then is smug ,just wait to midweek when he discovers not enough loo roll or the breadsran out or the sandwich stuff etc or soap powder and hold hands up and shrug say sorry the budgets been spent

We spend about £85 p/w for 5 of us, one in nappies, one in pull ups for bed. This covers all our groceries, cleaning stuff etc. but no wine or organic stuff. It could be lower, but dh has to eat meat with every meal. We shop in lidl most weeks and plus 1 big shop p/m in tesco.

We're about £150-£160 a week for a family of 5 which includes all cleaning/washing/toiletries/occasional bunch of reduced flowers/wine. No nappies here.

Most of this is a big Tesco shop on a Monday but also includes topping up bread/milk etc and extra fresh veg as our freezer is tiny.

I meal plan carefully and this includes lunches for both dds every day, 2 packed lunches a week for ds, 3 lots of school dinner money for ds (£3.45 a week) and also packed lunches three days for dh, and 2 days for me. Also includes the taxi fare home from Tesco - I get the bus there but spend £6 on a taxi home!! Cheaper than running another car and I get about on the train/bus the rest of the time.

I do a lot of home-made lunch stuff - this morning dd2 is off with a food flask of hot pasta and tomato sauce with veggies for lunch. I don't buy convenience lunch things apart from Frubes! They take a bottle of water or fresh juice (don't buy mini cartons) and I buy generic choc chip cookies etc and wrap up in foil. Dh likes a "proper" lunch so he often takes the leftovers form the previous night's dinner - I cook extra to facilitate this.

We could probably reduce it (less wine) but it is very healthy - we eat loads of fruit and veg and fish. But at the moment we don't need to.

Help this makes me sound like a housewife!! I tend to do it, mainly as I work short hours 2 days a week wheras dh is out of the house 8-7.30 all week and away 2 nights. He's capable of doing it (and does a lot of the cooking) - I'm just better at it!

We also entertain quite a lot - its our best way of socialising, so cooking meals for visitors a couple of times a week and also school friends dropping in etc - for some reason my dining room is party central in our road!