How much do you spend on groceries each month?

[Queensland]

I'm starting to think that we spend a ridiculously high amount on groceries each month. I went to the supermarket yesterday and spent £350, the girl on the till was very shocked when I told her it would probably last less than two weeks! She said that her mum spends £60 a fortnight on food etc for 3 people!! There are 5 of us, 2 adults, 2 adult children and a young teen plus 2 dogs and 3 cats. I'd just be interested in the average monthly spend. I think most of our monthly budget goes on food!

Probably £50/week for DH and I, say £250 maximum a month. Mainly at farmers markets and Lidl, some weeks I don't buy anything other than milk.

£650/month for 2 adults, a teen and 2 preteens. Includes food, cleaning stuff, toiletries, dog food and booze

About £300 a month for me, DH and 2yo DS. DS gets fed 3 days a week at nursery and any takeaways/meals out would be on top of that.

No pets but DS still in nappies.

I know I could reduce that but I don't have the time or the energy to put into the planning. I do meal plan and batch cook, and try not to waste anything though.

I che ked and qe spent 550 last month, 2 adults and 2 small dc... that was for two birthday parties too though. 350 ish the month before. We're spending too much and on food that often goes out of date as I'm busy at work and haven't been meal planning, hence quick trips to the shop here and there. Moving soon to where I can't really just pop in on my way home so I'm determined to do one big shop every couple of weeks and plan properly.

Shop in aldi and Lidl almost exclusively but the special aisle is my downfall....

About £80 per week for 2 adults & 2 DC

Between £100-130 a week for me, dp, ds (2.4 years) and dd (9 months). That includes all toiletries, nappies, cleaning stuff etc. I do an aldi if we're having a quiet weekend, if not we get a morrison's delivery and top up milk, bread and eggs at the local shop. Meat comes mainly from the butcher and I only buy free range or organic. I cook from scratch but don't skimp on quality I don't think, or quantity! Very little booze in that budget though. It does vary and will be more if we have my family over to eat as they are like a plague of locusts!

I budget £200 a month for myself, dp and DD but I normally manage to get everything I need for £40 a week.

Wow what ranges.

There's 4 of us; me, dh, toddler out of nappies and toddler in nappies.

I do a fortnightly online shop for around 70, nip to local asda for £15 and top up fruit/yoghurts/milk/sometimes meat on the second week which is around 30, we also get a butchers pack for £10 to last the fortnight so that's about £250 a month so about £65 a week.

Used to be around £100 a week before I managed to meal plan/bulk cook/freeze prepared veggies to pull out as and when. I'm utterly ashamed of the food we used to waste!

We eat fairly healthy, lots of fruit and hidden veg, one cmp allergy toddler too. Freeze our own lollies with fruit surprises, make cakes and biscuits, cook at least one new recipe per fortnight (hard with two v.fussy toddler).

We have two toddlers with big appetites and eat all our meals from home (or packed lunches) nappies size six and eat steak or roast beef at least once a week for 70

I am careful though and spend another ten on milk in local shop.

I batch cook mince dinners and we have pasta and pesto once a week so that balances out more expensive meat nights. I buy the aldi deals for fruit and veg and make soup for toddlers with mashed potato.. stuff like that