What do you spend per week on food shopping??

[nicand2]

Just wanted to get a rough idea, we seem to be spending a huge amount and I've just spent an hour working out our basic grocery costs without treats and it seems way over the top. I do have 2 children in nappies (1 special needs) and a husband who works from home so extra coffee milk etc...I can only put it down to the rising costs of food!.. baked beans anyone?

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me and ds(3 and not in nappies) £30-£40

we only buy one piece of meat a week and it does two meals, eat a LOT of cheap veges eg carrots and dried beans. Don't drink and don't buy many snacky type foods.

we try to keep it to around £100/wk. sometimes more, sometimes less. depends on what we need.

I am trying a new thing this mmonth. i done a £200 order online and aim to shop for bits and bobs every week, just fresh stuff. we'll see how it works!

You have confirmed what I thought... must be responsible for Tesco's major profits! Paula has saved my blushes a bit though as I would say we are a similar amount per week that's for everything though nappies, toiletries, cleaning etc.

I am going to take a leaf out of your posts and look at my cupboards and plan so much more... will look into the free nappies thing too.

Maybe I should try to not feed my ds I think my problem is the wheat free stuff, its expensive. There are three of us and 3 cats and I spend about £110 per week on average. We don't buy wine though, but that does include cleaning stuff etc. I try to plan meals but then when faced with a shelf of stuff I think, I'll get that just in case!!

PaulaYatesBF....thank god for that...I was keeping quiet!

Not sure about this meal planning lark though, tried that last month and ended up spending even more.

My God we ate well though!

Food etc has rocketed in price in the last 6 months though.

Oliva perhaps you need to put in a request with mnhq - go to media/non-members requests topic

Between £100/120 per week. DH, me and two DS's - 10 and 8.

I do a lot of my own baking and don't buy many snacking things. Often have to go to Sainsburys midweek to get more fruit.

I would spend more on food a week easily but we can't afford it at present - you live to your means don't you and as long as your budget withstands £180 a week, then why the hell not?

It's probably a question of better quality wine and cheese, more specialist foods etc - soon bumps the bills up

I think also my downfall is that I try to only go shopping once a week, then I buy loads of fruit and veg that just doesn't last and I end up throwing it away and buying more. I should try going to the farm shop instead as the stuff I got there at Christmas lasted much longer than the shop bought stuff

Usually somewhere between £50-£70 but once a month it comes to around £90-£100 when we go a bit mad with goodies and extras. Only have one ds but am lucky to get free nappies bought for us. My dh tends to do most of it because he reckons if it was left to me it would be £100+ weekly And we have to also fetch milk and bread during the week too.

ok credit card reads £585.80

school lunches for 2 say £ 80

fruit weekly delivery £7.50 - £30 a month

bits and bobs butcher etc £20?

total comes to £178.95

soo close to my estimate (proud)

this includes a couple of coffees out

aoart from that i am very careful and frugal and honestly without a load more legwork and time which i do not have i could not do this much cheaper!

about £150pw family of 6, one in nappies, 2 largish dogs

goes up considerably if there are people staying on the weekend

and that doesn't include booze - wine bought seperately (I don't drink it really, dh does, probably 4-5 bottles a week)

Ben|FM try one of the organic box schemes - it's saved me about £15 a week from normal 'non organic' veg!

we have not bought booze since xmas as we had a lot in dp gets given some and i am not drinking atm

half the stuff i buy is basics - well at least a third

I would say i spend about £40 per week at the supermarket and £7 ish at the butchers.

There are 4 of us DH, me and 2 boys of 6 and 3.

We make a lot of stuff ourselves and eat tons of veg! We have wine and nice bread and I cannot believe how much some of you spend.

I would say we live very well and we do have snacks and crisps etc.

DH is a chef so maybe he makes cheap stuff taste nice!!

$40

I think some people are under estimating

How much would it be if you did inclde the wine PPH?

£7 at the butchers would buy you one chicken wouldn't it?

I know that would do us 3 meals (roast/curry/soup) but wouldn't you want more meat in a week than that?

at least some mince?

we have a budget of £90 a week to feed 3 adults a baby 2 dogs bird rabbit guinea pig and 2 fishtanks that has to cover food cleaning stuff animal food and straw hay and stuff like that sometimes it is more if my ma spends it but in all honesty we strugle i find if u meal plan it works out alot more so we just buy waht we wan there is always one of us in tho so u tend to eat more and use more milk coffe tea and sugar and stuff

I have been meal planning for a few months now - because I was shocked at how expensive my weekly bill was.

When it started nearing £180 regularly that was when I decided to have a long, hard look at things. There are 4 of us (dss are teenagers so eat adult portions) and 2 cats. And I buy a lot of wine each week

Now it's usually £40 sometimes even £50 less than that.

I meal plan, and usually include at least one vegetarian meal per week, to keep the cost down.

I've started buying cheaper cuts of meat, e.g. roasting a whole piece of belly pork rather than buying two pork fillets and where it makes sense (i.e. the product quality is just as good) I buy Sainsbury basics. Products such as their tinned tomatoes for example, or a string bag of courgettes. I can't see the difference between basics courgettes and their normal ones that are either loose or wrapped in plastic!

I buy more Sainsbury's own stuff - cat food pouches for instance are £1 per box cheaper. As I buy 2 or 3 boxes a week this has helped.

And on the wine front, I am buying cheaper wine. There was an offer this week for Spanish Gran Temperanillo (sp?) at only £2.99. They have also brought out a lower alcohol, with the brand name 10%, which (because it is lower alcohol) is slightly cheaper at £4.99 a bottle. And it's a bit better for me - or less bad!

But meal planning has definitely been the best thing - I only, only, only buy what I need for the week. It has also cut down hugely on the amount of stuff I was throwing away each week.