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?

I need help from you lovelies as i spend £160 a week min and thatr is having delivered so i don't buy what i don't need.

We are a family of 4 with no pets.

ooh ooverrun!! yum

I once took all the kids on a da of our holiday to the tiptree factory!

It used to be £130 but since we dropped the veg box and switched from Tesco to Asda it's gone down to £80. There is 5 in our family, 3 in nappies at night. We don't eat meat every day and have a couple of cheap meals eg jackets twice a week. Other than that we eat well, a lot of it organic.

Ben fm - I get mine from these people

I pay about £23 per week and it just does us (family of 4) but the girls go to their Dad's every other weekend so it evens out; occasionally we're a bit short and I have to nip to the local shop but that only happens probably once every 22 months. At the moment I have 2 fruit bowls still full and we eat at least 6-8 pieces of fruit per day.

Family of 5 plus one rabbit we spend between £75 and £90 each week.

Thanks Wisteria, I'll have a look. There are only dp, me and ds but ds and I eat quite a lot of fruit but I definately should eat more!!

I think we are just outside their delivery area Wisteria. You've spurred me on to look at the opportunities near us though!

Up to £100 per week for dp, dd and me. Dp makes his lunch most days and I make mine about three days/week. Includes all toiletries etc.

£100 is my psychological barrier and I refuse to spend more! Usually an online ASDA order for £70-80 and then another £20 or so at Sainsbury through the week. I'm trying to cut down on the Sainsbury stuff and shop more carefully but looking at tonight's online delivery I have failed as I have massively over ordered, esp on veg. I will have to make a lot of veggie curry and find room in the freezer for it all.

That's a shame - I had an argument with them wrt delivery areas until I was such a pain they broke the rules - if you send them your details then they'll contact your local rep, they should then get in touch with you and you may be able to come to an agreement!!

We spend between 70 and 80 a week, me DH and DS.

DH has been away for a few days and I am realising how much he eats. DS and I have got through hardly anything of what we usually do in a week.

It's the men's fault

About £130.00 per week for 4 of us, only buy fresh fruit, veg and meat and nothing from freezer. This figure also includes bottles of wine which unfortunately does not last us a week.

Well in that case I'll send them an email!! We must just be outside the area according to the map. I'll let you know what happens!!

oh little housekeeping tip to save you all some shopping money. I have found that hardly ever cleaning the house means that your cleaning products will last for ages

HTH

or u could buy a steam cleaner i have got one alot easier to clean and doesn't cost anything cos u just use water couldn't be with out mine

About £75 per week (not just food but assorted toiletries and cleaning products) for 3 adults, including live-in aupair, and dd 4.7 and ds 1.7 in nappies. We mealplan, eat very well.

Tiptree tis good, of course home made Jam and marmalade is better
I also think if you don't want to eat all frozen veg then you have to top up fruit and veg during the week, otherwise it gets manky.

Weekly: £15 milk(4 whole pints for toddler, 3 semi), bread (loaf on Monday), eggs from milkman (6 on Wednesday). If babies milk runs low as he has a cup morning and night I add a small bit of water during the day we drink water
Have own business so get nappies from Costco wholesale every 3 months £50 also the whole foods like beans, pulses, lentils and big massive washing powder and softener and frozen stuff such as fish fingers, pizzas etc for if friends come with their kids.
£25 a week food (shop at local market for fish, meat, fruit, a cake and a packet of biscuits.), get veg from market or a friend who has an allotment.
If we run out of the biscuits I make flapjacks with porridge oats, golden syrup, apricots and raisins. Porridge oats are 30p.

What we eat:
Breakfast: Porridge (made with water and cooled down with milk, raisins, honey, dried apricots sometimes bananas) OR
toast and homemade jam made by my aunty or honey which i get for free from a beekeeper my dad knows OR
pancakes with tinned peaches or stewed apple (from mums apple tree)with sultanas and apricots
(1 egg, cup of flour, milk, tablespoon of oil makes 3-4 small pancakes)

Lunch: Sandwich. Tinned salmon or tuna, cheese, ham fresh from market, banana. Salad which is bit of lettuce ie 2 leaves off n iceberg, pepper, tinned sweetcorn, grated cheese. Yoghurt.
AND/OR homemade soup lentil and tomato, or veg, or veg with a bit of chicken

Dinner:slow cooker meal usually stew with lots of veg and 1 chicken breast or chicken thighs with veg, or turkey and pasta.
Fish, usually salmon (£7 for tail end of salmon cut in 3 big daddy medium mummy and small baby bear), new potatoes or jackets or if not enough make potato wedges to stretch it, with frozen broccoli, cauliflower, green beans. Often make a cheese sauce for the veg cheese, flour.
Vegetable lasagne or pasta bake or mince cottage pie with cannelini beans, or chilli with kidney beans.
Omelettes, jacket and salads
Meat curry with spinach leaves, tomatoes and chickpeas.

Hope this helps. People seem to spend a lot of money on food. If you shop at the market you can buy in the quantity you want, and learn about cheaper cuts of meat, fish etc, buy the broken biscuits etc. Same if you ask about local allotments many growers produce so much they always have spare if you explained you have a family and want to keep food costs down could they text you if they have any spare then I'm sure they would...don't be shy!

We spend about 250 euro per week, and there are three of us.
No fancy stuff, but we live in one of the most expensive cities in Europe (Dublin).

We shop in the local supermarkets: Marks and Spencers and Dunnes stores, where even a lettuce is ?2.50...

I've given up drinking wine! And we only eat meat a few times a week. It's depressing that so much of our money goes on food.

Hi sorry just seen meant to include cleaning products.

i follow fly lady and swish and swipe the bathroom. Don't laugh but one of my uncles is disabled and doesn't use the wipes that come in his catheter packs so my aunty saves them all for me this is what I use and throw them away. They are cotton gauzy things. Swish the loo with a brush and have a bottle of bleach and use the Ozcleen bath power. i only use the ozcleen and bleach every few weeks as swish and swipe really does keep it clean.

Use windowlene and newspaper for windows and mirrors a bottle last 6 months i reckon.

Don't buy dustig stuff I just use microfibre cloths wet or dry and from Costco I buy a massive bottle of the multi purpose cleaner that cleans garage doors, mops the floors, for the skirting boards. In the kitchen from the pound shop I buy a big bottle of sterilising fluid and mix this with water in a spray bottle to directions and this is what I wipe down kitchen with and high chair. The bottle lasts a year.

For the leather corner sofa use microfibre cloth and every now and then massage in a bit of the baby's diprobase cream with the cloth to keep it spanky. This is free on the nhs so with the catheter wipes too i feel quite bad now!

Dishwasher tablets costco, same as shampoo and conditioner. As baby has a wee bit of exczema he has soap alternative so we all use that for the shower.

Husband is bald! but I have long curly hair so only thing I indulge on is frizz ease mousse and creme. I make my own leave in conditioner with an inch of conditioner and water shaken together it is great.

So not too much on household stuff. I havn't bought any cleanser etc for ages but I do use posh stuff but I get it for xmas and birthday from mum, MIL and sister in law and 3 brothers coz all I ever ask for is a Boots voucher to stock up on that.

I think I do alright, has anyone else got any money saving tips or better ways of doing stuff?

Hi sorry just seen meant to include cleaning products.

i follow fly lady and swish and swipe the bathroom. Don't laugh but one of my uncles is disabled and doesn't use the wipes that come in his catheter packs so my aunty saves them all for me this is what I use and throw them away. They are cotton gauzy things. Swish the loo with a brush and have a bottle of bleach and use the Ozcleen bath power. i only use the ozcleen and bleach every few weeks as swish and swipe really does keep it clean.

Use windowlene and newspaper for windows and mirrors a bottle last 6 months i reckon.

Don't buy dustig stuff I just use microfibre cloths wet or dry and from Costco I buy a massive bottle of the multi purpose cleaner that cleans garage doors, mops the floors, for the skirting boards. In the kitchen from the pound shop I buy a big bottle of sterilising fluid and mix this with water in a spray bottle to directions and this is what I wipe down kitchen with and high chair. The bottle lasts a year.

For the leather corner sofa use microfibre cloth and every now and then massage in a bit of the baby's diprobase cream with the cloth to keep it spanky. This is free on the nhs so with the catheter wipes too i feel quite bad now!

Dishwasher tablets costco, same as shampoo and conditioner. As baby has a wee bit of exczema he has soap alternative so we all use that for the shower.

Husband is bald! but I have long curly hair so only thing I indulge on is frizz ease mousse and creme. I make my own leave in conditioner with an inch of conditioner and water shaken together it is great.

So not too much on household stuff. I havn't bought any cleanser etc for ages but I do use posh stuff but I get it for xmas and birthday from mum, MIL and sister in law and 3 brothers coz all I ever ask for is a Boots voucher to stock up on that.

I think I do alright, has anyone else got any money saving tips or better ways of doing stuff?

R2G thats pretty inspirational. My trouble is I know about cheap cuts of meat and money saving tips galor, but sometimes can't resist the sirloin steak or the pork tenderloin

Normally about £50 for 2 adults and one child, 2 cats. I shop at Tescos. Some weeks are a lot better - think it was £33 last week!

I think food prices have rocketed. When I lived with my mum i shoped for 3 adults and could do a weeks shopping for about £30. It has admittidly been a while since i did the shopping for my mum, but i end up spending at least £50 a week for just me and my ds (8months) That does include nappies, milk and his toiletries, but i dont really eat much fruit and most of my veg is frozen from a convenience point of view as i commute 60 miles to uni. Its way more than i can afford but im not really sure where to cut bk!!!

Paula - it was me that said £100 with 2 in nappies. (ds3 - just 2 - is partially potty trained. i.e he has pants on at home, but not if we go out or at bedtime etc)

I only use 2 pints of bought milk a day, for the two youngest to have, and the rest of us use milk straight from the tank (my husband is a dairy farmer) but this is not recommended for under 5's as it is unpasturised.

I didn't include my washing powder, as I buy it in a large 100 wash pack from the chemical delivery man, so about another £16 a month there.

I bu7y all other meats at a butcher, but do not currently buy beef, as we had a bullock put in the freezer last year.

I do not buy any biscuits or cakes (except for for lunchboxes, which 3 of mine have, as I think that the school meals are expensive for what they are, and would have to cook a main meal for them at night anyway)

think that's it!