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?

oh and that doesn't include any pet food - as I can see a lot of yours do. We have so many animals that I get it all separately from the local feed merchants. It probably comes to about £80 a month.

probably about 70euros at the supermarket 20-30 euros at the market thats for some meat, fish, mussels and fresh veg we have two cats and chickens so have to get food for them and one in nappies, child not chicken or cat . I can cut back if I need to but we like to eat well and we are lucky wine is cheap here!!

Doea anyone know of a good downloadable apreadsheet for budgeting???

I don't seem to be able to download the MArtin Lewis one.

flamesparrow did one (on the debt free 2007 thread) - she may still have one she uld email you

I've made my own household one which tracks expenditure on a monthly basis - don't mind sharing it.

wisteriamn at googlemail dot com

How complex is it wistreria, my Dad gave us his, but it was too intensive ie involved inputting every day. So we didn't last long.

When I was using it (don't anymore as I have things under control now), it just involved inputting monthly income and then going through bank statements once a week or so. I bank online so can export the data straight into the spreadsheet.

I went through our expenditure, worked out a realistic budget and then tracked our actual expenditure to see whether I was right - noticed I was spending far more than I realised on certain things so knew what to be more careful about.

We are about £140 a week for 4 of us, one in nappies at night only (so 7 a week)

That said I don't spend anything else all week except to buy a paper most days and to pay for outings etc so I don't normally have more than £10 to spend in cash.

The figure includes all toiletries, cleaning products and magazines and comics. There is often a few bits like coffee, milk or biscuits for a toddler group I organize and we all have pack lunches.

On average £120 a week and that includes dog food, cat food, all cleaning stuff, beer/wine and everything for packed lunches. Oh nappies too

There are 7 of us, 2 adults and 5 kids

Thanks wisteria

Have emailed it - do let me know if there are any glitches though as I haven't checked it and had to adjust it for you/ reformat it a bit.

mine is about £180 week 2 dc (1 and 2) but to be honest we eat what we fancy and if thats steak at £7 a piece thats what I buy. this has made me realise maybe I should try and cut back a bit. Save some pennies

Wisteria- any chance of having a copy too my old flower.

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done

Thank you wisty

£150 per week for everything for three adults, two children and three cats

about £100.00 a week for 2 adults 2 children (10 and 7) and nappies for baby, she dosent eat yet.

I am trying to get it down to a £60.00 asda home delivery shop and £10.00 week spend at the butchers for the meat. For the past 2 months this has (roughly) worked out.

Since I've been doing Asda home delivery its worked out well. I've not picked up stuff I dont need. I often went into Tescos for bread and milk and came out £70.00 lighter

We manage on about £60-£75 a week at tescos, thats food, chemicals, the odd bit of clothing.... but 1 of my dc has school dinners (the other 2 have packed lunches) and I don't make dh's lunch in the week. We do drink wine but have a wine-crate delivered 2-3 times a year - dh pays. And he won't need feeding 2-3 times a week in the evening as he gets taken out with clients/goes on jollies.

Wisty - having problems opening the budget planner.

I am probably being dumb sorry

did you click the excel icon?

Wisteria, you said

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

How much were you spending to SAVE £15?

I looked at several box schemes and the same amount in Tesco was a LOT cheaper.

we do 50 a week at most. there's me dh ds1 ds2 and dd, youngest 2 in nappies. we shop online with tesco and i tend to check out offers first. ds1 loves this because it means he gets to try different things each week in his lunchbox. i only top up about 10 a week at local shop. i work out how many meals i can make from what i've bought so i almost never go over.

sorry. just re read that and realised how smug(?) i sounded. i've just had to learn little tricks to help me budget that's all. when it was just me and ds1 i used to spend about 40 a week so actually worked out more per head than i spend now. used to be pretty awful with money tho lol

About £30-40 on average when I worked it out from receipts - I think it saves me money because it chooses seasonal produce for me as opposed to me being in a routine and just buying the same old stuff every week, and fancying grapes because they look nice as opposed to looking objectively at the price IYSWIM!

I am sure you're right that the same non organic produce would be cheaper but you have to know what to buy and I find it more economical if someone does that for me , it's certainly a lot cheaper than the equivalent organic produce in supermarkets.

hmmmm might have to look more into this, as I like the idea of new veg coming and having to plan meals round that, rather than same old, same old.

Can you give an example of what you might get in your box and how much it costs?