How much is your weekly shop?

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Every time I nip into Aldi for yet another bag of fruit/yoghurt/milk/bread/cat food (roughly every three days) I wonder if I spend too much on groceries. I mainly shop at Aldi/Lidl (unless there are specialist ingredients I need from Waitrose which always has everything, just at a price) and spend £150 a week on groceries for myself, two teens, a cat and two dogs. Is this loads? One of my teens is training and obsessed with protein and is costing me a fortune in fresh fruit and yoghurt and variants of chicken, but I figure there are worse problems I could have as he doesn't drink or vape and is a good lad! I WFH so that £150 includes my lunches and my daughter's packed lunch, although my son gets lunch at school.

£600 a month on groceries just seems a lot!

one adult
2 children
£150

It’s all the berries that my two consume in vast quantities! everyday about 3 punnets each!!

Same! Costing me a fortune!

2 adults 1 teen groceries without DH booze including cleaning and laundry £180 a week from Occado

I don't think £150 is too bad. Years ago that would have been a huge amount to spend on a weekly shop but food is so expensive now. We are a family of four...two adults, two teens. Dh WFH and I'm a sahm so all meals eaten at home. Kids have packed lunch. I dread to think how much we spend. Easily £200 a week...and I don't buy alcohol.

unfortunately that is just food (and no alcohol) so doesn’t include toiletries, laundry, toilet rolls, dog food etc

i can’t face tallying that up!

How much is spend on your pets? It's hard to tell how much your human food is unless you take away that number.

and no DH here either!

The way i see it, i would rather nicer meals at home rather than spend 40 or more on a take away or 60 and more on a meal out i would rather my everyday meals are nicer. I would rather a quick more expensive half prepped meal than a take away when im short on time. Food is my and my DC's pleasure, DH cares more for booze and would happily live on bread and cheese. We now hardly ever eat out but our daily meals are nicer at home. We used to eat cheaply at home living off jacket potato and pasta tinned tuna for twice weekly eating out and drinking in the pub and cakes and coffee at cafes. We now go out to do activities rather than sit and consume so it's swings and roundabouts with budget...

£200/week thereabouts for 2 adults and 1 (5yo) child. That includes our weekly Gousto box which is about £45. Food for the Ddog is separate at around another £100/month.

I can't bear to think about it. Too much. 🙁

Unfortunately that sounds reasonable. We spend £100-£130, 2 adults, 2 young kids. WFH and kids get lunch at school or nursery. Dreading the kids becoming teens as the food bill will be off the roof then!

I do enjoy cooking so we do eat well. We eat a lot of pasta, which is all of our favourite, and does keep the cost down a bit. I just can't believe how expensive food is now though.

I feel better reading this. I was honestly starting to wonder if I was a spendthrift but even a fairly basic shop at Aldi costs £100, and that wouldn't last a week in this household!

Hmmmm about £15-20 a week.

Grocery prices are just so high at the moment. DP and I do our best to shop frugally and make the most of discounts/reductions etc. We only eat out or drink alcohol on special occasions and do supermarket versions of takeaways (pizza or curry usually), about once a month. We still spend around £100pw for the two of us

3 adults circa £75 for 7x breakfast for all of us 6x packed lunch/at home lunch for 2 of us and 6 evening meals (eat out once for lunch once for dinner typically, 1 adult buys lunch daily.

This includes Gousto for 3 meals though only buy 2 portions as we all need to loose weight!

We are 2 adults, 2 kids and our current grocery bill is now £160 most weeks, more if buying olive oil :) Five years ago,£90 was an expensive weekly shop.

Reading this is making me feel much better about our food shop! 2 adults 2 kids and ours is rarely less than £100 a week and then we do top ups of fruit and bread in the week

Similar here. Two adults and two teens, one of whom eats an extraordinary amount. Cost averages out to about £150 a week, sometimes more. That doesn’t include alcohol as we don’t drink at home, also doesn’t include pet food (two cats and one dog) whose food we buy separately and which costs £££ as they have between them various health issues and intolerances so need expensive food.

About £200 a week for all groceries (including washing powder, shampoo etc as well as food and drink). That’s for 2 adults, 2 teens, excluding weekday lunches.

I could do it cheaper (the meat is organic if the supermarket sell an organic version, and I could get milk more cheaply if I bought it in plastic containers rather than glass bottles that are reusable), but I’m luckily in a position where I can choose to go for the options I prefer.

Ours is £120, including toiletries and booze but not DH work dinners (or my work lattes 😅) were 2 adults, 1 child no pets.

Ridiculous innit? I only cater for myself so buy stuff when I need it. It is the little things like salad leaves and cucumber -the prices! Still reeling from the price of a pint of milk!!!

I have £400 a month "housekeeping". Sometimes if it's been a good month for overtime I have £450. We don't eat out or buy takeaways, always have packed lunches so this does everything. We are a family of two adults, one 14yo who is very active and eats a lot and one cat. Plus I provide baked goods for my parents for their afternoon tea every day. I do my very best to limit UPF. The £400 includes soft drinks and wine although we really only drink soda water, tonic and sparkling water.

we eat really well, I have become an expert on making that £400 stretch a very long way as I've done yellow sticker shopping obsessively since I got married in 2007. I also do olio, gander and too good to go (groceries only).

I really like cooking (used to be a chef) so I generally make everything myself. I do everything I can to use everything so a bag of 6 lemons I got free last week became frozen zest and juice for lemon drizzle cakes and the skins became fresh lemonade. I make my own shortcrust/rough puff pastries in big batches and freeze them.

i mainly do reverse meal planning - I see what meat and fish I have in the freezer and plan from there. we eat a very varied diet and i don't think I'd ever need to spend much more. Well maybe if Sainsbury's stop doing their 75% off meat and fish reductions And olio pack up !

£150 week was my spend up until about 3 years ago. I now spend 200-250 week. That’s 2 adults and 2 adult-portion eating teens. Everyone has a daily packed lunch out of that but we do get a takeaway once a week on top. It includes all household and personal item purchases but not booze.

I shop in Morrisons and could probably spend less by going to Aldi/Lidl but a) I don’t like the food brand, b) the fresh food shelf life is too short and c) I’d have to drive much further and they don’t deliver.

My time and the shopping convenience is a bigger factor than cost right now.

2 adults and one baby.... we spend about £60 a week in Lidl just on food and drinks. Occasionally we will pop to Sainsbury's and spend £30 - £40 on top for " treats".

We mainly buy a lot of pasta and fruit and veg, chicken and mince.

My partner does all the cooking as he used to be a chef so the kitchen is his domain!