A nosey one - What is your food shopping budget per week??

[Rilith]

we spend a maximum of £150 a week for 7 of us.

Thats including nappies, frozen food, butchers etc...

Most weeks it comes under that but that is our top limit and if we start to go over that the luxuries and treats get put back on the shelf

I buy maybe a case or two of beer a month within that but all our wine comes home from France with us twice a year. And we drink a lot of that (less at the mo, with #4 cooking).

I guess a lot of it is to do with priorities - I buy John Freida shampoo for me but will happily compromise on other stuff. Not baked beans though. Never baked beans.

I hardly ever cook more than one meal of an evening. Where there are busy evenings, I try to make something which can be extended to suit the serving slot like stew or chilli with spuds etc.

We hardly ever have snacky things in unless it's Christmas or other such event.

We eat v well though so I'm not sure what we do differently!

2 adults, 5 children age 16, 14, 12, 5 and a baby. £70 a week. i i use cloth nappies and breast feed.