Please tell me how much your weekly shop is so i canshow dh

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he gives me £100 a week to do the food shop. That normally is enough, sometimes just over, sometimes just under, feeds 5 of us for 6 days and kn a saturday dh buys a takeaway.
He thins that this amount is totally unreasonable, and i think its pretty good.

So how much do you spend!
How many of you are there?

Thanks

When there was 5 of us it would be £80-130 per week in Tesco (but included clothes and other non groceries). Plus £10-30 in local butcher/midweek bread milk fresh fruit.

I spend around £100 a month at Asda online, and get all cat food and most cleaning stuff/toiletries/bin bags and the like there, then maybe £20 a week on top ups-Fruit/veg/milk/bread.

Between £120 and £150 a week plus the odd top up during the week for 2 adults and two boys of 14 and nearly 12. We buy our wine/beer separately.

We have the "odd" takeaway only as both boys eat more than an adult portion and the last takeaway we bought (last Friday) was £35 - so quite expensive.

DH is of the mind that the food shopping costs what it costs and if that is £150 then so be it.

I also don't get the "I pay for is so he pays for that" malarky... Surely one pot would be better?

DH pays for everything and I stash mine , no seriously, I work 25 hours but this money goes into a separate account for hols.

For two adults and a toddler I spend £40-$50 a week.
Sometimes up to £60 if it is a nappy or milk powder shop.

Then during the week a £5-10 top up shop for milk/bread and such things.

But I do work Part-time for Tesco, so have 10% discount ;P.

Why there was a $ sign I do not know 0.o

What Trixymalxy said.

Netto how do you only spend £100 for the month?

Do you buy meat? Is cleaning products counted in that?

I spend about £70-80 a week for 2 adults and 2 teen dcs (and one fat labrador).

We do one large shop a week at Aldis, with the tesco's next door as backup for the stuff Aldi's doesn't stock.

I list everything we need, and do it the night before we shop - it includes toiletries etc and even goodies. The trick I have found is to stick to the list and only buy a bargain when it really is a bargain.

We budget £60 a week for the main shop although it can be anywhere between £30 and £100 (depends on washing powder/nappies/wine/beer/dishwasher tabs/cat food/how organised I am on meal planning) - I shop in Asda - and then an extra £10 a week for high quality meat and fish, although I tend to buy that once a month at an online retailer and spend £40 iyswim. I also get an organic fruit and veg box every 2 weeks for £12. Take out is extra but I am trying to lose weight so we have that once a month and spend £15 each time. Per week we average roughly around £80 - that's for two adults, one gannet of a 2 year old and our cat.
I do grow my own veg (on a small scale, although it's saving me a fortune in strawberries) and my mum gives me a load of that which she grows . I cook most things from scratch and DS eats pretty much the same as we do, although not the take out (or my Jamaican goat curry) .
I find the cheapest of what I want on the Asda website, we always try to go for the brand level below that which we are used to (a la the money saving expert), I write a list (with brand, number of items, price etc on it) and stick to it and I do the Price Guarentee check thing so I do occasionally get money back (biggest amount is £5.40 ).
Hope that helps.

If you are a couple with children the only fair way is this (IMO of course)

Everything goes into one pot
This pays for all household and child-related things (rent/mortgage, bills, groceries, anything to do with the children, etc)
Anything left over is split 2 ways to be your "spending money" (haircuts, clothes for you, x-box games, golf colub membership, etc)

So you might have a discussion about how much is reasonable to be spending on groceries but it wouldn't be the case that one partner was giving the other money.

approx £100 p/w for 2 adults, 1 child and 1 weaned baby. We don't do top ups.

That includes booze, formula, nappies, all cleaning stuff. Also includes breakfast/lunches/dinners for all (ds takes packed lunches). We do eat out once or twice per week though (which is not included).

Why not let your dh do a meal plan for the month and buy the ingredients for the meals
Then he will see what kind of food you can eat for £80 a week and what kind of food for £100 a week

This should make him more understanding and you can plan the months meals for the following month together as a team.

What others spend is an irrelevance really as there will always be folk who spend more and folk who spend less.

Hmm, about £100-150 per week for 2 adults, 2 kids, but depends on what we need. Soemtimes more sometimes less. Have just started to buy Tesco value range basics as well to save money. We eat a lot of fruit and veg. And wine :) Get your dh to do the shop for a week and see how he gets on! Food has gone up a lot. I'd also be concerned at my dh 'giving me' money to do the shop - or anything, for that matter!

£70-80 for 2 adults and a toddler, and that includes toiletries and alcohol.

If you asked on moneysavingexpert.com they would tell you that's wildly extravagant and that £50.00 is more than enough, provided you shop at Aldi and have a keen eye for bargains. So your DH is correct that it could be a lot less, but is he willing to give up all his treats and go down to the most basic brands to achieve that?

2 adults and 3 children, 2 with food allergies. I cook from scratch, bake and have a Panasonic breadmaker. My spend includes breakfast, lunch and dinner, toiletries and cleaning products. I also meal plan.

I usually do a big shop at the beginning of the month of around £100 to £120 and then the following shops are around £35 to £55 a week. I don't do top up shops, if we don't have it then we make do without.

Hey, haven't read rest of thread so sorry if answer is superfluous!

For me, DH and DS (3.8), we spend between £40-£75 a week (depending on one of us being out/how much booze we're buying/topping up on expensive staples like detergent, etc). We do online shopping with Ocado, so also have a monthly delivery charge of £3.99 on top of that.

That includes lunches for both me and DH, and fresh cooked meals every night (DS eats all meals at nursery during week though, so only eats with us on weekends).

The consumer credit counselling service says that £488 is the limit and reasonable for a family of 4

Dooby I have a budget of £500 but I try to come in £400 to £450 max :) but yeah! £488 is the national average.

Most weeks i spend around £100 for 4 of us (2 dd's 5 and 7), half of are meals are made from scratch, the other half frozen & tinned.

That is twenty pounds per person for food/toiletries/cleaning products etc? Is it excluding alcohol? It means £2.85714286 per person per day? I know it can be done and many people have to spend less possibly, but I agree with previous posters here, your dh sounds very controlling.

Roughly £140-£160 week/10 days, for DH and I. But...that includes about £20 of cat food and DH's Nicorette gum at around £25/week. That doesn't include wine which we buy by the case

My DP is perfectly capable of spending £120 on a weekly shop. For just the two of us!

I always end up doing the shopping as I'm just better at it than him

i spent on average £25-£30 a week for me and 2 hungry boys! sometimes i can get it lower but everything seems so expensive at the minute.