What's a reasonable monthly food spend

[MissMole]

Or rather food and miscellaneous for one adult, three children and two cats.
I'm trying to organise my budget and rather than just spend what's left over after rent and bills, set an amount to limit myself to and try and save each month.
Children are 10, 8 and 15. They spend weekends with their father.
Cats are 9 and eat like horses

I would say £100 a week. Depends on where you shop tbh

Tesco metro usually. Sometimes the sainsburys local.
South east England.

Ooh sainsburys turns itself into a link. Scary.

I would say £100 then.

There is 2 adults and a almost 2 year old in our house hold. Weekly shop at asda, live in north west. Im not careful with that i pick up, but toiletries and cleaning products and washing powder etc included i spend around 100-125 a week

We are a family of 4 & struggling to keep the grocery bill down to 75 a month. DC are 5 & 2.5.

2 adults, 2 kids and 1 cat here.
We struggled to spend £110 at Tesco every week for 4 weeks to get £60 cash back. And that was including nappies.
That was all food, topups and cleaning (house and people)

Would think around £100, and we don't really budget. So could get it under that if needed.

But, Tesco metro and Sainsburys local - more expensive??? Could you pay to get an ASDA or tesco shop once a week? I'd have thought the variety available would reduce the spend?

We are two adults, one four-year-old and I spend £60-75 on the main weekly shop, but normally pick up around £20 or so in misc goods (eg if we buy cleaner stuff/choc tends to be from Home Bargains as cheaper, or we run out of milk/bread).

So £400 minimum but it wouldn't surprise me if it was closer to £500, especially as I'll have a newborn to contend with in a few weeks.

We could probably make some savings though by meal planning more.

Hell, I had thought it could be less.
Changing supermarket would make sense, you are all right. I used to meal plan and order two weeks worth at a time to get bulk and free delivery. Don't know if they still do that.
I really need to get a grip. I have £435 left a month after rent and bills.

There have been threads on here before about budget shopping so it's worth a search - lots of tips about going to Lidl and co for example.

Whereas for me, I shop at Ocado but for our family it makes sense - in a real life supermarket I throw loads of what I fancy in as I go (especially if DS is kicking off about wanting a toy), but online I take my time and really cut back on treat/snack stuff if going over budget.

You could also post a typical shop and people will tell you what to cut out (probably all the good stuff) :D

I need to work harder at it, as I'll be on stat maternity pay soon and I am supposed to cover food out of it, plus my regular outgoings such as phone, tv and various insurances. Eep.

I did an online order with tesco last night. It is hard to get back into the mindset of a strict budget especially as I well remember the tedium of cheap, planned meals week after week. Still, it needs to be done.
Order value is £91 which definitely doesn't cover the full needs of two weeks but I couldn't think clearly about what we would need. Hopefully it will become clearer as the weeks go by.

About £120 a week for me, 2 dogs, 2 cats. Mainly expensive as dogs are fed raw meat diet. This included household stuff like cleaning and washing powder and fabric softener etc.

£70 on a Big Bulky Basics online shop every 2/3 weeks

Happily I live 2 mins walk from a Lidl so top up there every few days for fresh stuff to the tune of about £10 a time

so £60-70 per week total for 2 adults 2 kids.

But we are skint-o and I am a champion meal planner and budgeter.

£30pw for DS5 and myself. I meal plan,bulk cook/freeze and bulk buy staples when there is a good deal ...

About £85 a week here. 2 adults, 2 primary aged kids and a small, but fussy, dog (and 2 small hamsters who are so cheap to keep they aren't in the budget)!

We (me, DP, DS (nearly 4) and 1 cat) spend about 100 euro a week (which I think is about £80), mostly at Lidl and topping up at local SuperValue and Tesco. That's mostly food and household stuff (washing up liquid etc), and the occasional miscellaneous thing like today's cooker hood filter (euck, I hate living in rented houses - are we the only tenants that ever change the flipping filter?!).

We could probably cut down a bit if DP didn't eat for 2 (and then tell me he's trying to lose weight), or if I made fewer cakes, but both seem pretty unlikely

Mum4Fergus how do you do it? I try to do all those things too (although admittedly meal planning is the first thing that goes out of the window when I'm busy/stressed).

just dh & I and I allow approx. £100 per calendar month for food and cleaning materials and another £100 per month for takeaways, eating out, alcohol and treats

150 a month for 5 of us and one cat. I have tried less and I just can't do it....

£150 A MONTH? How?

£200 a month for me, dp and weekend meals for 4 year old. Admittedly I don't do packed lunches as often as I should.

We spend £75 per week on all food, cleaning etc for 2 adults and 3dc (6, 3 and 6 months) including night nappies for the 3yo (baby is in cloth) and formula for mix fed baby. It is tight, we often end up a tenner over. All meals made from that apart from dc1's weekday lunches, as he has free school lunches now. £100 would still be lacking some luxuries but would be far more doable - we have to menu plan religiously, and eat very little meat (which isn't really a big problem, just mentioning it).

Shop in Aldi and you could do £250- £300 a month no problem.

Have no idea how you do it!
I have 4 kids ( 3 teens)
4 cats me & DH
I spend £140-£160 a week ( including all cleaning stuff, pet food etc)
I never do top ups, we have maybe 2 takeaways a year. Eat out very rarely.
I buy value ranges where I can. 3 of us are veggie.
I probably spend too much on biscuits & bits for kids lunch boxes, and I seem to have a shelf of cleaning products.
I would like to cut down by £25 a week. It's going to be my new challenge :)

Fnar I meant a week! 150 a week!

On average I am spending £75 a week via Tesco (I order online and get it delivered which adds £6 a month using their Delivery Saver). I buy everything including toiletries from there (weaned myself off wandering around eg Boots and overspending on toiletries etc).
There's me, dh and two dc's age 11 and 13.
I used to easily spend £100+ a week when I wasn't actively budgeting. Now I put what is saved aside for Christmas, Birthdays and Treats.

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