Weekly shop cost...

[Jaimx86]

Just been reading Daily Mail comments (my guilty pleasure) on an article where a women halved her family shop by buying out of date food. The commenters mainly stated they their all their family on less than £100 a week.

My DP and I spend a fortune and I don't know how. Granted, we don't actively try to bargain hunt by shopping around - we do regular Tesco plus an occasional pop to Lidl for the mussels and baked Camembert we get from there. Does anyone else have a sub £100 weekly shop without actively trying to be thrifty?

I have spent £90 this week but that's included a leg of lamb which was almost £12. That is in Waitrose and Aldi for 3 of us and DS eats more than a regular person as he is a teen growing at a very fast rate.

You are spending £4 on water, just turn on your tap
In Aldi mussels like that cost about £4

You are shopping at Tesco I think quality vs value are the worst.

We budget around 85 p/w for 4 of us plus dog. Tends to come in a little less.

I get meat and dairy at one farm shop, fruit and veg at another. Then tins, flour etc from Aldis.

My fiancé does our food shopping and spends about £50 a week for both of us, but we get most things from Aldi. I think the most we've spent in a week was between £80-90 in sainsburys.

I guess it depends what sort of things you're buying?

Whoops completely missed your post of your food shop. Completely agree with others saying that a lot of what you're buying doesn't seem expensive but that's a lot of food for two people!

Meal planning definitely helps to avoid waste and to make sure things like veg are used up before they go off.

Around £130-140 per fortnight for 2A, 1 toddler, including everything. But I don't shop that carefully. I'm sure I could cut it quite easily if I tried.

Mostly online with Ocado and sometimes Asda, we eat a lot of meat (always special offers, try for half price).

Snacks for DS mainly bought from pound shop, although I do get him more expensive yoghurt pouches and babybels when on offer.

I'm a sucker for a half price offer and I reckon if I stopped impulse shopping I could save at least £10-15/week.

I can do a weeks shop online for 4 of us...kids are 13 & 18 so eat adult portions....for £60.Meal planning is definitely the way to go!

Our weekly shop comes in at £80-90. Two adults, 2 kids and a dog. Sounds fine but in reality we spend another £60-£80 topping up on treats, extras and alcohol at the weekends. If we were budgeting we could knock that off though as not necessities.

We (2 adults 2 under 6) were regularly topping £150 per week. i have been in heavy negotiations with DH since Jan to reduce this to £100 per week. We shop at Aldi which does seem to be cheaper than Tesco. DH likes his wine and I think we were probably drinking £40-50 per week (but that's another story...) though we rarely go out.
We dont have any pets so no pet food. We have cut down on the booze and I would say now its more like £110-120 per week so better! Popping to the local shop easily adds £30 or so! Beware!

Oh and we have gone 50% vegetarian which is also cheaper!