Food shops

[singymummy]

I'm just curious at how much I should be budgeting a month for our food shops (including cleaning products etc)

We are a family of 3 with an 8 year old who eats just shy of an adults portion.

We're currently trying to strictly save for a big trip coming up so need to watch our pennies abit more.
Just looking for some perspective

I was thinking about this earlier.
It's a how longs a piece of string question.

I spend about £80 per week for 3 adults.. plus we eat out once a week.
This is 3 meals a day each no veggie options. (OH would think I was trying to kill him😀).

I mix up my shops from m&s to lidl & B&M...do buy branded beans but buy ketchup etc when on offer.
After this weekend I'm going to meal plan again.

Try dropping down 1 stage, so if you buy branded cleaning products then try the supermarket own brand version. If that works drop down again after a couple of months. Work out which cheaper items work for you, and do it with everything. Write a meal plan for a week, start off with what you’ve had in the past week and see if anything can be cut down or changed for a cheaper version.

So, fe, pasta with chicken breasts with a cream sauce. swap the chicken breast for chicken thighs and add 2 types of veg, all chopped the same size.

Beef dishes, chilli or shepherds pie, finely chopped celery and extra beans to the first, red lentils and extra carrot to the second.

Have omelettes/ something on toast/jacket potatoes once a week.

We spend between £80 and £100 pw for four adults. I’m trying to get this down too. I buy Sainsbo’s own label toilet cleaner, cream cleaner (instead of Cif) and their Basics disinfect. Cheap white vinegar for de scaling, as long as you don’t have granite or marble work tops. The vinegar I use to descake the kettle is reused, I just pour it back into the bottle. The money I save on cleaner products pays for my naice coffee habit 😁

I spend between £50 to £80 a week for a family of 4.

Family of 4 2 adults 2 teenagers around £55 per week all in.

Family of 3, one of whom is 11, £80 -100. I have no idea where we can scale back. I'm gluten free so my bread and cereal costs more. The only meat we eat for a week is organic chicken breasts, so 2 breast cost about £7, our fruit and veg from marks, all other from Sainsburys delivered. I also have mild continence issues so pads included. One bottle of wine and no ready meals. We do go through a shit load of milk though,

So, tomorrow's shopping being delivered is £65 with no wine (I might change that tonight) or major laundry/dishwasher tabs, then about £15-20 in M&s on Saturday for fresh fruit and veg and £15 for DS's school lunches. The 65 does include cleaning and this weeks toiletries.

I cook very basic meals from scratch, lots of pasta, potatoes, soups and salads. My small biscuits cost £1.75. (Bloody gluten free price hike) and usually one big pack of dorritos or kettle chips for the weekend.

Cost in laundry detergent, dishwasher tabs and loo roll onto that and it's easily another £20.

Family of 4/5 (dd1 at Uni) and we budget £80 a week. I rarely buy branded items, and then only when on offer (with the exception of Marmite!).

Shop at Aldi mostly these days (one recently opened very locally) but also Morrisons, Costco and Sainsburys.

I think we eat pretty well with plenty of fresh fruit and veg, we are not big meat eaters though.

We meal plan and use BBC good food website for recipes mostly Aldi and local butcher. Cook from scratch.

But meal planning was key to us.

Family of 6. We spend 100 per week including nappies and wipes. It's aldi for us and also buy reduced meat and fish when we see it in co op near us as they heavily reduce, and chuck it in freezer.

Great tips

So I do an online Tesco shop of around £80 every 10 days or so. Then top up on things probably around £30 a week, I'll grab stuff on the way home from work, either by Lidl's or Tesco depending on where I'm coming from.

I really think I need to meal plan I've got a freezer and a chest freezer full of food but I'm constantly buying more!