Weekly shopping--how much do you spend on food etc?

[DSMEZ]

I seem to be spending around 80-100 pounds a week on the shopping. Seems a lot to me, but I can't see how I can cut down. We're a family of four with a 3 year old and a 6 mos. Is this about right?

yy its a lot

I spend 50-60

family of 4, 3 year old and 7 year old and a DOG

Do you buy a lot of meat?

Not a lot. But we do get organic. Plus fish...

god i'd love to only spend that we're a family of 6 and the dc's eat us out of house and home we spend around £900 a month on food plus we grow some of our own veg and fruit!!!! either that or we're just pigs

Family of 4, 2 adults, 2 toddlers.

£50 a week

About £120 a week, 2 adults and 2 young children and 2 cats, but I buy all organic (where possible), lots of fish (which is pricey), tonnes of fruit (we make all our ow fruit juice nowadays), don't know why but it is never cheaper than that.

about £150- 160 per fortnight
and we eat well

used to spend about 75-100 and had to stop. I have reduced it to between £12 and £25 for 2 per week.

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£15-£20 a week for me and ds

the rest of weekly income (£30) goes on bills

This week we spent for a family of six £140, which will last us about a month and half excluding the milk, fruit and bread. We have completely filled the chest freezer, the fridge freezer and the cupboards. Included in that little lot is fresh meat and vegetables that are all frozen.

We spend about £100-£120 a fortnight at the supermarket on basics, inc nappies, wipes etc, £10 a week on fresh fruit and veg from the market, about £15 at the butcher (organic) £5 a week on milk from the milkman. 2 adults, 2 yr old toddler and 9mos baby.

£150 a week, family of 6 including 2 teenagers - some but not all organic fruit and veg.

DSMEZ - your bill sounds entirely reasonable. Groceries cost loads these days

I spend £60-£70 on an average shop.

Most of that is organic though and doesn't really include a lot of meant which is extra.

I have to say I'm abit shocked at the amount of money that is spent on food by you guys, we eat really healthy and our food bill is never that amount a week, a week we spend about £10 to £20 and that is on bread, milk and fruit and they all have 2 pieces of fruit in their lunchboxes a day, then a home cooked meal everyday, they have the odd piece of processed food every now and then. I have also 2 pre teens who eat me out of house and home.

Presumably you don't just live on 20-quid's worth of bread, milk and fruit, though, Aufish?

No like I said we went shopping this week and filled our chest freezer, fridge freezer and cupboards with all the main things that we need and the £20 a week is just our top up shop.

I'd love it if you could tell me how I could eat mainly organic on that much Aufish.

Tesco is the only place locally that sells Organic food products. I don't buy processed foods really unless you count things like organic pasta

about £100 - £150 for dd, dp and I.

but a lot organic and we try not to use supermarkets.

No I have no idea how you would eat organic on that amount, we personally don't eat organic as we don't see the difference to our health when we do. That's my opinion, might be wrong, and I haven't personally seen anything that would prove the point, everything is washed and cooked at a high temperature and that's all that matters.

I buy organic due to where I shop I suppose and organic meat tends to be ethically reared. We arrely eat meat though as it is so expensive.

spend about 55 pound a week

2 adults dds 2 and 1

and one cat

this does not include thing like nappys

I guess I should clarify--we don't buy processed food, or frozen food much. Not at all really. I could be vegetarian but my dh does like his meat and fish. Do you plan meals then? Is that the secret?

bought some ready made food last week - so expensive!

back to making things myself.

Different taste to Organic as well as the lack of pesticides/antiB's and steroids etc etc a well as the ethical issues.

There's no fruit and veg shop near where I live never mind organic so even though I despise shopping at a supermarket living here it's the only choice I have unfortunately