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How much is your weekly food shop?

169 replies

Bml11 · 06/04/2021 15:57

My other half alway moans at how much I spend on the weekly shop. There’s 2 adults and 2 year old. I spend between £120 - £130 (in the UK) We are dairy free and go through 5/6 cartons of oatly milk a week, so there’s a tenner right there. Because he goes on at me so much I was starting to think it was a lot, however his brother and partner came round a couple of days ago and they started talking about their shop and his brother was saying he usually spends about £120 for 2 adults. So I’m curious, what do you all spend a week?

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MojoJojo71 · 07/04/2021 19:32

Just me and 8 yo DD. I spend £35 on my Gousto box and then about £40 a week at Asda.

Twobigsapphires · 07/04/2021 21:14

£200 a week. 2 adults, 3 teens and 2 dogs. Includes booze.

SantaMonicaPier · 07/04/2021 21:22

Around £150 for two adults and two children, 10 and 12

Ravenspeckingearly · 07/04/2021 21:27

Easily £200 not including pet food, alcohol or takeaways. Trying to cut down atm. 2adults and 2 children

geminiflanagan · 07/04/2021 21:33

About £80 a week at Tescos for 2 adults and an 8 year old.

Separately, the milkman is £7 a week
Dog food £45 a month
Cat food & litter £45 a month

But if I nip to big Sains for something, I'm a total suckered and end up spending £50 on nothing. Mainly hot cross buns it seems at this time of year.

Itsokthanks · 07/04/2021 21:35

£150-£180 for 2 adults and 3 teenagers.

Chewbecca · 07/04/2021 21:36

3 adults and my main shop is £100-£120.

  • We have takeaway (at least) once a week, order some meat & fish online or get it separately from M&S, buy wine elsewhere and have a milkman.
dillydallydollydaydream7 · 07/04/2021 21:42

Anywhere between £70 and £100 for 2 adults, 2 year old, 6 month old and a dog

mowglika · 11/04/2021 23:27

We average around £80-90 a week, spend around £400 a month, that’s for me, DH and preschooler dc. We shop at Aldi, tesco and Waitrose

Emerald82 · 29/04/2021 11:32

About 110-120 a week. 2 adults, 11 and 14 year old, 2 cats 🐈

Hoping to get it down this week. Habe just got a massive order from Aldi with all our non perishables for the month and will just by fruit, dairy, veg, meat when needed

Itstartedinbarcelona · 30/04/2021 03:52

£175 a week - 2 adults, one teenager and an 11 year old including cat food, toiletries and cleaning products. We have a Tesco’s delivery every week plus on average 2 smaller shops a week. Need to start going back to Aldi to reduce it - we were spending £100 ish when we did our main shop there (pre-Covid). I’d like to get down to £120ish.

iusedtohavechickens · 04/05/2021 18:16

£250 a week 🤦‍♀️

Londonmummy66 · 04/05/2021 18:24

When DC are home we spend about the same as you - one is vegan and one has IBS so we have to have 2 options at pretty well each meal as their diets are pretty well mutually exclusive. That excludes wine and beer and we usually have to top up bread and fruit. It includes most toiletries, cleaning and laundry products plus tights which DC go through at a rate of knots.

We usually have one meal out or a takeaway on top of this.

ivykaty44 · 05/05/2021 09:41

we are averaging £50 per week

have made some swaps tis year to be more eco friendly and found some are more economical, which is a bonus

order don't give a crap and found the rolls are twice as long with smaller cardboard rolls inside - id not really noticed how large the tubes inside a toilet roll had become.

I order eggs from a local farmer, I asked on fb and there were several. The eggs are much better than supermarket eggs and £12 for 48

Ive switched to soap rather than shower gel, but looking at getting shower gel bulk buy carton to refill and its about half the price of the supermarket bottles 50p is instead of a £1, obviously the outlay is more initially. same though with shampoo

greengrocers is cheaper than supermarket and delivers weekly, also not the same plastic wastage. I think during lockdown they started delivering and that has made an impact as its as easy if not easier than a supermarket delivery. The smaller shops etc just leave in my porch but I have to be in for a supermarket delivery...and pay for the privilege whereas the local shops don't charge

dottydally · 05/05/2021 09:45

£100 ish a week for 2 adults & a toddler here. Delivered from Tesco but pay for delivery saver so £8/month on top for that.

Maybe £10 more each week if we have to pick up more bread/milk/fruit.

Doesn't include eating out or takeaways.

InsanityOf2020 · 05/05/2021 09:48

I spend about 60-80 for 1 adult and 1 teen goes to about 120 pw when dc2 is home

FatCatThinCat · 05/05/2021 09:52

We spend around £170 a week (not UK) for 2 adults, 1 kid and 2 cats. We eat really well but meat and fish is really expensive here. That's where the bulk of our cost goes.

Caramel81 · 05/05/2021 09:56

£90 a week for 2 adults (Morrisons usually)

Darbs76 · 06/05/2021 21:00

1 adult, 1 16yr old boy, 1 13yr old daughter. Spent at least £100 now, pre Covid it was £70, sometimes can be £120/130. Must admit though I’m buying ice cream (low cal one I’m addicted to) that is indulgent (a few cartons per week) as I’m not spending my money on anything else right now. So I could make savings but choosing not to at moment.

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