£500 a month on food for just two of us

[Giraffapuses]

Hi we spend loads on the food shop. Is this just the normal amount when your an adult? I remember when I was in my 20s and poor and I could do the whole thing for £80 a month.

Me and DH spend about £200 a month. We are vegetarian so that helps keep the cost down.

That does include alcohol. We don't really have takeaways because we are always disappointed in the food

If you can afford it and enjoy what you buy surely it's no issue. We spend quite a bit on food and drink but we hardly ever have take aways or eat out, it's just not something we particularly enjoy. I could definitely spend less, and there have been times when I've needed to, but I don't need to stint myself anymore and I enjoy what I buy.

We probably spend about 400 pm on food for DH & I, including takeaways but not meals out.

Pre-DS & Covid, we would eat out at least twice a weekend and probably once in the week.

4 adults (2 adult children living at home) 1 teen and 5 fussy cats
£800 pcm for everything except booze.
It's usually around the £200 a week Mark

Between £50 and £70 a week. Including alcohol. That's a mixture of farm shop, M&S, butcher, bakery, small co-op, Iceland.
Two people and two dogs. I only eat small portions though and we don't snack.

Thanks for all the comments.

I've found this thread fascinating. I thought there would be hundreds of people feeding a family of 4 on £20 and cheerfulness. But, no looks like food is just costly.

A few people asked what our budget goes on. Here's a rough breakdown of the expensive bits:
Ocado 2x per month (lots or meat and fiah)
Speciality Asian foods
Take the piss expensive cat food for our over loved cat (£50 pm)
2x Aldi shop
4x takeaways per month
No alcohol (we don't drink).

That comes to about £800

Oh I do relate to the take the piss expensive cat food. I suppose our boy just thinks he should eat nice food as do we. OTH I never gave our dc beige food - they ate what we ate - fresh meat, fish and vegetables.