Averaging £75 now we have one less child at home and are 2 adults and teen - basically 3 adults.
This includes cleaning materials, loo roll and basic toiletries.
We have quite a few treats like crisps and sweets. There’s probably a bottle of wine or some beer every other shop.
We have convenience food like frozen pizza or fresh filled pasta twice a week. Rest is cooked from scratch and in bulk with meals frozen such as lasagne, shepherds pie, casseroles. We tend to bulk out with lots of veg, so meat content per meal maybe isn’t huge. For example, 750g of lean mince will make 9 dinners so feed us three times. Typically this could be a big shepherds pie or lasagne with 6 portions and then 3 portions of bolognase.
So the £4.75 mince (low fat good quality) pack will be the bulk of the cost of for 3 meals. Then there’s obviously the veg, pasta, rice or potatoes to go with it. It’s certainly less than £1 a portion.
Two lots of cooking like this a week makes 6 meals.
We don’t eat the same thing more than twice (and not 2 days on trot) and by freezing and cooking different meals each week there are a range of dinners for each day.
This keeps our food bills low and diet relatively healthy I think.
We have plenty of fruit but go with cheaper options mostly like bananas, apples, grapes, tangerines. Will have 2 punnets if soft fruit per week in season.
I have the odd week of £85 shopping, but can manage a £60 week without too much trouble.
Tend to buy supermarket own brand for many things (not all) and go for Basics range on few but not all items - tinned tomatoes, mozzarella, cream cheese, herbs.