How much is your weekly food shop ?

[YogaRebel]

Have I gone mad or is food shopping a lot more expensive?

Pre covid I was doing a weekly shop for 4 of us at about £ 100 ( including by cleaning & basic ) toiletries. That was at usually Aldi or Lidl.
i switched to online delivery during lockdown and now use Ocado. Kids are both teenagers and eat loads - both me and DH WFH these days so don't get lunch or coffees out so much. But all the same, not sure I'm being tight or this what things cost now. I do buy good quality food, as I cook from scratch/ fresh most of the time ... attempting to keep us all healthy !

What do you budget a week for 4 ?

Pre brexit you mean. Not pre covid.

We use Ocado and our weekly bill (2 adults, 2 children + cat with delusions of grandeur) has gone up from around £125/week pre-Covid and Brexit to £150-£160/week.

I meal plan, so little wastage. Limited meat but when we do buy it (for 3) it's the good stuff. OTOH we are very rarely eating out at restaurants/cafes now and wfh so eat leftovers for lunch.

Lidl is one of the cheapest, and Ocado one of the most expensive supermarkets though, so some of your increase can be attributed to that. According to Which? there's about £25 or so between cheapest and expensive supermarkets, on the same products.

Pre Covid/Brexit effects, I was spending approx £80 per week for a family of 2 adults/2 teens. That rose up to about £135 per week at the height of lockdown when we were all home, but seems to have fallen back to around £100 per week. I have started shopping differently, though, which may have mitigated the rises to a point. Very organised with meal planning, cooking from scratch and using up ingredients, an online butcher which I buy in bulk from (£100 shop will last us approx 3 months), I've got a good well stocked spice cupboard/sauces which has built up. I'm also tending to alternate my shops between Sainsburys and Asda, where I was just Sainsbury's previously. I still think some Sainsbury's products are better, but Asda tends to be cheaper, so shopping across the two gives me the best of both worlds.

I budget £60 per week. That’s for two adults, 4 year old, 1 year old and teen DSD EOW.
I am on a strict budget, I meal plan, plan and plan some more. There is no more money in the budget so the food can’t come to more than that.
I bulk meat out with lentils, oats, beans. I cook simple, healthy food, with cheap ingredients. I am lucky that I know how to cook and use my imagination.

This week I've spent £209.

But will go to a farmer's market tomorrow, supposedly just to get meat for the roast, and will inevitably spend loads on food we don't need because we are Greedy Gusses.

Have no budget as such. Choose to shop in Lidl because I think the overall quality is better than Marks and Waitrose. Granted there are a top slice of products (like fresh meat or cheese counter) that Waitrose has, that Lidl just doesn't, so you can't directly compare as the counter stuff is always better. But general shopping? 90% of items we genuinely prefer Lidl and are absolute converts.

Our £209 haul (two shops) includes food for 2 adults, 1 teen, and toddler twins who eat as much as the teen does

We've got alcohol every night if we want it. Nappies and wipes. Ready meals for when teen needs to dash. Meat and fish (cook from scratch) for 5 most nights. Lunches for 4 for the week (only teen is out of the house during the day) a vast amount of fruit and veg, crisps, chocolate, freezer items, items for a fry up or eggs benedict/florentine for 4 each day.

Literally, halved our historic Waitrose bill. And eat no worse off. The chicken tastes no different. The steak tastes no different. The fruit and veg are actually better. Granted we don't have the choice of fancy grapes from Sicily, which might be superb, for a fiver. But we do have delicious Lidl green grapes for half the price of Waitrose ones, and always seem to last longer.

So our households food and toiletries for the week, comes in at £40pp. Which I think is fantastic really, considering that's 3 meals a day for 4 of us, and two meals a day for the other.

About £180 this week!
Thats just 1 adult and 2 kids!

2 adults and we shop online through Asda. Averages £50 a week.

2 adults and a toddler £100 per week Inc nappies etc.
But it depends what I buy. If I stick lamb in the trolley it sky rockets

Average about £100 Tesco delivery plus an extra £20-30 every few weeks in Lidl (giant yogurts, toilet rolls etc) This is 2 adults and 2 teenage boys so effectively 4 adults.

I buy cat food online in bulk and we get our sausages and joints from a butcher but everything is covered by Tesco & Lidl. My weekly shop used to be nearer £70/80 and whilst my kids do definitely eat more now, there's no doubt it's got more expensive. I carefully meal plan and 2 or 3 days a week the boys take pack lunch to school plus DH & I wfh so all meals at home.

It’s gone right up. There’s 3 of us plus dog. I get the dog food on Amazon but it’s about £90 a week and we usually also eat out once.

c. £250 - that's for three adults and one dog (including alcohol, toiletries, cleaning supplies etc)

£60-70

£50 a week for 2 adults and 2 children.
This doesn't include pet food or cleaning/ laundry supplies.
We eat really well and I shop at Aldi/ Lidl and we also have a local social supermarket where you can "shop" the shelves and pay £3 for each carrier bag full of shopping

4 adults & a cat.
Used to be £70 a week, now it’s more like £100

4 of us and a cat. Including toiletries, cat food and litter, cleaning stuff we spend between £120 - £160 a week easily 🤦‍♀️ We go all over as well. Tesco, Asda, Aldi, Iceland. Its crazy.

Azeri coffee on my ASDA order for week before Christmas, went to add some items today, the coffee had gone from £3.50 up to £6.50.... how much!!!
Deleted it, ridiculous hike, I shall try another type or drink tea.

Azera... anybody seen it at a reasonable prise anywhere?

Azeri coffee on my ASDA order for week before Christmas, went to add some items today, the coffee had gone from £3.50 up to £6.50
I used to do my Dads shopping Bd he liked this coffee. It's regularly on at half price so it will have just gone back to full price for now. I used to get 2-3 jars when it was on offer. Same with the Earl Grey tea we buy - I get extra when it's £1.50 off.

I've been logging all of my food costs for quite some time and have noticed that prices (for us at least) really started to go up from July.

We're a family of 5 and spend between £80-90/week. I do a lot of shelf cooking and have a big rotating food supply.

£50 pw for 2 adults 1 child, breakfast 2 pack lunches and 3 teas

I agree, I've been doing the same.

We are a family of 5 as well (3 adults and 2 teenagers). And spend about the same as you, but I have definitely notice not only price rises but also items having less product in whatever item even if the price hasn't risen.

Me neither!

x2 adults, x3 kids (one almost teen)

It's £170-£200pw for us, 3 adults and 2 under-5s, Tesco delivery. Doesn't include everything - we get rice in bulk elsewhere, and toiletries separately. No booze or pet food needed, no organic food except milk, but some convenience/premium own brand. Could definitely be cheaper, we spend a lot on fruit, eat meat every day and could do more cooking from scratch. Used to be much lower, although our family has grown too so hard to compare. Also doesn't include loo roll or laundry as we buy in bulk.

Just DH and I - we spend around £200 a week at Waitrose. No alcohol - just decent quality food that I mainly cook from scratch.

£22.50 family of four and 2 cats