How much is the weekly food shop?!

[Keenbean22]

I understand it’s variable for everyone depending on number of people etc but my food shop keeps going up and up! Is this normal these days?!

family of 5 ( 2 adults, 2 children. 1 baby). Tend to cook 90% from scratch with the odd pizza thrown in. I do cook dinner for my grandmother 3 nights a week. Kids eat the same meals we do. All have breakfast at home, one DD has school dinner so the rest of us need lunch too. No pets. need nappies but no formula.

we seek to be averaging £150-£200 a week. Am I going wrong somewhere?!

Between £30 and £40 per week, however I’m a single vegan who batch cooks and eats one meal a day! The variation comes for if I’ve invited friends or family for dinner

Two adults and a dog, about £75 per week. I meal plan and we shop at Aldi/Lidl.

While I agree £30 a week for a family of 4 is a very very low spend, you really don't need to spend much on cleaning products or have different products for every job if you don't want to. I only buy washing powder, washing up liquid (I clean the bathroom with it as well as the kitchen, floors too diluted in spray mop) and bleach for the loo.

We spend £75 a week for 2 adults and a teenager. And a cat.

We shop at Sainsburys. I work really hard in keeping costs down while I'm unemployed. I hope to God / the Moon / whale music or Zeus that I find a job soon....

We've had to really cut back on beef and I can't afford Yorkshire Gold anymore (those two things would add £10 a week to my budget easily!)

Apart from that we don't go without.

£60 a week for two adults. Sometimes it’s slightly under, sometimes it’s slightly over depending on if it’s a week where we need top up items like toilet roll etc.

We are four adults, a 15 year old & two cats. I almost always have deliveries because a slight disability means I can’t do the lifting, packing etc required to use Lidl or Aldi - and if my sons went instead of me god knows what we’d be eating 🫣.

Our bill is around £200 a week, split into a big shop of around £140 & then a top up shop of another £50 to £60.

I don't make a note of it, but my estimate is that between us DH and I spend about £150 - £175 per week on our grocery and household shopping. We are a household of just 2 people! 😳

Two adults, WFH. 2 tweens, school dinners. Inclusive of cleaning products, basic toiletries, a little alcohol.
Excluding pet stuff as we buy that elsewhere.
Main shop £150-170, plus top up shop £20-30.
So total £170-200.

Our has gone up so much! 3 adults and 1 teen. It includes packed lunches for dh and teen. Adult dd does a monthly shop for her lunch stuff as she like picking herself. I buy meat but no alcohol. Cook mostly from scratch at dinner time.
Main shop is £170-£180 Sainsburys online then I usually end up popping to Lidl to grab a few bits and spend £15-25 . I use to wince when it was over £100!

£85-95 a week. 2 adults 4 kids (young) and we eat out on a Saturday. Kids get free school meals universally here so this helps keep it down lunch wise. I'm currently working on changing this and cutting down UPFs so I expect this to go up. It's interesting the variety of spending.

That’s incredibly cheap. What do you eat/buy? Do you have any suggestions for cheap veggie meals?

We averaged £200 a week in the last month for 2 adults, an 8yr old and 2 cats with a part time DSD 3 nights a week. This didnt include alcohol or toiletries just general food for us and cat food/litter. It included 3 Hello Fresh boxes with discount. Its blimmin expensive nowadays 😢 I find a monthly costco haul brings the weekly cost down but this month has been all over the place with no meal planning. Must do better.

We spend between £150 to £200 for a family of 4. 2 adults & 2 primary age children. This includes all toiletries, cleaning products, alcohol and top up shops. We eat out/ have a takeaway twice a month on average and this is not included.
I always thought ours was high but reading this thread it seems pretty average.

I have found the best way to do it is to buy produce and bread from M&S topped up by a Lidl/Aldi shop and the local butchers. Honestly, I think we eat really well for this. I am managing to cut back on some UPF's and I buy some expensive bits like olive oil mayo, British honey etc. We have salmon and a roast dinner weekly. A lot of the expensive is nice fruit and snacks for the kids.

Feel I could cut the shop in half if I needed but I enjoy the little luxuries and we can afford it so I roll with it. It is expensive though and every week I do the shop I come back with sticker shock about something.

2 adults, 2 children and one baby

still buying nappies, no formula

normally average £100 a week and anything we have left gets put in a separate pot so on weeks we spend more it’s already covered or it gives us the odd treat

£100-200 per adult - but we are quite particular about what we like, realistically we could probably get it down to £70 pp

2 adults, plus 16,15, and 12 year old (the bottomless years) and 2 cats.

About £200 a week.

2 adults 7 kids from 2-16 3 cats 1 dog £90-100 per week all from Lidl or Aldi

We spend £250, sometimes £300, per week for 3 adults, 1 older teen and 2 dogs. Our kids have friends round a few times a week and they eat a lot. We eat out a couple of times a week, generally 1 lunch and 1 dinner.

@pocketpairs seems like a weird thing to argue about, but ok. I can’t eat gluten or soya or lactose so that knocks out most of the enjoyable foods, I don’t eat upfs and I shop at Lidl. I don’t have a car so have to be able to carry everything I buy.

The UK average is 35-45 per person per week, a baby will eat a lot less food but use more in the way of nappies maybe formula depends on the age of the child but a teen for food I would say the same as an adult under 5 about half portions 5-10 years about 2/3rds so with 2 adults and 3 under 10 I would think £100 a week was on very strict budgeting and on low side; £150 about average £200 a week higher than average but OK if that is it including basic toiletreis and cleaning stuff and the dinners for Grandma and no unaccounted for top ups

£100 for 1 adult, 1 child inc toiletries. Pet food excluded.

Usually a £75 main shop and £25 on extra fruit and veg and weekend treats.

Ideally I’d keep it to £350pcm but can’t seem
to as have limited freezer space so we do have wastage. When I move I really want a second freezer as should be able to manage it then.

Typically 90 per week.

No pets, but including toiletries, cleaning stuff, any OTC health stuff, 2 adults, one hungrier-than-an-adult teen. No meals out, except school lunches for teen. We eat well, but definitely budgeting. So cook from scratch, meat or fish for about 3 or 4 meals a week, vegetable soups for lunches, porridge or eggs for breakfast.

£150 a week for main supermarket shop then about further £50 a week on top up shop/butchers/bakery etc. This feeds 3 adults and 1 hungry teen, although teen has school lunches £20pw.

Still waiting for the meal plan that does 84 healthy meals for £30 a week. Somehow I don’t think she’s coming back.