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?!

£180 - £200 per week for me, dh and ds (26). That includes absolutely everything, food, cleaning products, personal care products (shampoo, shower gel etc), all drinks (including one bottle of nice wine for weekend). I could probably cut back but we don't buy takeaways or go out for any meals or holidays (due to severely disabled dh), so we like to have nice things to eat at home as its our only pleasure in life.

We are 5 adults in the house atm, breakfast, dinner and stuff lunch occasionally like bread, ham, eggs etc. it’s about £250 per week maybe more but I don’t count anymore because it is what it is. not even saving money by having Ds at uni because we give him money to buy food
I cook from scratch everyday except Saturday we get a takeaway. Sometimes dh and I go out for dinner then the kids sort themselves out
Dogs eat butternut so that’s separate.

2 adults, 2 kids, no pets, no alcohol.
Main food shop is ca. £125 per week +£20 total top-ups. That includes cleaning stuff, cosmetics & toiletries.

meal planning to within an inch of my life and getting it to £150-160 per month for 2 adults

but Ive found that shopping once per month is my best option, cook for the entire month on a meal plan and freeze everything. Then every 2/3 days take meals out of the freezer ready to eat, even the mash potato and rice is frozen.

It saves time, cook once, cook double of treble freeze 3/4 times, cook for 7 evening in the first week and then no cooking for 3 weeks, limited washing up and the added bonus no weekly trips t the supermarket, just pop to the Saturday market to the fruit stand.

I buy milk to last the month and make flat bread and pitta and freeze, make our own bread and also sweet snacks

we eat well, and by meal planning we have a lot more variety of meals, with only one or two repeated

some recipes state they are for 4 portions, but find they are ample for 5 or 6 without being stingy. So extra 2 or 3 portions get frozen as we are cooking double or treble.

This has meant this month, Februarys meal plan will last into March, which has reduced the cost

I think before the extra portions were just being eaten up, either at that meal or the next lunch time etc and so 6 potions became 4 portions

not doing top up shops has saved much more than anything else

Trying to keep our grocery budget to £500 a month and so far seems doable, that’s 2 adults and 2 young kids, no pets. That includes cleaning stuff and toiletries, occasional beers but no wine. We meal plan, also defrosted the freezer this week with the aim of doing more batch cooking for march.

2 adults and a lot of visitors most weekends (kids and grandkids) so we spend around £200 to £230 a week (i had 9 for lunch last saturday). No cleaning products as our cleaner supplies those and we bulk buy washing powder/dishwasher tablets/dog food so none of those either. We eat well though - DH likes steak, we have salmon weekly, a Charlie Bigham ready meal or 2 and we eat a lot of fruit/veg. I've got 2 large veg drawers in the fridge that are always full. No alcohol or treats other than the odd bag of sharing crisps.

No, I think you are doing really well. It’s just the cost of living has rocketed and wages haven’t 😞

One adult, one hollow legged 17yo boy, £60 a week, including basic toiletries.

I cook from scratch, order flour by the sack and bake all our bread. Idon't drink alcohol and we waste almost nothing.

For that we get chicken, eggs, pork, fish, some beef and duck.and a good range of fruit & veg.

3 adults and probably about £130 a week but none of us eat breakfast, DS eats lunch at work so pays for that and DH and I eat something small so the cost is just dinners and we eat fairly simply and from scratch now so cost isn't too high. We also eat a lot less meat than we used to and a lot of the rising prices were for meat and fish I found.

We spent £140 a week: 2ad, 2ch, 2 cats and 1 dog.

Lots of slow cooker meals. Daily pancakes and milk. No one goes hungry or complains. Always, always meal plan.

I said £115 per week, this week was £112.87. The only things missing off the list are some yeo valley yoghurt for me (£2) which takes us to almost bang on budget.

The kids want some chocolate rice cakes for snacks, I’m happy to chuck in the £2.50 for them as they last more than a week usually.

Here are my receipts from today and meal plan. We have an extensive store cupboard so the herbs and spices/recipe mixes/stock/stuffing are already in the house.

Breakfast - DH has overnight oats and I have yoghurt and granola with fruit or a thin bagel with soft cheese (half a pack left from last week) spinach and ham. The DC are currently obsessed with beans on toast for breakfast - hence 6 tins of beans.

We’re still eating last year’s Easter chocolate, Halloween treats and Christmas selection boxes so no sweet treats required!

Lunches are usually left overs, DC have school dinners. Weekends they have soup/toasties/left overs.

For some reason we ended up with double the usual amount of apples last week, so no need to buy any this week. Same for potatoes, I thought we were nearly out and bought a bag, but we had just under half of the Albert Bartletts left. There’s still a couple in that bag, plus the new one I bought last week. Plus there’s a pack of baking potatoes and 2/3 of a bag of baby potatoes.

Next week will see us need fusilli and easy cook rice as they’re getting low this week.

We don’t use a full bag of lots of things one week, so they roll over to the next. The chilli was batch cooked a few weeks ago and we got 3x3 portions out of it (DC have half an adult portion) and we already have tortilla chips in to go with it.

I also think you're doing really well. I spend about £100 at Tesco's a week but I also pop in to m&s on Saturdays for a nice dinner, separate shop for dog food and a takeaway once every few weeks so probably at least £150 a week for two adults, one primary aged child and a dog