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?!

Around £125 week including a£14 bottle of wine - only 2 of us in our early 60s that includes all food for our lunches as well - I could make it less but we cut right back on takeaways and do eat really well, farmers market chickens, salmon, lots of Longley farm cottage cheese, good veg from farmers market, to be honest it’s my H that bumps up the bills as he likes great vegetable juice, ramens, sushi , prawns , good granola etc -

Ours is easily £150 for two adults two kids. Includes packed lunch stuff.

To be honest though its not really surprising given how much wages have risen in the past 5 years. That's inflation.

Min wage was £8.91 in 2021. Its £12.71 now. That's 43% higher. A weekly shop that was £100 in 2021 now being £143 is consistent with that level of inflation.

The issue comes when:
A) people think the £ increase in their wage is a "pay rise" that will make them feel better off. It isn't, its an inflation uplift to ensure your wage still buys what it bought 5 years ago
B) your wage doesn't rise by as much as inflation. If you haven't had payrises at least as high as inflation, you've got poorer and will find the weekly shop less affordable.

£80- £100 per week for 5 of us. 3 adults, 2 dcs, we don't eat meat though.

Minimum wage may have gone up by 43% in 5 years but salaries for teachers, TAs, nurses, midwives etc have barely risen. So effectively we’re all getting poorer by the year.