Honestly how much is your weekly supermarket bill

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Is (as I think) ours excessive at 150 a week for 2 adults and 1 dc oh and one large cat-includes cleaning products cat food and litter-no personal toiletries a little booze - maybe a couple of bottles of wine-lunches out for all of us so no packed lunches included just evening meal- no ready meals
Thoughts please- when I have told DH about threadson MN where people spend 40 quid he is incredulous !

Stunned that no one has turned up to beat the OP and other posters within a inch of their life for having the money to spend.

i see mine is low. hmmm, well dh buys his own lunch on week days. and i suppose me and dd do eat out a fair bit, prob 2 or 3 lunches a week. then me and dh get take away at least once a week normally, and we eat out as a family once each weekend (unless we're at some relatives). ooh and dd has brekfast every week day at nursery. adds up really...

I spend about £150/week for a family of 4 and a cat.

I could spend less but I buy fresh flowers every week/fortnight and have 1DC in nappies.

I make a packed lunch for my DH every day.

No cigs but does include lager for DH.

Could easily spend more though!

ruddynorah I need to get a job at M&S!

If I had more money E45 I'd spend it. I don't like second guessing myself when I go shopping. I'd love to just buy something because I fancied it, or because it looked nice. In a couple of years our finances will be better and I'll definitely spend more! So, I'd never have a go at someone who was able to buy more/better quality (unless they were wasting money on diamond encrusted toilet paper or something equally ridiculous, and even then I'd seethe silently )

About 170 - which always feels slightly ridiculous for two adults and two young DC (3 & 4) when I have budgeted hard I can get it down to 90 or so by cutting out all but the essentials but I swear I don't know how people do it for much less - you must be far more imaginative cooks than myself.

About £60 - £70 a week all in but does vary depending on if I need toiletries/cleaning stuff/washing stuff etc or not - try to spread them out so don't buy them all at once.

There are 4 of us, me, DH, 2 xDD but both teenage so essentially 4 adults. Plus one dog. Sometimes spend a fortune on 'personal hygiene' stuff!

That amount includes lunches for us all though I generally have a sandwich out once or twice each week and I treat myself to a capuccino most days - but don't smoke and drink very little so feel not unreasonable!

I do try and plan meals for the week and shop to that, which helps I think. We also eat mainly veggie stuff as well.

Really interesting to see how other folk do it!

About £100 - this includes nappies for DS2 but not toilet roll/kitchen roll/fairy liquid/soap powder - that comes from Costco about four times a year. If I add in wine it is more.

We are meat eaters but I only buy free range/finest meat. I get free range eggs and some organic veg. I do meal plan, so there is no waste. DS1 and I have lunches for work/school (him 5 days, me 3); and DS2 and I eat lunch at home twice a week. DH buys his lunch daily.

One of my NY resolutions is to eat less meat, although I have found that I can get good bargains in meat/bread/fish etc by going late on a Thursday rather than early on a Saturday. A big freezer helps. I freeze bread and milk so I don't usually have to top up in the week.

Mine this week has been 0000 from Christmas till now

Next week will hopefully be very small as I am going to eat the freezer contents and send my dd2 to tesco with cash and a list then she will not impulse by

It ok tesco is 5 min walk - its not child cruelty

I have decided doing a 2 week shop is cheaper

£30-£40 a week.
me, dh and ds.

Once a month i spend £60 for washing powder, dishwasher tabs etc.

I am very tight with my money.

£150 easily for 2 adults and 3dc's - 2 of whom are still in nappies.

More if we've got people coming to stay.

Would be happy it it never was more than £150 but it often is

ours can be £80 a week,
if I meal plan and take care, that is 2 adults 2 children 3 meals a day 7 days a week. (dh takes lunch to work)

HOWEVER, milk man is ontop of that 12 pints a week

butcher is ontop of that - we go once a month and top up about £100

Wine/Alcohol isn't included, I don't drink very much and DH buys when there are promotions on.

i love ivykaty little bit on the end of her post about it being ok not child labour!! lol
thing is i sent ds1 over the corner shop for milk and he took it upon himself to buy sweets for everyone plus milkshake and as he didnt have enough money the shopkeeper let him take it home and bring the money back later as they know us as regulars. only thing was i didnt have enough money so i had to drive to go get cash out to go pay him, ds1 has now been told not to just decided to buy extra things when he was only meant to buy milk! oh well, thought was there (ds1 is 11)

I've just spent £175 - 3 adults (my adult DD lives with us) and 2 younger DCs. Included some wine, cat food etc, and that was a relatively big shop. It's usually closer to £130. I buy some but not all organic fruit/veg and free range chicken.

sunburntats what are you eating when you spend 30 a week can we have some tips.

I spend about £200 a month on a big shop, delivered, which includes laundry, toiletries, cat food etc then top up weekly for fruit, veg, milk etc and we get a case of wine each month usually £70-100 on that, so total is about £100-120 a week for 4 of us

I tried the £40 a week shop. It didnt happen. This week was £67. This is just for me and dd. In my defence i am pregnant and currently eating loads and trying to make what we eat a lot healhier. Even though it was a shop for a week i think it might last 2 as the was offeres on whole chicken, pork and sauces so thought might as well. Will keep u posted on how long this lasts

Between £80-£100 a week in the super market and another £40 a week for my fruit and veg boxes, milk, cream and eggs. That includes 2 bottles of wine, drynites, cleaning stuff, most toiletries Family of 7 (4 adults, 3 kids, 12, 10 and 7). The biggest chunk of that is the organic juice that I buy. ABout 4 times a year, I spend about £100 on meat from Blackface.co.uk and about £40 on bulk buyinf flour for bread making, so that adds about £10 a week on to the total. I could do it for about 1/2 that, if I didn't buy organic/fairtrade.

About £100 for 2 adults, 2 kids. I do two £130ish shops online a month and top ups in town when I am passing.

Does include nappies and all toiletries. I thought it was a lot, but seems not too bad looking at this. We have free range/finest meat and some organic other products. Do cook from scratch.

Occassionally I have a cheap week when we eat lots of beans and only boring and in season fruit/veg.

I meal plan and buy what is needed on the list only.
I double up on cooking, shep pie, bolognaise, curries etc, freeze half. That then makes "free" meals the following week.
Buy only stuff on offer, do ALLOT of freezing.
Dont buy many goodies, buy a multipack of crisps, on offer every now and again, once they are gone, they are gone.

Packed lunches every day for school & work.

Only get washing powders etc from B&ms or homecare shops, much cheeper than supermarkets.
make my own cakes.

Fruit and veg from aldi/lidle, fraction of the cost at supermarkets.
We eat very very little meat as well. Meat is just too expensive. I do buy very good quality mince though. Dont mind paying a bit extra for that, but it does make 6 meals.

Use my slow cooker ALLOT, buy chicken thighs/drummers, very very cheep and cook them in slow cooker, they drop to bits and i can make curries out of them.
All sorts of tricks up my sleeve.
Martin Lewis is my guru, i studied his website and got loads of ideas from there.

Oh and, we dont drink alohol.

We have been saving like mad over the last 3 years as we are off to Florida in July on holiday...so we have something to aim for.

We have no debts other than the mortgage. We aim to stay that way. Aim to start to pay the mortgage off early.