Another boring question - how much do you spend on your weekly supermarket shop

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I only ask because dh reckons I am profligate. There are 3 of us currently (including 19 month old dd) and I currently spend £90 ish / £100 ish per week. It does seem a lot.....

If you guys do better than me it might inspire me to analyse a little further to see what economies I can make

Hulababy,

Its dawned on me - that's why my shopping bill has gone up in last 2 years (dd aged nearly 19 months)...its the nappies and wipes!

My weekly "online" Tesco order usually comes to around £110 for the 5 of us (DH, me, DD (8), DS(6) and DD (4) on average, sometimes less if I don't need washing stuff/household products.

However, this doesn't include any meat or fruit as I buy this locally.

There are 5 of us, I suppose 3 adults as dd is 15, and two cats and I budget for £70 per week whcih includes everything - wine as well. I shop at either Asda or Tesco, the main time that I go over this is if we are having people round for a meal, but I cant afford to spend more than that on a regular basis.
I think its a case of cutting your cloth!

between 70 - 90 pound. 2 adults, 2 children (still in nappies) 2 dogs and a rabbit. We drink loads of wine/beer and eat well

I tend to disagree about eating healthy being expensive... depends where you shop. f you meant only food by 'supermarket shop' then I know we spend £58/week (I kept track of it for a few months); including take-aways, top-up shopping, DH's lunch, the lot. Of that, maybe £10-£15/week on fruit &veg, which is the biggest single chunk of it. F+V Bought on street markets, which is the most economy place I've found (supermarkets are quite dear for fruit & veg, I'll grant you).

We're a family of BIG appetites, though, and when we buy meat (rarely) it's usually organic. Bought some TTD sausages and they were vile! Tasted so sugary.

forgot to add the one shop usually runs into the other week, thats why it differs i think

zebra, lilibet, dejags - what do you eat?? What kind of meals do you eat in a day?

My healthy eating veg and fruit stuff comes from the supermarket or the local shop downstairs. No decent market here and would you believe that in Sheffield city centre there are no local grocers, etc. either.

Our shop includes pretty much everything. DS is only in nappies at night - but I don't skimp (Pampers Active fit).

I make sure I make a list of exactly what we need and ensure that I get those things. I do get extras - DH loves cheese, salami, olives etc. We don't drink much - which helps I suppose. I normally would only buy four beers for DH - again expensive ones though.

The only thing which goes on top of our weekly shop is toiletries - which adds up to about £25 per month.

meat from butchers is so much nicer, you can choose leaner cuts

Fruit and veg are also better and cheaper from grocers

Sorry Enid - posts crossed.

As an example this is what we ate yesterday:

Breakfast: toast/cereal

Lunch: DH had tuna/sweetcorn sarnie, I had cheese/tom sarnie, DS had banana sarnie with babybel cheese and apple on the side.

Snacks during the day: DH - crisps, salami, Me - tzatziki dip with crisps, applies and bananas. DS had biscuits, one of those energy bar type things and a banana

Supper: lamb cutlets with potatoes, brocolli and carrots. DS had strawberries and banana for desert.

Evening: more apples, crisps & dip

Drinks: Coke, Apple Juice (for DS), Mineral water and coffee for DH (nescafe).

Breakfast for the children and dp is toast and milk/fruit juice. We all take packed lunches, the children take sandwiches/cereal bar/crisps neither will take fruit. I have fruit for breakfst, dp and I usually bring soup/sandwhiches/yoghurt to work or today I have a jacket potato cottage cheese and salad.
Teas vary, last night dp and I had a veg risotto and crusty bread, other teas planned for this week are veggie burgers and wedges with salad, aubergine and pasta bake, we eat chillis and spag bolognaise, toad int he hole with onion gravy, pizza, bacon eggs, sausage, mushrooms and beans is a favourite and there are alwys good old fish fingers chips and beans for the chidren. There are always apples and bananas in the fruit bowl with other stuff occasionally.

I'm starving now!!!!

Well i have no idea what my money goes on then. I was hoping you all ate baked beans three times a day but you eat more food than I do!!

Our budget is £85 a week for 2 adults and a 2-year-old. I don't tend to economise much on quality which is probably why it's a little high, but I will shop online then "remove" treats from the basket if it's looking like too expensive a shop.

The last couple of weeks we've only spent £60, but then I haven't really bought much cleaning/washing stuff recently so I'm due a really expensive shop soon We've also had a couple more vegetarian meals in the week than we normally would which helps.

I will not economise in food. I don't eat huge amounts, but what I do eat I really want to enjoy, so I won't get value brands of foodstuffs - I'll economise in other areas of my life in preference. I'll admit there's room for economising in cleaning/washing brands but a couple of times I've tried with cleaning items (like kitchen cleaner) I've been disappointed and just ended up using it faster while hating the smell, and we've only just hit on a brand combination of washing liquid/conditioner that doesn't make ds and my skin itchy so loathe to experiment too much again!

Oh, meant to say, we shop at Sainsburys online mainly (with occasional walks to our local Tesco to "top up"!) - I find it much easier to budget this way and on certain days of the week it's free delivery so it doesn't really feel like a "luxury"!

4 of us (2 adults, dd 12, ds 10) and i reckon we spend about £120-150 a week

could be a lot less but we tend to be disorganised and i end up nipping up to marks and sparks and spending £20 on a few bits which would be half the price in tescos

there was a thread a while back about this - as a result of that thread i did a shop at lidl and was amazed how much cheaper it was (and good quality) - keep meaning to go back there but it's 20 miles away, so not as convenient as tescos!

We spend between £110 and £140 a month on our online shop with Tescos, and then between £10 and £30 a week on top up stuff - fruit, bread, milk, sandwich stuff and salad.

That includes Nappies and wipes, but I buy them when they are BOGOF whether I need them or not.

Thats for 4 of us, me, DH, DS1 (6 today!!!!!) and DS2 (3). DDs only counting with nappies etc so far.

If I've worked it out right thats about £50/60 a week.

Blimey, thats good LL. I have tried to cut ours down but it never works.

Ummm 2 adults 1 baby and one tall and hungry 10 yr old.
We do a big shop (£180) at Sainsburys or Safeway every 3-4 wks and top up during the week, I prefer to get fruit and veg from our local greengrocer and we get organic box every month £25.00 delivered with seasonal stuff.
prob spend £25.00 pw on the greengrocer and top up stuff
So whats that then
180 + 25+ 100 = £405 per month
I make all DS school lunches and home cook all baby food too, thats without nappies and wipes as I use cloth. I don't think ours is excessive, we eat well and what we want.

I spend about 100gbp on two adults, one 16yo and a child. And also the dog and two cats but some of their food comes from the vet. I'm a bit of a supermarket floozy these days and spread my favours around Sainsbury's, Tesco and Asda. I only spent 70gbp at Asda last week, I was very pleased!

16yo dd tells me that ds1 managed to feed three adults on 30gbp while we were in Insdonesia last year. She claims that whilst they had food to eat at mealtimes there was nothing else int eh house apart from dogfood.

Btw, I think supermarket prices are going up, too. Bread has gone up loads - to do with a bad harvest or something.

let's just say Ocado are doing VERY nicely out of us
(I don't know where it goes as the fridge is always bare)

Enid: we are all pigs and eat high volume. I am not joking, we are famous in- and outside the family for it.

Breakfast: economy size non-branded cereals, porridge with yogurt and a tiny sprinkling of some sweet cereal for DS on top, occasional fried eggs and bacon or pancakes.

Lunches: Jackets with beans, tuna-mayo or cheese. Else nachos, or something on toast.

Snacks: fruit, crips (for the kids), flapjacks (at work), bread & butter & jam for the kids.

Tea: Usually Potatoes, else basmati rice or pasta with heaps of steamed veg. DH & kids douse theirs with butter and I put cheese or tamari on mine. Sausages or bacon or somesuch maybe 1x/week.

We buy 25 kg bags of potatoes for £4-£6, 10 kg bags of basmati rice for £10, and usually organic wholemeal pasta -- but we mostly stick to the spuds.

PUddings, if we bother, are usually home-made. WE do very little in the way of brand-names, puddings, biscuits, ready-meals, not much meat, either. Buy almost nothing in single-serving containers (crisps are the exception, else the kids fight over them!). Now that we have moved house we have an operational freezer and the luxury of ice cream! . Get maybe one take-away a week. I didn't count alcohol in the food bill either -- not exactly nutritional, is it? And this last week was a blow out with 3 expensive takeaways, but our excuse we moved house and had to keep feeding our helpers!

The people on the UK Parents "Families on a budget' forum blow us away, though, for cheap food bills. I can't believe how cheaply they eat. I don't know if it's because we eat so much F+Veg or because I (and DH even more so) turn my nose up at a lot of the stuff in Aldi/Netto/Lidl.

We have a budget of £100pw and thats for everything, food, nappies, going out, takeaways, etc. My weekly shop varies between £30 to £70 depending on how much cleaners, washing powder etc are needed. And if we have a night out planned. I never buy ready made meals and not everything is cheap value products. I usually have a fridge full of fresh veg and fruit. It helps that dh normally works away during the week and lives on work expenses leaving just me and ds(18mths) to feed. I would love to be able to go shopping and not worry about the fact I only have £50 left in my purse but we eat really well and there is always treats or beers in the house.

I can't cook rice to save my life. It always goes gooey.

I don't really know what we spend on food per week but have latest bank statement here:

13 Jan 70 at Asda
16 Jan 34 at Sainsbury's
19 Jan 63 at Asda
20 Jan 85 Asda
27 Jan 171 Sainsburys
27 Jan 37 Asda

= 460 = 115 per week. That's for me, dp, ds (aged 6) and dd (11 weeks) so includes nappies and baby milk. There were a few takeaways too not included in that lot so I reckon it's about 120/week really. We only buy organic meat and mostly organic other stuff but Asda organic is v. cheap compared to Sainsbury's. In fact Asda is just cheaper in general (my measure is Copella Apple juice = 1.10 in Asda, 1.35 ish in Sainsbury's and we get through quite a bit of it) so I'm going very wrong somewhere aren't I? Ds is veggie and we don't eat much meat so most of that is on fruit, veg, organic meat and fish I suppose. Looking at everyone else's I don't know why ours is so much really. Except that ds does get through a ton of fruit a week (3 pieces at least in his lunch box) and I suppose dp eats quite a bit. Hmm, Lydia Lemon, tell us your secret?