What is your weekly food bill?

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We're moving back to the uk, and I'm curious what you pay for the weekly food bill for a family of 4 in the uk? Due to allergies, we prepare lunches at home (not for the children during term time), almost always eat at home and eat predominantly freshly cooked food, ie no ready meals.

one adult
one teen
one tween

school lunches aside - all meals at home
£145 a week. We eat a lot of organic fruit

no alcohol

A weekly food bill for 4 people will not be less than £100 and possibly closer to £125-£150 depending on the allergies being catered for and whether you buy luxuries like wine or branded items.

Family of five with three kids aged 6 - 11, spend about £130 - £150 a week depending how much meat and if more expensive weeks with washing powder, booze etc.

4 adults - 2 vegetarians and 1 GF, and we spend around £160 per week on food.

How old are your children? Two older teens eating like adults will be more than preschoolers.

We're a family of 4, children are 2 & 5. We spend about £70-80 a week (that's food and things like toiletries and cleaning stuff etc), no alcohol, no pets.

Family of 3 ( no nappies or alcohol )
£150pw.

2 adults 3 primary aged DC. £150ish per week being careful what we buy.

I would say minimum of £200 per week. Probably can do it cheaper but I would budget that for all meals,no alcohol and no toiletries.

2 adults 2 kids age 3 and 4 years we spend £150-160 a week

£80-100 (two adults, one 3 year old and one baby) Inc nappies, some booze, etc. And that’s shopping at Aldi or Lidl! But not being careful. Sometimes cheaper when less meat heavy.

Family of five, no alcohol, around £120 a week supermarket plus about £30-50 top ups through the week. Surrey.

2 adults, 2 teens, including toiletries and alcohol £200+ week

£170 for two adults and two teens. Take a look at some supermarket websites and you can fill a basket to see what it would cost for the items you usually buy. Ocado is higher end and Asda generally cheap, I find Tesco and Morrisons are relatively cheap too.

2 adults 2 kids 10/9-£220 a week and rising unfortunately,it used to be £140.

Gosh £70-£80 is very cheap for just food let alone food, toiletries and cleaning stuff etc. Out of curiosity where do you shop?

About £150 a week on average plus top ups that I don’t really know the value of.

we eat organic where possible. School dinners creep in a couple of times a week on top.

Two adults, retired, so everything including lunches. Mainly cook from scratch, make our own bread, soups etc, do meal planning, £70 a week mix of Sainsbury & M&S, doesn't include splurges at Christmas and Thanksgiving (Anglo-American household).

When we have grandkids to stay (without their parents) it's easily double that for two teenagers, and more still for two teenagers and a six year old. I feel for families these days, I genuinely do.

£70-80 2 adults including alcohol

I spent £67 earlier just for me this week! Although BF will eat here one night and there’s enough mince to put half in the freezer and I’ll use chicken for 2 meals that’s already in the freezer. There was 1 bottle of wine and a large box of lightbulbs which was probably quite expensive but no toiletries or cleaning products.

2 adults, 2 kids, a cat

Allergies here too and the dairy free foods add on a lot to the bill

Can easily spend 800-1000 a month but I buy organic when I can, opt for better quality meat, and go through a lot of fruit like berries and mangoes

It's a lot but food is a priority for me

£150 a week, Sainsbury's, 4 of us (2 teens). Mostly cook from scratch and try to buy organic as much as possible, includes packed lunches. Doesn't include household stuff as I bulk buy that from Amazon, a bit will go towards alcohol but I tend to buy wine by the case online.

We spend £80-100 a week plus a 24-30L oat milk delivery every 3 weeks is about £40.
This is for 2 adults and a 4 yo with multiple allergies. We do a main shop in Sainsbury's as we prefer their vegetables but we can't buy soya free bread from them so we either make our own or do a shop in Tesco. We prefer the meat in Tesco compared to Sainsbury's so we do a meat shop once a month in Tesco to top up the freezer.
Due to the complexity of my daughters allergies we make pretty much everything from scratch including things like ravioli which also means we cut of the free from aisle reducing costs! There are lots of accidentally free from foods so I would look through the regular aisles first

Our biggest allergy related expense is oat milk. My daughter is on oatly barista for various reasons which is currently £2.20 a litre full price. We use subscribe and save to get 15% off through Amazon. You need 5 subscribe and save order on the same day to get the distance we do 4-5 packs of 6 oat milks and another item (multivitamins or hair conditioner etc). We also keep an eye on loyalty card prices especially at this time of year when there are people trialling veganism. Oatly barista is currently £1.45 in Sainsbury's with a nectar card.

We have been lucky that my daughters nursery and school have been happy to make her a completely bespoke meal plan accommodating all 20 of her allergies plus dietary requirements due to silent reflux. It's not a given but worth asking at your child care settings. I'm so grateful not to have to worry about packed lunches!

A lot of people don't have more to spend.

£180 ish a week for two adults on average, two teens and a fussy cat. That includes cleaning productsand some toiletries and gifts (wine/chocolates) etc as well as for more expensive weeks, e.g. Xmas and/or when we are hosting.