how much do you spend on your weekly shop

[thegardener]

my dh & i have 1 child and are trying to cut back a bit on our weekly shop after a few expensive months which have caught up with us. We currently spend about £65 a week & maybe a bit extra for things we've ran out of from local shop.(making a start having one less bottle of wine a week)

Just wondered what other people spend on their weekly shops and any tips on where we could cut back please before dh has a fit!

pussycat - we have meat products prob 5 nights out of 7, is not 6 actually, fish i'm not right fond of - althou i'm coming around to the idea - somethinI think DH appriciates, for that thou I have to go to tescos as we don't ahve a fishmongers here . DH is much hte same as yours - if it doesn't have meat ini t it aint a meal! lol. but he will eat pasta bake (esp if I put left over chicken in it from the roast) and a cheese/onion quiche - or variation on quiche.

I should go back to making more from scratch again - my sauces arn't. I know I could cut back by going back to porrige for brekkie - instead of the oatibix my mum has me hooked on! lol.

At the moment we spend about £60 per week for 2 DSs, DH, a dog and myself. We have managed on £40 before when we need to. We dont buy an awful lot of meat because it is too expensive. When we are watching money we eat:

homemade lentil soup and bread

pasta with homemade sauce (tinned toms, onion, garlic and any veg we have)

jacket potato and baked beans topped with cheese

omelette/fritata type meal

special egg fried rice (with bacon, egg, peas and sweetcorn)

These things are very cheap to make and pretty well balanced.

About £30 a week , average, for me and dd. Our local supermarket is boring and not wekk stocked tho, so i go about once every two weks. If I can get a lift or someone is going to a bigger one, i top up. But I'm always picking up about a tenner's worth duting the week at the lovley Smile store.

Went to asda yesterday, it was so interesting lol, all these different things!

We spend £30 - £40 a week, that includes nappies, toiletries, everything.
2 adults, 2 children & 1 dog!

We spend about £40 -£50 a week and sometimes less(if DH doesn't buy any wine). I am fortunate in that I positively love cooking from scratch (smug grin emoticon). It saves a fortune. There's me, DH and DS plush 2 kittens.

Appx £75

Just back from Asda - just short of £50 for food, nappies and wipes.

That will last until at least next weekend, with perhaps another 6pints of milk on thursday.

THere is me, DH and 2 DD's

faaarrr too muc

am lazy in the kitchen - buy too many things already bagged up or sliced - always cost more

usually spend about £120 with ocado - maybe every 10 days, then a trip to waitrose every other day or so - £20ish each time

so that's prob £180ish for 2 adults and a toddler. but we do entertain a lot - eg this week ILs here for 3 nights, friends plus their kids here overnight tonight

What on earth are some people buying to spend so much
I know generally, the more you earn the more you spend, the less you earn, the tighter your budget.
The income some of you must take home.

About £100 - £120 for 2 adults and 2 hungry boys of 11 & 13. That includes everything - eg loo rolls, washing powder, dishwasher tablets etc.

But we've reached a point in life where we don't have to economise. - the supermarkets' 'Basic' ranges are usually just uneven fruit etc.

If I was going to economise I would buy a bread maker so I could still have lovely bread, buy Basics foods (the supermarkets' 'Basic' ranges are usually just uneven fruit etc except for the breakfast cereals, which are disgusting!) and eat lots more vegetarian pasta meals. Meat can be very expensive, can't it?

Also - if you have space - grow some of your own fruit & veg. 4 or 5 tomato plants in pots will keep you supplied from July till October.

evilsmellingbugger. you are right i think and I am quite . I have been on a tight budge before but are lukcy enough for it not to be such an issue now. I will try tho to decrease bill as i dont think we need to spend so much. I fell into the trap of spending £70 a week to get free deleivery from sainsbury will be changing that pronto i think.

I'm trying to cut down too, but food prices do seem to have gone up and i like to shop organic but can't always affordto. I do find meal plannning helps, I bought a chicken on Tuesday which did 3 meals, me,dh, 2dc. This was a good week, too tired to shop so had to be reasonably inventive, going to the supermarket does cost as there's always temptations. I can never workout what i spend, like to think its about 60 a week but probably nearer 100, esp with formula, though we're weaning this w/e so that will help a bit.

Forgot to say we have 2 cats who turn their noses up at cheap cat food - so they probably cost £15 a week in sachets of 'Oh so fishy' Whiskas.

£100 for 5 of us

About £40 for a weekly shop at asda, bit less at aldi. We don't drink, he smokes but generally cheap tobacco which probably comes to about £5.

I tend to freeze cheap bread, get long life milk as well as fresh, and make my own biscuits/cakes to avoid going to the corner shop later in the week as it's always more expensive than the supermarket.

Inevitably though I always run out of something, and then the meals get mighty interesting!

What am I buying to spend so much? A loaf of ds1;'s special bread costs £3.99 for the only one he will eat (it has to be gluten free), the milk for ds1 / ds3 / me costs £0.70p a carton- adds up !

We do get extra from the DLA dept on our WTC to vcover it though which we use

Before special diets we could feed 5 of us plus 2 cats on £65

Could you get a breadmaker?

peachy, i know what you mean about the special diets... i spend more in the health shop on a basket of stuff than i do in the supermarket on a whole trolly!

and the goats milk is sickenly expensive

fortyplus it would probably work out cheaper if you bought cheap tinned fish for your cats rather than whiskers (and be better for them). I buy mine pilchards, sardines etc (have to rinse off brine) but at around 45p per tin and they will feed 2 cats for 2 meals they are alot cheaper.

Also cheap going out of date fresh fish or whole sardines - cook in microwave (they're not fussy) and then I have to cut them up (cats getting old). But I reckon I spend little more than on cheapish tinned cat food. Also for a couple of meals a week they get left overs from our meals.

flipping goats milk - when ds was the gluten free stuff as well as goats milk I had to practically take out a new mortgage.

Can you get it on prescription? (the gluten free stuff)

aldi do very cheap canned fish... our cat won't eat it continously though so we give some fish, some pouches, scraps of fresh meat when we have it (only one of the former per day) and a bowl of red mills dry on the go constantly. seems happy enough with that atm and he's very picky

not seen paeds yet (end of the month... yippee!) not sure we get it on scrip over here anyway, hard to find info on stuff like that