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!

In, the smoothie's are expensive. My daughter has 5 on the list and I'm paying because she's working hard and they're a treat but I suppose it's those kinds of things that can bump up cost.

Smoothies are really bad for you (sssh, I once did some work for that company).

about £100

2 adults, 2 children

about 5 bottles of wine in that though, plus a crate of beer "only because the football is on". HA, well the season has ended now boyo, so what will you do now mwahahahahahahahahaha

we cook from scratch, don't buy organic, apart from chicken and decent fish which is usually £££££ so we mainly eat veggie, other meat from farmer

we get crips and choc

I can budget but at the moment we don't have to so I lob things in with abandon

then dh frets and has a "we spend too much moment" and then moans when we don't have any munchies in the house

? The innocent ones are made from fresh fruit (unlike most//all others which IMO seem like glorified fruit juice).

ds has them every day, it's another portion of fruit that he's guaranteed to consume!

£65-£90 but at tesco, often get books, clothing too.
2 adults and 1 10mth old!

Much, much better to eat whole fruit than to drink Innocent Smoothies. You destroy a lot of the fibre benefits by blending, and you end up consuming quite a lot more calories in the form of easily digested sugar because it's much easier to metabolise a Smoothie than a piece of whole fruit. So you get a sugar hit followed by a sugar low, like when you eat sweets or biscuits. Not good.

PS the people that run that company are a bit podgy... (GSOH though)

Ooooh Anna, ds loves them! He eats tons of fresh fruit and veg as well, and museli/branflakes/wholemeal carbs so it's not his only fibre or vits. I really want to make sure he drinks at lunchtime... botheration, I hate it when you think you're doing something helpful and it turns out to be not so helpful. Most of his other drinks are water, apple juice or organic squash, so hopefully the one smoothie a day isn't too much of a problem. They are expensive Xenia, work out at about 60p each, but I don't mind that too much.

We have been buying Innocent since we read about them in a piece about "authentic businesses" - i.e., those who treat thier staff well, use good produce etc etc - please don't tell me this is wrong too!

Personally, I think it's OK to have an Innocent Smoothie instead of pudding, or as a snack when out and about in town, but I wouldn't use them for any other reason.

But I'm of a drinks fascist - my daughter (2.6) only knows about milk and water.

I don't drink them but the daughter is 22 so I don't really think I can be controlling her food intake and over all I think she eats better than I do. It is certainly better for you to eat fruit than any concentration of it or smoothie.

anna - well thanks for the advice but it's not practical to give ds fresh fruit in his lunchbox - gets chucked around too much. He therefore has fresh stuff at home, fresh fruit in his school break & a smoothie and dried fruit in his lunchbox. Nothing wrong with that, he's having it with food after all.

We are just 3 and our average spend each week is £150.00 including everything.

OCADO delivery++ don't seem to get as much food as when i go to Burys.
But enjoy more my Waitrose stuff.... shame about the packaging..

fortyplus thanks for your message, i hadn't realy seen past this initial period of bringing up 1 child & hopefully another in a year maybe, on just dh wage & childsupport etc.
i think it hits you harder when you've had afew expensive months.

£50/60ish a week on family of 4, well now theres 3 but spend the same!

This week i have spent £30 in total. But sometimes can spent up to £100 on a family of 4 with 4 cats.

Approx £50 - but this week is dd1's birthday (and last week it was dd2's - why didn't someone tell me not to have them both within 10 days of each other }

sooo today's shop included balloons and a banner, and some reduced price cocktail sausages

save on cleaning products by not doing any cleaning -

oh and a Costco shop every 6 weeks of about £50.

Oh god...feel very guilty as I think we spend about 1500euros a month at the moment, but we shop locally everyday at only go to Auchan,( would you sayit's the french equivalent of Tesco or sainsbury, Anna ?), about once a month...we like fresh veg/fish/meat/bread and it's all so french, with lovely covered market right on the university doorstep where I work...There are 3 adults and 5 kids...

About £200 a week inc everything (take aways nappies and nipping out to the shops) after reading all this though Im trying to plan next week adn get my money in order - how do you do it on £65 a week? honestly???

It's usually between 50 -70 pounds a week. Less if I'm not getting cleaning things. I'm not ordering much at the minute because of the move. DSes both take packed lunch, and I usually buy crisps and some sort of chocolate bar/mini jammie dodgers for them, two packets, lots of fruit. I cna if need be get it lower. I usually cook everything from scratch, we do occasionally have pizzas, DS2 has fish fingers if we have anything involving mince. I do have lots of rice,pasta, noodles etc,

I found it's less since I just mostly shopped on line because you don't get tempted by things in the aisles but more since the university daughter at home started writing about 20 items a week down for herself some of which are fine like broccoli but others expensive. Sometimes it's 200 if I've stocked up on washing powder, shampoo, batteries (we buy all that stuff with the weekly shop). It's more since I banned take aways.

mozhe - Auchan is probably more Tesco than Sainsbury's. Not that I go there, as I live in central Paris so there's only Monoprix that's vaguely decent, otherwise I go to a streetmarket and local bakery and butchers for fresh food. Do you shop on line? I find Telemarket good (they sell the Monoprix Gourmet range), but I think they only do Paris area...

Xenia - definitely agree that shopping on line saves money... and time and energy. I don't really know why the whole world has been converted. Though I only buy the heavy/long life stuff, I don't buy fresh food on line.

2 veggie adults, 3 fulltime kids age 7-15 and picky eaters, 2 halftime teens. No alcohol. £70 per week. It's not enough but thats all I get in tax credits.

tr buying on-line. I've cut about a quarter of what I used to spend just by on-line shopping and having it delivered.

You've more time to shop for quality ingredients (veg etc) this way and don't get tempted by the crappy stuff that you might see as you stroll around the aisles.

And the joy of seeing the man in his van roll up and plonk it all at my door just ready for me to put in the cupboards.

When I think of the hours I've spent trudging around with a trolley!! Never again!!!

only read the OP so far but we have £75x2 for the entire month including top ups, nappies etc and toddler groups. also, any resents and clothes has to come out of that. for me, DP and 2 DCs (4 and 2)

About £50 a week for a family of 4 - slightly more when I have to by washing powder, etc. I use my local supermarket, which is tiny and really badly stocked, so I'm never tempted! I use the local butchers and green grocers but I grow my own veg, which saves a lot of money (salad, at least £1 a bag - outrageous!)The other day I had to buy a few peppers from Morrisons - they were individually wraped (scandalous!) so after I finished paying, I went to the customer service desk, unwrapped them and gave the lady the wrapping and a very firm word about how un-nessesary it is to wrap individual items - I HATE supermarkets!!