What are families honestly spending on their weekly food shop?

[Catty21]

cost of weekly food shop - Our food shop cost is crippling me. Our weekly food shop is £300 for 2 adults , 14 year old and a cat. My husband thinks that’s normal and is just the cost of living when I know my friends are paying half that. His response is well they are not being honest and they are actually paying more.

I can’t continue paying £300 a week, it’s insane I know . I’ve tried talking to him that it’s too much and he’s blaming me stressing over it on “ time of the month” as usual.

My question is , honestly what are families spending on their food shop weekly.

3 adults, 1 teen, 1 cat who won't eat cat food (so eats fresh meats/fish) 3 birds who consume veggies daily, our shopping comes to around £120 per week for food and toiletries that have run out. Alcohol wise it is only my husband that drinks 1 wine and a few beers per week at a cost of about £15.

I do buy in bulk on Subscribe and Save on amazon - toiletries and cat milk.

Your bill is very high compared to mine.

3 adults, one teen, one tween and no pets around £100 pw. No alcohol and only say £3 on snacks. However much food goes up, I adjust what I buy as not much other choice as wages dont increase in line. You cant spend what you dont have. Nothing goes out of date or gets binned. Its all eaten bar a mouldly cucumber. So gone from chicken breasts, to thigh fillets now on legs etc. mince is 20% fat drained and as that goes up in price we have less per serving. Think we eat ok..cooked from scratch but mostly one pot starchy things. There's very little luxuries in my food shop.

I spend next to nothing on cleaning products either as I bought a vat of flash from costco years ago and dilute that or buy white vinegar. I used to buy lots of different cleaners, but now I'm more likely to use a wet micro fibre cloth and a dot of washing up liquid. It's surprising what you can live without. If we had £1200 a month to spend on food maybe we would spend that. But our income is only roughly twice that and we have other bills.

Weirdly we haven't even been food shopping for two weeks and kids survived on beans on toastt, eggs and whatever was lingering in the freezer.

I average 80.00 a week just for me and a cat. I have kidney disease and I can only eat meat, certain veg and fruit, rice or pasta. Chicken and prawns are staples of my diet. No sausages, mince or burgers and I can't eat potatoes either so no jackets with cheese or beans for me, which would make life easier and cheaper.

I'm not watching what we spend really, we eat lots of fresh fish, meat, fruit etc and we put aside £900 a month for two adults and a DC , that includes all cleaning stuff, toiletries, and other random household bits eg this month we needed a new mop and a new doormat. I shop between Tesco, M&S and Waitrose. So £300 a week seems really high to me.

ETA we only use method cleaning products or the m&s versions too and same with laundry so I think ours is high

I'm £250 a week, I work full time and have two teens and a dog.

Two adults, two kids (one with expensive dietary needs), household stuff and alcohol around £220 a week.

We spend around that much - family of 4 (young adult DC’s, DH away during the week though). Assume that bill includes household essentials too (loo roll, shampoo, laundry stuff, dishwasher tabs, bin bags etc), probably a bottle of wine and some beer etc? If you can afford it, and DH thinks is normal, there is no reason to scour the shops for cut priced eat today items, but swapping to own brands can get the cost down if you are hoping to whittle a bit off it? I take the view that the kids will both be at uni later this year, so the bill will drop naturally, but we may start going out more, so our monthly spend will likely remain similar over all.

But this is MN, people here will be feeding a family of 8 on £2.50 a day and eating like kings.

Same, evened out over a month.

£200 / £250.
Me. dh, & adult son.

To add:
no pets or alcohol but just never seem to get much below £200

2 adults 2 tweens - £150 a week on average over the last 4 months including any alcohol, toiletries and top ups. Take aways & eating out excluded.
Son also gets £25pw for school dinners (I know, right?)

£300 is wild for the grocery shop. Unless it's all steaks and fancy wine? Are you throwing much away?

About £120 a week for 2 adults and a child. And that's including lots of high quality meat as we are big meat eaters. £300 sounds like you must shopping at daylseford organic farm shop or something!

£125-150pw for 2 adults, a tween, a teen and a dog. We don’t eat a lot of meat and don’t usually buy any alcohol in the weekly shop. That usually does 5-6 evening meals, plus lunch and breakfasts for the week. We’ll have at least one takeaway a week. £300 seems a lot!

2 adults and 2 dc 100-150 Max we don't feel like we are missing out on anything. All fresh food cooked from scratch.

Would love to know what you eat on £300 a week

Why are you paying for all of the food?

I'm in ireland. Spend between 100-130 for two adults and a child.

We probably pay around £170 for a family of 5, eldest is 13.
That includes packed lunches for 2 of them and a couple of top up shops to grab fresh fruit, bread and milk in the week.
If we add in cat and dog food that would be an extra £40 a week approx.
£300 does seem like quite a lot for the amount people in your household.

I never have a takeaway, always take a packed lunch to work, and I don't drink alcohol 😂

3 adults and a cat here and ours is about £120-130 a week. No alcohol or fancy food.

2 adults and a toddler and we probably spend about £150 a week including top ups. I cook from scratch but enjoy cooking and buy expensive ingredients. Lots of fruit and veg. Try to keep it to minimal snacks and we have a bottle of wine each week. I could definitely do it for cheaper but not much. I doubt i could get it under £90. Food prices have shot up.

"£5 per person per day for all meals"

Eek! I spend that much on coffee in a day!

Two adults and two primary school aged children, no pets...about £120-130 per week. We have one meaty meal on average a week and v little alcohol. Shop in Lidl and Tesco mainly. I also tend to buy things in bulk wherever storage allows.

100 for 2 on average - plus one meal out most months. Breakfast lunch dinner supper and snacks

that Includes alcohol and cleaning/ household goods and simple gifts. No pets

maybes another 20 once every few months at the market especially if the cheese stall is there

£50 a week and I'm think that's too much.
I ended up at a food bank this week & doing an app called too good to go? Something like that, where you get discounted food from shops at the end of the day, usually they have 1 day left on them or they are at sell by date but 60% off. This week im poor so it was too have a good look through the freezer and run down supplies.
Food costs a fortune these days!
I'm in my own with no pets or kids.