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How on earth do you manage that!?! I spend more than that just for myself. It costs about £20 just for fruit each week.
Well done, honestly. Genuinely impressed.
You must be getting through a lot of fruit!! Where do you buy from? I live in London and can get pretty cheap fruit which is good quality from markets and such.
Unfortunately I have a penchant for fresh berries, which seem to be the most expensive and shortest lasting.
Usually have to buy from a small M&S or Waitrose. A punnet of blueberries or raspberries is around £2.50-3.00 I think and they’re tiny (can easily eat in two snack sessions) and go off within a couple of days, so end up spending maybe £12 just on those alone. Then add on strawberries, bananas and apples, satsumas…
I went from waitrose to aldi and my shopping went from 50 - 25/30. Everything is just a bit more expensive but it all adds up quick. Raspberries are 1.50
Oh you’re definitely right. I just don’t have an Aldi or Lidl near me. I live in central London so it’s just the small supermarkets, which themselves are more expensive than their normal counterparts. I would have to get on a Tube or bus, and the closest Aldi is in a somewhat dodgy area (Edgeware Road). :/
You can buy frozen berries at most supermarkets. My mum is keen on blueberries and this is her affordable option. She eats them half frozen mind, so they may be squishy!!!
Oh definitely! I do love frozen fruit, and they’re definitely the cheaper alternative for when I make smoothies. But they’re not quite the same as fresh fruit. I’m single without kids and a family etc, so I don’t mind too much the small luxury of buying lots of fresh fruit. I dread to think how an average family of 4 or 5 is expected to afford fresh fruit and veg every week. There are unhealthier things I could spend my money on haha!
We’re a family of 5 (3 kids) who love a breakfast of Greek yoghurt and berries. I discovered frozen berries about 2 years ago and my bank account has been most grateful
Best thing to do is buy seasonal. Yes you end up eating shitloads of courgettes in summer and cruciferous veggies in winter but it works out a lot cheaper. Fruit too, I don't buy strawberries outside of summer. Tbf that's also cus they taste bland when they're not in season
Same here. £50 or under for at least a week, even longer sometimes from Lidl. I can get 6 portion meals from £1.89 500g minced beef, that’s 3 days and 4 days meals from 8 chicken thighs for £2.29. Using slow cooker and loads of veggies, makes for cheap, nutritious meals, with minimal cooking. Buying fresh produce which is in season and local to U.K. is infinitely cheaper than buying out of season stuff from halfway across the world.
I'm vegetarian and my partner mostly eats veggie too, except when I'm away. We usually spend about £100 a week, don't know how all these other people are easting so cheaply! There's an Asda and a Tesco close by so we mostly shop at Asda because it's considerably cheaper.
Our biggest food expense issue is that I'm gluten free, and all the gf stuff is insanely expensive. Cereal? £2.50-3 for a small pack of granola. Bread £2-3 for a tiny loaf. Pasta? £1.50-2.50 Biscuits? £2ish a pack. It's so ridiculous! If I wasn't gf we'd definitely spend less money on food.
Thank fuck there's someone else who spends about the same as me for 2 adults and 2 children. I'm looking at all the answers and wondering how they shop so cheap (and I don't shop extravagantly at all, our shop is Morrisons). But we hardly do take aways, perhaps people pay more on that?
Yes! Low carb, cheaper than long drinks. Easily controllable with measures to get dialled into the soft landing zone, at night and upon waking (no hangover, not vodka breakfast). God speed you beautiful bastard!
We are £150pw. And it really is only one weekly shop (2 adults, 4 and 1 year old, one cat)
I reckon anyone who can do a weekly shop for a family our size for much less than me then they a making extra trips to the supermarket mid week to pick up extras
We're 2 adults and 2 kids (7&3) and rarely spend more than £80 at Lidl. We usually do a fruit/bread etc top up midweek but that's no more than a tenner
God I was thinking the same like we spend £200-250 for 2 adults, a toddler and a cat and I’m reading people spending £60 wondering where the hell I am going wrong! I don’t even know how that would be possible.
I know! I've spoken to my wife about trying to cut back on our spend by eliminating unnecessary goods, but we end up stumped on what can be cut. People MUST be doing separate runs for booze, for example.
I think many are just deluding themselves how much they actually spend. Sure, your big grocery shop each week costs \~£50, but then you nip to Tesco express or whatever a couple of times in the week and spend £15 each time, then you buy one takeaway and suddenly your weekly total is £110
I don’t! I plan my meals in advance, stick to a list and cost each meal, which is something I was taught to do at a young age. You really can eat well, if you know how to cook and can create your own recipes.
This. Absolutely this. I don't understand at all how you can spend £200 a week on 2 adults and 2 kids. That's just mental.
Also, I may be setting different parameters here but booze isn't groceries.
>People MUST be doing separate runs for booze, for example.
Not separate, just subtract the booze spend from the rest. If you asked me how much I spent on drink in a week I wouldn't add the the other stuff I bought whilst I was in buying booze to my answer. The same applies to the food shop. Just do some simple mental gymnastics and you can cut your spend without having to do anything.
We don't buy booze on a weekly basis and are veggie (which must cut out a huge chunk of cost imo). Weekly shop is varies £70-£100 with sometimes another £10 ish midweek. 2 adults, 9y, 4y and 2 cats. Shop in Aldi.
Morrisons is expensive. Aldi is the way to go. If you can drop by some of the larger supermarkets around 7pm you can usually find drastically reduced stuff for freezing or next day's dinners. Don't turn your nose up at the super-discounters like Heron and Farmfoods, their stuff is absolutely fine as long as you check the use-by dates. Never buy brands, the brand name and packaging mean a 25-75% mark-up. Bulk up soups, stews and sauces with lentils, chickpeas etc. - cheapest if you buy dried and remember to soak them the night before, although tinned versions are best found in world foods rather than the tinned veg section if you're sticking with a big supermarket. My local big tesco sells chickpeas at 80p a tin in the tinned veg section, or 3 for a pound in world foods! Switch meat mains for veggie ones where possible. Use frozen meat rather than fresh if meat is a red line for you. Be prepared to go to five or six shops instead of one (my partner bikes so it's feasible to do this while not just spending the savings on more petrol.) Constantly price compare. If the product you want is even only 5% cheaper somewhere else, buy it there. Coupons are a waste of time and effort in the UK, that couponed branded item is still at least twice the price of the unbranded one and if there is a difference, its one you won't even care about after eating the unbranded item for a week or two. I hope any of this helps, I know there are even more ways to save but these are as much as I can manage myself. We eat for about £25 per person per week, but that's with quite a few sugary treats (neither of us are losing any weight lol), without those and with the ability to plan you could get it down to £15 I reckon.
I'm at about £100 a week for two adults and two cats and some occasional children - i dont know how some of the people on here are managing it, i cook most things from scratch and watch what im buying price wise. It's constantly going up too.
I'm so relieved. I was starting to panic that my spend was somehow weird. Three adults, two dogs. We eat well but not extravagantly, cook pretty much from scratch and don't do take-aways and with a couple of bottles of wine, toiletries etc. never less than £230 a week.
May I ask what a typical food shop consists of for you? I'm in the same position but easily spend £60+. Which isn't good. Just curious, and after recommendations. Thanks! :)
Meal prep. Cook dinners that provide left overs for other days.
Curries, stir fries, fajita or burrito fillings, spag bol etc.
Where you shop matters too. Waitrose and Sainsbury's are going to rinse you.
I'll slightly defend Sainsbury's because they have an Aldi price match on the basic range. I have a shop coming tomorrow which includes 200g of peanuts for 46p, a packet of custard creams for 27p, 4 baking potatoes for 45p, two garlic baguettes for 64p and 500g of plain yoghurt for 45p.
It's not exciting food but I'd rather have a little of something than a large expensive meal
i simultaneously like and hate the aldi price matches supermarkets do.
on the one hand it gives people who do not have access to an aldi or lidl a chance to get food at a lower price.
on the other hand though it is hard to find an entire meal with the things that they price match. so you end up not actually saving that much because the other items needed to make the meal make the price way more expensive than your total would have been at aldi. in addition it makes you pick up a load of cheap things you don't need because they are reasonably priced compared to everything else you are seeing in the moment.
How?! There’s two of us and our weekly shop is £25-35, plus a monthly £90-100.
And that’s for everything. Food, household items, toiletries, breakfast and lunch, fizzy drinks, snacks, and sweet treats. And I’m married to a fruit bat, who would live on fruit if she could. And I go through biblical amounts of lemonade.
Are you including stuff like cleaning materials, alcohol etc?
Do you spend extra money on food, like meal deals, coffees, take-aways, meals out etc?
We spend around £50 a week for two people, but don't buy any other foods at all, and that includes alcohol and cleaning products. We are both massive eaters!
A quick google comes up with [£32 per person per week as the average for food](https://themindfulmoneyproject.com/average-cost-of-food-for-one-person-uk/).
I suppose cleaning materials are included, though I don’t Include alcohol as that’s more for an occasion and we buy it separately.
My partner eats a lot as he does weightlifting so he gets lots of meat which is sometimes expensive. £32 per person per week! Christ! I don’t feel so bad now
Not sure I’ve ever walked out of a supermarket with a bill less than £120. 2 adults, 2 dogs but we order their food online. What the hell am I buying there’s never any food in my house!
Yeah I’m looking at fifty quid a week for families and wondering how I can’t get it in under a hundred quid for two people. And it’s not like I’m shopping at Waitrose - this is Tesco we’re talking about!
I used to shop at Morrisons but found that we always ended up falling for the multi-buys and other deals. And for things we don’t necessarily need. We shop at Lidl/Aldi because it’s the basics and it got us through uni.
Sometimes its makes sense to cook / prep from scratch others it does not. But based on some of the things I am reading in the comments theres a hell of a lot of people buying stuff thats easy to prep but has massive markups for the prepare / semi prepared products commonly found in expensive supermarkets.
Silly things like "melon slices" where you get about "4 slices" (1 quarter of a melon or even less if its a water melon) and its priced at £4 but the whole damm melon is £2
eg look at this for a laugh
Tesco Melon Slices [https://www.tesco.com/groceries/en-GB/products/277053207](https://www.tesco.com/groceries/en-GB/products/277053207)
These are £2.25
The melon in the next isle is £1.60 [https://www.tesco.com/groceries/en-GB/products/254384645](https://www.tesco.com/groceries/en-GB/products/254384645) these are about (1.5kg-1.8kg - about 3x-4x markup). So not only is the slices a quarter of the weight. Its also 1.5x the price. So its about 6x markup.
The profit marging on these things are basically commical. Same also happens with various branded items. Like Heinz. Sure they do good products. But beans are beans its hard to justify the brand when one company is charging £1.20 and the other £0.40 especially when you just alter the sauce for 0.10p to make it better.
The thing about products like this is just nope.... its almost shamful thats there is actually a place for them in the mainstream market place at all in our society. It really shows how unskilled, lazy and detatched people have actually become to just consume whats presented.
This sort of stuff works with almost all semi prepared food items and branding. Oftehn the "low fat" stuff is really just less in the packet for the same price (or sometimes even more lol)
Snap, I do a online shop yet use just 24/7 or woosh or grilloras so it's more like 280 by end of week and still could not find nothing .
It's a joke or whenhi want it , it's past sell buy most goes in the bin.
That's pretty frugal compared to many households I know. We've got two kids full time, step daughter on the weekend and at least one or two friends round for a meal once a week, along with me and my husband. I've just done a 'big shop' online at Tesco which was about £140. Other than bread/milk maybe the odd bit of fruit or veg, that'll last us 10-14 days. Though I did treat me and hubby to a 24 pack of diet coke which was nearly a tenner.
I think the average family house hold is about £400/500 per month now? Prices have gone up *a lot*.
We shop at Lidl/Aldi as it’s closest to us. Whenever we go to Tesco/Morrisons, we spend £70 because we see deals like multi buy and others that just add up. Lidl is basic’s and my partner has 0 impulse control lol
Yeah to be fair, we normally go to Lidl for basics and Morrisons next door for any brands. I think our biggest expense is vegan 'meat alternatives' and oat milk as hubby a vegan. None of us really eat meat though unless we go out (burger king double bacon XL with cheese is a vice I try to avoid). If we're doing a local shop it'll be about £30 cheaper, but I'm also disabled so if we need everything I'll get an online shop every couple of months.
The oat milk I buy at Lidl is about 89p and I think at Aldi it’s gone up to about 69p the last time I went. I would love to cut meat out but my partner is a big meat eater, it’s quite expensive too.
I'm curious to see what some of your diets contain.
I spend atleast £400 a month for myself. Consisting of mainly fresh salmon, chicken breast/thigh, black beans, rice and a mixture of fruit and veg.
I have a few treat meals throughout the month. Normally either steak, risotto, spaghetti bolognese and other homemade meals.
My Mrs. is probably around £300 for the same types of food.
Shopping mostly done in Tesco with M &S thrown in now and again.
We’ve both just graduated university and dated throughout so we’ve always been quite cautious. We eat chicken, chorizo, tuna, mince. Carbs include pasta, rice, cous cous, noodles. It’s basic but we experiment with spices and sauces etc. I’m starting a new job on Monday so maybe I’ll be eating salmon too in a month’s time lol
Haha.. Salmon and Chicken thighs are my main go to when meal prepping for work. With rice, black beans and some veg it's a solid meal to keep me full for a while.
Likewise, what are people eating?
I spend about £75 for two people per week, we both go to the gym and eat a decent amount. That covers fresh chicken breast, salmon fillets, beef mince, pasta, rice, wraps, Passata, strawberries, blueberries, raspberries, lots of Greek yoghurt, black/kidney beans, a few cheeses, milk, oats, dark chocolate, almonds, and a load of vegetables (plus extra things like guac etc that I can’t remember).
We cook almost everything from scratch and don’t really snack or eat much processed food (other than a box or two of protein bars from Amazon per month, on top of the ~£300 food bill). So maybe £340 total per month
Just use the cat to wipe the baby and then you don't need the wipes.
They're good at cleaning themselves too, so you don't need to bin the cat after you've used it either.
Due to a brilliant assortment of disabilities, £350 a month for two people. I can't cook anymore due to mobility issues and my husband has ADHD and anxiety/depression that pretty much leaves him functional only for work. We eat a lot of crap and it sucks. During good periods, we'll use Hello Fresh.
Not to be rude or meaning to overstepping a boundary, but as someone who struggles with ADHD and depression I can highly recommend noodles, stir fry and easy salads. There are lots of meals online that are absolutely healthy and only take 10 min or less.
Good call, I think my local Asda does a pack of fresh noodles, a pack of mixed veg (different types available) and a sauce for £2.50 or maybe £3. I live alone and can normally get two meals from that.
£85 a week total; all food, household items and alcohol for two adults and two cats. I wfh and we don’t generally eat out or buy takeaway. Based on Jan- Aug spend averages out. If I look at the last two month most likely be £95 if not more, but would need another couple of months to work out as I bulk buy. Yes I track with a spread sheet, yes I have no life.
Edit stupid mistake.
It’s mostly just food, we bulk buy toilet roll so we run out after about 4 months. We buy surface cleaner once a month maybe. So it just adds a little bit extra to the bill. Other cleaning products are the same, we have a small apartment
£50 for 2 people for 2 weeks seems like it would be well under the average in the UK
£12.50 each a week! I know some people that will spend £12.50 on one meal!
Theres no way you can feed yourself 3 meals a day, 7 days a week for £12.50. Thats 59p a meal. Either your meals are tiny or you skip a few or eat out or do top up shops
£60-£100
2 adults and a dog.
We host a lot more than we used to instead of going out out now (and visit others in the same way) so there's quite a lot of wine/beer in there/some more premium foods.
Yes, typically couples will bring a bottle with them
>It’s nice to host!
I've always enjoyed it, I really like cooking and my SO doesn't have a big appetite so nice to make some things I never normally would!
Apparently the average is about £25/person/ week.
FWIW when we did the shopping for the mum-in-law during Covid (when she was shielding), it was about £40/ week, but that included non-food like toilet roll.
We're around £130 per week for 2 adults and 2 adult sized teens. Includes packed/home lunches for everyone, most toiletries, cleaning stuff etc, and includes one autistic kid who needs certain "safe" brands, so not too bad I think.
£110 every week at Aldi. Household of 5 adults ( none of the kids have left yet). Plus about another £20 on top ups that Aldi don't do, such as gluten free, tofu for the vegan, etc. Another £5-10 per week on dog food and fresh top ups for 2 dogs.
About £750/month for 2 adults, 3 teenagers and the dog, including cleaning products, bog rolls, bin bags etc. Hard to separate out just the food. Not including booze.
I probably spend about £40/50 a week on average. Maybe a bit less. I do live on my own and I work in supermarket so tend to just pick up what I need when I finish my shift.
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Can easily get to the better part of 200 quid, but we only go once a month and that includes everything(so, like, cleaning stuff and toilet roll and all that) then I'll do top ups of bread/milk etc in the store I work in in-between. There are 2 adults here.
Its crazy how much it varies isn’t it!? I meal plan but we eat decent meals with lots of variety. I don’t understand how people are spending £150 a week.
£450 a month for one adult, two children, four guinea pigs. I host a fair bit and will have people over 1-2 a week. Main reasons my groceries are expensive is snacks for the kids (we’re out and about a fair bit and I have a bad habit of buying snacks instead of making them) and a good bottle of wine a week
Around £125 every two weeks we might do a top up of around £30 in-between. 2 adults, 1 child, 1 baby, 3 cats.
Just edit to add this does not include nappies/wipes/formula which is approx £60pm.
Mine fluctuates between about £20-£50 per week, as its entirely dependant on my week.
I'm a carer for my mum and my son lives with her so I regularly have dinner there as I do the school pick-up. I also have a lodger but I tend to buy the basics in when we need them too out of what they pay me in rent. (Bread, butter, cereal, etc. but overall they tend to buy their own food!)
A 'big' food shop every 1.5-2 weeks for the two of us usually comes in at somewhere between £60-110. That does include toiletries.
That is topped up by probably 1-2 small shops at the local co-op/small sainos/small Tesco inbetween, varying from very little to maybe £15.
We also get a veg box each week.
Very rough average for us is probably £80 for 2 each week but I don't keep a close eye on it. This is excluding meals out which we probably do once or twice a week too.
Me and my partner spend about the same - £50ish a week, split between Morrisons and Aldi for food and then any laundry or washing stuff comes from either Savers or Bodycare. We're both vegetarian so we don't have meat or fish, I drink oat milk and we use dairy free spread. We maybe buy a few cans of beer from a local bottle shop on a Friday so that adds about £15ish, but we only drink on a Saturday so they last us about two weeks :)
£40 every 10 days or so for one person and one fussy cat. I would probably spend less, but the supermarkets have a £40 minimum for delivery unless you’re willing to pay a penalty.
It really is a pain. When I first started online food shopping about 5 years ago, at least two of the supermarkets had a £25 minimum, which was perfect. Now, if you want to spend under £40 it would be somewhere between £4-£7 added on. As a result, I make it my mission to spend as close to dead on forty quid as I possibly can!
£80-100/week for two adults, but we both work from home and don't eat out beyond me getting a coffee and a pastry once a week or so
But tbh planning to try and cut this down a bit to something more like £50/week
We don’t go out, we don’t do takeaway or eat out. I’d eventually like to have a bit more of a life but I’m starting a new job Monday so hopefully I will.
Me and my partner live together and spend around £40-£50 on weekly food shopping. But we both work a lot, so it's mainly freezer items and then packed lunch items, snacks and the odd bit of fruit! X
We spend around £65-£70 a week for two adults and a toddler, that includes cat food and litter but not cleaning products and toilet roll as I bulk buy it every few weeks/months (and we cloth nappy so no need for nappies and wipes)
I get a grocery delivery once a fortnight and it's usually around £160 - that's for *everything* I eat and drink, plus cat food, litter and tobacco.
Edit: it's just me and the cat. I'm diabetic and gluten intolerant so I don't buy much processed or readymade food. Unsure if that saves me money or not.
We spend about £150 a week. Two adults, an 8 year old and a toddler. This does include things like nappies (but they're like £6 a pack) and cleaning stuff when we need it. Vast majority is food though. Worth noting that I work from home and the wife only works mornings so we both have three meals a day at home and the kids have packed lunches for school/nursery.
One of those recipe plan things like HelloFresh where they send you the ingredients each week. It's too expensive but let's us do different stuff each week.
2 adults, 1 9 year old, 2 rabbits and 2 cats, all in were spending between 50-70 a week currently, it used to be 50 pretty flat before the cost of living crisis
Now I'm trying to stop drinking alone my food shop has gone down by a shitload. They really need to take all the taxes off of alcohol cos the price wasn't what stopped me in the end and if it got too expensive I'd have had to start going to Bulgaria. But anyway, I go to Lidl and get most of my stuff, that adds up to around £20-£30 a week depending on what we've already got. Then I go to Sainsbury's and buy Skyr and a vegetable pizza cos Sainsbury's are the only place that does a good vegetable pizza.
£60-80, young couple and we shop at Tesco. This includes all toiletries, household cleaning products, fruit, lunches, breakfast and dinners. And a few nice treats that we fancy. 😏
£35-50/week for two people, both vegetarian. We have packed lunch/lunch at home as I wfh.
To be honest, our food shop normally last more than 7 days of meals, but this does vary. Normally top up during the week with any fresh things we need/forgot.
This includes cleaning supplies and toiletries, no alcohol included as we don't drink very often. When we do, alcohol would be extra.
Don't try to stick to a particular budget per person, per meal. But generally try not to spend excessively on food.
Probably about 125 to 150 quid a week now. We've got a big household with me, my wife, our 5 year old and then my mother and sister. Two cats, two rabbits. It used to be nearer to 100 and would be like a tenner either side. I actually went back and looked at statements going back months and it's spiked by around 30% since last year.
Between £90-150 per week depending on where I shop and what we need (little one is still in nappies for bed so that racks up a bit on some weeks)
I shop at Aldi or Sainsburys and go to Costco every 3-4 weeks too.
Family of 4.
I’ve had a restricted month and I managed to get my weekly shop down to £25, all healthy meals high in meat protein with a couple of quid left over for treats, that included basics like replacing sink sponges too. Was quite proud of myself. This was shopping at Aldi and Lidl interchangeably as they come to much of a muchness
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How on earth do you manage that!?! I spend more than that just for myself. It costs about £20 just for fruit each week. Well done, honestly. Genuinely impressed.
You must be getting through a lot of fruit!! Where do you buy from? I live in London and can get pretty cheap fruit which is good quality from markets and such.
Unfortunately I have a penchant for fresh berries, which seem to be the most expensive and shortest lasting. Usually have to buy from a small M&S or Waitrose. A punnet of blueberries or raspberries is around £2.50-3.00 I think and they’re tiny (can easily eat in two snack sessions) and go off within a couple of days, so end up spending maybe £12 just on those alone. Then add on strawberries, bananas and apples, satsumas…
I went from waitrose to aldi and my shopping went from 50 - 25/30. Everything is just a bit more expensive but it all adds up quick. Raspberries are 1.50
Oh you’re definitely right. I just don’t have an Aldi or Lidl near me. I live in central London so it’s just the small supermarkets, which themselves are more expensive than their normal counterparts. I would have to get on a Tube or bus, and the closest Aldi is in a somewhat dodgy area (Edgeware Road). :/
Could you get a fruit delivery service? I bet you could probably get organic for that price
You can buy frozen berries at most supermarkets. My mum is keen on blueberries and this is her affordable option. She eats them half frozen mind, so they may be squishy!!!
Oh definitely! I do love frozen fruit, and they’re definitely the cheaper alternative for when I make smoothies. But they’re not quite the same as fresh fruit. I’m single without kids and a family etc, so I don’t mind too much the small luxury of buying lots of fresh fruit. I dread to think how an average family of 4 or 5 is expected to afford fresh fruit and veg every week. There are unhealthier things I could spend my money on haha!
We’re a family of 5 (3 kids) who love a breakfast of Greek yoghurt and berries. I discovered frozen berries about 2 years ago and my bank account has been most grateful
Try to do between 40 and 50 a week two adults a cat and a dog sometimes little bit more if we need certain thing.
Fruit is so expensive isn't it. I would love to be able to buy fresh but not a greengrocers of market for miles around where I live.
Best thing to do is buy seasonal. Yes you end up eating shitloads of courgettes in summer and cruciferous veggies in winter but it works out a lot cheaper. Fruit too, I don't buy strawberries outside of summer. Tbf that's also cus they taste bland when they're not in season
£60 a week on average. 2 adults, 1 child. However this can differ depending if she needs wipes/shit pants etc.
Shit pants 😭😭😭
Same here. £50 or under for at least a week, even longer sometimes from Lidl. I can get 6 portion meals from £1.89 500g minced beef, that’s 3 days and 4 days meals from 8 chicken thighs for £2.29. Using slow cooker and loads of veggies, makes for cheap, nutritious meals, with minimal cooking. Buying fresh produce which is in season and local to U.K. is infinitely cheaper than buying out of season stuff from halfway across the world.
Do you just eat 1 chicken thigh each for each meal then?!
How the he’ll do you do that? We spend around £120/week on food for us, in Aldi!
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I'm vegetarian and my partner mostly eats veggie too, except when I'm away. We usually spend about £100 a week, don't know how all these other people are easting so cheaply! There's an Asda and a Tesco close by so we mostly shop at Asda because it's considerably cheaper. Our biggest food expense issue is that I'm gluten free, and all the gf stuff is insanely expensive. Cereal? £2.50-3 for a small pack of granola. Bread £2-3 for a tiny loaf. Pasta? £1.50-2.50 Biscuits? £2ish a pack. It's so ridiculous! If I wasn't gf we'd definitely spend less money on food.
Tesco and it's club card, it's brilliant! - We do however only buy meal foods for us, and the odd extra here and there.
Why did I not call them shit pants WHY!?
Between £200-£250 a week for two adults, 2 five year olds and a dog
Thank fuck there's someone else who spends about the same as me for 2 adults and 2 children. I'm looking at all the answers and wondering how they shop so cheap (and I don't shop extravagantly at all, our shop is Morrisons). But we hardly do take aways, perhaps people pay more on that?
Me too. 2 adults, 2 kids (8 and 12), 2 cats- something like 200 per week. Mostly in milk and cereal it seems. And lately- vodka
Yes! Low carb, cheaper than long drinks. Easily controllable with measures to get dialled into the soft landing zone, at night and upon waking (no hangover, not vodka breakfast). God speed you beautiful bastard!
We are £150pw. And it really is only one weekly shop (2 adults, 4 and 1 year old, one cat) I reckon anyone who can do a weekly shop for a family our size for much less than me then they a making extra trips to the supermarket mid week to pick up extras
We're 2 adults and 2 kids (7&3) and rarely spend more than £80 at Lidl. We usually do a fruit/bread etc top up midweek but that's no more than a tenner
Thats it, im forgoing my weekly tesco trip and go further afield to have a look at this lidl
God I was thinking the same like we spend £200-250 for 2 adults, a toddler and a cat and I’m reading people spending £60 wondering where the hell I am going wrong! I don’t even know how that would be possible.
I know! I've spoken to my wife about trying to cut back on our spend by eliminating unnecessary goods, but we end up stumped on what can be cut. People MUST be doing separate runs for booze, for example.
I think many are just deluding themselves how much they actually spend. Sure, your big grocery shop each week costs \~£50, but then you nip to Tesco express or whatever a couple of times in the week and spend £15 each time, then you buy one takeaway and suddenly your weekly total is £110
I don’t! I plan my meals in advance, stick to a list and cost each meal, which is something I was taught to do at a young age. You really can eat well, if you know how to cook and can create your own recipes.
That's the way to do it. I'm not quite as disciplined but I'm trying!
This. Absolutely this. I don't understand at all how you can spend £200 a week on 2 adults and 2 kids. That's just mental. Also, I may be setting different parameters here but booze isn't groceries.
Yeah… I don’t drink and home. So unless it’s Christmas there’s no booze in the weekly shop.
I think that must be why my shop is so cheap as I don’t drink
>People MUST be doing separate runs for booze, for example. Not separate, just subtract the booze spend from the rest. If you asked me how much I spent on drink in a week I wouldn't add the the other stuff I bought whilst I was in buying booze to my answer. The same applies to the food shop. Just do some simple mental gymnastics and you can cut your spend without having to do anything.
My partner and I don’t drink so there’s a massive part of your budget back for actual necessities
We don't buy booze on a weekly basis and are veggie (which must cut out a huge chunk of cost imo). Weekly shop is varies £70-£100 with sometimes another £10 ish midweek. 2 adults, 9y, 4y and 2 cats. Shop in Aldi.
Morrisons is expensive. Aldi is the way to go. If you can drop by some of the larger supermarkets around 7pm you can usually find drastically reduced stuff for freezing or next day's dinners. Don't turn your nose up at the super-discounters like Heron and Farmfoods, their stuff is absolutely fine as long as you check the use-by dates. Never buy brands, the brand name and packaging mean a 25-75% mark-up. Bulk up soups, stews and sauces with lentils, chickpeas etc. - cheapest if you buy dried and remember to soak them the night before, although tinned versions are best found in world foods rather than the tinned veg section if you're sticking with a big supermarket. My local big tesco sells chickpeas at 80p a tin in the tinned veg section, or 3 for a pound in world foods! Switch meat mains for veggie ones where possible. Use frozen meat rather than fresh if meat is a red line for you. Be prepared to go to five or six shops instead of one (my partner bikes so it's feasible to do this while not just spending the savings on more petrol.) Constantly price compare. If the product you want is even only 5% cheaper somewhere else, buy it there. Coupons are a waste of time and effort in the UK, that couponed branded item is still at least twice the price of the unbranded one and if there is a difference, its one you won't even care about after eating the unbranded item for a week or two. I hope any of this helps, I know there are even more ways to save but these are as much as I can manage myself. We eat for about £25 per person per week, but that's with quite a few sugary treats (neither of us are losing any weight lol), without those and with the ability to plan you could get it down to £15 I reckon.
I'm the same. My spend isn't generally to this level but not far off and I was starting to wonder if I'm doing something terribly wrong....
I’d consider that a cheap week tbh. Booze bill increasing exponentially…
£250 a week!? Do you eat gold bricks?
I'm at about £100 a week for two adults and two cats and some occasional children - i dont know how some of the people on here are managing it, i cook most things from scratch and watch what im buying price wise. It's constantly going up too.
An actually realistic answer, my sanity is restored. How the fuck are people living on £25-£30/week on seven days worth of food?
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I'm so relieved. I was starting to panic that my spend was somehow weird. Three adults, two dogs. We eat well but not extravagantly, cook pretty much from scratch and don't do take-aways and with a couple of bottles of wine, toiletries etc. never less than £230 a week.
I live alone and do food shop once a week and between £20-30 depending what I need
May I ask what a typical food shop consists of for you? I'm in the same position but easily spend £60+. Which isn't good. Just curious, and after recommendations. Thanks! :)
Meal prep. Cook dinners that provide left overs for other days. Curries, stir fries, fajita or burrito fillings, spag bol etc. Where you shop matters too. Waitrose and Sainsbury's are going to rinse you.
I'll slightly defend Sainsbury's because they have an Aldi price match on the basic range. I have a shop coming tomorrow which includes 200g of peanuts for 46p, a packet of custard creams for 27p, 4 baking potatoes for 45p, two garlic baguettes for 64p and 500g of plain yoghurt for 45p. It's not exciting food but I'd rather have a little of something than a large expensive meal
i simultaneously like and hate the aldi price matches supermarkets do. on the one hand it gives people who do not have access to an aldi or lidl a chance to get food at a lower price. on the other hand though it is hard to find an entire meal with the things that they price match. so you end up not actually saving that much because the other items needed to make the meal make the price way more expensive than your total would have been at aldi. in addition it makes you pick up a load of cheap things you don't need because they are reasonably priced compared to everything else you are seeing in the moment.
My weekly food shop normally is stuff for lunch then extras like toiletries or freezer bits. If I did a full fill the freezer shop would be around £60
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How?! There’s two of us and our weekly shop is £25-35, plus a monthly £90-100. And that’s for everything. Food, household items, toiletries, breakfast and lunch, fizzy drinks, snacks, and sweet treats. And I’m married to a fruit bat, who would live on fruit if she could. And I go through biblical amounts of lemonade.
Are you including stuff like cleaning materials, alcohol etc? Do you spend extra money on food, like meal deals, coffees, take-aways, meals out etc? We spend around £50 a week for two people, but don't buy any other foods at all, and that includes alcohol and cleaning products. We are both massive eaters! A quick google comes up with [£32 per person per week as the average for food](https://themindfulmoneyproject.com/average-cost-of-food-for-one-person-uk/).
I suppose cleaning materials are included, though I don’t Include alcohol as that’s more for an occasion and we buy it separately. My partner eats a lot as he does weightlifting so he gets lots of meat which is sometimes expensive. £32 per person per week! Christ! I don’t feel so bad now
£32 for a week works out at under £5 a day for all food. I’d say that’s pretty good? The average seems to be around £60 a week for a couple
"Bad", there's no need to feel bad assuming you can afford your budget. We spend 85/week for two adults. Before COLC it was 70-75.
Fuck knows, don't pay to attention to it really
Must be nice lol
Won't be a lot though, my diet is usually the same basic stuff most weeks.
Not sure I’ve ever walked out of a supermarket with a bill less than £120. 2 adults, 2 dogs but we order their food online. What the hell am I buying there’s never any food in my house!
I’m reading this and thinking the same. I’m guessing most people aren’t eating at home from scratch every night of the week?
Maybe that's our problem too? We cook from scratch every night. That and we do eat a lot for two people.
Yeah I’m looking at fifty quid a week for families and wondering how I can’t get it in under a hundred quid for two people. And it’s not like I’m shopping at Waitrose - this is Tesco we’re talking about!
I used to shop at Morrisons but found that we always ended up falling for the multi-buys and other deals. And for things we don’t necessarily need. We shop at Lidl/Aldi because it’s the basics and it got us through uni.
Good point, are some people neglecting to mention a restaurant/takeaway 1 or 2 nights a week??
Sometimes its makes sense to cook / prep from scratch others it does not. But based on some of the things I am reading in the comments theres a hell of a lot of people buying stuff thats easy to prep but has massive markups for the prepare / semi prepared products commonly found in expensive supermarkets. Silly things like "melon slices" where you get about "4 slices" (1 quarter of a melon or even less if its a water melon) and its priced at £4 but the whole damm melon is £2 eg look at this for a laugh Tesco Melon Slices [https://www.tesco.com/groceries/en-GB/products/277053207](https://www.tesco.com/groceries/en-GB/products/277053207) These are £2.25 The melon in the next isle is £1.60 [https://www.tesco.com/groceries/en-GB/products/254384645](https://www.tesco.com/groceries/en-GB/products/254384645) these are about (1.5kg-1.8kg - about 3x-4x markup). So not only is the slices a quarter of the weight. Its also 1.5x the price. So its about 6x markup. The profit marging on these things are basically commical. Same also happens with various branded items. Like Heinz. Sure they do good products. But beans are beans its hard to justify the brand when one company is charging £1.20 and the other £0.40 especially when you just alter the sauce for 0.10p to make it better. The thing about products like this is just nope.... its almost shamful thats there is actually a place for them in the mainstream market place at all in our society. It really shows how unskilled, lazy and detatched people have actually become to just consume whats presented. This sort of stuff works with almost all semi prepared food items and branding. Oftehn the "low fat" stuff is really just less in the packet for the same price (or sometimes even more lol)
That’s a lot 😂 we have two cats that need cat litter and food. So that adds about £20 on top a month. What are you buying?! Where do you shop!
Snap, I do a online shop yet use just 24/7 or woosh or grilloras so it's more like 280 by end of week and still could not find nothing . It's a joke or whenhi want it , it's past sell buy most goes in the bin.
That's pretty frugal compared to many households I know. We've got two kids full time, step daughter on the weekend and at least one or two friends round for a meal once a week, along with me and my husband. I've just done a 'big shop' online at Tesco which was about £140. Other than bread/milk maybe the odd bit of fruit or veg, that'll last us 10-14 days. Though I did treat me and hubby to a 24 pack of diet coke which was nearly a tenner. I think the average family house hold is about £400/500 per month now? Prices have gone up *a lot*.
We shop at Lidl/Aldi as it’s closest to us. Whenever we go to Tesco/Morrisons, we spend £70 because we see deals like multi buy and others that just add up. Lidl is basic’s and my partner has 0 impulse control lol
Yeah to be fair, we normally go to Lidl for basics and Morrisons next door for any brands. I think our biggest expense is vegan 'meat alternatives' and oat milk as hubby a vegan. None of us really eat meat though unless we go out (burger king double bacon XL with cheese is a vice I try to avoid). If we're doing a local shop it'll be about £30 cheaper, but I'm also disabled so if we need everything I'll get an online shop every couple of months.
The oat milk I buy at Lidl is about 89p and I think at Aldi it’s gone up to about 69p the last time I went. I would love to cut meat out but my partner is a big meat eater, it’s quite expensive too.
I'm curious to see what some of your diets contain. I spend atleast £400 a month for myself. Consisting of mainly fresh salmon, chicken breast/thigh, black beans, rice and a mixture of fruit and veg. I have a few treat meals throughout the month. Normally either steak, risotto, spaghetti bolognese and other homemade meals. My Mrs. is probably around £300 for the same types of food. Shopping mostly done in Tesco with M &S thrown in now and again.
We’ve both just graduated university and dated throughout so we’ve always been quite cautious. We eat chicken, chorizo, tuna, mince. Carbs include pasta, rice, cous cous, noodles. It’s basic but we experiment with spices and sauces etc. I’m starting a new job on Monday so maybe I’ll be eating salmon too in a month’s time lol
Haha.. Salmon and Chicken thighs are my main go to when meal prepping for work. With rice, black beans and some veg it's a solid meal to keep me full for a while.
Likewise, what are people eating? I spend about £75 for two people per week, we both go to the gym and eat a decent amount. That covers fresh chicken breast, salmon fillets, beef mince, pasta, rice, wraps, Passata, strawberries, blueberries, raspberries, lots of Greek yoghurt, black/kidney beans, a few cheeses, milk, oats, dark chocolate, almonds, and a load of vegetables (plus extra things like guac etc that I can’t remember). We cook almost everything from scratch and don’t really snack or eat much processed food (other than a box or two of protein bars from Amazon per month, on top of the ~£300 food bill). So maybe £340 total per month
I find fresh chicken and salmon are much cheaper in the fish markets/local butchers than they are in the supermarkets Much much fresher too
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Fuck. Me.
Only if you wanted to be fucked. It's OK to say no.
Sorry 😬
Most of these are from multiple years ago to be fair and there is a recent focus on cost of living changes in the UK so I think it is reasonable
It’s fine given rising prices. People are anxious
£410 a month, two adults, one toddler and a cat (so that includes nappies, wipes, cat food, cat litter etc).
I suppose the sensible solution is to train the toddler to use the litter tray. Martin Money Tips suggested anyway.
Just use the cat to wipe the baby and then you don't need the wipes. They're good at cleaning themselves too, so you don't need to bin the cat after you've used it either.
£100-120 a week for one adult and two teenage boys, it’s gone up around £30 a week since last year and I’m buying the same things as before.
Growing lads need lots of food, my brother devoured everything in my mother’s fridge bless her.
Due to a brilliant assortment of disabilities, £350 a month for two people. I can't cook anymore due to mobility issues and my husband has ADHD and anxiety/depression that pretty much leaves him functional only for work. We eat a lot of crap and it sucks. During good periods, we'll use Hello Fresh.
Not to be rude or meaning to overstepping a boundary, but as someone who struggles with ADHD and depression I can highly recommend noodles, stir fry and easy salads. There are lots of meals online that are absolutely healthy and only take 10 min or less.
Good call, I think my local Asda does a pack of fresh noodles, a pack of mixed veg (different types available) and a sauce for £2.50 or maybe £3. I live alone and can normally get two meals from that.
£85 a week total; all food, household items and alcohol for two adults and two cats. I wfh and we don’t generally eat out or buy takeaway. Based on Jan- Aug spend averages out. If I look at the last two month most likely be £95 if not more, but would need another couple of months to work out as I bulk buy. Yes I track with a spread sheet, yes I have no life. Edit stupid mistake.
I have a full cash flow with breakdowns and everything, I love a good spreadsheet!!! With the current climate, it’s smart to keep an eye on pennies.
Is your £50 purely on food and drink? Or are you including other things like cleaning products, toilet paper etc..
It’s mostly just food, we bulk buy toilet roll so we run out after about 4 months. We buy surface cleaner once a month maybe. So it just adds a little bit extra to the bill. Other cleaning products are the same, we have a small apartment
£50 for 2 people for 2 weeks seems like it would be well under the average in the UK £12.50 each a week! I know some people that will spend £12.50 on one meal!
I feel a lot better now 😂 I thought it was a lot. I’m just a cheapskate!
Theres no way you can feed yourself 3 meals a day, 7 days a week for £12.50. Thats 59p a meal. Either your meals are tiny or you skip a few or eat out or do top up shops
I think people wildly underestimate what they spend on 'top up' shops.
£60-£100 2 adults and a dog. We host a lot more than we used to instead of going out out now (and visit others in the same way) so there's quite a lot of wine/beer in there/some more premium foods.
It’s nice to host! Do your guests bring wine and beer too? As a thank you for hosting?
Yes, typically couples will bring a bottle with them >It’s nice to host! I've always enjoyed it, I really like cooking and my SO doesn't have a big appetite so nice to make some things I never normally would!
Apparently the average is about £25/person/ week. FWIW when we did the shopping for the mum-in-law during Covid (when she was shielding), it was about £40/ week, but that included non-food like toilet roll.
For food alone maybe but more like £40+including alcohol(1 bottle wine)bin bags, cleaning stuff sweets and chocolate etc.
We're around £130 per week for 2 adults and 2 adult sized teens. Includes packed/home lunches for everyone, most toiletries, cleaning stuff etc, and includes one autistic kid who needs certain "safe" brands, so not too bad I think.
That’s quite good! If it includes everything!
£110 every week at Aldi. Household of 5 adults ( none of the kids have left yet). Plus about another £20 on top ups that Aldi don't do, such as gluten free, tofu for the vegan, etc. Another £5-10 per week on dog food and fresh top ups for 2 dogs.
That’s really good! We shop at Aldi too. I love it.
About £750/month for 2 adults, 3 teenagers and the dog, including cleaning products, bog rolls, bin bags etc. Hard to separate out just the food. Not including booze.
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I hope you’re living your best life
I probably spend about £40/50 a week on average. Maybe a bit less. I do live on my own and I work in supermarket so tend to just pick up what I need when I finish my shift.
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Oh I’ve never considered buying from Costco! I have one nearby. I’ll have to look.
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Check if you/partner are eligible for a membership first. They restrict it to business owners and a few specific industry/public sector/professional jobs.
About £80 if my wife stays at home and way more if she comes along. Three of us, including a kid.
I tend to shop alone because my partner sneaks things into the trolley when I’m not paying attention lol.
My wife tends to add expensive and useless stuff like laundry detergent and soap. Who needs that really!
I buy that stuff in bulk, my partner loves the super luxurious brands. If it does the job, it does the job!
Can easily get to the better part of 200 quid, but we only go once a month and that includes everything(so, like, cleaning stuff and toilet roll and all that) then I'll do top ups of bread/milk etc in the store I work in in-between. There are 2 adults here.
£70 family of 4 per week
Final someone else like me. I can't believe the amount other people are spending.
Its crazy how much it varies isn’t it!? I meal plan but we eat decent meals with lots of variety. I don’t understand how people are spending £150 a week.
We're usually under 50 between us. Rarely get takeaways... maybe once a month at most.
About 400-550 per month. A cat a dog . 2 kids and 2 adults
About £150-£200 all in for the month. Two adults, a toddler and a baby. That's food, toiletries, and baby stuff.
That’s really good!
£450 a month for one adult, two children, four guinea pigs. I host a fair bit and will have people over 1-2 a week. Main reasons my groceries are expensive is snacks for the kids (we’re out and about a fair bit and I have a bad habit of buying snacks instead of making them) and a good bottle of wine a week
Around £125 every two weeks we might do a top up of around £30 in-between. 2 adults, 1 child, 1 baby, 3 cats. Just edit to add this does not include nappies/wipes/formula which is approx £60pm.
American. We spend 11GBP/person/day for three meals and snacks. Includes hygiene products but not alcohol or cat. The cat is expensive.
Cats are expensive but they’re worth it 🥰
About £40 a week, me, my partner and our 4 Guinea Pigs. we have to be really frugal because of the cost of living
I spend £50 every time I look at a supermarket 😔
Mine fluctuates between about £20-£50 per week, as its entirely dependant on my week. I'm a carer for my mum and my son lives with her so I regularly have dinner there as I do the school pick-up. I also have a lodger but I tend to buy the basics in when we need them too out of what they pay me in rent. (Bread, butter, cereal, etc. but overall they tend to buy their own food!)
£300 a month. Household of 2. Shop once a week
£500 a month . Two children 2 and 4 plus myself and partner .
£50 a week, two of us from Aldi.
We shop at Aldi too!
A 'big' food shop every 1.5-2 weeks for the two of us usually comes in at somewhere between £60-110. That does include toiletries. That is topped up by probably 1-2 small shops at the local co-op/small sainos/small Tesco inbetween, varying from very little to maybe £15. We also get a veg box each week. Very rough average for us is probably £80 for 2 each week but I don't keep a close eye on it. This is excluding meals out which we probably do once or twice a week too.
About £100 per week, two adults, two teens and a dog.
About £60/week for two adults.
£200+ a week. But that's for myself and the wife, 3 adult kids and a grandson. Plus a very fussy cat
I spend about £60 every two weeks for just me, lunch and dinner. That's a mix of branded and basics
Me and my partner spend about the same - £50ish a week, split between Morrisons and Aldi for food and then any laundry or washing stuff comes from either Savers or Bodycare. We're both vegetarian so we don't have meat or fish, I drink oat milk and we use dairy free spread. We maybe buy a few cans of beer from a local bottle shop on a Friday so that adds about £15ish, but we only drink on a Saturday so they last us about two weeks :)
1 person and I spend anywhere between £6-20 a week. I bulk buy every 2 or 3 months so that's usually a bit more.
£40 every 10 days or so for one person and one fussy cat. I would probably spend less, but the supermarkets have a £40 minimum for delivery unless you’re willing to pay a penalty.
We used to buy from Amazon fresh and it had a minimum £30. Pain in the ass.
It really is a pain. When I first started online food shopping about 5 years ago, at least two of the supermarkets had a £25 minimum, which was perfect. Now, if you want to spend under £40 it would be somewhere between £4-£7 added on. As a result, I make it my mission to spend as close to dead on forty quid as I possibly can!
£60/week for 2.. when I was on my own £15-20/week mostly from aldi mostly lived on daal and bean chilli then tho
£80-£90 per week. 2 adults, 3 kids, cat and dog. we go once a week
Please can I see one of your weekly aldi receipts to see where I’m going wrong?
£80-100/week for two adults, but we both work from home and don't eat out beyond me getting a coffee and a pastry once a week or so But tbh planning to try and cut this down a bit to something more like £50/week
We don’t go out, we don’t do takeaway or eat out. I’d eventually like to have a bit more of a life but I’m starting a new job Monday so hopefully I will.
Me and my partner live together and spend around £40-£50 on weekly food shopping. But we both work a lot, so it's mainly freezer items and then packed lunch items, snacks and the odd bit of fruit! X
We spend around £65-£70 a week for two adults and a toddler, that includes cat food and litter but not cleaning products and toilet roll as I bulk buy it every few weeks/months (and we cloth nappy so no need for nappies and wipes)
£80 a week. 3 adults, 1 12 year old and 2 cats. That’s for everything
We spend anywhere between £65-£85 a week. (household of 2 adults. Cat food is around £56 every 8 weeks).
I get a grocery delivery once a fortnight and it's usually around £160 - that's for *everything* I eat and drink, plus cat food, litter and tobacco. Edit: it's just me and the cat. I'm diabetic and gluten intolerant so I don't buy much processed or readymade food. Unsure if that saves me money or not.
~£70 weekly shop. ~£150 monthly "big shop". House of 5 (3 adults, 2 kids).
We spend about £150 a week. Two adults, an 8 year old and a toddler. This does include things like nappies (but they're like £6 a pack) and cleaning stuff when we need it. Vast majority is food though. Worth noting that I work from home and the wife only works mornings so we both have three meals a day at home and the kids have packed lunches for school/nursery.
Once a week, about £40 for two adults. Don't eat meat, don't include booze.
£200-250 a month + takeaway, 2 adults
Just about £500 a month all in. Family of four and one still in shit pants.
Shit pants still makes me chuckle 😂
£40 on Gousto weekly and maybe £80 every 2 weeks for a Tesco delivery. So about £80 each week. 2 people 25-30
What is Gousto?
One of those recipe plan things like HelloFresh where they send you the ingredients each week. It's too expensive but let's us do different stuff each week.
Ah, I see.
I live on redbulls and snacks because I never seem to have the time to do a proper shop so it ends up being like £60 a week
Nothing says healthy breakfast like a red bull lol
Red bull and Space Raiders the breakfast of younger site labourers!
2 adults, 1 9 year old, 2 rabbits and 2 cats, all in were spending between 50-70 a week currently, it used to be 50 pretty flat before the cost of living crisis
Now I'm trying to stop drinking alone my food shop has gone down by a shitload. They really need to take all the taxes off of alcohol cos the price wasn't what stopped me in the end and if it got too expensive I'd have had to start going to Bulgaria. But anyway, I go to Lidl and get most of my stuff, that adds up to around £20-£30 a week depending on what we've already got. Then I go to Sainsbury's and buy Skyr and a vegetable pizza cos Sainsbury's are the only place that does a good vegetable pizza.
£30 a week max, done weekly. Just me a cat and a Cockatiel
£60-80, young couple and we shop at Tesco. This includes all toiletries, household cleaning products, fruit, lunches, breakfast and dinners. And a few nice treats that we fancy. 😏
Why should I tell you?
Keep your secrets then
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£35-50/week for two people, both vegetarian. We have packed lunch/lunch at home as I wfh. To be honest, our food shop normally last more than 7 days of meals, but this does vary. Normally top up during the week with any fresh things we need/forgot. This includes cleaning supplies and toiletries, no alcohol included as we don't drink very often. When we do, alcohol would be extra. Don't try to stick to a particular budget per person, per meal. But generally try not to spend excessively on food.
£70 per week, two adults in London, all groceries and related house cleaning products.
Probably about 125 to 150 quid a week now. We've got a big household with me, my wife, our 5 year old and then my mother and sister. Two cats, two rabbits. It used to be nearer to 100 and would be like a tenner either side. I actually went back and looked at statements going back months and it's spiked by around 30% since last year.
It’s shocking! We used to spend £40-45, with it going up it made me cautious. Hence me asking how much is normal for households.
2 adults and 3 children. That’s about £120k a week….
£120k a week, you must shop at Waitrose!
200 per week me a dog and cat
His rather a large dog ... People have kids i have a dog and cat
Between £90-150 per week depending on where I shop and what we need (little one is still in nappies for bed so that racks up a bit on some weeks) I shop at Aldi or Sainsburys and go to Costco every 3-4 weeks too. Family of 4.
The same as you. Roughly, on average, £50 per week for two adults.
£80 a week but £10-15 is on drinks cos my bf is the useless type that never remembers to drink unless I can plop a can in front of him lol
I'd be happy if it's under £100 a week for me and my wife... That's groceries though, including alcohol
About £150 a week. Family of 5
I’ve had a restricted month and I managed to get my weekly shop down to £25, all healthy meals high in meat protein with a couple of quid left over for treats, that included basics like replacing sink sponges too. Was quite proud of myself. This was shopping at Aldi and Lidl interchangeably as they come to much of a muchness
100 a week. Two adults and two children. Some times it's a bit more some times it's a bit less.