What's a reasonable food budget?

rozeepozee

This got the better of my curiosity and worked out thatg our weekly shopping for 2 adults cost us £26 per week. After reading what you feed your cats am beginning to feel a bit guilty now - had commented my fella was looking a bit skinny :rotfl:

wigginsmum

Ours are just greedyguts - one is actually called Piggy. They supplement with mice and worms and slugs.

Jules

Yorkielass

No pets here - but 2 adults and we spend £150-£200 on food a month I would say - bit complicated at the moment because we have seperate bank accounts until our wedding next year and each try and pay for about half of the shopping.

The above does include cleaning products, toilet roll, tissues etc and some shampoo, toothpaste etc too.

If you haven't already the monthly grocery Challenge, Store cupboard challenge and general advice on making meals from stratch etc on old style are amazing. Haven't been following the challenges completely but it really helps you to focus on what you're spending.

kickingkay

hi jules well like yourself im trying to pay off what i owe too and that will also be yrs!!!
now there are 2 adults 3 lil ones and 2 cats 1 dog 1 hampster in our house i have started doing a weekly meal plan and shop every week as apposed to 2weekly / monthly (buying to much for 2 weeks, and monthly shop spent too much and it never lasted) well anyway so far im doing ok by spending 50 quid a week but on some weeks i know i will need to spend 60 -70 for soap powder and nappies etc but for the past month i have managed to keep it around the 50 quis give or take a couple of £s
hope this helps ps i to have to feed 3 pack lunchers as well so dont do to bad really
klare xx

wigginsmum

That's not a bad idea, shopping weekly - that might work out better for me because we don't have a great deal of cupboard space. Thanks for the idea

Jules

Magentasue

Also, try Lidls. I now shop at Lidls and Aldi more than Asda. It takes a bit of getting of getting used to (take your own bags and a £1 for the trolley) and you'll think that it doesn't have what you want but I stuck with it and bought more and more each time. My kids were a bit snobbish at first but now prefer some things - orange juice, for example.

I shop every five days or so because we go through six pints of milk a day and I can only get 30 pints in my fridge. But I always do a seven day meal plan, I don't follow it religiously but I know that I have the ingredients for seven dinners.

frugglewump

wigginsmum wrote:

No they had to come off the dried catfood completely because one nearly died with crystals in his bladder, so we're stuck with tins (and when we did buy Iams it was costing us £100/month).

Am I reading this right in that when you were buying dried food it was Iams? If that's the case i'm not surprised the cats got very ill - you should hear the language my friend (vet) uses about that company.

wigginsmum

Yes it was Iams - awful stuff. We nearly lost Cat No. 3 If his system hadn't cleared when it did (his pen*s was completely blocked), they were talking about rerouting his bladder in order to save his life, poor boy. It's not as if he's old - he was only 5 at the time.

Jules

Karma67

Hi :wave:

We are a family of 4....2 adults, one 11yr old, and one 21mth old.

I shop weekly and usually spend around £50/week but this can vary usually depending on nappy buying! lol

My advice would be do a 7 day meal planner, write a list of what ingredients you need b4 you go etc, and STICK to it...don't be tempted buy the 'special offers' although the odd BOGOF do slip in my trolley now and then

HTH

HLK

Magentasue wrote:

Also, try Lidls. I now shop at Lidls and Aldi more than Asda. It takes a bit of getting of getting used to (take your own bags and a £1 for the trolley) and you'll think that it doesn't have what you want but I stuck with it and bought more and more each time. My kids were a bit snobbish at first but now prefer some things - orange juice, for example.

I shop every five days or so because we go through six pints of milk a day and I can only get 30 pints in my fridge. But I always do a seven day meal plan, I don't follow it religiously but I know that I have the ingredients for seven dinners.

Agree with Magentasue - I try to get most of what I need in Lidl - at first it seems they only sell chocolate, drinks etc- but I now get most of what I need there and supplement with costco meat.