Grocery Shopping budget thread

Taye

tbh it's not so much meals i have a problem with i think i do quite well on those it's the kids and my inbettween snacking thats killing me i think.

bellaquidsin

Taye wrote: »

tbh it's not meals i have trouble with per say it's children with hollow legs who make eating/snacking a national past time.

im just trying to bring my spend down and it's soo hard, i don't think i spend a gross amount but i know it needs to come down futher than it is.

I already pad/bulk out meals, bargin shop, scout for whoopsies, eat leaftovers etc just not sure what else to do.

You could try the old Yorkshire trick of serving Yorkshire pudding with gravy BEFORE a meal, or a good hunk of bread with the dinner.

HTH
Bella.

cuddlymarm

Hi Taye

My boys (with extremely hollow legs ) have grown up and moved out now but I always made sure I had bread (value, they weren't choosy) and cheap jam and cheese spread (used to stock up when on BOGOF) in and also made scones, iced buns etc. The rule was that they didn't eat anything else without my say. Theres nothing more annoying than finding out that theres nothing for a packed lunch 15 mins before schooltime.

I hope this helps a bit
Cuddles:rotfl:

cady

there is 2 adults and a cat in our family and we spend £100 PM and thats for everything food - packed lunches - cleansing stuff - toilteries ect and normally we spend about £80 and use the £20 to stock up on anything thats on offer IE washing powder if there is something as a bargin!!! at the moment we are using it to buy baby stuff too!!!

clarelouise

Hi there

I was just wondering how much would be classes as "acceptable" for a weekly shop for 2 people?

My OH and I spend nearly £60 on food (this is for breakfast, lunch & dinner) we don't go crazy but I still think this is too much.. he thinks it's ok!!

What do you all think???

shjo558

Hi,

That's about the same as what I spend too and by the time you take off expensive non food things like cleaning products etc it isn't really that much given the price of things.

sunflower76

We spend around £50 - £60 for two adults, a cat and a dog. I suppose it depends on whether you are eating the things you want to, whether it's healthy and whether you can afford it.

I'd like to see my bill go down a little but we eat fresh fruit and veg every day, have good quality meat and the dog has a hm diet of chicken / liver / mince, veg and rice which bumps up my food bill. If I ate processed rubbish I think I could save loads but I'm not prepared to do sacrifice health and wellbeing over a few pounds

lindsaygalaxy

For 3 of us I try to not go over £50 a week, but I usually do a big shop every 2 weeks and a little one inbetween - that includes all cleaning and toiletries.

Penelope_Penguin

clarelouise wrote: »

I was just wondering how much would be classes as "acceptable" for a weekly shop for 2 people?

Depends on so many things - how much you can afford, what you eat, what shops you have available

We have a thread dedicated to people's food budgets, so I'll merge this so that you can compare

Penny. x

HockeyDuo8083

I was originally aiming for £150 per month but have started on £200. This is mainly because we have not long moved into our house which meant all budget went out the window:o

So this month I am trying to stay under £200 which seems to be going very well so far. We did a 'bulk' shop at Costco at the end of last month which has helped immensly.
Now I feel I have got an adequate store of staples so I am doing a small top up shop on a weekly basis for milk, bread etc.

Any extra money that is left over will be siphoned off into the savings account

Next month I am aiming to do £150....:A

N.B. This is for 2 Adults and includes all toiletries and cleaning items.