Grocery Shopping budget thread

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weezl74

Hello tomandkath

I've been researching this a bit myself of late!

DEFRA give the current uk average figure for 4 as just about £4300 per year on foods consumed totally in the home. It goes up to about £6k if eaten out.

Here on old-style there are many folk who manage it cheaper (if that is your quest) and excellent threads like the grocery challenges at the top of the page and some other links to threads about family food budgets are bound to be offered shortly by those better at searches than me :)

HTH,

Weezl x

Penelope_Penguin

weezl74 wrote: »

DEFRA give the current uk average figure for 4 as just about £4300 per year on foods consumed totally in the home.

£83/week - sounds about right :j

Tom and Kath, we have a thread here, so I'll merge this later

Penny. x

kezlou

Depends on what you eat, where you shop etc

Last month i spent £150ish on groceries inc takeaways.

My grocery budget for the year is £2000 for a family of four, 2 adults, 2 boys aged 9 and 6yrs old. I used to spend twice that much but i'm trying to keep it under control and can easily spend £100+ a week.
My boys eat tons, esp meat and cheese and mostly everything is home made inc pack lunches. I work it out as being £166.66 a month or about £40 ish a week. I used to spend £400 a month but have steadily reduced it.

If i go over the limit though its fine, but i don't have the added expense of baby milk nappies etc

On the grocery challenge they are some really tips on how to shop, recipes etc and really helped me out.

HTH

Kerry

youngmummy

my budget
rabbit hamster and kitten stuff - £40 p/mth
food - £100
washing powder and cleaning products - £10 i use eco-balls, and lemon and water or vinigar for alot of my cleaning
thats £150 :eek:
think i all-to try and lower it ... thats for me, my fiance, and DS 14mths

christmaspud

our food budget is £100 a week
there is me my partner, my 3 kids 18,11,8
every fortnight my partner kids which are 19,16 years old
i find that 100 pounds a week does not go very far though

katylou6180

Hi Fellow o/s ers,

In the life of katylou6180 things have very recently become very difficult- the stress in my job became too much so I went out for break time on thurs.....and carried on walking........typical me, if it aint one thing it's another.
I have done some o/s and do some batch cooking, and a few things here and there, the realisation has now dawned on me that after all the household bills are paid- we now have approx £150 p/m to live on, I can deal with mealplanning and batch cooking etc, but I have a couple of questions for you guys- how do you sort your cleaning/laundry/householdy budgets? and how do u shop cheaply for this? I am really really uneducated with that one- another thing that mystifies me is how you cope when something "important" breaks ie washing machine/hoover and you have no "snowballs chance in..." of paying for a new one? are there places you can go to pay weekly etc without being crippled? I am hoping that we may get tax credits in april (o/h earns approx 16k) which will make things a litle easier, but I am going to have to learn to cope and try and plan for every eventuality!! If I don't get a job then what?? I don't really fancy the prospect of sinking....maybe I should've thought of that before I was a very silly girl we have always been a dual income household, and when I had my son ten years ago I went back to work because I "had to" when he was five wks old.....and was in continuous work till i was made redundant last yr....but now I can't seem to find a job with realistic expectations.......they all want blood! Any help on the above would be appreciated as I think the tumble dryer is dying......

Prudent

I just couldn't read and run. I think lots of us will understand - so many jobs want blood these days.

£150 is probably ok for everyday. Can you ebay some things and build up a wee emergency fund?

Freecycle is very good for items like hoovers etc and car boot sales are also great. I have bought a couple of Dysons from them costing £8 and £10 - both lasted about a year.

Scrap the tumble dryer and dry everything on racks or outside. I stopped using mine when I became a single parent 8 years ago because of the running costs. I bought some cheap plastic racks and have never missed it. In the end, I gave it away on freecycle.

MrsCrafty

What does that include KL, is it just for food.

I have recently got rid of our credit cards and once all bills are paid, we have about £400 which has to include food, car, emergencies, clothes & haircuts and just about anything that comes up that isn't paid by DD.

I dry on the line and use one of those airer thingies.

cuddles123

Make your own Laundry Liquid. I do and it washes well and works out soooooooooo cheap. No need for Fabric Conditioner too.