Grocery Shopping budget thread

Wee_Jo

Hello everyone! :hello:

I'd like to join in, if that's okay. Our budget for grocery shopping is between £30-35 per week and is for 2 adults and includes cleaning and household-y stuff. I do my weekly shops in A$da and spend about £30, but I top up with milk from our nearby shop (it's much cheaper ) and sometimes extra bits if I'm doing baking between shops, but nothing that takes us about the £35 limit!

This is down from around £65-70 a week a few months ago - when I think how much we used to waste it is shocking!! :eek: It's weird, because now I think we have more food! But really, I'm just using it properly! Yippee!! Thank goodness for MSE :money:

Jo

OrkneyStar

Jo_Rourke wrote: »

Hello everyone! :hello:

I'd like to join in, if that's okay. Our budget for grocery shopping is between £30-35 per week and is for 2 adults and includes cleaning and household-y stuff. I do my weekly shops in A$da and spend about £30, but I top up with milk from our nearby shop (it's much cheaper ) and sometimes extra bits if I'm doing baking between shops, but nothing that takes us about the £35 limit!

This is down from around £65-70 a week a few months ago - when I think how much we used to waste it is shocking!! :eek: It's weird, because now I think we have more food! But really, I'm just using it properly! Yippee!! Thank goodness for MSE :money:

Jo

Well done on that reduction Jo.
When I think back I used to spend approx £50-60/week for 2 adults (& there was lunches on top of that sometimes too :eek:)....gradually we have managed to reduce it to what we do now (with some blips of course! I am like you in that I do one main shop, although at Tesco or Lidl normally (no Asda, Morries, Sainsbugs up here) and a fe top up shops. I work in cash though and once the weekly money is gone I will not go into the next weeks until it is next week!
x

mardatha

I've always worked only with cash. I would hate to see the state we'd be in if I was let loose in a shop with a credit card... :eek:

OrkneyStar

mardatha wrote: »

I've always worked only with cash. I would hate to see the state we'd be in if I was let loose in a shop with a credit card... :eek:

LOL- I use credit card only for big purchases that are too much cash, but don't spend unless I have the money I will need to pay it!
This said some people prefer to use cards to shop as you only 'withdraw' the exact amount you need for your shopping (eg. £52.52 will only be that whereas I would need £60 cash, and the change may be frittered!).
Still I like to use cash .

[Deleted User]

hello all!
I would like to get our food shopping down to about £150 a month , there are 2 of us ...goodness knows how much we have wasted on food the past several years!!
I have started off with the "brand down" idea, going for value brands etc and deciding which ones are edible! and think this month we will come in at about £250, so am aiming for £200 next month and £150 for september. Goal is to dust off and start using our breadmaker, and make soups for the colder weather!

tessie_bear

OrkneyStar wrote: »

Just to add we are now on £30/wk this month- week one (15th-21st) I managed it all on £30, this week just done the big shop (incl a couple of extra things we don't need straight away) and spent £18 in Tesco and under £1 in Lidl....will spend the remaining £10 later on in the week on milk, bread, any whoopsies more than likely. I am enjoying the challenge. My other challenge is not just to keep using the freezer but to take stuff and out replace (eg today used steak mince so replaced that with a fresher packet iyswim)........

thats very impressive...do u mind if i ask what u changed...meal wise? thanks

narabanekeater

Hi guys can I join in. Im aiming to spend no more than £30 a week at the moment as weve got a store cupboard full of ingredients so its just bread and milk and meats we will need. Once the cupboards start looking empty I will up the budget. Im actually really excited about a) spending so little for once and b) having some room i my cupboards. I will updaye my signature as we go
This is for 3 adults and 2 small children and an additional 2 children at weekends. I do realise this sounds dramatic but ive 2 freezers full and cupboards are brimming

kings981

I have just been using the budget planner and added up all our supermarket bills - I thought we were pretty thrifty and sensible so had kittens when I realised we spent this past month on food, milkman and groceries - £301.88 for two adults and a kitty cat!!!:eek:

We're trying to save for some home improvements so need to make cut backs. How much do other people survive on - I do grow a lot of our own veg - supposedly to save money!!!

zippychick

Hi kings,

This thread will give you an idea of what other people spend on their groceries:

Grocery Shopping budget thread

and this thread is a good support thread if you are trying to cut back on your grocery budget:

August 2010 Grocery Challenge

I'll add your thread to the first link later to keep the budgets together.

Pink

slummymummyof3

Stop using the milkman and buy your milk in Aldi/Lidl for £1.09 (2.272 litres)

Where do you shop? Are you including wine etc in your shopping? Are you batch cooking? Do you make the most of items that you use that are on offer?