Grocery Shopping budget thread

tessie_bear

i dont think £60 a week is bad...i suppose it depends what u want to eat and what u include...eg cleaning stuff..the gchallenge is good and peoples meal plans are interesting

what do u like to cook ?

rachbc

I think that is pretty good tbh - we budget £270 a month for 2 adults a soon to be teen and 4 yo (plus cat at £10 a month).

Maybe aim of £55 to start and work down from there - changing a few brands or one or 2 meals, or just dropping a couple of items....biscuits and crisps have gone from our budget!

wuvvies

Penny-Pincher!! wrote: »

Great idea guys!

There are 3 of us (2 adults + 1 14yr DD) and we allocate £75pw. This includes all food, diesel for the car and cleaning/washing materials. Approx £45 each week on groceries, £25 pw diesel then we go to Makros every 3 months and stock up on loo rolls, washing powder, lenor, nescafe, t-bags, cleaning stuff etc.

We do mealplan. I know if we needed too we could drop this to about £30pw for food but are buying better quailty items and hardly throwing anything away. A coupld of meals each week are very basic Egg & Chips or Soup & Roll etc but this means we can buy a nicer chicken or meat.

I withdraw £300 every 4 weeks and place in a seperate purse and only use that for everything.

Will update when I think of anything else.

HTH

PP
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i think you do so well with this amount of money. my problem my lot would not accept egg and chips as a proper meal. i do tuna and pasta and also make my own fishcakes but would love to get away with soup and a dessert but i will have moaners!! how can i manage my food budget better. i must spend 60 per week on food and cleaning stuff for two adults and two kids and 1 cat.

woozyfloozy

Hi all

I am trying to see where i can cut back on spend and wondered what people consider to be an average food bill for 2 children and 2 adults, one with coeliacs disease so follows a gluten free diet.

Typically in a week alongside the usual things we all eat i buy the following for my husband on the special diet:

4 bread rolls 1.93
500g pasta 1.53
wafer biscuits/custard creams for packed lunch 1.84
specialist flour for sauces/cooking 1.84
gluten free fish fingers 1.98
gluten free yorkshire puddings 1.94
gluten free sausages 1.93

these are things i buy specifically for him, buying the cheap none gluten free version for the rest of the family costing around 5 quid.

The budget at the mo is 300 per month, and i sometime struggle to stick to that.

What do most people budget for food a week? Both of us work so take lunch to work and both kids take packed lunch to school.

Any advice?

sproggi

Hi,
You might be better posting this on the Old Style board, they are superstars at reducing food bills.

Sproggi

patchwork_cat

woozyfloozy wrote: »

Hi all

I am trying to see where i can cut back on spend and wondered what people consider to be an average food bill for 2 children and 2 adults, one with coeliacs disease so follows a gluten free diet.

Typically in a week alongside the usual things we all eat i buy the following for my husband on the special diet:

4 bread rolls 1.93
500g pasta 1.53
wafer biscuits/custard creams for packed lunch 1.84
specialist flour for sauces/cooking 1.84
gluten free fish fingers 1.98
gluten free yorkshire puddings 1.94
gluten free sausages 1.93

these are things i buy specifically for him, buying the cheap none gluten free version for the rest of the family costing around 5 quid.

The budget at the mo is 300 per month, and i sometime struggle to stick to that.

What do most people budget for food a week? Both of us work so take lunch to work and both kids take packed lunch to school.

Any advice?

Is your DH a diagnosed coeliac? If so do you get gluten free products on prescription, is this on top of his 18? units?

woozyfloozy

patchwork, my husband was diagnosed back home when he lived in zambia at 14, we went to his doc here a few years ago and he told him he would have to go through the same tests here as there was no way to obtain records from zambia (?) this includes eating glutenous foods for 6 weeks, something he did not want to do, nor did i as his moods on a gluten diet are unbearable. I believe depression is one of the symptoms anyway. If we had to really and truely tighten our belts we would have to go down this road to get the prescription but we are not destitute just yet

woozyfloozy

Hi all

I am trying to see where i can cut back on spend and wondered what people consider to be an average food bill for 2 children and 2 adults, one with coeliacs disease so follows a gluten free diet (diagnosed in zambia as a child so not on a prescription here).

Typically in a week alongside the usual things we all eat i buy the following for my husband on the special diet:

4 bread rolls 1.93
500g pasta 1.53
wafer biscuits/custard creams for packed lunch 1.84
specialist flour for sauces/cooking 1.84
gluten free fish fingers 1.98
gluten free yorkshire puddings 1.94
gluten free sausages 1.93

these are things i buy specifically for him, buying the cheap none gluten free version for the rest of the family costing around 5 quid.

The budget at the mo is 300 per month, and i sometime struggle to stick to that.

What do most people budget for food a week? Both of us work so take lunch to work and both kids take packed lunch to school.

i posted this elsewhere an was advised to post here

Any advice?

Mrstim

Hi

ours is horrific so cant offer you any advice I am just interested to see other peoples replies as we are trying to half ours.

We spend £140/£160 a week , we are 2 adults and 3 kids (9,27 months and 7 months)

Only advice I can give so far is that shopping for half our stuff in Aldi cut ours down by £40 last week.

Nimeth

I spend too blinkin much!:rotfl:

I used to spend £70 per week for just me, OH and the bunny. I started going to Aldi which gets it down to £50 per week, but I want to try and reduce it further.

It's not easy to keep shopping bills down when you have special dietary requirements to keep in mind. My OH is lactose intolerant, so that usually involves me making seperate trips to find his milk/etc. Although it would help if he didn't go through 4+ boxes of soya milk a week by mooching cereal before bedtime.