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Grocery Shopping budget thread
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Daisiegg - I'm in there with you too!Grocery Challenge £211/£455 (01/01-31/03)
2016 Sell: £125/£250
£1,000 Emergency Fund Challenge #78 £3.96 / £1,000Vet Fund: £410.93 / £1,000
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We spend £70-£90 a month for 2 adults and 2 rabbits, including all toiletries and cleaning things. I guess it just depends on your budget!0
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OP, I think the other thing is that if you're currently spending a huge amount and want to reduce it (like me!), it's better to try to reduce in reasonably sized chunks.
If you spend, say £400/month now and suddenly cut it in 1/2 straight away, you'd probably struggle, get fed up and fall off the wagon! Much better (IMHO) to knock, say £30/month off and do it in stages. HTHGrocery Challenge £211/£455 (01/01-31/03)
2016 Sell: £125/£250
£1,000 Emergency Fund Challenge #78 £3.96 / £1,000Vet Fund: £410.93 / £1,000
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We spend between £60 and £75 per week for 3 of us. The lower spending weeks tend to include more vegeterian days (which aren't popular with Mr De Bris!)0
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Not counting the pennies, but for food and a bottle of table wine per diem I reckon no more than £10-12, or £300-ish per month.0
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If you don't mind me saying this
I feel ashamed me and my lovely boyfriend spend £100 a week on food and drink
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For six of us (two adults, two mid teens, one preteen and one 8 year old) + a dog we spend around £80 a week.
That'll probably go up now the garden isn't producing so much
Proud to be dealing with my debts :T
Don't throw away food challenge started 30/10/11 £4.45 wasted.
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We spend around £100 with everything, around £80 on weekly shop. 4/5 adults0
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We spend about £80-90 a week for 2 adults & 2 young children including packed lunches for the DC and toiletries/cleaning products. I don't usually include family eating out (i.e. not 'date night' eating out) in that budget but I will this month.CC1 £5999 Total Debt March 2021 £5999
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Alex-Riley. wrote: »If you don't mind me saying this
I feel ashamed me and my lovely boyfriend spend £100 a week on food and drink
*sits in the corner*
Come out of your corner, Alex! Before I started MoneySaving (and when I fall off the wagon) I can spend £100/week on me and two cats. I've got it down to about £50/week and am starting to think about going lower ...Household: Laura + William-cat
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