What does your shopping budget must cover?

focus888

Do you do weekly or monthly shops and how much is your budget?

what do you get for that? also ive seen alot of ppl comment how they have a certain budget and have it cover a meal for four. what do you guys buy?

pink_princess

I have a four weekly budget of £300 for two adults a 14,12,and almost 10 year old.This includes all food ,toiletries and also cleaning products,eating out and alcohol.
I keep every reciept and add up every penny.
I buy nothing processed at all just meats ,veg, flours,butters etc.
My budget 9 months ago was £600 before i found the grocery challenges.

pink_princess

Oh forgot to say we eat out at least once a month on this amount,we could lower it by another £100,(approx) by not drinking or eating out.I also still buy chocolate for cooking cakes and buscuits etc which isn t overly healthy.

tessie_bear

u can see mine on sig...i do lots of little shops and add up the receipts

pink_princess

Hi tessie how many is that for and what does it cover.

staffie1

My grocery budget is currently £240 per month. I'm a single bloke, and I'm aware I could reduce this budget. I'm learning the art of cooking from scratch and finding the various boards on this site very useful.

My goal is to get my supermarket spend to, say £200 per month (to include toileteries and cleaning stuff) within the next 3 mths, and cook good, healthy food. Got a couple of decent cookery books recently to help me.

tessie_bear

pink_princess wrote: »

Hi tessie how many is that for and what does it cover.

sorry forgot those important details....its for x2 adults x2 kids (not big eaters...the kids) all meals and x2 packed lunches everyday...cleaning stuff and nappies....we dont drink so no alcohol
hth tess

clutterydrawer

My months budget for myself and 2 rabbits is £60 but it usualy ends up more like £80

this covers food only, no household bits etc

Sylvester

Rough estimate for myself only, and none of my partner/girlfriends in our household (as they spend silly amounts...) I reckon I spend £25 p/w on myself (no houshold items)

I just tend to buy basics and offers that last me into the next few weeks etc. No booze or cigarettes as they are banned in our house.

If the girls could use my sense, they'd not have to borrow from me!

AndyInYorks

Sylvester wrote: »

Rough estimate for myself only, and none of my partner/girlfriends in our household (as they spend silly amounts...) I reckon I spend £25 p/w on myself (no houshold items)

How many girlfriends do you have? :rotfl:

Sylvester

AndyInYorks wrote: »

How many girlfriends do you have? :rotfl:

Just 1, in that way. (italics on the 'that')

Plus her sister, her friend and so on. 8 women, 1 me.

It sounds like fun, but when the makeup talk starts, it's time for me to make the cups of tea