how much are you spending on food shopping a week?

whitesatin

I budget a hundred pounds a week for the two of us plus a cat. We still end up spending more when picking things up during the week at farm shops, wandering around the shops etc.

Things will have to change next year when we will be on a budget. I know I can cut down and I will manage it somehow.

I could eat out of my cupboards, fridge and freezer for a couple of weeks I reckon.

CallaLily

Omg how?!
I spend between £80 and £100 per week for 2 adults and 4 children, one still in nappies. Would love to get it down but can't find a way have tried!

dave4545454 wrote: »

i've managed to get my weekly shop down to £3 a week (one person), how much are you spending a week?

Little_Vics

Birdy12 - did you see that B&J ice cream is down to £1.90 a tub in Morrisons at the moment?

Birdy12

I did see but I'd already bought 2 for £4 from Waitrose on Friday. And, before anyone shoots me down in flames, I shopped in Waitrose to use the £5 off £30 spend voucher that I'd got The Sun paper .

Funnily enough, the assistant gave me another £5 off £30 spend voucher with my receipt so looks like I'll be 'forced' to go back :rolleyes:.

clutterydrawer

CallaLily wrote: »

Omg how?!
I spend between £80 and £100 per week for 2 adults and 4 children, one still in nappies. Would love to get it down but can't find a way have tried!

I don't know if you have read the entire thread but he manages it by only eating two tiny meals per day - example was beans on toast, and potato with peas.

methinks the children might protest at such treatment

butler_helen

wow, we spend about £90 a week for two of us and about £60 a week in extras e.g. eating out. However, we don't economise aside from buying no frozen and no easy meals, we make everything from scratch and the £90 includes all household goods, most toiletries, dvd's, cd's etc and is an average over the past month or so.

we could and should cut down, although we buy day by day and tesco is over the road... this thread is an exercise in how badly our household has slipped recently from our usual mse ways!

morocha

Hi, I went shopping today and spent £28 for 2 adults 1 kid. My DD loves fresh fruit and i use a lot of veg in my cooking as well as meat. So i was very carefull today, we were only allow to buy one treat each and the rest staff that we need. We do eat well.. and for £28 i think it is quite good.. my SIL spends 3 times more for two adults and 2 toddlers.

Butterfliesarepretty

I spend £30-£35 a week on food and dried cat food. there is only me and two cats, but when my daughter aged 11 stays I have to buy more. I make a list of what I need and go round using a calculator. But its still hard living alone, working, paying mortgage and bills and keeping things to a minimum.:rolleyes:

Welshwoofs

clutterydrawer wrote: »

I would be very interesting in this if you have tim So often people post some incredibly low food spend but won't say how they did it, especially with regards to what they already had in stock.

Welshwoof's October 2008 Menu Plan (shade under £40 for the month for 2 people)

There's a dinner for each day, a short list of lunches which I rotated and some cheap puddings/snacks on the first tab. Also is a list of ingredients I bought and how much they cost (NB: October 2008 prices!)

Second tab is what I had in my store-cupboard.

Third tab is recipes

Hope that helps

jimbugalee

Wow, that's great WelshWoofs I love cooking new things so may have taken a couple of those recipies

I do a meal plan for each week and as we've only been living in our new house for a few months I find I'm still buying cupboard items when I try a new recipie.

Do you find a difference with buying value meat? i.e. the mince might have a higher fat content than the more expensive stuff or are the sausages ok? I also don't seeem to be very good at cooking frozen stuff and meat is something I find I don't compromise on (but maybe I could?!) Each week we probably have 2-3 meat meals, 1 fish meal and the rest veggy, pasta etc.