how much are you spending on food shopping a week?

frecklebrownpant

What I cant believe these figures. There are 3 in our household, me, hubby and 3 year old. What are you lot doing growing your own food??!!

We spend £200 +/month, we dont eat meat, so its only fruit and veg, and all the usual cleaning bits. No nappies or beer. God what am I doing wrong??!

I shop at either Tesco or Asda and always go armed with coupons.

karenccs67

dave4545454 wrote: »

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

Wow thats fantastic.

karenccs67

I try to keep it to £50ish a week for four of us which is alot better than this time last year, it used to be £80/£90.

CouponWoman

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I get loads of coupons off this thread and for 3 adults I rarely spend more than £15 per week shopping. That includes all cleaning materials, but not alcohol.

I also look on the reduced shelf if I manage to get to Tesco about 1 hour before closing time. I got 2 gammons joints reduced to 50p each the other week. The staff reduced everything in the reduced section to between 10p and 50p.

Mint1955

Is there anywhere on here that gives help with shopping lists and meal plans? I am managing about £80-£100 a week for 3 adults cleaning stuff an dog and cat stuff. I struggle so I must be being dense. Or we over eat maybe if I could see actually what people buy and what they do with it the penny might drop and I can see where I can make changes.
Sheila

AnotherMakes3

Wow at £3 per week!

We spend roughly £60p/w for a family of 5 (2 adults, 5 year old, 3 year old and 4 month old). We could do it for I think around £40ish but I like biscuits too much and my oh likes his beers :-D

I make almost all of our meals myself apart from the odd pizza base I buy. We are £5 per week on milk alone LOL

My list generally contains big pakc of mince, chicken fillets x 2, pasta, milk 2L x 4, 3 loaves of bread, block of cheese, yoghurts, fruit and veg.
I use washable nappies and breastfeed so no money going out on the little one.

Belisarius

£3?! Wow. I spend £20 a week on food for just me. I only eat organic / free-range meat & veg, for reference.

I generally buy ...

Seasonal veg from organic veg box (£5)
One large piece of meat, or sometimes a couple of packs of mince / sausages (£5)
Fish (£2)
Fruit -- mostly bananas & apples, organic when affordable (£2)
3 x 500g tubs of natural yoghurt (£1.50)

The remaining £4.50 is left over goes on things like whole grain pasta & rice, tinned tomatoes, dried beans, eggs ... basically whatever I need to make meals with ... & to top-up items like muesli & bread flour! I also try to buy myself one or two little treats, as I find this actually helps me stick to my budget.

I also spend £5 a week on cat food, but have that in a separate budget area as I buy online in bulk at big discounts

Georgie4

I spend £250 a month for 2 adults and 2 dogs - I will try and save money on everything except food , here I really believe you get what you pay for !

cg1982

family of 4 approx 15 pound a week big shop once a month of approx 80-100
and we eat pretty well
including a cat and cleaning stuff

cg1982

Mint1955 wrote: »

Is there anywhere on here that gives help with shopping lists and meal plans? I am managing about £80-£100 a week for 3 adults cleaning stuff an dog and cat stuff. I struggle so I must be being dense. Or we over eat maybe if I could see actually what people buy and what they do with it the penny might drop and I can see where I can make changes.
Sheila

old moneysaving oldstyle on here is brilliant
challenged myself once was very well off doing it