How much do you spend per week?

Timmne

Apologies if this might be in the wrong place....

How much do you and your family (I live with my girlfriend and a house rabbit, although he's not a big cost) spend per week on 'other' bits - i.e. food, toiletries and any other consumables - excluding phone top-ups etc...

Just interested as I'm trying to work out a budget, and have guessed at £60 per week....

Any help would be much appreciated!

sgx.saint

Whoooa £60!!! ....We spend £90 a month on shopping and household expenses!

Timmne

sgx.saint wrote:

Whoooa £60!!! ....We spend £90 a month on shopping and household expenses!

WHAAAAAT???!! :eek:

I thought I was a great moneysaver!!

sgx.saint

I thought £80 a month was expensive lol

To be fair, on the surface I may seem like a true MSE with only £80 between me and my OH but we do tend to eat out a lot :O

sgx.saint

I thought £80 a month was expensive lol

To be fair, on the surface I may seem like a true MSE with only £80 between me and my OH but we do tend to eat out a lot :O

sgx.saint

Gah!

Double postage

lynzpower

me & OH spend 100 a month on food toiletries & cleanuing between us.

OH occasionally buys lunch out, but thats his choice, and his money. we buy newspapers when we want them out of out "own" money. I tend to buy a sunday one and thats it.

immoral_angeluk

Well we budget £150 for food, £50 a month for petrol, and spend roughly £60/£70 a week on bits and bobs, dh getting into work and his lunches etc so I'd say around £106 p/w which includes everything for 2 adults, a toddler (and another on the way!)

Timmne

Gosh these figures are amazing!!

When I look at what we spend, I just can't believe that it could get a lot lower, which is why I posted this; to see if other people actually do spend less than us!!

Lynzpower (and sgx.saint for that matter!) - what do you get for £20-25/week - a lot of veg and basics or do you have a knack?!

JAMIEDODGER

i spend 50 a week on food,toiletries,cleaning and baby stuff
thats for me and 4 children

lynzpower

Lynzpower (and sgx.saint for that matter!) - what do you get for £20-25/week - a lot of veg and basics or do you have a knack?!

The key is to work out exactly what you NEED every week to be able to make full meals out of.

As an example this week we have had
Monday-bangers, mash, green beans, carrots & onion gravy
tuesday chicken fillets on a bed of chilli & garlic vegetable vermicelli
wednesday- eggs, sausages, chips and beans & mushrooms & homemade bread
tonight - chorizo, onion & mushroom pizza with chicken dippers ( home made) and jam pie & custard

The knack is
a) using up what youve got in
b) knowing whats cheap where and buying it when you are there ie, passed lidl the other day & got a few things from there we like
c) going to supermarket at the right time to get the reductions.

When I went to Mr Ts on monday, everything I bought had a yellow label on it! Theyd obvoiulsy over ordered so there was loads. I spent 22 quid, and have plenty of meat in the freezer for after Xmas.