Food bill for two people - what is too much.

toni_

yea i agree with the above posts if your happy to spend that much per week and you can happilly afford it then its fine. I spend around £60 and that lasts us 3 weeks, get £15 off that with vouchers so £45, i go to the farm shop and spend about £6 on veg a week on top of that

seafarers_wife

we spend around £200/£250 a month on average with teh 2 of us, however i do bulk buy so some months its more and others its much less. that does include all booze and household cleaning stuff though. I know if things got tight i could cut that right back but at the moment thats a comfortable spend for us.

zebredy

As has been said, so long as you are happy with what you are spending, and its affordable then don't worry to much about it. Loads of things to factor in, how much you spend can depend a lot on what you like to eat, and where you shop as obviously a weeks shopping might cost more at M&S then say Lidle....

I'm not really that good at budgeting, but hope to get better. If I was honest with myself 'far to much at times'. I mean I worry that we might run out of something so I buy more sometimes even when I don't always need to (my husband has been underpaid a few times at work by £100-£200 and I don't like going without if I can help it), but I'm getting better at all this and last time I went shopping with my mum I spent under £11 for my OH and me for the week, as I new I had mushrooms in the fridge and enough baked beans to last a week etc (is it wrong of me to worry that if my OH ever lost his job we might have to rely on my mum to help us be able to eat which she has done a few times before and I really felt guilty about it, I would hate to do it again, so therefore like to have at least 2-3months of tins etc in the house as a back up)

We are going to have to spend more again this week as the fridge/freezer packed up and we had to eat the meat or give it to nephews/sister-in-law, so no meat in house at mo, but thats ok, once we get a small stock of meet going in the freezer I'm hoping to get shopping down too £45 for two weeks (we shall see)...

20somethinghousewife

There's two of us and we've been spending an average of £50 a week. That covers packed luches for DH, alcohol, cleaning stuff, toiletries, feeding guests, take-aways and eating out as well as main meals. We're keeping to a tight budget to try to pay off our debt quicker but I've noticed that when we're not eating a lot of healthy stuff our energy levels drop and we feel a bit rubbish.

My advice would be to eat as well as you can afford to. If you need to spend less, cut out the take-aways, junk food, convenience food first.

You're getting biased views on here anyway cause we're a bunch of people trying to save money. I hate to think what people spend when they're not being careful with their money!!

Naf

For a 2&2 family (plus 2 cats) I usually budget at £50-70 per week, and around quarterly I make a mega Tesco order (up to £200) to stock up in bulk on non-perishables. So I guess it'd average £75-£90 per week overall. I'd say £50 a week for just two adults is pretty good really.

Any

Hi, only 2 people in this household and I budget £300 for "variable items" (ie not bills).
Generally this covers food, Superdrug, wine order here and there and anything that is needed (I sometimes save £20-50 here and there from this and then I get stuff like new pans or seat cushions with it.)

I reckon I spend £200 for just food items. I don't buy much value (only recomended things) and I recently took to buying in bulk anything that is on offer and I use often - so sometimes I can go to £300 but have full freezer of meat from Costco and 5 boxes of rice, 12 bottles of Vimto and 3 bags of toilet rolls:-)) so the next month I only spend £150..

I am happy with the amount and am not particularly bothered about getting it down. I probably could, but we are comfortable like this. But I wouldn't like to spend much more either!!

Edit: However my sister for 2&2 children (3&7) can easily spend £600 and just cannot understand how I can do it with £200. I told her of my friend who manages for £200 for 2 adults, 2 teenagers and rabbit and dog and she nearly fainted:-))

unicornblue72

mine is normaly 50 -60 a week but it has been known to be as low as 20 pounds due to variable wage from myself and OH as angency workers GRRR Zebredy have to joned freecylce in your area you get free style like freezers whioch ppl no longer want its good as ppl tend to put it on there instead of paying for it to be removed could tie you over for a bit you can also but a notice up aasking for items too hope that helps

Polly333

The price of food is too high and my husband and I are now considering having our meals delivered by a company, so we don't have to prepare them. Farmfoods, looked reasonable on the website, and they all seem to be balanced meals. As we are now on a tight budget, but want to stay healthy and not waste our money are we doing the right thing? Has anyone used them and can confirm the meals are as tasty as the pictures?

happy35

i have never had meals from Farmfoods but have had bags of prawns and fish, these were good value IMO.

Heron foods depending on where you live is also good for picking up bargains.

I find it cheaper to buy ingredients and make my own meals and bulk them out using lentils and extra veg.

[Deleted User]

As others have mentioned above what really matters is what you are comfortable spending. If you can afford to spend what you are then that's fine, if you are struggling to be able to afford what you are spending you could cut it back a bit (but to be honest, I would probably see what I could save elsewhere in my budget before resorting to cutting back on the groceries).

Is there a particular reason that you are concerned about the cost of your weekly shopping? Do you think it's too muck/not enough?