food budget per person per week

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vicky1001 wrote: »

where do you shop? our week inc meat / veg /fruit /toiletries /dog food

Tesco, mine includes that too, and nappies baby wipes.

Health wise what does the fact its Value have to do with it :cool: If you buy junk food with a good brand name its just as bad as value. Same with veg, potatoes etc there just as good health wise as a brand name.

HappyMJ

Do you count the dog food in the £40 a week? I just shop at Morrisons although the last 2 major shops have been at Ocado (with a £20 voucher) and Sainsburys (with a £50 voucher). The cat food I count seperately in the weekly budget.

vicky1001

where does everyone food shop? i do my meat/fruit/veg at riverford and top up with bread/yoghurts and packup things at sainsbury

vicky1001

HappyMJ wrote: »

Do you count the dog food in the £40 a week? I just shop at Morrisons although the last 2 major shops have been at Ocado (with a £20 voucher) and Sainsburys (with a £50 voucher). The cat food I count seperately in the weekly budget.

inc dog food

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Grocery Challenge

Here's a link to the Old Style Board http://forums.moneysavingexpert.com/forumdisplay.php?f=33

The Grocery Challenge is run monthly and is always a "sticky" at the top. December's is still there - pop in and say "hi" - a new one will be on the go in a couple of days for January.

People run their budgets for different periods - some run from payday to payday (eg 15th to 15th) and others by calender month ... up to you to decide what works best for you.

Pets

Re pet food - I've reduced my costs massively in the past few months by bulk buying / buying online when the offers are on.

I've reduced the cats from £8.50/month/cat down to £3.50/month/cat - for the same high quality food & the dog (who I sadly recently lost), I'd managed to reduce from £23/15kg bag to £36 for 2 x 15kg bags (he was wheat intolerant so I was limited to what he could have - but this was a very good quality hypoallergenic, wheat & gluton free food).

Toiletries / food

See if you've got a Home Bar*gains store near you - great for toiletries (18 x very good quality quilted loo rolls for £3.99, 6 x kitchen rolls for £1.99 etc) and also food items. I've been getting 1kg Tilda rice for 99p - which is over £4 in the supermarkets! They've also got pet products & their cat litter is great quality & cheap!:)

The nearest one to me is a fair distance so I go every couple of months & stock up.

Others to try are Al*di & Li*dl - my advice - buy one of something & try it & if you like it, buy more the next time ... you may not like everything but most things are just the same as the "big 4" sm.

Try using frozen veg - a lot cheaper than fresh & really reduces the wastage. If you have to get fresh - look at the "whoopsies" and buy a load, chop & freeze for future use. HTH

HappyMJ

vicky1001 wrote: »

where does everyone food shop? i do my meat/fruit/veg at riverford and top up with bread/yoghurts and packup things at sainsbury

Riverford is nice...Organic food. Fresh from farmer. It's sold at a premium if you are willing to pay for it then then that's your choice but for the £69.95 large meatbox (6.8kg) to feed a family for 2 weeks I could get the same meat but not organic and not branded by Riverford for about £15.

vicky1001

that is great i buy meat /fruit /veg from riverford ...have found this has saved us a fair bit we now cook food from stratch we buy our dogs wagg dog food

vicky1001

was just thinking if i bought the large meat box at £70 made it last 2 weeks somehow!!! and did that twice my food bill would be cut a bit

HappyMJ

vicky1001 wrote: »

that is great i buy meat /fruit /veg from riverford ...have found this has saved us a fair bit we now cook food from stratch we buy our dogs wagg dog food

If you are spending £40 pppw what were you spending before.

How much do you spend on Wagg food? Buy in it big 15kg bags and you will save a lot. Sometimes they do buy one get one half price bringing the price down even more to about 50 pence per kg.

HappyMJ

vicky1001 wrote: »

was just thinking if i bought the large meat box at £70 made it last 2 weeks somehow!!! and did that twice my food bill would be cut a bit

Why don't you just buy the same meat for much less than half the price elsewhere?