How much is your weekly spend on your food?

**May22**

I spend about £100 per week for four of us (2 dd's still at home but are adults now).
This includes meals for the week, bits & pieces for packed lunches, cat food pouches (1 cat) cleaning stuff, toiletries and usually a couple of bottles of wine (v. important! )
I've tried to get it below this figure by shopping around, going to Aldi etc. but it doesn't seem to make much difference. I usually do my main shop in Tesco.
I cook most of our meals from scratch & don't buy premium brands unless they are on offer.
Its just the cost of living I suppose

dasophster

I think one of the reasons our food bills are so low is we only spend £15 on meat a month, and sometimes don't buy any meat at all for 2-3 months. I usually buy 4 chicken breasts (these ones are 2x as big as the ones from tesco etc) and 1kg of good quality lean beef mince from the Turkish butcher and split that into 4, putting each portion in ziplock bags, enough meat for 8 meals. If you're making a meal with lots of veg and other stuff in you really don't need anymore than 250g/half a pound of meat xx

katskorner

most stuff I buy is reduced and goes in the freezers or from the cash and carry where the botcher does me excellent deals ie 4 large chickens for £8. I love veg, grow my own and eat as much as possible but still seem to buy lots of stuff. guess 3 hungry boys and a hubby probably have soemthing to do with it.

Edwardia

I spend between £50-£150 per week for two adults and a labrador, depending whether we're eating out of the freezer, re-stocking it or stocking up on other food.

This week I spent £11 at Sparks Yard for an 8 oz tin of Hershey's natural unsweetened cocoa, £38 at Spices of India for 7 x 500g tins of Khanum pure butter ghee without ethyl butyrate and £34 on first order at Approved Food and Drink (mostly non food as it's wall to wall carbs). OH spent £20 in Sainsbury's last night.

Probably our most weird and non-typical shopping week ever !