Normal Food Shopping

sam959

I used this website and was surprised that a lot of the time sainsburys came out about £10 cheaper than tesco and Asda!

sam959

You spend £1280 p/m on food! My cats have the best none of that cheap rubbish! And we only spend about £300 p/m on shopping and eat well every night. No ready meals or chips and beans but homemade food! Where do you shop Harrods?? If you got the money great im not having a go but thats more than i spend on all my outgoings! LOL

daisiegg

sam959 wrote: »

You spend £1280 p/m on food! My cats have the best none of that cheap rubbish! And we only spend about £300 p/m on shopping and eat well every night. No ready meals or chips and beans but homemade food! Where do you shop Harrods?? If you got the money great im not having a go but thats more than i spend on all my outgoings! LOL

Who are you talking to?

fluffnutter

I don't want to eat cheap food. It's usually poorer quality, meat in particular or it's not allowing our farmers to make a decent living.

stormCat99

quantic wrote: »

Believe it or not I'm actually the male . I cook in our house mostly though, to keep things more even, plus I enjoy it.

It was just to try and gauge where other people are at. Not sure if we should be concerned or it is acceptable.

I'd say forget about everyone else, as if you're happy with your spending and the items you buy, that's all that matter surely?

However to answer your original question, we are a couple, we buy whatever we want to buy (as an MSE I would always keep an eye out for offers but ultimately would buy an item if I wanted it regardless), and we do most of our shopping at an upmarket and fairly expensive supermarket (although also do the odd shop at Sainsbury's inbetween).

I'd guess we spend around £200 to maybe £250 at a push per month. I'm pretty surprised that you manage to spend nearly £400 per month between just the 2 of you. What are you buying!

lovesabargain123

tyllwyd wrote: »

I feel as if we are constantly running to stand still when it comes to groceries - we are much more careful than we were a few years ago, throw away much less food and have a lot more nights where we have a lighter meal like pasta rather than meat & two veg, changed to cheaper brands for some things, but every time we make a saving, it seems that food prices go up to match so the bills never come down.

I'm going to come clean (I've never posted this before because I think it will make people faint) but for a family of 4, we spend £600 per month on a good month, going up to £800 on an expensive month. That includes groceries, stuff for lunches, toiletries, a takeaway maybe once a month and sometimes clothes, magazines, newspapers, dvds etc. If we have friends or family to stay, it goes through the roof!

[But PLEASE don't give me tips on how to cut down by batch cooking, or making lentil soup to last the family all week, or whatever else! And I've tried shopping in Lindl / Aldi but all that happens is that no-one likes the food and it gets thrown away.]

Funny enough that's not that high, I was looking on the cccs website doing a budget last week and they recommend a minimum of £660 per month for my family for groceries (we are 2 adults and 3 teenagers) this did no include pet food or school dinners/work lunches

On a good week when I really sit down and plan I can get my shopping for approx £100 per week,to include pet food ...but the kids do get £10 per week dinner money as does dh.... I eat at work 2 days and out the budget the other days.

Bitsy_Beans

quantic wrote: »

The purpose of the thread wasn't really supposed to be scientific, I was just curious really, have only been doing food shopping for 2 years now, so just getting the hang of it. When we first started we would spend £150 on one shop and not have a single meal out of it, ha.

We can afford to spend what we spend, but thats not to say that we have money to throw away, if I could be more efficient through any tips I would love to be.

We are getting better though. So, do you guys shop weekly, monthly? Bi-Monthly?

I go once a week. Can't bear going more than that :rotfl:

Ask yourself this.......all that money spent on food shopping.......are you happy to spend it on food etc or would you rather cut back and save it for other things......holiday, days out, overpaying your mortgage whatever floats your boat.

I personally probably spend approx £240 a month for 2 adults, two infant school aged kids a cat and a dog. This figure doesn't include the £40 it costs in dog food for approx 5-6 weeks.

I could probably afford to spend a bit more but TBH I begrudge lining the pockets of the supermarkets more than I have to and actually I think I'd rather spend money on the fun things in life than grocery shopping

Hopelass

We are a family of two and one kitty. We shop weekly and spend roughly £300. I would say we don't splash out and tend to search for bargins but if we see something we fancy we will buy it and not worry too much about the extra.

I (female) tend to do all the cooking and plan the meals for the week in advance; boring I know but I find we waste a lot less. I tis weird though how some weeks we can spend just over £40 and others over £80 but it balances out over the month and depends whether we are getting meat, cat food, household items like washing tablets which tend to be the more expensive items.

We also like to shop in places like B&M and home bargins etc for things like branded cup a soup for OH's packed lunch (we both take lunches to work) which are about a quid cheaper than the supermarkets!!

I think we have a good balance between sensible/thrifty shopping with a few treats thrown in each week

jtr2803

I normally do a 'big' shop of around £120 on payday and then OH buys the top up shop every week which is between £30 and £40...so probably around £250/£300 per month but I am the only one who has packed lunches.

I do buy what I want though, out of season fruit, smoked salmon etc...I love food!!!

jtr2803

georgiesmum wrote: »

We are pensioners and 3 cats, we spend about £320 a week on all our food. believe me the cats have only the best.I to don't understand how some people can spend so little on food. we eat well but not lavishly and we do like our goodies. When i was younger and had 5 kid i had to economise and i lived on toast and Mars bars,(yes really,they were very cheap then.)The kids were always reasonably fed. I won't stint on my food now.

daisiegg wrote: »

Who are you talking to?

I think it was this....must have an amazing pension!!!