Normal Food Shopping

quintwins

jtr2803 wrote: »

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

Thats gotta be a typo i'm thinking £320 per MONTH.

Gloomendoom

Heavens above! Family of two here. We average £150 a month including booze.

To be honest it's a lot lower than I was expecting.

I can only assume the £300+ a week spends must be typos. Either that, or there are some monstrous cats about.

pawsies

peachyprice wrote: »

I don't think OP was asking because she wanted to cut back.

And my advice couldn't help someone else because...?


The OP is vague anyway about whether he wanted help or not.

PasturesNew

There are, also, a lot of people who fool themselves about their total food spend. I remember having the conversation with somebody about 8 years ago when she told me proudly that her and her bf "only spend £20/week on food". She had completely omitted to count in the M&S treat she'd then buy, the 2-3 takeaways each week and both their lunches that they bought at work .... and goodness knows what else she hadn't added up/in.

Gloomendoom

I know we are not fooling ourselves. We don't buy lunch and takeaways are a once in a blue moon indulgence. Mrs G buys all our food using a credit card and checked her statements before I posted. I'm actually quite impressed, because cooking is Mrs G's hobby and we eat well.

quintwins

PasturesNew wrote: »

There are, also, a lot of people who fool themselves about their total food spend. I remember having the conversation with somebody about 8 years ago when she told me proudly that her and her bf "only spend £20/week on food". She had completely omitted to count in the M&S treat she'd then buy, the 2-3 takeaways each week and both their lunches that they bought at work .... and goodness knows what else she hadn't added up/in.

This is true and alot of people forget those wee trips to the shop for milk that ends up costing £10, thats why a spending dairy or the grocery challenge is a good idea.

Frogletina

missprice wrote: »

I think the record for one week and I truly thought they were throwing it down the sink was 42 pints in a week, I had to keep tripping off to tesco local for more bloody milk.:)
that was a couple summers ago

I was amazed how little milk I bought when in a family of 2 adults and 3 children.

We used to get our milk delivered, just one pint a day - until I realised we were not using all of it. So I changed and started buying it from the local shop when we needed it.

Now I am on my own I probably buy about a pint every 5-7 days.

Mara69

ruthber wrote: »

have you noticed Tesco are doing buy 2 get 3 on all baking stuff?

Hmmm, sadly Tesco are my most hated supermarket. Might have to make an exception though...

bestpud

I'm enjoying this thread!

I think I must be a nosy mare on the quiet!

ciderwithrosie_2

Frogletina wrote: »

I was amazed how little milk I bought when in a family of 2 adults and 3 children.

We used to get our milk delivered, just one pint a day - until I realised we were not using all of it. So I changed and started buying it from the local shop when we needed it.

Now I am on my own I probably buy about a pint every 5-7 days.

Wow! Don't you have cups of tea/coffee? Didn't your children have cereal and milk for breakfast? Where my 30+ pints go are...

OH has a milky coffee every time he has a hot drink
he has cereal
3 boys have cereal sometimes twice a day
they have it just as a drink
I use it in my cups of tea (probably 3 a day) - don't drink coffee
If I make a cheese sauce or something