Food Shopping Has Gone Up Again!!!!

Tenyearstogo

I spend less than £10 per day for a family of four (2 adults, 1 teen and a 7 year old). That's all three meals as we do packed lunches, snacks, cleaning and toiletries.

I shop at sainsburys, i cant be bothered to shop around. We eat meat every main meal, usually organic or taste the difference and have treats such as cans of pop. We get plenty of calcium and have our five a day.

Even with an extra mouth I'd struggle to spend over £130!

spidystrider

We're a family of 5 also, with the youngest being 17 years old, so all adults really. We also have a Border Collie. We shop in Tesco only and including toiletries, cleaning products, dog food etc., we spend between £80-£100 a week, which seems a lot to me. It wasn't that long ago that I could do a shop for around the £75 mark.

I will really have to take a look at the old style boards, as I would love to save some cash.

getdebtfree

Tenyearstogo wrote: »

I spend less than £10 per day for a family of four (2 adults, 1 teen and a 7 year old). That's all three meals as we do packed lunches, snacks, cleaning and toiletries.

I shop at sainsburys, i cant be bothered to shop around. We eat meat every main meal, usually organic or taste the difference and have treats such as cans of pop. We get plenty of calcium and have our five a day.

Even with an extra mouth I'd struggle to spend over £130!

You know what we gonna try that you inspired us......

we are going to check out what we need each day gonna scrap the weekly shop now and shop daily .

Going to try and keep to £10 a day or near as

Ill post back

cheers

Tenyearstogo

getdebtfree wrote: »

You know what we gonna try that you inspired us......

we are going to check out what we need each day gonna scrap the weekly shop now and shop daily .

Going to try and keep to £10 a day or near as

Ill post back

cheers

I do a weekly shop but it averages out at £10. I plan in advance though. Meal planning is vital. If we eat a more expensive meal one day the next day is cheaper, on average.

I spend money on good things and less on others. I need quality meat but I can eat a basic range carrot and cook with basic butter.

Put things into serving dishes not straight onto plates. You will eat less and then can Freeze leftovers. We had katsu chicken with rice the other day ( breaded chicken in a curry sauce). There was enough left to put the rice and chicken in a container and freeze it. The sauce was in a gravy boat so I've frozen that portion too.

I make a fab chicken and ham pie. I get the meat for these from roast left overs, it's like a free meal.

Check old the meal planners on OS boards. It's great. I used to spend loads but I couldn't anymore. I had a £7 off £70 voucher last week and I had to buy extra washing powder as I didn't have enough in my normal shop.

his_missus

Hi getdebtfree,

I don't frequent this board, I'm a dfw but saw your thread as I was scrolling down the main forum page.

I agree the price of food has gone up and is still rising. I suppose it's partly because the cost of harvesting/manufacturing etc has increased and the wages the grocery sector pays employees have probably increased so companies need to factor in their rising costs to the price we pay.

Poor weather has also been blamed (in the media) for an increase in fruit/veg/bread prices.

I agree something's gotta give somewhere but I guess that lies with us shopping around, stocking up when offers appear, budgetting or even cutting back if necessary.

Tenyearstogo

And join in the grocery challenge. My March challenge is based on getting it down to £60 per week, for 26 days (because I didn't start until later in the month).

I'm well on track and I've just planned next weeks and I have enough in the freezer that I'll probably only spend £40.

illgetthroughthis

getdebtfree wrote: »

Hey thanks a nice reply...

I may try Aldi, do you find it good quality in terms of the price?

I read that people who shop at Aldi dont see much difference to the big 4 supermarkets

I find it a lot cheaper and find the quality fine. Then again my dad raised us on the Kwiksave "no frills "range. Next week I'm going to try and beat my Aldi shop using the big 4. I'll post the results in the groceries board.

ami66

Sorry to sort of hijack the topic but it's a question I've been meaning to ask for aggggesss

suki1964 wrote: »

Same here. I see what's the best buy and plan around that. I can feed 3 adults for up to four days on one chicken by cooking from scratch and throwing nothing away

Today's soup was five well past their best carrots rescued from the bottom of the fridge with the stalks of the coriander I had used the leaves from last week in a curry

How the heck do you stretch a chicken that flipping far!!! :rotfl:

I buy a large chicken and by the time two adults and two strapping 6ft male teenagers have polished off a roast on Sunday and lunch on Monday I might have enough chicken for one salad Monday evening.

I make stock out of the carcass which I freeze in portions to use but I just don't see how you get those extra filling meals out the damn bird!! :eek:


:j

Back on topic - Yes I agree, I buy pretty much the same each week and have noticed it's creeping up in costs.

As I work 40+ hours a week (hubby more) I don't have time to shop at multiple stores so stick pretty much with Tesco for the weekly shop. Buy a little during the week from Aldi but can't cope with a big shop in there as my son has severe food allergies and their labelling is dire

Because of the food allergies I cook everything from scratch from a pre planned menu, tonight being Thursday is planning night :doh: as Friday is hubby's pay day and I get to shop tomorrow, after work.

I was managing on £100 a week but it's creeping over a little more each week

milliemonster

We are a family of 4 at the end of our 2nd yr in an iva and spend around £80 x 3 times a month on our food shopping, we switched to aldi from Tesco/morrisons and I have to say that I haven't noticed the prices rocketing in aldi although they are in the main supermarkets I agree!, I make an £80 shop last around 10 days by meal planning. I use 3kg frozen chicken fillets from aldi which cost 3.99 to make at least 2 meals, I'm sure others could probably get 4 or 5 meals out of them but we are big eaters, I have a daughter who is 14 and eats like a horse, a finicky 10 year old son.

I tend to go to morrisons on a Tuesday night at 7.30pm to pick up reduced bread (we're talking 20p a loaf, French sticks for 9p each and bags of deli rolls, usually 8 assorted bagged up for 9p and stick them in the freezer and defrost for kids school pack ups for the week, bread with evening meals etc, I go then as sons karate class starts at 8pm so it's not out of my way.

Meals wise I don't go in for the whole chicken lasting 5 meals as we will eat a whole chicken in one meal, so we eat well, but for instance we will have something that looks like the following

Sat home made pizza, usually tomato pur!e, cheese, pepperoni and mozzarella on top and a few herbs
Sun roast chicken/lamb/beef etc dinner
Mon pasta dish, could be chicken and bacon based, or pulses veggie based
Tues chicken curry and rice
Wed moussaka and salad
Thurs balsamic braised beef with crusty bread
Fri salmon and broccoli quiche home made, with salad or veg

Dinners will be sandwiches, usually cheese, tuna, cooked ham/turkey, yogurts, fruit

Snacks we'll buy crisps, biccies, fruit, yogurts, plus I bake

Usually have a bottle of wine

I'll get my cleaning stuff from aldi/home bargains, toiletries aldi or B&M where I buy tigi hair stuff cheap!

So yes it can be done cheaply, when I used to go to Tesco I would easily spend £120 a week on the same/similar stuff, it means we can save the remainder from our household allowance towards birthdays and Xmas.

BOBS

Hi getdebtfree

A lot of it depends on what people are saying their budget is covering. Some may not include packed lunches or their cleaning and toiletries etc.

We are family of 5 plus a dog - kids aged 14, 11 and 9. Plus I childmind and feed the various kids I have through the week.

I try to buy all my shop in one tesco.com delivery. If I go elsewhere I end up buying more and extras etc.

I try to keep to £110 - this includes all toiletries, cleaning products, dishwasher tabs etc. 4 packed lunches per day. Sunday roast, breakfast and evening meal plus all the various inbetween snacks a growing family need. I try to do a good bit of home baking especially with having so many wee ones around being a childminder.

£110 might sound a lot but if you divide by 6 (my own family of 5 plus allowing another person to cover what the minded kids eat !) - so cost per person per week = £18.33. Then divide by 7 = £2.62 per person per day for all their food, packed lunches, toiletries etc its probably not so bad.

So based on these figures if we were only a family of 2 we should be spending £36.68 per week

Does any of that make sense ?!?!?