What does a typical week of groceries look like for you?

squeakysue

2 adults, 2 kids (11 & 8)

My weekly shop is normally

Potatoes
Carrots
Onions
Cabbage
Lettuce
Cucumber
Tomatoes
Apples
Grapes
Satsumas
Bananas
Raisins
2 x 4pt milk
Block cheese
Pack snack cheeses eg chedds/cheese strings
8-12 yogurts
Ham for sandwiches
Chicken portions drumsticks/thighs or breasts
Sausages
Pasta
Rice
Tinned toms
Tinned beans
Tinned tuna
Eggs
Bread
Wraps
Biscuits
Crisps
Sports drinks
Frozen broccoli
Frozen chips or waffles
Fishfingers
Pizza

Also I pick up yellow stickered meat for the freezer so always have a large supply of options for dinner!

mummyroysof3

Tesco Goodness Apples Min 7 Pack
Tesco Eat Me Bananas Min 5 Fruit
Everyday Value Grapes 500G
Fresh Vegetables
Tesco Carrots 1Kg
Jacket Potatoes 700G
White Potatoes
Fresh & Easy Mixed Vegetables 250G
Tesco Everyday Value Coleslaw
Everyday Value Potato Salad 250GTesco Sweet And Crunchy
Cucumber Portion
Tesco Whole Milk 2.272L/4
Semi Skimmed Milk 2.272L/4 Pints
Can't Believe It's Not Butter Light 500G
Yoghurt
Muller Light Chocolate Yogurt 6X165g
Bunch Double Up Strawberry And Vanilla 4X85gMunch
Bunch Whole Milk Fruit Variety
Everyday Value Fromage Frais 6X55g

Tesco Fresh & Easy 2 Chicken Breast Fillets Cheese And Barbecue Sauce 430GTesco Fresh & Easy 2 Chicken Mini Roasts With Gravy 520G
Tesco Ken Hom's Chicken Chow Mein 450GTesco Ken Hom's Sweet And Sour Chicken 350GTesco Ken Hom's 18 Piece Chinese Selection
Quarter Pounder Cheese
Bacon And Cheese Panini 145G
Tesco Mini Cheese And Tomato Pizza 95G
Zugo's Chicken And Pesto Panini 150G
Kingsmill 50/50 Thick Bread
Great Everyday Soft White Thick 800G
Uncle Bens Rice Time Korma 300G
Tesco Easy Cook Boil In Bag Rice 500G
Tesco Everyday Value Chilli Con Carne Sauce 440G
Tesco Everyday Value Digestive Biscuits
Everyday Value Milk Chocolate Digestives
Everyday Value Chocolate Chip Cookie 250G
Mccoys Classic Crisps 6X32g
French Fries Variety Snacks 6 PackWalkers Variety Crisps
Yoghurt Coated Strawberry Fruit Bites 125G
Tesco Turnkish Delight Thins
Tooty Frooties
Everyday Value Midget Gems 175G
Tesco Everyday Value Strawberry Jam 454G
Tesco 20 Battered Chicken Dippers
Breaded Chicken Nuggets 450G
Tesco Everyday Value Apple Crumble
And Jerry's Cookie Dough
Fab 8 X 58MlOreo Cones 4 X 100Ml
Youngs 10 Flipper Dippers
Eye 4 Fish Fillets In Batter 400GBirds Eye
20 Omega 3 Fish Fingers 560G
Tesco Breaded Onion Rings
18 Mini Potato And Carrot Waffles 500G
Aunt Bessie's Toad In The Hole
Everyday Value 2 Cheese Omelettes 200G
Aunt Bessie's 6 Boat Shaped Yorkshires
Everyday Value 15 Yorkshire Puddings 230G
Dr. Oetker Ristorante Pizza Pep/Salame 320G
Tesco Everyday Value Garden Peas 900G
Cherry Coke
No Added Sugar Orange Squash Double Strength 1.5Ltr
Carex Handwash Bacteria Protect 250Ml
Tesco Premium Cat Crunchies Duck Rabbit Chicken Vegetable 5KgClaude
Chunks In Jelly Poultry Seln12x100 G
Tesco Edayvalue Refuse Sacks 40 Pack

Edwardia

Started doing mine but was too difficult as eat organic/wild and therefore mostly seasonal.We barely eat any processed stuff either.. organic mayo, stock cubes, Weetabix and porridge for OH, plus organic jam/preserve for his porridge.

cutestkids

I go to the butchers monthly I would normally buy
5lb mince
6 large chicken breasts
2lb pork link sausage
3lb stewing steak
8 burgers
8 slice sausage
800g bacon
8 black pudding
1 joint of meat either beef or pork
1 large chicken

I then do a large shop at Lidl every 4-6 weeks depending on how fast I run out of stuff this would normaly consist of

15 tins tomatoes
8 packs passatta
10 tins kindney beans
12 tins baked beans
8 tins tuna
1 ltr olive oil
1 lit sunflower oil
about 2 kilo of different dried pasta
1kilo basmati rice
1kilo couscous
jar of sweet and sour sauce
jar of some type of curry sauce
3 packs pitta breads
3 packs of wraps
12 loaves of wholemeal bread
2 loaves white bread
washing up liquid
washing powder
handwash
tomato ketchup
brown sauce
salad cream
mayo
stock cubes
plain and self raising flour
icing sugar
caster sugar
granulated sugar
260 teabags
2 large jars coffee
10 packs biscuits such as custard creams, digestives,etc
4 packs choc biscuits
crisps
pretzls
3 large blocks mature cheese
6 boxes of cereal usually weetabix, and cheerios, and rice crispies
porridge oats 1kilo
5 kilo net of onions

Weekly I go to Morrisons for the following.

12 pints milk
2 tubs cottage cheese
2 tubs natural yoghurt
cheese spread
cold meat for sandwiches
fresh fish usually salmon or haddock
12 apples
large net of clementines
large bunch grapes
12 bananas
8 pears
blueberries
strawberries (or whatever berries are in season on offer)
avacado
1 kilo carrots
parsnips
cabbage
cauliflower
brocoli
kiwi fruit
melon or pineapple
corgettes
aubergine
lettuce
tomato
cucumber
red onion
celery
mushrooms
3 peppers
I buy the 12 kilo sacks of potatoes from Morrisons as and when I need them
bottle of squash
any herbs and spices that I need.
thins like toilet roll and kitchen roll, shampoo, toothpaste when needed.

I get my eggs from a local farm usually 12 a week
Rolls come from the market, I buy 24 every few weeks and freeze them.

wondercollie

Mexico drinks a load of Coke.

Canada's Mum is a Mountie surprized there are no donuts on the table.

TravellingAbuela

Would love a kitchen the size of the Mongolians. It's my dream to have a kitchen that size! And I thought they lived in yurts!

Penny-Pincher!!

If nothing in (never happened!), then a normal shop for us of 3 adults would be:

1 x Chicken 1.5kg (Roast & Stirfry)
1 x Minced Lamb frozen 500g (Shepherds pie & spagbol)
GF Sausages
GF Fish fingers
Gammon joint (cook and slice for a months sandwiches/salads)
Frozen value stirfry veggies (makes 3 meals for us)
Frozen petit pois (will do 4-5 meals)
Value: cabbage/carrots/parsnips/potatoes/swede/mushrooms/onions
Value: apples/bananas/pears/grapes/cucumber/lettuce/toms
Value Tinned sweetcorn x 2
Value Tinned toms
Value tinned orange segments/peaches
Value Passatta
Value Spagetti & GF
Value mushy peas
Mature cheese 2 for £3
Value cottage cheese
Value rice
Value rice pudding x 3
FR Eggs x 15
GF Oats
Rice Milk x 2
Value fromage frais x 3 lots
Value yogurts x 2 lots
Value rich tea/digestives
Value salted butter if none reduced
Value OJ x 3
Milk if none frozen
Warburton small wholemeal loves x 3 if none reduced in freezer

Poundland:
Sugar 1.25kg/Oil/Jam/Cleaning products/Bisto best is gluten free

Makro when on offer stock up on:

Back bacon and separate into portion bags
Beans use 3-4 weekly
Weetabix
Water and refill bottles 24 for £2.99
Marmite
Crisps Walkers 7p a packet

Usually reduced and frozen in bulk from Makro/supermarkets etc:

Milk 10p pint
Bread 20p
Butter 50p
Gluten Free Bread/rolls/food and freeze
Sausages not GF and portion for DD & I

Ebay:
All washing powder and dishwashing powder £30 for whole year!

OH makes up 24 yorkshires when the oven is on, then he freezes for DD & I to use.

Always have in:
Flour/herbs/custard powder/dried milk/dried fruit/soup/approved foods/spices/kidney beans/

little_miss_muppet_face

Heres mine done yesterday

Pet Treats
14 tins of dog food
2 tins sweetcorn
Pickled Onions
Peach Slices
Pear Halves
Tin Custard
Toothpaste
Shampoo
Potato Wedges
2 x pks of chicken fillets
1 x Pk of thighs / drumsticks
Smoked Sausage
Savory Eggs
Large Block Mature Cheddar
2 x Dairlea Ham and Cheese / Crackers
Vanilla Actimels
Fridge Raiders
Mature Cheese Spreadable
Eggs
Plenty Kitchen Roll
Potatoes 1kg
6 Baked Potatoes
On vine Toms
1/2 Cucumber
Snackajacks
3 x small bags mixed fruit (apples / Grapes / Pear)
Cereal Bars
Teacakes
Pancakes
Plain Bagels

Total cost £71.27

For 1 Adult 2 Children age 8 and 15,, (usually 2 adults but hubby offshore)

Will probably get 4 days out of this and will have to shop again.

we eat better when my husband is home as he loves to cook..
I usually just do chicken / potatoes and veg, or something simple and quick.