How much do you spend on food per month?

Mrs_Rachel_Trelfa

2 adults in my house and our budget is £100 a month, £80 for supermarket and then Tue extra £20 accumulates and then I buy home grown pork lamb and beef off my mums farm. I buy mostly value items as in my eyes an apple is an apple regardless off value or finest. Also my other gripe is best before dates, especially if its going straight in the freezer that day. I also do a lot of yellow sticker shopping and cook from scratch and meals are from what needs using over what we might fancy although meal planning means we can plan whwt we fancy.

But its all about the type of food you like and your lifestyle.

andrewmp

Roughly 300 per month.

maman

Dazedandconfused wrote: »

Why spend it though if you don't have to

I vowed this year to massively reduce my food waste and I have, also itssaving a bit of cash each week and allowing me to donate a couple of items a week to the local food bank

That's my philosophy too. I hate being ripped off by the supermarkets.


We manage to eat perfectly well on an average of £50 per week for two adults. I don't think there are huge economies of scale there so £25 per week for one person should be easily done. That's for all supermarket shopping including cleaning materials and toiletries (other than fancy ones you'd get from a cosmetics counter). It doesn't include alcohol or eating out which comes from a separate budget, a budget which is healthy because I'm not wasting it on other things.


I say 'on average' because I think you need to build up a bit of a storecupboard and freezer and your cleaning materials and toiletries. So I might buy some sausages one week or a 3 for £10 meat offer which makes that an expensive week but then I portion it up and other weeks I may just need some fresh stuff and little or no meat. Same with bags of frozen food or washing powder. Once you've got a store then you just replace bits as you go along. It helps if you've got some ready cash to take advantage of (genuine) offers when you see them.

camNolliesMUMMY

I'm currently shopping at aldi and I would say our shop is around £190 average £49 a week this includes treats such as sweets just like haribos at 69p a bag, their copy of Malibu or a bottle of wine, for four of us (2adults 2 kids aged 7 & 2<in nappies) I buy a whole chicken each Sunday from there £2.99, sausages and mince.
Cleaning products are great too. This is included in my budget.
I do buy 5kg of chicken breast a month from makro though which is £20.

All in all I love aldi everything we've had from there are great!
I meal plan and I try cooking from scratch 6-7 days of the week.

Ethan_Cresdee

I live with my girlfriend, combined we spend around 250-300 with the occasional "treats" (food & drinks only). We don't keep it tight intentionally.. it's just that we eat ~2 times a day..

Just_a_Girl_2

Around £400-500 a month for the two of us with zero food waste. However, we buy and cook everything fresh, buy organic and eat meat every day so our food bill reflects that. We also buy protein powder with our food budget so that's around £50 a month.

~Chameleon~

I've just done a tally of the accounts and over the past year I've averaged a weekly spend of £60 but that also includes alcohol, plus feeding two health freaks and various family members at regular intervals. I shop mainly in Co-op and Waitrose but buy my meat and fish from independent suppliers. I cook everything from scratch and have an incredibly well-stocked store cupboard so can turn next to nothing into a very tasty meal.

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Two adult household, OH has a very physical job so eats loads!! We spend on average £190 a month.

We have a fab local green grocers and shop at aldi most of the time but I do pop to sainsburys, coop, tesco for their offers regularly.

flubberyzing

Single female.
It does vary, but on average I spend about £25-£30 a week. So about £120 a month, give or take a bit.

Kirri

VfM4meplse wrote: »

Food only: £45-50 pm, I have one meal a day plus snacks. But I do have a very well stocked storecupboard and make the most of the freezer.

My monthly coffee bill comes to about the same, over and above my grocery shop. I feel ashamed now I've actually totted it up

That's a lot of coffee in comparison to your food spend! Coffee shop prices I presume though? (no one could drink that much jar/ground coffee I hope!).

Dazedandconfused wrote: »

What does your shopping consist of. My budget is £15ish per week

Wow, I spend more than that per week on veg alone.


I'm finding things hard money wise, I buy veggie, organic or additive free basic wholefoods mostly, pulses etc and a lot of fruit and veg, no alcohol but do buy water, scratch cook most things and most of my evening meals are now vegan even, so nothing extravagant as such as most of my meals are fairly cheap per portion, but it does seem to add up! Average £150 a month in winter but half of that cost is on fruit and veg (spend a lot less in summer when I have my own fruit and veg growing and I do have veggie pets I have to buy veg for too). If I wasn't so skint I'd be buying more. No food waste either.