What percentage of household income do you spend on food? 10 April 2014 at 11:19PM in Food shopping & groceries 15 replies 1.6K views

PrincessLou

What percentage of your household income do you spend on food? We spend around 10% on food.

antrobus

In the UK an average 11.6 per cent of all household spend went on food in 2012. For the lowest 20 per cent of households by equivalised income it was 16.6 per cent

https://www.gov.uk/government/uploads/system/uploads/attachment_data/file/265243/familyfood-2012report-12dec13.pdf

Anatidaephobia

As a rough calculation, I think we probably spend about 7% on food.

It could be 8% if I have underestimated the amount we spend on takeaways.

DPJames

As a household of two adults and four children, we spend, on average, around £70 per head per month. And that's for everything. Food, drink, toiletries, nappies, laundry, everything. And that would equate to roughly 7 or 8% of our joint incomes.

Clowance

about 16% and it was a higher percentage as I worked part time until recently. Neither of is in minimum wage jobs but not a huge amount more, and I thought we were fairly frugal at about £450 per month for a family of 4, including toiletries, cleaning stuff etc. We mostly shop at aldi going to supermarkets for offers and top ups. Does not include take away or the occasional meal out (once or twice a month at a Toby)

mummyroysof3

I suspect ours is getting on for 20% but some of that won't be food as that includes toiletries cleaning nappies and pet food. That's about 500 a month for 5

VfM4meplse

Les than 1% on actual food shopping (stuff that goes into my fridge and cupboards). That gets seriously multiplied when I factor in eating out!

maman

Anatidaephobia wrote: »

As a rough calculation, I think we probably spend about 7% on food.

It could be 8% if I have underestimated the amount we spend on takeaways.

Ours comes in at about 7% too but that's simply what I spend on buying basic groceries for home cooking and general domestics.


Meals out, booze, take aways I count as our 'entertainment' budget because they're nice treats but could be cut back on if we needed to save.


It's quite an emotive subject. I'm a canny shopper that hates waste, hates being ripped off and wants to eat healthily. I also have transport and live near a range of shops. I can make choices but many don't have that luxury.

SailorSam

I think it must be about 8%. maybe a bit more.

Mrs_Rachel_Trelfa

Dumb question but how do you work it out

welshee

The % is to irrelevant unless people are going to tell you there income..which is bit private really.

Unwittingly some have already told you there income..