How much does your weekly shop cost?

geordie_joe

DPJames wrote: »

£89.76, two adults and four kids. Groceries, toiletries, laundry, pets, baby, everything.

Originally Posted by Dozey crow
.... and anything fancy food wise are paid for our of our own money.

DPJames wrote: »

What does this bit mean? Are you both buying food separately? And is that included in your £160 per month or not. Or is the real figure something closer to £250 per month?

Seriously? Two adults, four kids and you don't understand that! What exactly do you do with your money?

PenguinOfDeath

Averaging just over £50 a week including toiletries, cleaning stuff and alcohol for 2 adults, although I tend to bulk buy non-perishables and meat to freeze so this fluctuates a lot

samcantcope

we spend between £90 - £110 a week for 2 Adults, 2 Children and a dog, that includes everything and we shop off a list. we are still trying to reduce anyway we can.:)

first78

A_Couple_In_Love wrote: »

£20 per week, 2 Adults. It's surprising what you can save when you have no choice! Honestly, we don't struggle on food either.

When we are both working, i'd say we would be happy with around £30-40 per week shopping.

Wow, that's an amazing budget!! Could you tell me more about what sort of meals you're having and where you shop to manage on so little each week? I'd love to be able to do our weekly shop for so little!! :T

first78

sharond101 wrote: »

Around £25 per week for two adults, toddler and a dog. We eat from scratch everyday and take lunch to work. We don't drink alcohol or fizzy juice which makes a huge difference. And I never miss a bargain either!

If you'd be willing to share any tips on how you keep your weekly shop so low, I'd love to hear how you do it! What sort of dinners and lunches you have etc...thanks!! :T

first78

PenguinOfDeath wrote: »

Averaging just over £50 a month including toiletries, cleaning stuff and alcohol for 2 adults, although I tend to bulk buy non-perishables and meat to freeze so this fluctuates a lot

How do you manage on so little? I'd be so grateful for any advice, tips etc. We do try and buy reduced food when we can, but anything else you can recommend would be brilliant! :T

ScarletRaven

We have a £30 budget per week for 2 adults and an 11 month old, for food, toiletries and household bits. We meal plan for the week ahead and make a shopping list that we stick to to help keep costs down, but will look for yellow sticker items if they'll be of use to us (or for the occasional treat - can't say no to a 9p box of Kipling French Fancies after all lol).

I'm at uni too, and with that and a baby I've no time to work, so we have just the one income, leaving us with £120 a month for shopping, so we've had to learn to be really savvy lol. I look for coupons too, and ones for free items are especially handy (this week we'll be picking up a free bag of Florette salad for example, which will save us 50p on the iceberg lettuce I'd usually buy - may not be much, but that's 50p towards the rest of the shopping we wouldn't usually have!)

Oh, and it helps that my other half takes his own lunch (including drinks) to work. We buy a big bottle of squash, and he puts somes into a bottle to take into work with him and makes it up with water from the drinking fountain in his office through the week. I cook and bake quite a bit from scratch too, and make use of a slow cooker. We manage to eat healthily on such a cheap budget as well - I buy plenty of fruit/veg/salad every week as I prefer to eat as meat-free a diet as possible (though my other half prefers meat so we do buy meat as well, but base our meals around the meat that is on offer that week, or buy a 1kg frozen bag of chicken fillets for £3.99 that lasts us 2-3 weeks). Don't waste money on Quorn products as a meat replacement - it's much cheaper and healthier to use pulses etc instead

It's definitely doable, if you do it right

first78

ScarletRaven,

Thanks, it is good to know that we could cut our food bill down but still have fruit and veg, as I didn't want to change our diet to an unhealthy one by cutting down how much we spend.

We already do menu plans for each day, so I'll need to start looking at what we're eating and how we can cut back.

candyfliss

Hi,

Since going vegetarian (occassional fish for me, but not husband) we are now spending about £25 - 30 per week, which is much less than we were doing before.

And that's without even trying to spend less...veggies are just cheap

spbankie

PenguinOfDeath wrote: »

Averaging just over £50 a month including toiletries, cleaning stuff and alcohol for 2 adults, although I tend to bulk buy non-perishables and meat to freeze so this fluctuates a lot

Please share by giving us a breakdown. Would love to know how you get 180 (3 per day per adult) meals out of £50 plus alcohol (which obviously reduces your 28p per meal) plus cleaning. How often do you clean both yourself and your house?

Sorry if this sounds cheeky but I have seen such utter nonsense (you know the posts, oh we only spend MINUS £100,000 per day, in fact the shops pay us and all that sort of stuff) on this forum would be interested in the breakdowns