What is your weekly average & what SM

Mrs_Ryan

£120-125 a week at Asda or sometimes Sainsburys.
That's two adults. OH does a heavy manual job so eats accordingly.
I'm not working so OH pays for the stuff once a week and if I want any extra I have to pay myself which is only rarely.
I'm an extremely fussy eater (only meat I will eat is less than 5% mince, unsmoked back bacon with all fat removed, chicken with no skin/flavoured chicken chunks and expensive ham. I don't eat beef, pork, lamb or Turkey cos I don't like it) hence most of my stuff is Quorn products some of which aren't cheap. It's so expensive as OH refuses to consider Smartprice stuff and all his stuff has to be branded which drives me insane..!!

jayII

2 adults, both in our 40's, work full time and go to the gym most days.


We mainly use Aldi but also shop at all the other major s/m's. Spend £40-50 a week. We could spend less but we work long hours so make a lot of easy slow cooker meals, so buy a lot of meat.

pm2326

givememoney wrote: »

£7.50 per week, how is this possible?

easy, bulk cook using slow cooker, buy basics or offers, and use herbs & spices for taste and it helps that I would rather have a lovely soup or stew with crusty bread than a plate of chips and pizza.

it all depends on what you prefer to eat and whether you want to make stuff yourself or would just rather buy it ready made.

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Ken68 wrote: »

Pensioner....Lidl mainly though shop around. About £10 wk.

Roughly about the same here I budget for £60.00 per month and I am a pensioner living alone .I cook from scratch and can live comfortably on this amount with usually money left over at the end of the month
Lidls,Aldi's and sometimes Morrisons.About a third of my budget goes on fruit and veg,I don't eat bread at all so have no need for butter I eat crispbread and use philly-type cheese instead of a butter/spread:rotfl::rotfl:

Sunday dinner I always have at DD's and often she will 'cut me out' a meal for Monday night from the left over odds and ends,left over potato's,veg etc and I reheat and make some gravy up so probably two dinners a week I don't have to worry about Tuesday nights is pub quiz night and we get a pasta type meal there, or a jacket spud thrown in with the £2.00 per person quiz fee so I really only have four dinners to cook in the evenings and 7 breakfasts and 7 lunches so I often have spare cash left over at the end of the month and this gets put away into the 'holiday fund' as I go away with the family every August for two weeks;)

creative_gal

2 adults, mainly Lidl, and a budget of £30 a week. This usually stretches enough to buy me a meal deal lunch as a lunchtime treat in the week too.

givememoney

I must admire you folk who manage on such a little. I to cook from scratch but as I say it costs roughly £35 each per week.


I do buy for instance free range eggs, Lurpak butter, free range chicken lots of fruit and veg.


It is interesting to see the disparity though.

System

3 adults 2 dogs - between £75 and £85 a week.

dlusman

Mrs_Ryan wrote: »

hence most of my stuff is Quorn products some of which aren't cheap. It's so expensive as OH refuses to consider Smartprice stuff and all his stuff has to be branded which drives me insane..!!

Double standards I think
You are driven insane by his insistence on buying brands, but not your own brand - Quorn - buying .

maman

dlusman wrote: »

Double standards I think
You are driven insane by his insistence on buying brands, but not your own brand - Quorn - buying .

Is there a 'Smartprice' meat substitute other than Quorn?

zzzt

I actually keep records of all my grocery shopping, going back two years.

I'm a single adult. In November my average spend was £8.33. My average weekly spend was £31.76. November was an average month for me; some months I spend more than that and some less. These numbers are for food, alcohol, toiletries and cleaning products.

The yearly average for 2013 was £143.88 per month. This year I started keeping track of how much of my grocery bill is alcohol. It seems about £30 per month.

Mrs_Ryan wrote: »

most of my stuff is Quorn products some of which aren't cheap

I've found Quorn to be incredibly cheap, especially compared to meat, and even more so if you wait for offers. You can buy Quorn burgers 4 for £0.99, the sausages are 8 for £1, the chicken-style pieces also £1 for a bag which lasts many meals. These are prices during a special offer, but what I noticed is they are on offer very often. If they are not on offer, I just wait until they are, and then buy a lot of them. Since they're frozen I can stock up and then wait until they're next on offer.

This is actually something I do with a lot of non-fresh food. Supermarkets seem to regularly cycle in the same offers about once a month, so I just wait for them when buying things like toothpaste, toilet roll, alcohol. It seems like the higher prices are just so that they can show them in the offer later on.