Family of 5

Penny-Pincher!!

We are a family of 3 adults, eat well with well balanced meals and have a take away once weekly. I budget £200-£250 every 4 weeks to cover all food/toiletries, cleaning items, diesel and our 3 monthly visit to Makro.


We eat meals such as:

Roasts with roast spuds, cheap veg in season such as carrots (all yr round), cabbage (all yr round), frozen peas/tinned corn, HM yorkshires and gravy etc.

Shepherd pie with 2-3 vegetables

Pork cheap cut chops in a creamed veggie soup to double as gravy, with mash and 2-3 veggies

Chicken breast curry HM with rice

Sausage casserole or cooked plain with mash + 2/3 veg

Egg, chips and bean

Fishpie & 2/3 veg

Spagbol

Chilli bulk cooked in SC and padded out with tins of beans, lentils added etc

Many more too.

PP
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Effyb4

We spend around £300 a month. We are a family of 5 with 3 teenage boys and it includes food for 2 cats. We generally shop at Ald!. The trouble I find is the amount of fruit, bread, milk and cheese the boys consume, mean I do need to do shops mid week.

Spendless

What are the ages of the children in the household. 3 teenagers are more likely to eat more than 3 little'uns.

I suspect they are young otherwise a take-away would likely cost more per time than £10.

peachyprice

I spend £120 a week for 2 adults, 2 older teenagers and one younder teenager.

We eat 99% scratch cooked meals for that, don't need to top-up and rarely have take aways.

I could cut down to £100 a week if I needed to.

peterpan01

Penny-Pincher!! wrote: »

We eat meals such as:

Roasts with roast spuds, cheap veg in season such as carrots (all yr round), cabbage (all yr round), frozen peas/tinned corn, HM yorkshires and gravy etc.

Shepherd pie with 2-3 vegetables

Pork cheap cut chops in a creamed veggie soup to double as gravy, with mash and 2-3 veggies

Chicken breast curry HM with rice

Sausage casserole or cooked plain with mash + 2/3 veg

Egg, chips and bean

Fishpie & 2/3 veg

Spagbol

Chilli bulk cooked in SC and padded out with tins of beans, lentils added etc

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I think I would really find meal plans helpful. Thank you for the helpful posts.

[Deleted User]

We are a family of 5 - 2 adults and 3 children (10, 8 and 4), and a dog.

Two months ago we reduced our weekly food shopping budget to £70, to include dog food and toiletries.
We cut out takeaways, cook more from fresh, only shop once a week ( no in-between trips to the shops), lowered our food brand, changed dog food brand too and are using up toiletries and cleaning stuff that we already have. I also shop online as I find it easier to stick to budget and put stuff back if we can't afford it. And that's the thing - we can't afford it, so now we don't spend it in the first place.

£70 / week, so £280 every 4 weeks. I budget for £300 and at the moment I have money spare at the end of the month to repay debts.

Kim_kim

peterpan01 wrote: »

How much should a family of 5 be spending on food shopping a month?

we have about 1-2 takeways a week £10 each,
our main weekly shop is about £80 with
£40 spent during the week

At the moment i am shopping at Adli and Tescos

Are you saying you spend £50 or £100 a week on takeaway?
That's a mortgage on a cheapish house.
You could have a brilliant family holiday for the money you would save stopping that.

pelirocco

Kim_kim wrote: »

Are you saying you spend £50 or £100 a week on takeaway?
That's a mortgage on a cheapish house.
You could have a brilliant family holiday for the money you would save stopping that.

I read it as £10 per each takeaway not per person

purpleshoes_2

A ten quid takeaway where I am, where takeaways are cheap would feed two people, 3 at a push but would need to be padded out with home cooked rice or chips, certainly not £10 per 5 people. Maybe if the takeaway was special, like pizza and chips x 2, but even so, a lot of takeaways wouldnt feed 5 folk for £10.

pelirocco

Kim_kim wrote: »

Are you saying you spend £50 or £100 a week on takeaway?
That's a mortgage on a cheapish house.
You could have a brilliant family holiday for the money you would save stopping that.

I read it as £10 per each takeaway not per person