Couples - What's your grocery bill?

mrsscattercushion

If I'm honest, up until v recently, I didn't know what we actually spent or had a specific budget, as we both were earning good money and could afford it. However, I knew it was too much and included eating out far too often, as both were shattered from the demands of our jobs.

However, that has changed as I'm now at home full-time and only one salary coming in, so I have become much tighter about what is spent and ensuring things are eaten up, both in cupboards and freezers. I look out for YS bargains, shop more at Ald! and L!dl and HB and going to try our local grocer. Eggs are bought from our local chook farm and I do try and use our local butchers for a treat. Eat a fair amount of Quorn and stockpile things when they are on offer. Have an allotment now so hoping to get supplies from there.

Getting my hubby on board with the daily pack up can be a bit more of a challenge ~ he is more likely to pick up a coffee and bacon/sausage sandwich or chocolate when out and not the best at "stock rotation".

I cannot drink alcohol due to my meds and hubby rarely drinks, so that is one area of saving!

flopsy59

i have £90 a week and i use £10 of that for petrol and £20 for savings. i use the rest for everything else including toiletries. i cook everything from scratch and have lots of fresh vegs. maker own bread and cakes. anything left over is put to one side and every couple of weeks when it has mounted up i go to the butcher across town and stock up on meat.

caffinated_geek

When we were saving for a house deposit we lived next to a shopping mall with 3 food shops and had a food bill of £7 a week. Now that we've moved and I can't pop round and yellow sticker shop every night the shopping bill is £25 - £30 a week. We have 3 hens so plenty of eggs and live near an aldi, lidl, asda and Iceland so shopping around isn't difficult.

madvixen

About £100 a month and that includes dog food and dog treats and toiletries etc. It will be far less this month as I'm running down the freezer so that I can place a big meat order on payday :j

rockm87

We spent about £50/£60 a week (2 adults and 2 cats), and buy food, toiletries and everything. We get everything from Lidl (saved us a fortune switching from Tesco). I only get a few things from Tesco now, such as cat litter and coffee pods (which are a treat so not all the time!).

Meal Planning helps, and keeping an eye out for the weekly deals from lidl (they have an app, so its easy).

PinkPrincessDD1

We spend £150 per month for the two of us and we eat well plenty of fresh meat, chicken, pork, gammon etc. My OH loves fruit so we often buy fresh fruit from fruit and veg stalls and try to eat a few portions of each daily. We also include toiletries and cleaning products in this but exclude Alcohol as that is a luxury and is budgeted for elsewhere.

SailorSam

HappyMJ wrote: »

Sausages for 5p each are full of rubbish. There's so little real meat they can't even call them "Pork" Sausages.

The best place to go for sausage is Heron Frozen Foods.
The Country Park Foods, lincolnshire and cumberland i think were 95p but seem to have less fat and a higher meat content than others that cost double.

bargainhunterss

rockm87 wrote: »

We spent about £50/£60 a week (2 adults and 2 cats), and buy food, toiletries and everything. We get everything from Lidl (saved us a fortune switching from Tesco). I only get a few things from Tesco now, such as cat litter and coffee pods (which are a treat so not all the time!).

Meal Planning helps, and keeping an eye out for the weekly deals from lidl (they have an app, so its easy).

I think I'll be checking out the app!!:T

Smoosh

Around £200 per month, which includes feeding 1 cat as well (and I don't skimp on the quality of his food...i.e. no Whiskas or Felix etc.).

Magpye

On average we spend £60 per week but we buy absolutely nothing pre-prepared except for frozen chips (well, can't really, see signature - allergies rule out most of the cheap meals available.) We're trying to see if we can cut down by only buying one very expensive gluten-free loaf per week.

Coffee pods are an expense on which I refuse to compromise at all, as instant decaf tastes like weak gravy strained through a hitch-hiker's sock, IMO.