How much is your food shopping bill??

CJYP

Hi,
Me and my partner are trying to save for a mortgage deposit but the two biggest chunks of money that leave our bank every month are rent+council tax followed by weekly food shop. This doesnt leave us very much to use after utilities/car payment come out.

We have 3 children, 9, 4 and 1, and our weekly food shop comes to £100 a week, give or take.
To me there is not much chance of decreasing this, I shop in Tesco and i do buy own brand in a lot of stuff except for things that I can taste the difference in (tomato sauce being one!) so im curious how much anyone else spends/how many people they are feeding would also be useful! Along with any ideas on how to cut this food bill down if its too high?

Thanks in advance!

Doveling

Have a look on the OldStyle board.
Loads of help and advice on there.

Especially good is a thread by a poster called ButterflyBrain.:)
I think it's called "feed your family for £20.00".

The amount in the title might be a bit out of date :rotfl: but the content is great. HTH x

louby40

2 adults and 2 teenagers (boys)

We spend between £50-60 a week. We shop in Aldi.

We make a meal plan on a Thursday for the following week. We cook from scratch. We don't buy ANY ready meals or convienience foods. We have one night when we have a 'something on toast' tea.

We may do a bit of a top up shop in Morrisons at about £6! Aldi is loads cheaper.

Bobarella

2 adults 1, 7 year old, 1, 9 month old & a cat. We spend £50 to £70 a week. Depending on if we need extras like nappies,toiletries etc.

I buy a lot of YS food, batch cook & try to have a zero tolerance approach to food waste.

mrsscattercushion

2 adults, spend approx £140-£150 a month, including toiletries. I shop at Aldi, Lidl and places like B & M and Quality Save for other bits. I cook from scratch virtually every day, hubby takes lunch in and batch cook where at all possible. We do have an allotment, so can get a fair amount of veggies from that, dependent on season/weather etc. Generally no takeaways or eating out in the average month.

Cornucopia

CJYP wrote: »

Hi,
To me there is not much chance of decreasing this, I shop in Tesco...

Change to Aldi or Lidl, and you should be able to save 25% - more or less, depending on your exact mix of groceries.

The savings vary, but you should expect...

- 40% on breakfast cereal
- 30% on bread and biscuits
- 25% on dairy (milk & yogurt)
- 40% on deli meat and cheese
- 10% on fruit & veg
- 15% on meat & fish
- 15% on alcohol
- 10% on frozen
- 15% on cleaning


Just one odd example I noticed when I was in Asda earlier: large bag of Brazil nuts.... Asda price £3, Lidl price £1.35

suki1964

3 adults, around £150 - £180 a month

Scratch cooking, meal planning, and shopping in lidl Plus nothing is thrown away. If it's bought it's eaten

We do have hens so free eggs and we grow our own so free veg from sept to Jan each year

Lidl ketchup is nicer then Heinz as well

Pop over to oldstyle Give us a clue about your shopping habits, your meals, and I'm sure we can shave a lump off for you

mrsbee17

I'm a definite fan of Aldi - we used to shop in Asda or Sainsbury's and would spend a good £80-£90 a week for 2 adults (wow I know!), now it's around £50 a week for us in Aldi and I must admit this could be better with meal planning, though some weeks a £50 shop will last 10 days for example.

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3 kids under 10, 2 adults and a cat and we budget for only £50 a week for food and all other bits like toilet rolls and wash powder etc. Mostly cook from scratch and we have a bread maker but we don't eat much bread as we like to keep trim so that helps. No biscuits or crisps etc. This sort of budget can only be done using Aldi and Lidl... forget Tesco etc.
Lidl ketchup is nicer than heinz and only 55p. Lidl also do Branston beans at £1.29 for 4 cans which we think are the nicest beans.

Bouncybubbles

2 adults £50/ week sounds a lot but that has been cut from nearly £100/week! If we are a tad short can do it for £30/week

blu3sky

Check out the Grocery Challenge on the Old Style board- it runs every month to help people trying to cut down on their groceries. Good luck!