How much is your food shopping bill??

horseygirl2014

My Sister can easily get her shopping under 10 per week as a norm, this also does for her boyfriend and his daughter a few nights a week.
she' really good at picking up stuff cheap - loafs of bread for 9p, bags of fruit and veg for 10p etc. she's good at juggling what they are having for tea by what shes picked up cheap, and freezing the rest. she makes most food from scratch. she lives in a large town so is walking distance to Te5co, M/S, Heron, etc and goes into one of each every night, as she passes them on the way home.
I personally love Lidl, and when lived on my own, bought most of my shopping from there.

katsclaws

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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.

Wow that is amazing. A few years ago on our local news a couple tried to eat for £10.00 per week each with the help of a nutritionist, to raise money for charity. It was a real challenge to eat a balanced diet on £10 per person per week so the fact that you are including feeding a cat and non food items for £50 per week for five is incredible.

suki1964

katsclaws wrote: »

Wow that is amazing. A few years ago on our local news a couple tried to eat for £10.00 per week each with the help of a nutritionist, to raise money for charity. It was a real challenge to eat a balanced diet on £10 per person per week so the fact that you are including feeding a cat and non food items for £50 per week for five is incredible.

It's a lot easier to balance £50 on 5 then it is to spend £10 on one

katsclaws

It's the non food items and cat food being included in the £50.00 that I am impressed with. We are 4 adults in our house and spend about £6.00 per week on soap powder, toilet paper, toothpaste, shampoo, shower gel, soap, washing up liquid, bleach, bin bags, sandwich bags, dishwasher tablets (all from Home Bargains) and dog food for 1 of our dogs.

BettyBones

I live alone so never spend more than £15 a week on food. Every 4-6 weeks I try to just use up whatever's left in the cupboards/fridge/freezer and spend the £15 on non-food stuff like bin liners, freezer bags, washing up liquid, toothpaste, shampoo, shower gel instead. Once I have enough of all that kind of stuff the extra gets spent on stuff for my food store: rice, pasta, crackers, orange squash, biscuits, cereal, tinned tomatoes, beans etc... anything with a long 'use by' date that's cheap, on offer or BOGOF and can be stashed away.

I think I have enough tinned tomatoes to last me well into next year :rotfl:

KiKi

Gosh, I wish I could spend as little as some of you who live alone! I shop well in terms of deals and bargains, but I do insist on certain brands for veggie stuff, and only eat dairy that's organic and I know which farm it's come from.

I think most of my money goes on cat food - they eat better than I do!

[Deleted User]

The cat has the individual trays at 21p a tray and she has 1 a day and she has a few cat nibbles for lunch so she is cheap to run. It is a challenge every week to keep to £50 bit we do manage and eat rarely well. If your not buying crisps and biscuits and bread and ready meals it makes it easier.

chelseablue

I switched from Asda to Aldi and really notice the difference.


Last month I spent £160 on Groceries for 2 adults and our 2 year old son.
That includes both of us having a packed lunch 5 days a week, nappies, wipes and cleaning products/washing powder

Mimi_Arc_en_ciel

Hi,

My shop is £200 a month (1 adult, 2 kids, 1 dog, 2 rabbits) but this includes EVERYTHING - Washing powder, dog food, sweets for kids etc. And I usually have family / friends over for dinner once a week (usually on a sunday.... probably because I bake cakes!)

I usually meal plan and then go shopping on a Friday. I use moneysupermarket to see if I can save any money / down grade in brands then I double check in the shop to see whether there's any reduced deals (Whoopsies)

I usually do my main shop at Aldi's - Anything else I cant get from there I get from Tesco. Things for the "house" - like toilet roll are from homebargains.

If there are woopsies that are on offer but not on my list but I know I will use them - I'll buy them and add them to the meal plan for the following week. I don't do a "monthly" shop but rather a weekly one.

Meal plan and shopping around is the key. Try downgrading once in a while (I used to be a loyal dowe egdberts coffee drinker, I now actually prefer Tesco's own brand "gold" to dowe egdberts) a lot of the cheaper brands actually have less sugar and salt in them too and I swear to you my kids don't notice the difference on "most" things - There are the odd cereals where they know I've swapped it, but they are too polite to say anything

I probably could reduce my shopping more...The thing I cant change for sure is the dog food as he's sick with anything else :-/

Hope that helps!

Pepperoni

GwylimT wrote: »

Haha, sorry no, I don't know why I typed that it should be per week!

Even per week that's incredible! :T