Monthly Grocery Budget ?

tooldle

2 adults here. Our budget is £225 per month. Largely plant based, leaning towards vegan with a very occasional bit of white meat. Alcohol and takeaways not included in our budget and neither is food for our pets.  We use our local market and a range of supermarkets. We do grow some of our own veggies. We often batch cook and keep a range of tinned and dried products in our cupboards. 

otb666

3 adults and 2 tortoises £600 pm.  That includes everything. Me and hubby could most probably manage on £300pm but other adult that lives with us has expensive tastes and buys lots of cooking sauses and beef and does a massive batch cook of curry to last days. But I prefer this to cooking for them as fussy eater. We eat a lot of veg and fruit now.

Blackcats

I'm better with a weekly budget so I can make "real time" adjustments during the month.  When I had a monthly amount it often got spent more heavily at the start of the month because it seemed like I had plenty of budget.
I multiply the weeks in the month by my weekly amount and transfer that amount to my grocery budget but only draw down the weekly amount each week.
working well for me so far.

pearl123

For just myself, so far this year it's averaged at £100 per month. It should be less, but I've purchased extra tins when they've been on offer. Over the course of the year, I'm hoping it will work out lower than £20 a week.
Every time, I go into the supermarket - I'm stunned at the prices. I mostly shop from Tesco.
I hardly waste anything. I batch cook and try to avoid convenience foods. 

Rosa_Damascena

Mine is between £80-£100 a month, depending on the number of non-food items I need (cleaning supplies, toiletries etc). It feels like I get very little for the money these days!

CheesyChicken

Family 6 (2A, 2T + 2 older children) plus 2 cats
budget for everything including toiletries and cleaning products is £800

CapricornLass

I budget on £110 p.w.  That includes 3 adults, one of who is diabetic and one is gluten free, nut free and coconut free, and a tortoise, who eats a LOT of salad stuff.

Van_Girl

I budget £100pm for just myself, but I am terrible for buying other food things out of my "free spends" budget. Which is fine, as that's mine to spend as I wish, but I'd rather knock off the unnecessary snack buying, so I can spend on other more enjoyable things. 

It also means I don't truly know if my grocery budget is enough. So this month I plan to get back on track and see how far that budget gets me