how much do you spend

faye1978

tinkerbell84 wrote: »

there might have been the odd bottle of shampoo in that, but nothing else.

i cook everything from scratch too. a week's shopping will include bacon (12 rashers =£5), sausages (12 for £4), 3 dozen eggs (£12), 4 tuna steaks (£8), chicken portions (£8), cheese (up to £10), nuts (about £8), veg (maybe £35), 3 pints of cream (£5), 4 sea bass fillets (£12), king prawns (£6), mayonnaise (£1), fruit tea bags (£3), olive oil (£2), butter (£2).............

it's no-where near the cost of our mortgage!

Can I come to live and work with you?

felicity1

Hi, we are a family of 4 (2 adults, 2 children) and last month spend was £360. This included all cleaning products, and approx £90 of beer and wine as Tesco were having a wine festival and we thought we'd buy ahead (well, that's the plan anyway)!

I always hover on the grocery challenge thread and never dare to join up as our figures seem so high, yet we too cook from scratch, menu plan, etc. We do manage to use vouchers when we shop but I never factor this in to our total monthly spend as I always view them as a 'bonus' ifyswim.

Our kitchen is being done up at the moment so we slow-cook most days, might join the grocery challenge once we are up and running, I'm sure I could learn a thing or two!

studentgirl_2

We are a family of 4, with two lovley bengal cats:rolleyes:
but my DS1 eats more than DH at the mo. I always get im starving. we spend about £280 per month ish .

I would love to get it lower but just cant. we eat from scratch with no ready meals at all. we all eat our 5 a day. I just wish some one else could do the shoping for me

lainz

[/quote]i cook everything from scratch too. a week's shopping will include bacon (12 rashers =£5), sausages (12 for £4), 3 dozen eggs (£12), 4 tuna steaks (£8), chicken portions (£8), cheese (up to £10), nuts (about £8), veg (maybe £35), 3 pints of cream (£5), 4 sea bass fillets (£12), king prawns (£6), mayonnaise (£1), fruit tea bags (£3), olive oil (£2), butter (£2).............

it's no-where near the cost of our mortgage! [/quote]

I don't know where you live or if it's possible - but getting some chickens may work out cheeper :rolleyes: on the egg front. Also get online/ check out the local area and find farmers selling whole/half pigs/lambs etc, you get 'interesting' cuts and half a lamb is around £35 (not sure about pigs). If you are anywhere near a wholesale fish market I'd get down there as well. A local fruit/veg box would work out cheaper as well I'd have thought.

Hope these help

affordmylife

tinkerbelle are you both body builders? or do you mind me asking overweight? you have to be one or the other!

im not being rude honestly just interested xx

Hardup_Hester

My last 3 big shops cost £163 each time, that's for 3 of us & it lasts approx 2 to 3 months. But I buy meat & veg from my local Butcher & spend around £10.
Hester

tinkerbell84

lainz wrote: »

I don't know where you live or if it's possible - but getting some chickens may work out cheeper :rolleyes: on the egg front. Also get online/ check out the local area and find farmers selling whole/half pigs/lambs etc, you get 'interesting' cuts and half a lamb is around £35 (not sure about pigs). If you are anywhere near a wholesale fish market I'd get down there as well. A local fruit/veg box would work out cheaper as well I'd have thought.

Hope these help

I live in a flat in London - chickens aren't really an option :rotfl: :rotfl:

Not many farmers in London either, and I do buy food from farmer's markets and Borough market already. As a vegetarian, I don't really like the idea of buying half an animal (of any kind - yuck!). We're limited in the kind of veg we can eat, so a veggie box would be a waste of money as we'd have to not use a lot of it.

I tolerate OH eating meat, but he realises that that costs a lot of money!!!

purpleivy

tinkerbell84 wrote: »

Last month's food shopping cost just over £700 for me and my OH.

He only eats organic free range meat, I will only buy organic free range eggs, sustainable fish is costly and we eat tons of fresh veg and salad every week.

We're both on a low carb diet, so no cheap fillers like pasta, bread, potatoes for us.

Very little gets wasted though.

I had to check that this message wasn't posted on April 1st!

Seriously, if you can afford it and enjoy it and it's important to you, then why not, I suppose. I'm not sure I would be prepared to spend that sort of amount though, even if i was able to.

tinkerbell84

affordmylife wrote: »

tinkerbelle are you both body builders? or do you mind me asking overweight? you have to be one or the other!

im not being rude honestly just interested xx

We started low carbing to lose weight and it worked really really well, but we just have so much more energy eating this way. We both work out (not body building) and I'm much more toned than I was when I was eating carbs as the bulk of my diet (lazy vegetarian that relied on pasta and potatoes and caffeine to get through the day )

Little_Miss_Saver

Hi ya

It's me & DS here and before I found this board I was spending between £200-£300 a month. But now I'm spending between £120-£150. :j

The amount depends on whether its 4-5 week month. This is for all food, toiletries & cleaning products.

I know I could cut it down abit more but I'm pleased with my progress so far.

LMS xx