Grocery shopping costs?

[golcarlilly]

As a spin off from a post I read recently regarding the cost of living I just wondered how much everyone spends on grocery shopping?

We spend around £100 a week, that is for breakfast, lunches and dinnners (and snacks) for myself, DH, DS and my DD who is 17 is with us 4 days a week.

I buy all my toiletries and cleaning materials as well as nappies from the supermarket too. We often end up 'topping up' - spending more on bits and bobs we have forgotten or run out of too! It seems like an awful lot of money to me but I can't reduce it even though I buy smart price brand in a lot of things and try to buy cheaper cuts of meat. We do eat meat for most dinners as DH is a confirmed carnivore!!

 

[mummy0704]

we spend about £100 on a thursday, but then about another £40 during the week topping up x x

 

[golcarlilly]

Anyone?!

 

[xoxsarahxox]

:O thats mad. i spend about £50 every 2 weeks on the big shop that includes toiletries and cleaning products then about another £20 a week on top ups and my sons nursery lunch. x

 

[strawberry19]

its just me and oh here at the moment and we buy for breakfast, packed lunches, dinner and snacks we spend anyhting from £25 to £45 depends on what we are eating that week if we are having a cheap week usually end of month we will but pasta and different sauces and stuff to go in it and jacket potatoes simple cheap meals but most other weeks we buy to make dinners such as a roast, lasagne, steak & jacket, cottage pie and so on i make everything from fresh aswell and buy fruit and veg at the green grocers where id spend probably around £10-15 in asda i usually spend about £6.oo in the green grocer. our rule is always plan your meals and take advatage of any offers on things that keep in the cupboatd like pasta etc for basics when you have a skint week

 

[princess_bump]

too much on a good week it's around £75, last week it was just over £100 - thats for the 3 of us.

i try to meal plan as much as possible and most things are homemade, but i think the price of grocery's has gone up so much. we don't really eat meat apart from chicken and mince maybe once a week.

my only tip to try to cut down is meal plan and plan in advance. i get our's delivered once a week so that i can plan better, as i find i spend more if i go. saying that, i still managed to spend around £60 mid week last week on just odd's and ends

 

[bump_wanted]

i usually spend bout £50 a week for me,dh & the baby

thats breakfast lunch and dinner for the 3 of us plus cleaning stuff toiletries you know everything i spend much more if i do it online and i meal plan xx

 

[Ju_bubbs]

Oh my, I'm glad this thread popped up! I got slated the other day for complaining that its extemely hard to live being left with about 30 a week for grocery shopping! I thought maybe I was doing something wrong!!

Me, OH and 3 kids we spend about £100 once a week then another £30-50 with midweek top ups of things that dont last a week - bread, milk, fresh veg etc..

 

[MrsRH]

i usually spend bout £50 a week for me,dh & the baby

thats breakfast lunch and dinner for the 3 of us plus cleaning stuff toiletries you know everything i spend much more if i do it online and i meal plan xx

exactly the same as us!!

 

[freckleonear]

Our online shopping usually comes to £50-60 for 2 adults and 2 children. Most of our food is organic. I cook from scratch so if I went to the market, greengrocers and butchers more often I would probably save at least £10. Meal planning is great to avoid food wastage.

 

[golcarlilly]

thanks for the replies ladies, I really wish I could get my total down, I do meal plan I think that the fact DH always wants meat bumps the amount up, I do buy a lot of fruit too for DH's packed lunches and cereal bars and yoghurts for him too, I think if I got rid of him I could do a buget shop (mind you since he is the only one working I might starve to death!!)

 

[strawberry19]

its a pain but if you can go to the butchers and greengrovers it is alot cheaper x

 

[golcarlilly]

its a pain but if you can go to the butchers and greengrovers it is alot cheaper x

How much cheaper do you reckon? I buy 3 for £10 packs of meats from the supermarket - usually a pack of chicken breasts, some pork chops and some mince do you think the butchers would be cheaper? I can get to a butchers and greengrocers but never find the time somehow!

 

[summer rain]

About £75 a week but it can be as little as £40; we don't eat much meat and that keeps costs down. We also tend to buy cleaning products/toiletries etc in bulk from costco. I home educate my kids so they are always here. We eat very few processed/pre-prepared foods; even tortillas I make from scratch (they are so easy I can make 11 in 20 minutes and much nicer than shop bought). I did start baking all my own bread; but at the moment its too knackering; its a lot easier than you'd think though and it was working out about 40p a loaf (as opposed to at least £1 a loaf for any decent shop bought bread). Also since you live up north; get yourself some green soap (Asian cash and carrys and hardwear shops sell it) and you can use it for washing up, cleaning and even grate it up for laundry use. I'd love to do that; and used to when I lived up north but we live in a hard water area here so it just doesn't work like that

 

[AnnaHughes]

i just dont get how pple spend £30 per week??

we eat what i call a proper meal for tea, - 7 days of meat (i know proper carnivors!) - at roughly £4 per day is £28 on meat alone (mince is £3, but chicken breasts are £5, so just averageing all our meals) Then you have veg, fruit, cleaning products, nappies, drinks (not alcohol) so i spend around £80 per week

 

[golcarlilly]

About £75 a week but it can be as little as £40; we don't eat much meat and that keeps costs down. We also tend to buy cleaning products/toiletries etc in bulk from costco. I home educate my kids so they are always here. We eat very few processed/pre-prepared foods; even tortillas I make from scratch (they are so easy I can make 11 in 20 minutes and much nicer than shop bought). I did start baking all my own bread; but at the moment its too knackering; its a lot easier than you'd think though and it was working out about 40p a loaf (as opposed to at least £1 a loaf for any decent shop bought bread). Also since you live up north; get yourself some green soap (Asian cash and carrys and hardwear shops sell it) and you can use it for washing up, cleaning and even grate it up for laundry use. I'd love to do that; and used to when I lived up north but we live in a hard water area here so it just doesn't work like that

I can only use Persil Non-bio for washing unfortunately as my DH is allergic to anything else and comes out in a rash I might have a go at making tortillas have you got a good recipe you can share? I have made flatbreads before which were a great success and I often make rosemary or sundried tomato rolls which are lovely too

 

[strawberry19]

il have a look in the buthers next time i go ut i havent brought meat for a while.. pregnancy really isnt likeing it!!.. but i know at the green grocers nothing goes to waste cause i can buy what i use i can buy a big bag of potatoes for 99p and a big bag of fresh mushrooms for 40p carrots etc they do little deals sometimes too last week we got a massive broccoli and cauliflower for 50p each

 

[mamalove]

I wish we would spend less but it's around £200 every week incl. mid-week shop.
We have meat once a day,children eat tons of fruit and i buy 2-3 tubs of haagen dazs lol so it all adds up but i just can't seem to save on food,we don't waste too much anyway so i guess it's all good in the end

 

[Midnight_Fairy]

I spend over £100 each week on 4 of us x

 

[cuteboots]

Roughly £200 a week, it can be more it can be a little less if its a budget week where we don't need nappies, washing powder or too many toiletaries. Theres 5 of us and even though I try to cut down are shopping bill its just not able to be cut anymore.