[Closed] Cost of the weekly shop

For those on a budget I get the butcher to keep chicken carcasses back for me, and a selection of bones. Costs about 10 quid tops and makes 10 litres of stock, that's with 6 chickens.

Also for beans on toast fans, the Tom kerridge recipe for home Mae beans really works. Costs next to nothing and freezes well. The soda bread is lovely too.

The above comment 're processed food inflation is spot on, I haven't noticed any change in the basics. I m in Spain tho and Spanish families get by on a lot less.

I live next to the supermarket so just eat whatever is on offer or in the yellow label bit. Generally aim for the higher grade stuff if I can find it cheap.
Go in during the day or before dinner and see what's cheap. Keeps the costs down.
Do an Aldi shop occasionally to stock up on stuff for cupboard or freezer in case the Tesco Tombola is no good!

But I'm generally just cooking for myself or my girlfriend and we almost always cook from scratch. We try to eat well.

Also, not having kids means we can focus on spending money on food - less mouths to feed and more £££s to go around.

We're about the £110 mark. I tried shopping online but found I always forgot stuff that in store I'd walk past and pick up.

I tend to assess the £/kg on most products and buy the best value.

We try to cook as much as we can but 2 wee boys who eat at 5 makes that a little tricky.

Excluding the boys we have very little food waste. Meals are generally planned and we rarely have takeaways, always eating what we have bought first. I think our last takeaway was pre covid.

s that a family of four squirrels?
How the heck do you manage that…. the cheapest weekly shop I’ve done this year was 160 quid. When both kids were home all day then it was getting perilously close to £300 on occasion

A bit late to reply, but mainly I think because we plan the weeks food, or at least the bulk of it, we've minimised meat intake a lot, stick to own brand, don't get that many luxury foods (but equally don't skimp on the basics), and most meals are cooked from scratch with fresh (plus a little frozen) veg

roast once a week
fresh fish once a week
roast leftovers another day, love the leftovers
jackets & beans one day
fajitas one day
pizza one day
junk day (nuggets/sausage/fish and chips)
packed lunches all round, cheese sandwich / tuna pitta / etc.
fruit always there to eat for snacks and dessert

we only do a few cheats (oven chips, pre-rolled pizza, and we avoid the crappest pizza)

crucially perhaps, no booze in there, a bottle of wine a night does not keep the bailiff away

equally important, very, very little is thrown away

Not only are prices up, but sizes are down. After opening 2 packs of fishfingers last night, the newer pack had small fingers in.
A pie from the bakers has gone from £2.80 to £3.00

We shop in a different way to most, at independent shops and stalls. So instead of buying a pack of sausages from a supermarket, I will buy 2 each of good quality sausage from a butcher (with less packaging).
There is a definite lack of certain products and some fruit and veg seems to be of a poorer quality.
Spending more but getting fewer items.

I just opened a packet of party rings biscuits.

Mother of god! So teeny!

Mrmonkfinger

Hmm, yes. Sounds very similar to us, except for the price. Perhaps our alcohol free beer costs loads.

Hmmmm

let’s just say I am not eating beans and a jacket potato for a meal

There's no need to deny yourself one of life's greatest pleasures mate.

If beans and a jacket potato is counted as one your greatest pleasures then I am sorry for you.

Was wondering the same. Minimum weekly spend for just me and wife is £160.

+1

Two of us, four cats and half a dozen Hedgehogs, spend about £800/month on food and household consumables.

Not only are prices up, but sizes are down.

A good indication of this is when the barcode changes but the price mark pack cost is the same. But I guess only us who work in shops will notice things like this.

If beans and a jacket potato is counted as one your greatest pleasures then I am sorry for you

I got 99 problems but my spud ain't one.

A good indication of this is when the barcode changes but the price mark pack cost is the same. But I guess only us who work in shops will notice things like this.

Another way of noticing it is when online shopping and looking through 'favourites' only to see them gone and replaced by what is effectively the same thing at the same price but lower weight / size / specification etc.

yourguitarhero
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I just opened a packet of party rings biscuits.

Mother of god! So teeny!

@yourguitarhero - According to some on here - that's just your stupid, fat fingers skewing your perception.

For too long the burden of Brexit has been borne by our hard working Tory MPs.
I welcome the price rises so that we can truly all ” be in this together”
Let The Lion Roar.

Indeed Zippy. 😉
We are cutting right back on food shopping so that we have enough money to pay our energy bills.
I wonder if Soylent Green tastes like chicken?

who knows, we can only afford red and yellow flavours.

I haven’t noticed any change in the basics

Well, many of them cost more here in the UK than they did not very long ago (and the fresh stuff is often less fresh or missing). Flour might be back down (hurrah for home pizza makers) but plenty of other absolute basics, from butter to carrots, are still much more expensive.

10 litres of stock

That’s a hell of a lot! The third meal we get from a chicken tends to be a risotto made with stock. Super cheap and tasty.

@Poolman Thanks for the Kerridge Beans idea. Those thinking of copying bear in mind that the recipe in the comments under the video differs from what is made in the film.

We'll be eating them with cheese and baked potatoes this evening, The Vegan will be having sheese. Dal is also a cheap and filling dish (butternut and red lentil is a staple here).