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Been looking through some bank statements for supermarket shops and it appears we spend about £50 per person per week for a family of 4.
Seems to be roughly equally divided between a Tuesday big shop (delivery) and ad-hoc purchases of £20 - £60 at other times to top it up.
It feels like an awful lot as a total but £7.14 per person per day doesn't feel terribly extravagant - or is it?
off top of my head, family of four - all in grocery costs are about £30 per person per week.
Would be £35 tops..
I have no idea but I suspect about the same but we do eat well, very rarely have ready meals and all our meat comes from butchers. We go for meals out about 2-3 times a month too, heading out tonight.
No wait sorry not £50 more like £30 or 40.
Jesus...I hate to think. A chuffing fortune and there's only two of us 😳
seems a bit high to me. We (2 adults, 1x 6yr, 1x 3yr) spend around £110-140 a week including sacrificial booze.
That includes batch cooking once every 6 weeks or so from which I make maybe 50+ portions of dinners for an average of £1.25ish per portion.
Means I dont have to cook from scratch every night, but can just get a meal out of the freezer.
Does your supermarket spend include things like cordial, washing machine powder, dishwasher tablets, etc. as well?
I thought I was spending a lot! But perhaps not, worked ours out a few weeks ago, Excel dumps from online banking are great.
worked out at £71.39 per week for two of us.
That would also include things like birthday cards (my wife's family is like the mafia) and random Aldi stuff like a ladder 😉
I do cook lots from scratch & bake most of my own bread.
Wife and I (with a toddler) probably spend £70-100. Big shop on Sunday in the supermarket in town and the missus picks up odd stuff at lunchtime during the week. Then there's the bi-weekly farmer's market and trips to the a local farm shop/butchery (complete with crocodile farm) nearby.
Cheers,
Jamie
We spend a bit under £80 a week, for two adults and one 3-year-old.
Seems a lot, but maybe not...
We just did a review trying to cut costs. Was about £80 per week for two adults and a baby (6 months so just started solids). After 3 months we've got it down to £50 a week and the wee one is eating considerably more. It's a struggle to keep it below £50.
[i]Does your supermarket spend include things like cordial, washing machine powder, dishwasher tablets, etc. as well? [/i]
Yes, basically everything to run the house and feed occupants bar utilities. Would include a meal out say once a month too.
2 Adults, a 17 year old boy with hollow legs and an 11 year old girl who can eat her own body weight in pasta but just picks at anything else.
200 a week for 4 of us
£40-60 a week for 2 adults and 2 young kids.
No idea as the wife does that but I do know I have less and less left to spend on shiny things and we buy a lot more own brand stuff. Cereal in particular is stupidly expensive.
£120 a week for a family of 5.
We and my girl used to spend about 80 quid a week at Tesco. We then shopped at Aldi and a spend was about 40/50 quid a week as Aldio is much better value for money.
[i]£200 a week for 4 of us
£40-60 a week for 2 adults and 2 young kids. [/i]
This where I get confused.
People must all eat roughly the same number of calories, how do some people manage to do it on 75% less money than others?
People must all eat roughly the same number of calories, how do some people manage to do it on 75% less money than others?
We started going to Waitrose. We buy less food, but it all gets eaten and it doesn't go rotten as soon as you look at it, so it actually works out cheaper than Tescos where we used to shop.
People must all eat roughly the same number of calories, how do some people manage to do it on 75% less money than others?
People eat different things, some people need/eat more calories than others and people shop at different places.
About £50 a week I'd guess for two adults, we cook most nights but not always from scratch.
I'm a tightarse and shop at aldi 🙂how do some people manage to do it on 75% less money than others?
I guess mine is possibly cheating a bit as kids eat 2 meals at nursery twice a week and mrs has lunch at work twice aswell, costs don't include nappies either but does include shower gel washing liquid powder etc. I reckon buying more branded stuff and posher food generally could double it up easily.
(no booze either)
£450-£550/month for 3 of us.
That includes a few bottles of wine and a fair few beers each week too.
Plus we eat well (using an excellent butcher and deli) and prepare most things from scratch. Also cook up batches for freezing.
One thing we've done lately is knock takeaways (usually a £25-£35 Chinese or Indian) on the head Mon-Fri. Makes us feel like we can have a bit more of a treat at the weekend.
Our local Waitrose, where we do the majority of our shopping, has gone downhill over the last couple of years and I actually prefer the fruit & veg from Tesco.We started going to Waitrose. We buy less food, but it all gets eaten and it doesn't go rotten as soon as you look at it, so it actually works out cheaper than Tescos where we used to shop.
Cheers,
Jamie
how do some people manage to do it on 75% less money than others?
I remember a mate saying to me "We only spend about £50 a week on shopping for our family. "How and where?" "Iceland." Says it all.
it really varies depending how hard we try.
sometimes it's £300 a month, sometimes £500.
that's for 2 of us and a toddler.
convenience eating costs.
EDIT: plus the boy [u]has[/u] to have blueberries and melon and pears and other expensive fruits 🙄
Our local Waitrose, where we do the majority of our shopping, has gone downhill over the last couple of years
I'd actually say the same of M&S over the last 3-4 years. Rarely pick up anything there these days and most items are devoid of any taste whatsoever.
No idea, that's wifey's job and we don't have a shared account for me to find out from. If she stops including beer and gooey puddings in the weekly shop I'll know it's time to redistribute the responsibilities.
our costs include washing stuff, toiletries etc.
/some/ meat but not a huge amount.
different folk get their calories from different foods though, and even within say just 'honey' there's a huge range in prices just at (for us) Tesco. And that's not taking into account home bread / versus shop bread, loaf types..
I thought around £100 for 2 adults and one toddler, may be less but wife likes her treats... and we do eat a lot. We try and get good quality but not the best usually so figure we're about right. Wife's decided to try deliveries now for most groceries so be interesting to see how that works out, she's chosen Asda which I thought we wouldn't be happy with but so far seems fine - and I guess will bring the cost down.
£400 per month on the Tesco account for a family of 4.
£40-60 a week for 2 adults and 2 young kids.
That is impressive. Is that for everything? lunches? food only or drink / other household stuff too?
175-220 pw for absolutely everything for 2 plus a child (who eats more than me) incl booze.
£21.60 per person per week (6 of us - 3 teens and a 5 year old). You have to be careful about where you buy the expensive stuff such as meat.
(and that doesn't include alcohol).
We allow £50-60 per week (max!) and thats for 2 x adults (one of which is a veggie) and a 3 year old. That budget includes washing liquid etc as well. Carefull planning and limitations on 'treats' but we eat healthily and never feel like were going 'without' 🙂
for the two of us; about £80 per month for a big freezer shop, and £40 per week for all the other bits.
So it works out about £30 / week each.
iro 150 a week for two people and one dog, according to the joint account. seems like quite a lot. un/fortunately waitrose is 2 minutes walk away.
about 150-200 quid per week for 2 adults and a 8 month old
but this is Norway and the price of food is frakking ridiculous
People stating ~30 per person per week:
Is this _everything_ e.g. washing up liquid, cleaning stuff, loo roll, sneaky packet of crisps at lunch time, etc etc?
I'd really like to know how you do that (edit: without eating crap)
llama household stuff excl. nappies and wipes (mrs gets them) no booze in that and we normally only drink brews or water no pop or cordial. Actually weekly shops have been staying closer to £50 lately and then occasional purchases like washing powder/massive pack of bog roll ontop so I guess we'll be getting closer to the 50-70 range soon. I tend to keep an eye out for bogofs on household/canned stuff and stock up, there's B&M and Home Bargain stores nearby which are good for that.
£110-140pw covers everything - bog roll to DW tabs, worcester sauce to showergel.
As I mention, batch cooking makes a very efficient way of feeding a family. I avoid premium brand stuff like cleaning products - they can be over 2x the price of own brand. I have a good head for numbers so can cut through the dodgy pricing bollocks and work out what is a genuine "good deal". Also, since I do the shop every week I have a good idea what is the "Normal" price for something, as opposed to the "bumped up price, ready to discount later" price. So I dont get suckered with 50% off deals, but do calculate which bulk buy deals (of things we always need stock of) work best.
Reading that back: What have I become? 🙁
We were about £800 per month for 5 basically all eating as adults and this included some alcohol purchases, some luxuries like good cheese and the non-food stuff (get through quite a bit of washing powder etc with 5 of us)
Now feeding 2 adults only for similar shop probably £300 per month, when we eat more vegetarian (so less meat) the bill drops quite rapidly as it does if we buy wine elsewhere (e.g. £5 a bottle for decent french wine brought back from holiday vs double that bought here in the UK)
@stoner I used to do the weekly family shop as the wife had a "aversion" to the supermarket, that being said I think you should tone down the shopping enthusiasm on here :wink:. I don't recall if you contributed to the vacuum cleaner threads tat where particularly active one Friday night, we know how to live !
I don't recall if you contributed to the vacuum cleaner threads
Henry FTW!
Right, Im off to mumsnet to hand out advice.
Our typical weekly Big Shop is around £100 a week, or £80 if we shop at Aldi. Plus an extra £8 for dry dog food.
With extra bits and pieces, it probably hits £500 a month. That's for two adults, two unfillable kids and two big dogs, including packed lunches and booze.
We eat very well and cook pretty much everything from scratch.
I have a good head for numbers so can cut through the dodgy pricing bollocks and work out what is a genuine "good deal".
Same here.
Plus shopping online makes it a damn sight easier to not only compare deals but also see comparative products you might not normally spot in a supermarche.
4 in the house, weekly supermarket bill is £180ish.
Then there's extra bits, stuff people get on the way home, the milkman etc etc. Hate to think what the total is.
That includes cat food BTW
2 of us, £70 or 80/week, self-imposed maximum of £15 on meat in an effort to control our spending.
£800 a month yikes. About 450 all in here. 2 adults 2 toddlers.
People stating ~30 per person per week:Is this _everything_ e.g. washing up liquid, cleaning stuff, loo roll, sneaky packet of crisps at lunch time, etc etc?
I'd really like to know how you do that (edit: without eating crap)
Yes that is everything - for a start there is no sneaky packet of crisps - packed lunches, takeaway very rarely (less than once a month), buying in bulk and special offers, a lot of pasta and rice etc, and limited meat, not a lot of bread, own brand products where possible etc etc.
Only thing excluded is alcohol, which I get at Aldi/Lidl, special offer or from Naked Wines 3 or 4 times a year.
Probably £100 a week here for 2 adult and 2 children (9 & 11).
Excludes booze and kids school meals but we don't eat much meat.
We had a good look at this a while ago as it seemed to be spiralling - the 2 biggest savings were through online shopping (Tesco delivery saver works out about £2.50 a delivery and you just don't pick up anything on impulse) and buying supermarket own label instead of brands. I work for a company that produces a lot of own label - the standards are very high these days & most (not all) is a match for the brand
Funny I was just going through this today, got an average of 490.00 per month For 2 adults 1 toddler which I thought was on the high side.
On food and edible stuff about £70 a week just for me, I'm not a greedy so and so put have a nasty habit of buying food out instead of getting in and cooking.
Also got addicted to costa recently.
I can be more frugal, but I've been working long hours so just treat myself. When work gets quieter, I can drop that bill by half by buying at Aldi and taking buttes to work or eating a home at lunch.
I can't believe this thread! What sort of packaged, processed, sugar and fat rich, garbage are you all buying to rack up those sorts of numbers at the checkout?
Double post, oops!
About £100 a week for 2 adults and a 16 year old bin on legs. That includes fizzy drinks which me and the young un drink gallons of!
And a big bag of Wagg dry food every two months at £10 or £15 if its not on offer at pets at home. Get Asda/Tesco own brand cleaning stuff (Bleach,polish) and Radox shower gels, Oral B tooth paste.
Been a bit of a struggle this month due to me being on SSp. But Normally me and the missus have £900 disposable income per month. But we usually add this to the shopping budget. And for the next few months will be to pay the credit card and next years holiday off.
Oldboy - chicken for tonight's meal cost us nearly £3 per person. By the time we've added other ingredients, rice, drinks and a couple of naan breads etc I can see it being £4+ a head for the meal?
£50-70 a week for 2 adults that covers food, washing powders, toiletries and the like, basically everything. No packaged meals and we rarely throw anything out at the end of the week. Write down a menu for the coming week on a Friday then get the shopping first thing Saturday morning and just get what we are actually going to eat.
If we needed to cut back any further the food shop would be the last thing I'd compromise on, there's not much as miserable as tasteless food.
£80ish per week, 2 adults and 2 under 5's. That's for everything, I cook from scratch every day though. Meat from Waitrose, veg etc from Aldi.
I can't believe how much some of you spend, you must be mad.
I feed my dog on bags of working dog food, they tell you the protein and fat content and during the working season he runs on the platinum food at about 25% protein and in th e off season run on the 18%)protein food.
£10.49 for thé low protein a month.
£14.49 for the high protein food a month
People paying £8.00 a week for dog food could be saving a fortune.
£70-£100 a week for two, depending on whether we need washing powder, cat food, etc. This invariably includes a couple of bottles of wine. That's buying what we can in Lidl and then Asda for the rest.
And occasionally Wholefoods and Waitrose.
On average £100 a week for 2. That is everything you might get from a supermarket - cleaning stuff, toiletries, alcohol (generally about £20 a week). We eat out 2 or 3 times a month. Main shop at Aldi, topped up at
Sainsbury's and local shops/ market.
£100 a week for us two adults and a 3 year old. Goes down sometimes and up others could be more frugal could be less but then I dont go out to the pub like many do.
Just checked my spreadsheet and we spent £200 last month for two adults and a very hungry 7 year old, which is the lowest spend this year for us.
I've taken to doing smaller more frequent shops (to avoid wasting food), someetimes check deals via moneysavingexpert website, compare prices via mysupermarket even if just buying from the store as it helps work out which is best value; visit a range of different shops from Lidl for basics through to Tesco and M & S at times when I know the latter two are are more likely to discount, bulk buy when deals on, etc.
when we were all at home (me and mrs ton and 2 kids) we spent about £160 a week.
the 2 kids are now in the forces, we now spend £60
good riddance, you greedy little sods...... 8)
Me and the wife. £350 -£400/ mth. No booze. Only 'happy' meat and almost all at sainsburies because it's two minutes around the corner. Baby due in February so things will be changing!
Around 120 a week 2 adults 2 children and random strays. We do top up here and there. No alcohol in my house.
2 of us here about $120 (AU) which is about £70 - 35 each
It does fluctuate a bit as some of the seasonal stuff goes up a lot at times. That gets us a week of home cooked food so nothing pre-prepared or frozen.
That is for everything except alcohol as for some strange reason they think the world will end if you can buy a bottle of wine in the supermarket.
Back when we were in the UK we I tried aldi shopping and it was cheaper as it had half the choice and a heap of stuff that wasn't that good so we didn't buy it and instead went back to sainsbury's.
Quite hard to tell all in, since it'll be split across 2 market visits and then some random bits from the Polish shop, along with a visit to the bakers and several co-op fly bys. Maybe £100 a week for 3.
**** me, looking at that we must spend all week shopping or eating 😆
For Jambalaya, , good cheese is not a luxury, it's a human right 🙂
£70-90 every two weeks at the super market (Waitrose again).
Probably another £30 in between on milk, bread and other fresh top ups from the local shops and then if I work in town I tend to buy a sandwich or get bought lunch so say another £8 assuming I work in town 2 days a week.
So up to £70 a week for 2 adults. We try to eat veg only for weekday evening meals.
That does not include washing and cleaning stuff as we buy that in bulk from Costco (£11 for 6L of fairy clothes stuff which lasts several months) but does include the odd toiletry and few bottles of beer/wine.
llama - MemberPeople stating ~30 per person per week:
Is this _everything_ e.g. washing up liquid, cleaning stuff, loo roll, sneaky packet of crisps at lunch time, etc etc?
I'd really like to know how you do that (edit: without eating crap)
Yes, I can include junk food if I want with £25.
£25 per week for a 13 stones plus me with everything in but then I live in the GeordieLand where food is "scarce" and booze is plentiful ... 😆
Chicken (medium) (3 to 4 meals) - £4.50
Fish(bream) (one meal) - £3.50 (fish market)
Bread (800g) (about 5 days) - £1.30
Meat (shoulder pork) (3 - 5 meals) - £4.15
Veg - any green like Pak Choi (3 meals) /Chinese leaf (5 meals) - £1.50/£1.00
Bananas - £1.00 (5 days)
Mini Apples - £1.00 (5 days)
Peanuts (chilli coated) £1.16 (3 to 5 days)
12 Eggs - £3
(Note: protein - Chicken/pork & fish together will last for at least 10 meals. If I keep them in freezer and keep buying more I will have stockpile of frozen food)
Balance of £3.89 on whatever I want ... can't think of any at the moment but usually food stuff like semi junk food.
If I really want to be economical then I can easily survive on £15 on food alone.
Rice 10kg - £13 (but this will last a while)
I can cook everything myself which helps.
🙂
Perhaps I'm fortunate living in Wokingham, Berks to have a range of shops (but equally it's an expensive place to live) but just some examples this month to get my bill for two adults and my 7 year old daughter down to £200 a month:
- Bread (800 grams) - often pick these up for 12p from Tesco at certain times. Otherwise, it's two 800g white toastie loaves for £1 from Morrisons Local
- Eggs free range (6 for £1)- Lidl
- Milk - 2 litres for 97p from Morrisons Local
- Chicken breast - bought 6 lots this week reduced at M & S - £7.20 instead of £20. As Chekw has said, easy to stockpile
- Bananas are usually about 12p each
- Porridge Tesco everyday value oats - 75p for 1kg pack which I think lasts me about 2 weeks or so
I just check the amount per grams/ml, etc. as often the marketed deals aren't as good as them seem, i.e. grapes are still usually cheaper bought loose than the packaged deals.
My wife does sometimes cook from scratch and bakes particularly well 🙂
Perhaps I'm fortunate living in Wokingham, Berks
😯 😯 😯 
Our monthly grocery budget for 2 adults is £320.
The missus is vegetarian, so I practically am too. That coupled with doing big batches of food we freeze helps keep costs down. We don't skimp on decent beer, coffee, etc. and bake our own bread, naan and pittas.
i have pretty much given up doing big shopping trips as i try and cycle everywhere as much as possible. luckily lidl is between my boys school and our house so i just pop in there on the way home.
We don't eat a great deal of meat which also keeps the cost down so for the 4 of us it works out around £80 a week . . . .but i have to say my eldest son works in a Tapas bar in town and i know from my food bills he is getting plenty of leftovers from work! He is 20 and at the age where he can eat for England - just glad he's sourcing some of it elsewhere!
Edit - i will always swing by the 'big' Tescos when I'm in the car to get certain things their Daisy washing powder being one of them best value by a long shot and does a good job
This week's Aldi bill was £118! Because we got £50 cashback 🙂
Two adults, a 17 yo lass and a 14 yo lad.
We spend about £100 to £120 a week in Aldi and Morrisons, and I spend about £15 a week at work (wholesale Butchers) on meat produce. This includes alcohol, cleaning products and those occasional Aldi superbargaintastic irresistible but completely necessary buys. 😀
Just me, my GF, cat and dog for now although baby number 1 on the way. Weekly big shop is between £50 to £80 usually but can go to £100 if there's a deal on nappies, grog etc. Dog food is around £40 a month. Probably spend £30 to £40 outside the main shop on extras.
Should I?
Hmmm.. We spend about £450pcm, just us two, wine & spirits incl. We use Waitrose for everything.
Two adults, two primary school kids, two guinea pigs, one giant African land snail (don't ****in' ask) works out at about £100 per week. One big delivery from Occado and top Ups mainly from aldi. Suppose we should include maybe a tenner for school dinners
2 adults and 14,16yrs rugby players..£95-110 each week. Not go big on red meat or alcohol in our household.
2 adults - £30 a week or thereabouts at ASDA, i can only assume some people eat golden crocodiles...
sneaky beer not included.
£110 a week, family of three
Since we started internet grocery shopping a couple of weeks ago, that's now dropped to £70.
Guess mrs Coolhandluke isn't buying unnecessary things or bargains we used to throw out,