How much do you spend each week on food?

Between £100-140 a week for 2 of us, including treats for 2 dogs and food for grandchild who is with us 3 days a week.
Everything cooked fresh, no convenience foods.
Glad my spending is quite 'normal' reading everyone's posts!!

There is me, DH and DD3 living at home. I spend between £50 and £80, and I'd really rather spend less. We are vegetarian, so there is no meat or fish and I always cook from scratch. We get takeaway about three times a year (usually when DH wants some unhealthy food!) and we rarely eat out - not more than once every other month. We do buy one or two bottles of wine or beer each week, so that keeps the price up. It does annoy me that food is so expensive. I mainly shop at Asda as we live really close to the store, but try to get to Lidl or Aldi if I can for cheaper bits. I do like the fruit and veg from Lidl as they are good quality and inexpensive, but have always been disappointed with Aldi veg. If we have cakes they are only ever home made - they taste nicer, cost less and aren't full of preservatives.

I realise I might be sounding like a goody-goody! But we are on a fairly tight budget and couldn't afford to spend more. Plus I prefer home made food.

I am such a supermarket tart! I shop with whoever sends me the best money off vouchers. We have every supermarket within a 7 mile radius. I find that if I don't shop with Sainsbury's for a while they then send me several £12 off a £60 shop vouchers. Tesco aren't quite so generous but also try to entice with vouchers after not shopping there for a while. We now have a new Waitrose who sent £8 off several £40 shops and recently a voucher for £20 off a £100 online shop. In between I shop at the local Asda as it seems to be the cheapest.
I've recently given up work (for now anyway, will have to see how things go, I may be bored in the Winter), I find the whole supermarket thing a real challenge and have always shopped frugally, something I got from my Mother who had very little money. If I see something on special offer, I will buy two or three of them. Occasionally if we have an expensive meal out, we will live out of the freezer that week.
I reckon I spend £60 - £70 a week for two of us, this doesn't include wine as I shop for this separately when there are good deals to be had.
We probably eat out once a fortnight and very rarely have a takeaway as we both enjoy cooking.

We go to Tesco every Sunday afternoon and get incredible reductions - fruit and veg and ready meals often down to 10% of their original price. Never comes to more than £25 including a few things that aren't reduced. Then usually about £20 per week in Aldi for non-perishables. So rarely more than £45 per week for me, DH and adult DD.

About £30 tops . I live off grid on a boat in London & at the moment don't run a fridge & am out of gas for the hob. I only drink water on board and don't keep much in the way of store cupboard ingredients. I buy fresh each day & it's got to be something that doesn't need heating or cooking - can't do either at the mo. When I'm moored on grid this will change but on the narrow boat complete with oven and microwave it was pretty much the same

That said I drink cocktails in Claridges and spend a 3 figure sum every 6/8 weeks on my hair (and then there are the Louboutins in my life) I guess food is pretty low on my agenda

Love to read everybodys expense per week, we live in Sweden but do have a second home in the UK, and what a difference when shopping there, we always shop at ASDA as it is the nearest,and we get SO much more for our money there, in comparison to the shops here, we just LOVE shopping in the UK.

No idea, DH does it all and doesn't appreciate it if I offer to help!

Good idea whitewave!

Two of us, no pets etc.
I spend £40-60/week depending on whether I need loo rolls, washing powder etc. we rarely eat out or drink alcohol. I shop at Lidl with a trip to Sainsburys or Tesco for things I can't get there.
The freezer is full now so I can start running it down again and I won't be buying any meat/fish/frozen veg for some weeks. I have plenty of beans, broccoli, tomatoes and salad leaves growing in the garden/greenhouse.

My god some of the totals here are seriously high! I couldn't spend that kind of money on food for only 2 people, I'd feel so spendthrift and out of control. We spend between £40-£50 and we eat very well.

for 2 of us around £50 a week, DH is a "yellow sticker" shopper & get some amazing bargin - earlier this week we had roast turkey & it worked out at £6 for 4 meals including veg. We never have takeaways

I spend too much

Anywhere between £50-£90 per week from Tesco, who own my soul because, points. That includes toiletries, cleaning materials & buying bits in the sale for my granddaughter. Buy my meat & chicken from the farmer's market once a month where I spend about £30. Just the two of us plus my son who comes round for a few meals a week. I hadn't thought of myself as particularly frugal but seeing some of the figs I guess I must be! Only buy a few 'brands' - Heinz & Hellmans for instance - buy basics range if there's no difference in ingredients. We have treats like Jaffa cakes & crisps but don't go overboard, wine never more than £5 a bottle & my weakness, pale cream sherry, £7 a litre (Tesco finest)

There is just me and two cats plus wildlife to feed, and I can spend anything upwards of £60 a week, even though I usually cook from scratch. That doesn't include the odd top-up at Lidl, M&S or local Co-op.
I am afraid if I fancy something I buy it regardless of cost.

Yes granny that has occurred to me if someone only has the state pension to survive on. Good cheap nourishing meals would be an idea to start a thread on with ideas of cost.

Perhaps menus for a week or more with ideas where the cheapest but good quality ingredients can be found.

Anyone else single and surviving on a pension ?
My food bill is not very big!

Wow that would be enough for a family of four on a budget. I used to do budgeting with families and the allowance was 25 per person per week for those on income support. Out of that would come clothes shoes etc.
You need to check your cupboards/freezer /fridge and compile recipes from ingredients you already have. Them make a shopping list. Stick to the list rigidly. If you can't send hubby in as I find mine will never deviate.
Where do you shop. I shop at Aldi and top up at Morrisons. I will then just shop for yellow labels.

I don't buy bread, pasta, potatoes or rice but lots of vegetables. This time of the year it's cheaper because of the allotment. We have a market every Saturday and you can pick up some bargains from mid afternoon eg two punnets of strawberries for £1.

What a wide variation in the amount people spend. We have quite small appetites now and breakfast and lunch are small meals but a good evening meal. Everything is fresh and we don't do takeaways. Eating out is a rarity although it was not always so. I spend £50/60 pounds once a week in Aldi but this includes all cleaning, washing products and 3 bottles of wine and £20/30 every 2 weeks in M&S. So actual food is probably£50 a week.

I shop most days. It's a 10-15 minutes walk to my local Sainsbury's and the same back so I use it as a form of exercise. It varies how much I spend on food but on average £10 a day.

We had a (small) cat once who would open the fridge and scatter the contents, finishing off any fish bits he fancied. We put a doorstop in front of the fridge door and he somehow managed to drag it away. Comes to something when you've to put a child lock on the fridge when your children are up and grown

We only shop at Sainsbury or M&S and we drive there because of the parking, we also go 3 times a week and usually spend around £150.

My fridge is always empty I space things out to make it look fuller! my freezer however is always full! Due to poor health I buy Wiltshire foods for my main meals, I do a fortnightly shop on line for basics which includes cat food wet and dry and cat litter. It works out at roughly £50 a week.

I will spend thirty to forty pounds a week at Aldi and then do a subsidiary shop at Morrisons for the things I can't get at Aldi. So about sixty to seventy pounds for two of us including a bottle of wine. If I could keep DH handcuffed to the trolley and not allow him to wander off on his own "browsing" it would probably be less! The only place I find it difficult to exercise any kind of shopping discipline is Sainsburys so I don't shop there very often!

My fridge is empty of proper food because I shop daily, but I do have the jars you mention whitewave in the door compartment.

I have a real problem with my dog who can open the fridge door and help himself to anything, including packets of butter, to eat!! So another reason for me not to leave too much on the shelves.