How much do you spend each week on food?

I am interested in the grans who have emoty fridges. Do you mean literally or just empty of suitable stuff for a meal. Mine is always stuffed of opened jars of pesto, mustard, jam, sundries tomatoes in oil, roasted peppers etc etc. The shelves are half full of that sort of stuff which is a pain.

Ruby lol

Mine's probably about £50.00 for us both plus pets. I do have to supply him upstairs with umpteen boxes of cereal and milk a week, not to mention Oreo's and Haribos, just for some peace! I do buy steak now, used to do veggie but diagnosed anaemic so lots of meat now. Ordered liver this week with some fava beans and a nice bottle of Chianti.

3 adults in our house ,oh and 5 cats ! I shop mainly in Aldi and spend around £70/£80 plus cat food but I get that on line as it is so much cheaper. Not much red meat but my son does like the Aldi sirloin steaks at £3.40 for a huge one . I would spend twice that anywhere else . I avoid Sainsburys because it is so expensive and has lots of nice ready meals which may tempt me . I am known for my careful shopping and rarely buy new clothes , charity shops have everything you could ever need for the house and all the latest books come in after they have been read once . Where I live is quite an affluent area which shows in all the designer clothes which get donated. I prefer to spend any spare money on other things like days out and holidays .

Only me, I m going to guess about £30 the reason I m guessing I don't do a weekly shop I go with my daughter to Aldi or Lldl if and when she's going and it's convenient for us both, otherwise I just buy when I notice the fridge looks bare it's really hit and miss if I m going near the market I ll buy some fresh fruit and veg if not I won't

I ll have to set some money aside and give it a try one week

Not so much these days with just the two of us, but we eat really well. About £70 a fortnight "big shop", including household stuff, usually Tesco online. Meat we buy from a free range supplier, much less than we used to, probably averages another £20 a fortnight. Wine separate, by the case. Lots of our fruit and nearly all our veg from the allotment. Fish and chips usually once a week, eat out on average once a week, but curries or similar, or on the Clubcard vouchers In all probably £60 a week on food.

But we do spend two full days a week sitting for DGS2, when DD2 makes sure we're fed and I'm on my 5:2 fast days anyway.

I went shopping today and spent £150 between Sainsbury's and Aldi. I buy a lot of fruit and vegetables and things like cartons of smoothies from the chill cabinet, meat is usually fillet steak or lamb.

PS We shop at Lidl with a few things from Tesco (only because it's on the road to Lidl). We used to have our shopping delivered from ASDA until the minimum order value went from £25 to £40.

Our weekly shop is about £35 for the 2 of us. I'm veggie, but we both eat veggie except once a week when DH eats meat. It probably increases to about £45-£50 if we need toiletries or something like dishwasher tablets, but we usually buy these when they're on offer e.g. 3 for £10 toothpaste or shampoo.

Some years ago when we had financial problems, we started shopping from a list and now we only have one wage coming in, are still pretty good at sticking to it. I'm not able to physically manage a full supermarket shop, so DH does the shopping and he's not interested in browsing, especially when he's trying to eat a healthy diet. We very rarely throw food away. I can't stand for long in the kitchen but do most of the cooking, so we eat simple meals and try new things fairly often. We do splurge at the weekend if we feel like it, but it doesn't happen that often.

When my Mum and Step-Dad come to stay our shopping bill goes through the roof because they're 3 meals a day people who eat meat. Even if we eat out a lot, our food bill is easily 3 times higher. We are usually left with unused food, but it gets used up.

That would take me a bit of time to work out as I tend to buy stuff in batches and my food bills vary quite a lot. I really ought to do it once in a while though. Perhaps by by saving supermarket shopping reciepts for a month or two.

We average £60 to £70 for the weekly supermarket shop (two of us, no pets, rarely eat out or have takeaways). There are usually a couple of bottles of wine in the trolley too. My first thought was how on earth do you all manage to spend so much, but then I remembered that I buy hardly any vegetables, and not a lot of fruit either at this time of year, because I grow my own. All I can think is that it saves us a lot more money than I had realized!

I spend around £50/60 in Morrisons or Asda and then another £20 or so in
Lidl. That's for three adults plus the cat. Usually some drink included, beer or wine. I shop once a week. Don't eat out, takeaway once in a blue moon.

For two of us about 70-80a week we eat out once or twice and sometimes a takeaway don't drink so no alcohol in that we eat a lot of chicken and veg and fruit but we also enjoy our treats

We have Waitrose pretty much on the doorstep and I shop every day, as well as picking up my free cappuccino and copy of The Times! I probably spend around £20 each visit for two of us, I know because I always use contactless payment. I then do a big £60 shop at the weekend.

WE don't worry about what food costs us, we just buy what we fancy or eat out. We probably eat one meal out every other day, odes that count in our food bill ?

God, I haven't a clue! We tend to shop as we go - we gave up doing a 'weekly shop' when we retired. I keep a magnetic board with a shopping list tear off pad on the fridge and every time we run out of something or think of something we need it gets added to the list. When one of us is popping down to the supermarket we tear off the list and take it with us - usually adding several other items to it! I guess we're lucky in that we have half a dozen major supermarkets within about a 6 mile radius, so 'popping' to the supermarket is often a daily thing, or at least every second day. We have a takeaway probably once a week.

There are just the two of us plus 3 fussy cats. Generally spend around £100 per week in Sainsbury's. Rarely go to the retail park and stock up on various bits at Poundland. Eat out sporadically and seldom have a takeaway nowadays. Neither of us have the big appetites we used to have. More often than not a salad or omelette does me. Only buy alcohol at Christmas now too.

I'm with you Nankate, no idea!!
Do I include horse and dog food or just food for one?As long as I stay in the black I'm not working it out damn as sure they cost more to feed than me.

Three adults usually but at the moment four.
Like kitty my main shop often contains extras that are neither food or cleaning products. Average is £80 a week with a top up shop of about £30. So everything is £100-110 week.

We don't have takeaways and only eat out once or twice a month. We usually grow a lot of our own veg but haven't done much this year because I needed to 'rescue' a couple of borders from building work done last year.

Next year I'm hoping the new area we've set aside for veg growing will be in full production.

3 of us and a cat here. We shop mainly at Tesco, the cost can vary between £65 and just over £100 per week, depending on when certain things that we don`t buy weekly run out. Plus Madame Mia is getting very fussy over what she eats these days. On top of Tescos, I spend between £10 and £20 in town on a Saturday, but that`s mostly on little luxuries to snack on over the weekend. I buy a mixture of named brands and own name brands.

I feel rather ashamed to say that I haven't a Clue. I just stick the card in and put in my pin. We do shop at least twice a week.

If we become incapacitated we will have it delivered by Ocado or similar and then I will know.

We don't have takeaways (apart from fish and chips once in a blue moon) but we do eat out sometimes (not extravagantly, mostly a pub meal or the garden centre).

We spend about £80-90, I think. Not particularly frugal but not extravagant either. Dp shops cheaply, and likes biscuits, crisps,etc as well as the usual mince, chicken etc. I tend to cook from scratch a lot but the same old things.

I like sushi which is relatively expensive. I'll have that a couple of times a week. I eat out occasionally, get the occasional takeaway.

My fridge is usually almost empty and I top up every day rather than do a big shop. I waste very little.

How much extra on top of shopping do you spend on take away or eating away from home?