Weekly spend on food?

Online shop every week comes in around £45/£50..(if there’s no booze in it)...fresh veg of the market abot £5....that’s it really apart from topping up with milk! There’s two of us .

There are 2 of us and we have a freshly cooked meal every night - an occasional take away but not regularly. We do a week of menu's based on what we have in the freezer and do a shopping list of fresh stuff to cook with. If you have a shopping list it is easier to avoid impulse buys - but not always life would be boring if you didn't have the occasional treat! What we spend can vary a lot depending on what we have in the way of meat or fish or ingredients for the meal. I am not so hung up on how much we spend but am very pleased to say we have very little waste.

I can tell you this..whatever I spend, it seems to be costing more for less stuff !!

Example, not examople!

My spending is erratic as I stock up on, usually, imperishables, when they are on offer and I buy wine when it is on offer too.

I think, for two of us, we spend about £40 a week but the bills are up and down because of offers. For examople, just after Christmas we went into Tesco's for a £30 top-up shop but on the way out saw they were doing 25% off six bottles for New Year's Eve so headed straight back in and bought a dozen bottles of Champagne for under a tenner a bottle. This will last us for a while.

We do a lot of 'yellow sticker' shopping for meat to put in the freezer as meat has got so expensive. Since Christmas we have not bought any meat but have been living like kings on our freezer stock. We have had beef, pork, poussin and we will have duck this Saturday. I reckon it cost us about £20 for the lot with leftovers for sandwiches, soup and extra portions for pies. I think we have had about £60ish worth at full price.

I have no idea but I think for the two of us and the cat about £50 a week inc. cleaning products, cat food etc, at the moment on the slimming world diet so little alcohol or bread. We're vegetarian, amazed how many people say how expensive veg are - I find buying in season and what is on offer is cheap, the farmers have to make some profit! The main thing is NO WASTE, we could have our bins emptied about once a month, no problem. Spend a little more when friends and family over but still virtually no waste, it isn't only easier on the pocket but better for the environment.

I had a mother in law that threw away about 70% of the food she bought.
It was a kind of hoarding and obscene.
It made me so determined to never waste food.
It’s so easy with a freezer to make soups from excess veg, wiz up breadcrumbs from stale bread etc.
I buy fresh veg weekly from the market and washing powders etc when on offer, anything reduced in Waitrose meat or fish counter goes in the freezer, I can always turn any left over into something fairly delicious.
As a result I would say our weekly spend before wine is around £45.
We eat very very well on this.

About £100 a week for food, cleaning stuff, wine, plus impulse buys!!! Two of us, I could economise but we enjoy nice Food.

I think we spend around £100 a week for me, DH, the dog and DD (who also buys quite a bit of her own food). DH buys beer and sweets, which I haven’t counted. We also volunteer at FareShare (charity that receives surplus food from various sources and distributes to organisations who feed vulnerable people) and bring home unwanted stuff (anything containing alcohol, stuff that is too close to use-by date to send out) so that cuts down the bills - although we sometimes have some very odd meals!

Goodness! There's some big spending going on here! We are a family of 7, 3 children and 4 adults. I spend about £40 - £45 each week. Milk bill is around £20 a month. (thank goodness for preview, just noticed I forgot the comma so looked like we are a family of 73!)

I only seem to buy of cleaning stuff about once a month or so. Also make own yogurt, pizzas and bread. Don't eat or cook much in the way of cakes or biscuits. Everything is cooked from scratch and low in salt.

About £40 on average which includes one meal a week for my daughter's family of 4 (2xA, 2 xC) as well as me and includes cleaning/household stuff. More if I invite friends to dinner.

About £100 per week for three adults. Very rarely eat out or get takeaways now. Includes cleaning materials & toiletries, and sometimes odds and ends like new dish towels, kitchen gadgets, dishes, socks, presents.
I get teased for having it all on a spreadsheet!
Have also gone a bit over that stocking up 4 freezers and larder in case of Brexit chaos!

Our supermarket bills vary and sometimes we only need to shop twice monthly as we regulary stock up the freezer on these visits. No cigs, alchohol occasionally, but incontinence pads on every visit. the older you get the more of them you use and they are not a cheap item!!!!

Our weekly shop for two, plus fussy cat, is usually between £60-70. That is unless DH slips razor blades into the trolley. That adds £13 to the bill!
If I went shopping on my own then the bill would be £50 per week!?

Haven't a clue. Im sure its quite high because I like M&S and I buy free range fairtrade etc. and rarely buy cheaper brands. I do know we throw a lot out because sometimes we change our minds about what we want to eat or are out unexpectedly so food goes out of date.. I wish we could buy each day but thats not feasible. I just do my best not to wasrte too much. I'm always working on it.

No idea what I spend as once a month when get my Pension (not State Pension age yet so get benefits as well), Veg boxes at least once a month & veg from my local shop I never buy fruit/veg from supermarket . I do top up shops as required. If I've got money I spend it on things I need/reduced items/ offers, always items I will use.

I cook from scratch mostly, make my own soup, chicken is roast dinner twice, following day salad then strip meat off carcass & make stock. Very little food waste in my house, there's just me & my cat

I think I spend about £100 a week for three adults , sometimes a little bit more . I know it is too much anyhow

Usually £60 a week, but we have our grandchildren EOWE and then it goes up to £80-£90 as they never stop eating bless them - they are 2,4 and 7 and drink 7 pints of milk over the weekend ?

Average around £120 a week for 2 & a dog - includes fuel for car - alcohol (bottle of wine, bottle of beer, bottle of cider - cleaning stuff - and one evening meal out.
Have a shopping list on the computer which I check each week and cross off what I don't need.
Increases when family come to stay.

georgia that's called an "ifits" meal in our house.
If it's in the freezer you can have it.

P.S. I find planning the weeks menus before I shop saves me money.

Erm, do I really want to confess....

We average £100 a week for 4 adults and the cat ! That's including cleaning products and loo rolls etc.

Here are the two dishes, before and after! Save money, save waste, save calories!

Our average is about £70 a week but there are 3 of us and we always have 1 grown up grandson here one weekend, and 3 under 12s here the next weekend. I nearly never throw food away as I freeze any leftovers, and then have a 'lets use up what's in the freezer' day when I don't feel like cooking.