Supermarket spending

I'd recommend using a butcher. I find the quality of meat much better, they are very knowledgeable and can offer advice on different cuts of neat.

My £35 a week is from Lldl I m sure if I shopped at a Tesco it would be a lot more I m not a big meat or fish eater which probably keeps my bills down only drink occasionally and don’t use lots of fancy polishes and sprays I wouldn’t even if I had a lot more money
Asda here are doing a £3.50 veg box which I was impressed with There was a lot in it they also had a fruit box for less I can’t remember exactly but that was good and I halved the contents with my daughter I always look on the nearly out of date shelves too

I draw out 50.00 in cash each week to do our weekly shopping on a Thursday. Most weeks i can complete with a few pennies left over. Usually have to take another 10.00 out for a couple of bits on a Saturday. I really try to stay at this so that my budget for the month works. It was usually double this when i worked, but now retired i have time to cook from scratch and look out for bargains from other shops, not just the supermarket.

When we old country mice were in the city yesterday, we picked up a kilo of lovely plums, a supermarket bag full of apples, and four pomegranates for £3. We always call there to stock up on our way to the bus station. I wish we lived nearer!

The shop in our nearest village is selling a 25kg sack of potatoes for £4. We have bought two so far this winter and one for each of our children.

When DD, then a student, lived in Lewisham, she haunted the market late on Saturday afternoons and used to buy 14lb bags of all sorts of different fruit and vegetables at a £1 a time.

These got shared out or turned into soups and stews or frozen. A true chip off the old block.

Having taken all the interesting posts into account I’ve done my first shop of the year (no added extras and non-essentials) and spent less than eighty quid! And I visited a butcher for the first time in donkeys years! Only spent a fiver on bacon and sausages but it’s a start . Thank you for all your posts, much appreciated

You have inspired me. I’m ashamed to say that I have no idea what I was spending, but it seemed like too much. So now I am noting down all my food spending and consequently I am paying attention to what is spent on food. I am looking forward to seeing what the total is for my monthly shopping. Thank you, mollie.

mh58 I have taken a leaf out of your book and I also am going to jot down what I spend on food, cleaning materials etc. because I also do not really know, especially as I buy in bulk if I see a bargain but this is mainly for cleaning and washing materials.

There are two of us and I reckon the average is around £80 per week.

If you go onto moneysavingexpert. com they would throw a fit at 80 let alone 120 per week. People on there manage to feed a family of 4 on much less than that.