Grocery budget for two... now .

Our supermarket shop is around £90- £100 every 10/11 days or so. This includes a joint for roasting, a chicken, liver/mince/casserole meat , All fruit and veg etc. It also includes a bottle of wine and a few cans of beer. We buy bread and milk from the instore bakery of the shop in the village as well as anything we run out before the next big shop. We do spend a bit in places like B & M buying washing powder/softener, corned beef and tuna from there.

We are lucky we dont have to budget but I've always kept household accounts so I know my food shop has almost doubled since the first lockdown.That doesn't count cat food and litter bought online or alcohol ,bought by the case from a wineclub or from The Whisky Exchange .
My daughter tells me her weekly spend for 2 adults and teens is around £140 a week .She cooks everything from scratch and they hoover up massive amounts of fruit and veg

In Aldi - for the dogs £25 spent on raw poultry and beef. £25 spend on alcohol. The bill usually comes to £100 so about £50 spent on food, cleaning products/ toilet paper/kitchen roll.
At the butchers about £20.

That’s every week.

I spend about £80 to £90 a week for two of us. I do buy meat, being diabetic I can't just bulk out with grains or lentils as they add carbohydrates! We eat a lot of various cheeses too. Also includes a box of wine!

I try to keep the budget down to £40 per week for the 2 of us but we don't have pets.
I do cook for 4 so that I always have a portion left to freeze and can be used at a later date
Also get bigger packs of chicken & freeze half

I will return just to ask Merryweather how it is that two adults and three children only have £80 a week?

Hard to say because our supermarket purchases vary a lot depending what we have in the freezer and the cupboard. We do eat a fair amount of wild venison from online suppliers but I'm dubious about overpaying for allegedly better welfare meat. We do however buy non-nitrite bacon.

Hard to say but I am far more concious since lockdown of what I buy. Think it must be from the days of online ordering and only being able to utilise what we had in.
I try to plan meals and only shop weekly for our fresh fruit and veg. I visit a farm shop for our meat every couple of weeks and pop things in the freezer. Supermarket about once a month now. I bake more and eat fewer processed food. I never buy bottled water, rarely buy carbonated drinks or ready meals now and think thats probsbly helped. But Oh dear...budget or not, nothing stops me buying chocolate

I agree annsixty. I’m out.

Gosh you are a frugal lot! Admirable.
I’m afraid my weekly shop for 2 now averages at £80 to £100. That doesn’t include loo rolls, kitchen towels and tissues which come on subscription from “Who Gives A Crap” ( fabulously ethical company!), washing capsules from “Smol”, multi vits from “Feel”.
We only eat meat once a week; chicken breasts or bacon. Buy wine only prior to visiting friends for a meal. Rarely eat out. Have 1 takeaway per month. 1 ready meal a week. Don’t buy biscuits, salty snacks etc.
I try to buy local, British, free range, sustainable, organic and ethical wherever possible. I think that puts the costs up.

I am finding this thread so depressing I will have to stop reading it.
Where will it all end I ask myself.
Not long now to the haves and the have nots.

I am another who is amazed at how little some people spend. I spend around £120 a week on food, drink and cleaning stuff. Even if I have a ' cheap' week it still ends up costing me the same somehow! I do a big roast for all the family about every three weeks and always make a couple of puddings or cakes. I usually cook from scratch and nothing is wasted. I do shop in one of the more expensive supermarkets (not Waitrose or M and S) because I take my very elderly mum who refuses to shop elsewhere but I do need to cut back.

We do eat fairly healthily and we enjoy our food and eat well. I enjoy cooking and trying new recipes but I do need to cut back.

Me and DP plus three rapidly growing children we only have £80 per week. I’m in a gluten free diet too so really difficult to buy cheap staples of flour, gravy any sauce is made from scratch. Our heating won’t be turned on again this year and Christmas will be a dire affair.

Ouch just checked! Two of us. omnivores . Was £60 a week in August at Aldi ( up from closer to £40 last year) now closer to £80 in Tesco as need to have delivery for health reasons. No alcohol and usually cook from scratch and make own bread. Rolls are especially cost saving.
Just bought 48 loo rolls from the awfully named “Who gives a crap”. But they do good works with their profits.
Try to buy ethically: bird friendly olive oil, higher welfare meat in small amounts and free range eggs. But will be looking to reduce Tesco shop cost.

Also when you calculate three meals a day plus hot drinks and toiletries and so on it doesn,t work out very much per meal . I justify spending on home cooked good food as eating out is so expensive so we rarely do that.

I think we spend about £90 a week on food, drink and other household stuff. This includes feeding my DD's family once a week and a takeaway for 6 once a fortnight. We do notice it is increasing though, so may be nearer £100.

On average, for the two of us, we spend about £90 per week. That includes food, toiletries, cleaning goods etc, and a couple of bottles of wine. I don’t think that’s excessive. We eat well, though not extravagantly; have a proper, balanced, home-cooked meal every evening. I believe a good, healthy diet is something we should not scrimp on.

I feel much better now ! . I had read a few mumsnet threads where anything above £50 for 2 was deemed extortionate. Like another poster we rarely eat out or have takeaways so I like the food we buy and cook at home to be the best we can afford.

I would find it really difficult to come up with a figure. I tend to bulk buy soap powder, tinfoil ,washing up liquid etc from Costco also bulk buy chicken and mince from there too. Portion and freeze. I buy from the buffalo farm ( this farming life ) they deliver and often have special offers so I tend to bulk buy a few times a year. Buy my alcohol in Aldis also good for crisps and snacks. Most food is home cooked with a couple of takeaways a month. We are managing ok but if things get tighter I will look at cutting costs.

I eat a lot of salad.

I am housebound and having mobility difficulties am limited in what I cook. No frying or boiling. Use microwave, mini oven and slow cooker. Vegetables from frozen packs because I cannot stand and chop up.Food is my main interest now. Have always eaten healthily. At one time did cookery demonstrators to my local WI. Everything cooked from scratch. Only have free range chicken after seeing a programme on TV.Have a breadmaker. Make a fruitbread instead of cake. Thinking to save time and effort last week ordered Dumpling Mix. More effort. No suet but loads of chemicals. It went in the bin.
Have a Sainsbury delivery every ten to fourteen days. About £80. Includes wine and Guinness and cleaning stuff etc

I’m amazed too. Won’t confess to what we spend on our food and the GSD’s.

I’m amazed that so many posters manage to pay so little. Our groceries cost at least £100 for the two of us. That is excluding pet food, we don’t eat meat, fish or drink alcohol! We used to buy only organic veg, but had dropped down to the pesticide sprayed stuff. We do only buy organic dairy products in the interest of animal welfare. We cook from scratch and make our own bread. I guess that’s cheaper than buying ready meals and ‘posh’ breads.

I found that, over the years, our portion sizes were getting bigger and bigger so now I'm very strict when cooking a 4 portion meal that 2 portions definitely go in the freezer for another day. I think many of us do eat more than we need to and we've found that following a 5:2 diet ie 5 days of normal meals and 2 days with just a very light meal is absolutely fine. It does help to keep costs down and I think we are healthier too.

We are spending £70 per week for two of us and the amount of food we are getting for that has dropped drastically. Also on payday every month we allow £60 to top up on toilet rolls, toiletries, cleaning stuff etc which we trawl all the bargain shops for to get maximum value.