What do you spend on food and household consumables?
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We're a family of 2 adults and a baby. We keep trying to get our costs down, but the best we can do is about £500pm and often more like £600-700.
This includes all food and random consumables like soap, etc.
We do our main shopping online with Tesco, and that costs about £120 per week. Maybe one or two take-aways per month, rarely more. About one "posher" meal from M&S per week.
Alcohol not included as we don't drink.
We do eat a lot of fresh food, and that drives the costs up, but £500-700pm still seems excessive?
This includes all food and random consumables like soap, etc.
We do our main shopping online with Tesco, and that costs about £120 per week. Maybe one or two take-aways per month, rarely more. About one "posher" meal from M&S per week.
Alcohol not included as we don't drink.
We do eat a lot of fresh food, and that drives the costs up, but £500-700pm still seems excessive?
This subject comes up quite often and someone will be along shortly who feeds a family of 4, including packed lunches, for £22 per week.
I don't pay a lot of attention generally but my missus did seem slightly shocked that her weekly Sainsbury shop breached £200 last week. There's just two of us at home routinely, although a grandchild or two are here a couple of times per week.
I don't pay a lot of attention generally but my missus did seem slightly shocked that her weekly Sainsbury shop breached £200 last week. There's just two of us at home routinely, although a grandchild or two are here a couple of times per week.
I can't do the big weekly shop at an actual physical supermarket. I'm not clever enough. I end up getting about 20 days worth of food, all of which expires tomorrow. Needs to be online!
I'll give Asda another try to compare costs
. I've used them twice and both times about 60% of the items were substituted, whereas Tesco usually have everything we ask for.
I'll give Asda another try to compare costs
. I've used them twice and both times about 60% of the items were substituted, whereas Tesco usually have everything we ask for.2 adults, around £300/month with 70-80 a month being an online meat order and 40-60 a week on food shopping and maybe a takeaway every now and then.
Plenty of fruit/veg/meat, very little frozen food and seldom a ready meal. Usually a bottle of wine and some bottles of beer in there too for good measure
Usually Sainsbury's/Tesco/musclefood in combination with the odd Aldi trip here/there
Plenty of fruit/veg/meat, very little frozen food and seldom a ready meal. Usually a bottle of wine and some bottles of beer in there too for good measure
Usually Sainsbury's/Tesco/musclefood in combination with the odd Aldi trip here/there
AAz01 said:
I can't do the big weekly shop at an actual physical supermarket. I'm not clever enough. I end up getting about 20 days worth of food, all of which expires tomorrow. Needs to be online!
I'll give Asda another try to compare costs. I've used them twice and both times about 60% of the items were substituted, whereas Tesco usually have everything we ask for.
Try and plan out your meals for the week. It sounds a tad bit tedious, but it's a good way to prepare and get on top of what you do and don't need to buy.If you are regularly buying lunch out, try and make bigger batches of food and use the leftovers for lunch. I'll give Asda another try to compare costs
. I've used them twice and both times about 60% of the items were substituted, whereas Tesco usually have everything we ask for.My girlfriend and I do this and it seems to work well. Average weekly shop can be between £50-£70 depending on what needs stocking up. Then you can spend more money on takeaways or the odd treat etc.
AAz01 said:
We're a family of 2 adults and a baby. We keep trying to get our costs down, but the best we can do is about £500pm and often more like £600-700.
We are 4 (kids aged 2 (still in nappies) & 4).We noticed food inflation a while back so I recently went back 18 months to track the supermarket spend.
We buy meat at the butchers, shop mostly at Tesco, with a bit of Waitrose (when they send us discount vouchers) and occasionally co-op for consumables.
Wine mostly from Majestic, the wine soc & France. We are not particularly careful on what we buy.
Our average monthly Supermarket spend over the last 18 months is £577 pm (removing 1 outlier with a big family party)
What is interesting is that split into 3 x 6 month chunks, the trend is quite interesting in that there has been a clear increase over the last year or so
- H1 2016 - £516
- H2 2016 - £586
- H1 2017 - £622
Bob
Rick101 said:
2 adults. £250pm tops. Usually closer to £200.
Can you give me an example of the kind of stuff you eat?£200pm works out as £1.11 per person per meal. How is that possible?
If you're average, you'll eat approx 5,000 calories per day between you. That's about 200kg of potatoes per month. Cheapest potatoes I see at Tesco are £0.52/kg so £104 per month.
So on a potato diet you'll have £22 per week left over for drinks/soap/etc
Sorry, I call shenanigans. £200pm for 2 adults is not feasible, even at Aldi. Are you sure you don't top up that £200 with an extra £200 of unplanned bits and pieces?
AAz01 said:
Sorry, I call shenanigans. £200pm for 2 adults is not feasible, even at Aldi. Are you sure you don't top up that £200 with an extra £200 of unplanned bits and pieces?
To halve that ,for a single adult ,me ,I can easily live on 100 a month of food ,or 25 a week.I eat plenty ,not fancy stuff.
Asda.
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