How much is your food shop?

[charliebear]

I honestly dont know.
We do a big shop that always costs fortune, then a few little shops for sandwich meat/bread/milk/fresh stuff/anything else we've run short of until the next big shop every 3/4weeks.
We just don't have time for a weekly shop.

 

[ERIN84]

We go to sainsburys (even though there is a massive tesco extra about 1min walk away) and spend around £60. Bit I go to tesco in the week and probably spend about 30 quid. We need to cut down because really can't afford it

 

[ISH]

It's hard to calculate, as OH is naughty as goes food shopping every day at lunch to get his crisps and other treats.

It's usually £65-ish per week for both of us, and around 80 if I feel guilty and am trying to be healthy, lol!!! (this is Sainsbury's)

 

[titch]

we go to home bargains for cupboard stuff and asda or aldi for the rest of the food. Im gonna start doing a local food cooperative. £2.50 for a bag of fruit and the same for veg. We plan on not buying any other fruit or veg. SO a fiver on that then hopefully I can spend a tenner inhome bargains for snacks and cereals/drinks/lunchbox stuff and £15 in asda for meat, milk, yoghurts. I dunno if it really is possible but Id love to be able to do our weekly shop for under £30!

LO will be on normal milk once we finish this last box so that will help, and he eats everything so that makes life easier!

I can make meat stretch really far. I usually buy a whole chicken (value range ) and take off the legs to roast, or I did them in the slow cooker with wine last week, and fried them with piri piri sauce (from home bargains!) last night. Then I use the breasts for a stir fry. I boil up the bones the next day and throw in whatever veg we've got left and dumplings. So that 1 chicken goes to 3 meals. buy cheaper cuts of beef and do them in the slow cooker its just as yummy. Then I do a meatballs type dish but with chopped up sausages cos theyre cheaper than meatballs and pasta. Then we have 1 pizza night with a cheapo frozen pizza. Not sure what we do the 7th night

Its working really well for now

 

[shootingstar22]

In France you can buy over 10 duck thighs for £8. What you then do is boil them up in duck fat for a few hours the. Store them in the fatin your trays. You then have food for weeks as the food is kept preserved in the fat!! Or you an. Jut buy it In tins from the shops.

 

[Annie050408]

We spend £60 per week including delivery from Tesco.

Every 2 weeks I'll get 2 weeks supply of nappies and wipes (for about £15) etc and then then once a month on a non-nappy week I get the dishwasher tablets, loo rolls cleaning products and washing powder (£10 on those).

I find that online shopping helps me to stick to the budget, plan for varied meals and avoid impulse buying. Also, I can avoid buying something I *think* we've run out of only to find plenty of it in the cupboard. As they deliver the next day and let you amend the order up to 2am on the day of delivery I can also go back and amend what I've bought if I need to - it has revolutionised shopping for us. The best bit about it is that I don't have to drag Ella round the supermarket if she is not in the mood - I take her for a stroll around in the trolley now and again if we are buying bits in for friends coming over separately to the weekly shop.

I'm going to do the £15 challenge and try to select a week's worth of food for DH and I on the Tesco website - I'll not include bits for the bub as that would automatically raise it to £30 with the bits she needs. Will report back on what you can get for that!

 

[Annie050408]

Ok, I've done it- I don't think this would quite get us through a whole week but it would provide breakfast, lunch and dinner every day as well as juice.

I'm assuming a stocked spice rack, oil and sugar, tea and coffee.
This would make these meals
Chilli con carne,
Chicken, chips and beans
Pasta with sauce
Pasta bolognese x 2 nights
Pizza and chips and beans
Jacket potato with beans


1 Jacket Potatoes 750G £0.60


1 Market Value Apple Pack £0.90


2 Tesco Sieved Tomatoes Passata 500G £0.58


1 Tesco Garlic Each £0.30


1 Loose Red Onions Class 2 £0.25


1 Nestle Cheerios 375G £1.00



1 Chicago Town Edge To Edge Miami Meaty 430G £1.49



2 Tesco Baked Bean In Tomato Sauce 220G £0.50


1 Country Store Steak Cut Chips 2Kg £1.09


1 Casa Mexico Chilli Sauce 500G £0.69


1 Tesco Value Long Grain Rice 1Kg £0.55


1 Tesco Value Beef Mince 500G £1.50


1 Birds Eye 2 Crispy Chicken 170G £1.00



1 Warburtons Medium Sliced White Bread 800G £1.00



1 Robinsons Apple Blackcurrant Drink 1 Litre £1.00



1 Trattoria Verdi Fusilli Pasta 1Kg £0.99


1 Cravendale Semi Skimmed Milk 2 Litre £1.50


Basket Summary
Total Clubcard points 28
Total MultiBuy savings £0.00
Guide price (19 items) £14.94

Was an interesting experiment but I think that you'd need to add another £10 at least to cover all the extras such as tea, coffee, oils etc.... as they come up as well as butter and sandwich fillings (unless work lunches are not included?).

 

[isobel84]

But there's no fresh vegs n only apples as fruits? Surely that's not healthy diet? What happend to 5 a day?

 

[Annie050408]

Well it was either dinners with meat or go all out veggie and my DH wouldn't want more than 2 veggie dinners a week so that is probably what we'd end up eating on £15 a week.

 

[AugustMum]

Im doing my shopping for £20 or less soon (but I also have £3.10 in vouchers for fruit and veg) so Ill let you know my menu for the week with that lol

You did well getting that for £15. I think Im going to try the whole going to the market at the last minute to get cheap deals. ANYTHING to save money at the moment.

 

[Amyrose]

at the mo we spend around 200 a week on food but i do have 3 teenagers and they eat me out of house and home the smaller 3 kiddies tend to pick all day to. i dont think thats to bad fora family of 8. i shop between asda and farm foods xxxx

 

[titch]

^^ thats not too bad considering how many of you there are!! Have you tried bookers?!

 

[titch]

I spent £25 in asda today but that included a top for holidays for £3 I spent a fiver on the food cooperative which will be in on thursday. Fingers crossed we'll get a lot. Im hoping to do our food shop for £30 per week. Im considering getting the cash out to force myself to stick to it!

 

[Amyrose]

never heard of it tiny x

 

[titch]

some areas have them, usually run by community centres. Basically you order a fruit/veg/salad bag or whatever you want. They choose what goes in it, they buy the stuff in bulk and split it between everyone who's chipped in and pass ont he discount to you. You get a variety of stuff so if youre happy to cook with whatever you get then its a good idea. Plus with the fruit bag LO will get to taste a range of fruits that we wouldnt normally buy for him.

Its £2.50 per bag in my centre. I dunno how much you get yet, Ill let you know on thursday

 

[Amyrose]

wow that sounds fab tiny i must look into it xxx

 

[Wobbles]

I spent £150 last week at Morrisons, I nearly died!!! Back to online shopping for me and I think Morrisons is the worst for so called value!

 

[AugustMum]

Morrisons is the only supermarket in my town

I have to get a 45 minute bus journey to a tesco or sainsburys. The journey to asda isn't worth thinking about lol.

If you order your shopping from tesco in advance the delivery charge is only £2.50. Bargin. Ive written a 2 week meal plan for lunch and dinner and making it so that if I spent any money at all it has to be written on the fridge so I can keep track. Fecking money.

 

[Rheych]

I do a big shop for about 100quid each month with all the toiletries, cleaning bits etc and then spend between 30-60quid a week for fresh bits. We buy what we want really and the odd bottle of wine/beers and all the babies nappies, wipes, food, milk etc

 

[TORino]

we spend far too much for just the 2 of us. It's never under £50 these days, it's usually something like £65-80