How much is your food shop?

[NaturalMama]

£65-£90 a week.

Depends on whether I need to stock up on the vitamins, toiletries and cleaning products.

 

[Me, My Girls & I]

I took OH to tesco with me on sat so we could see how we'd do for budgeting when we move in together! It was a disaster! I've been shopping mainly in aldi and tesco is so bloody expensive! His lordship doesn't seem to understand budgeting so I thought sod it, let him choose what he wants... The shop came to £120 I've told him he's being dragged along next week too and we'll do it my way! I'm planning on £60 a week! The girls will hopefully be out of nappies soon which will be fab!

 

[titch]

oooh, out of nappies will make such a difference!!! Ive got cloth nappies ready for LO when he gets back *nervous*

 

[DaisyPurple]

Hi girls, our weekly shop is between £50 & £70 per week, for 3 of us, about once a month I get away with only spending about £25 by eeking out the cupboards, I look for special offers on fairy washing up liquid as it lasts longer than.cheaper brands, and whatever branded washing powder is in offer in the larger box's, so that lasts longer too, I buy value bubble bath and soap, handwash etc, big multipacks of loo roll when they are on offer, ...
I get as large pack of mince and break that down into smaller portions and freeze it,
packs of pork steaks and break them.down too and freeze them,
packs of frozen chicken breasts,
big pack of onions
Potatoes
Carrots
Bag of value peppers
frozen peas
Salad stuff
Apples
Bananas
grapes
Strawberries
Yogurts
Cheese
Value biscuits
4 x wholemeal bread, freeze 3
Flora
Value tinned tomatoes
Tomato puree
Peperoni sliced
Eggs
Cereal (varies on offer)
This feeds the 3 of us healthily for a week, I use my slow cooker almost every day,
I get my milk from the milkman which I.need to cancel really as its much cheaper in the shops
I make pizza with the pepperoni
Cheese tom puree and bread, which J loves x


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[DaisyPurple]

Also I get Asda smart price sweet & sour sauce 25p
Mixed herbs,
Oxo
Frylight
stuff like that lol forgot to mention that ..
Oh and jellys, and
packet value custard



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[CustardCream]

We spend about £150-200 a week.. for 2 of us :/ as we do a shop everyday and varies from £20-30 a day on crap that we never eat and ends up being thrown. We waste more on a weekly shop as never know what we want and never want whatever we have in x

 

[titch]

Hi girls, our weekly shop is between £50 & £70 per week, for 3 of us, about once a month I get away with only spending about £25 by eeking out the cupboards, I look for special offers on fairy washing up liquid as it lasts longer than.cheaper brands, and whatever branded washing powder is in offer in the larger box's, so that lasts longer too, I buy value bubble bath and soap, handwash etc, big multipacks of loo roll when they are on offer, ...
I get as large pack of mince and break that down into smaller portions and freeze it,
packs of pork steaks and break them.down too and freeze them,
packs of frozen chicken breasts,
big pack of onions
Potatoes
Carrots
Bag of value peppers
frozen peas
Salad stuff
Apples
Bananas
grapes
Strawberries
Yogurts
Cheese
Value biscuits
4 x wholemeal bread, freeze 3
Flora
Value tinned tomatoes
Tomato puree
Peperoni sliced
Eggs
Cereal (varies on offer)
This feeds the 3 of us healthily for a week, I use my slow cooker almost every day,
I get my milk from the milkman which I.need to cancel really as its much cheaper in the shops
I make pizza with the pepperoni
Cheese tom puree and bread, which J loves x


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if you can cook from scratch, which it looks like you do from your shopping list, you would save loads going to aldi or lidl. they have cheap fruit veg & salad, and they do peperoni, cereals, snacks etc... much cheaper but no compromise on quality from what I can see

 

[DaisyPurple]

Thanks lovely, I do use aldi sometimes, especially for cupboard ingredients, I'm a bit wary of the fruit & veg though its ok if using on the day but I've found it doesn't last the week before perishing, some things like bananas are fab though xx and I love all the one offs they have like Chinese things etc.. xx

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[Snappykat]

We were up to £160 a week for 5 of us which we really couldn't afford so I've started getting all that I can in Aldi and then doing an online shop in Asda etc for all the things for the boys and a 3 year old.

 

[nik106]

I dread to think how much our weekly shop came to this week. We don't actually do a full shop often, but we need to start doing one. Being that i'm struggling, i sent my OH and his brother. When they went just before Christmas by themselves, they managed to spend over £300 just for Christmas Day, there were 5 of us for lunch and 12 for a buffet dinner, this didn't even include alcohol as that had already been bought

 

[titch]

I think in general woman are much better at doing the food shop (obviously there are exceptions!) but when Ive gone for a food shop with a man they dont even think about what they need forthe week in the same way women do. OH and I always fall out in supermarkets cos our approach is so different. I go without him now and he picks stuff up on his way home if we need anything else. £300 for one day is ridiculous! You couldve gone on holiday for that!!

 

[nik106]

I could have killed them! Especially as i'd had to harrass to get the one thing i wanted, prawns My OH does methodically plan what he's buying, that's what worries me! I did notice though that when doing an online shop with the brother would pick stuff at random, whereas i go through and work out whats cheapest per item, especially if there was an offer on it. We end up with duplicates, but it saves us money in the long run. I tried to explain this to him, ie, if you need sausages and the regular ones are 10 for £3 but the finest are 8 for £4 and one bogof that its cheaper to get the finest ones and freeze a pack. Theres only 3 of us, so we don't need 10 sausages anyway! Unfortunately, he applied this principle to everything, and was picking the largest of everything, even stuff that we couldn't freeze/save for later if there was too much. I dread to think how he's going to cope when he moves out by himself

 

[AugustMum]

So mission food shop was a success! Shopping came to £31 but I had a £6 fruit and veg voucher so was only £25.

Thats was all stuff so that I could make food from scratch and included things like minced pork and beef and some quorn sausages. I begrudge buying quorn but I don't like buying cheap sausages so this seems like the simplest solution. Although I might start buying frozen sausages whether I like it or not.


£300 on the xmas shop?! Thats crazy. I would have been mad too! Im hosting this xmas so Im going to start getting little bits early. I thought about making the christmas pud the other day so I might crack on with that. Im slightly dreading christmas anyway even without the food shop. So much money all the time!

 

[Me, My Girls & I]

I've started getting cheap frozen sausages, they're actually ok! Our massive shop's doing us well, I've only needed to get bread, but I've not bothered yet cos I've worked my way round it! Gona go to aldi later tho cos they've got offers on baking stuff!

 

[titch]

Yeah We got the frozen sausages from asda when they were BOGOF. Theyre quite nice and good to have in the freezer when you have forgotten to defrost anything!

Well done mel, Im impressed with that shop! I did ours for £35 this week and then an extra five for fruit n veg which I can pick up today from the community centre, Im quite excited about what we're gonna get

 

[titch]

Unfortunately, he applied this principle to everything,

Well I suppose it is progress, but the menfolk do learn slowly

 

[FeeGee]

Me, dd and 4 cats, ocasional husband I would say between £50 - £75 a week. Mind you I am on Slimfast at the mo, which costs £2 a day in itself.

 

[FebMum2Be]

Ohh Feegee we have some slimfasters on here, we have a diet thread in the girlie room, you will be able to request access in there when you have over 100 posts and have been a member for over a month

 

[Sundee]

Ohh Feegee we have some slimfasters on here, we have a diet thread in the girlie room, you will be able to request access in there when you have over 100 posts and have been a member for over a month

I'm on a diet forum already, and heavier than ever <-- this kind of looks like me lol

 

[saraian26]

Around 80 - 100 pounds a week - there are 5 of us and this includes food, formula, nappies and household essentials. So we dont do too bad.