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How much do you spend per week on food?
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Mrs de Winter
13-04-2012
About £100 per week for two of us, including most alcohol, household/ cleaning products and food for my packed lunches Not including toiletries or cosmetics though, which I don't buy at the supermarket usually.
bowland37
13-04-2012
Less than on booze.
Croctacus
13-04-2012
£120 in Sainsbury's then £25 or so on odds and sods during the week
Victoria Sponge
13-04-2012
There is only me in my household. Around £100 per week on food. I think it seems too much money but I can't seem to cut it down.
andersonsonson
13-04-2012
Originally Posted by paulmaster:
“about £300 a week between 6 of us”

£15000 per year on food is scary!
freakyogre777
13-04-2012
I live on my own and it varies week to week to be honest. Some weeks I won't buy anything at all.

I average about £60 a month.
c00kiemonster72
13-04-2012
Originally Posted by Victoria Sponge:
“There is only me in my household. Around £100 per week on food. I think it seems too much money but I can't seem to cut it down.”

Blimey that is alot for 1
lottielaneuve
13-04-2012
Not including drink, probably about £30 a week?
randy3329
13-04-2012
I spend about 70 - 80 pound a week on 5 of us. That also includes toddler nappies. I would say i probably cook from scratch 6 days of the week, but we are veggies so i use a lot of cheap staples that tend to go very far, i also base my meals around whats on offer at the time.
Victoria Sponge
13-04-2012
Originally Posted by c00kiemonster72:
“Blimey that is alot for 1”

It is, I suppose it's cos I eat out often, plus I eat a lot of meat, and meat is so expensive in the shops these days! Even just buying lunch from Pret is so bloody expensive, I stopped that and started buying from Sainsbury's instead for three quid.
c4rv
13-04-2012
Originally Posted by Victoria Sponge:
“It is, I suppose it's cos I eat out often, plus I eat a lot of meat, and meat is so expensive in the shops these days! Even just buying lunch from Pret is so bloody expensive, I stopped that and started buying from Sainsbury's instead for three quid.”

£3 x 200 working days = £600 a year on lunch. If you can make your own for £1 a day or even £1.50 that would be a £300 saving per year.
queenshaks
13-04-2012
Between £60-£100 per week, depending what I have to buy.

That's for 2 adults, 2 children and 1 puddy tat.
tony71yugo
13-04-2012
£2001043 pound and thats just on teabags
pixels
13-04-2012
We average £25 a week, for 2 people and 2 cats.

That's for food and all household stuff.
c00kiemonster72
14-04-2012
Originally Posted by Victoria Sponge:
“It is, I suppose it's cos I eat out often, plus I eat a lot of meat, and meat is so expensive in the shops these days! Even just buying lunch from Pret is so bloody expensive, I stopped that and started buying from Sainsbury's instead for three quid.”

I eat lots of meat too, admittedly I get given a fair bit from my parents, but what meat I do buy, I pick carefully so try to get the best value for money and which I can make multiple meals from
I can imagine that buying lunch from Pret would be expensive
Where I work on an estate, we get a van around just before lunchtime, and it doesn't take long to rack up £5 with their prices!
Which is why I always make a packed lunch, and you've seen my bread rolls which is even cheaper than buyer bread from the shops, so costs are minimal for me
purplecatz
14-04-2012
£40 - £50 per week for 2 adults and 2 cats, that includes household items. We like good meat so spend about £60 per month from
www.donaldrussell.com. I would sooner eat better quality meat and less of it, than buy cheaper meat.
Pumping Iron
14-04-2012
2 of us and around £50, not including meals out/takeaways.
pinot_noir
14-04-2012
I spend between £35-£40 a week on food for myself. I follow a low-carb diet so I'd struggle to spend less than that.
Gooby
16-04-2012
This was an eye opener for me! I thought I wouldn't be able to work it out as some of my outgoings get jumbled together but I looked from January to today and then averaged out for a week.
We have a household of 3 adults. We spend £120 a week on groceries and household items and a further £50 on eating/drinking out. I would have guessed at the £120 but surprised we spend so much on eating out although it does include the coffee and sandwich we sometimes have in the Waitrose cafe which soon add up.

Good news is I know where to start if I want to make savings!
Gaditano
16-04-2012
Originally Posted by purplecatz:
“£40 - £50 per week for 2 adults and 2 cats, that includes household items. We like good meat so spend about £60 per month from
www.donaldrussell.com. I would sooner eat better quality meat and less of it, than buy cheaper meat.”

Donald Russell are brilliant. We do a big stock-up shop from them every three months and fill up the chest freezer in the garage.
Is it really
16-04-2012
Originally Posted by bostin_austin:
“That's what I keep asking myself, though I do admit we eat very well. A typical evening meal would be steak, gammon or chicken and I do only buy top quality. Chicken etc is always free range, and I always buy organic where I can. I know I'm a food snob, but I see it as 'you get what you pay for'. I don't spend money on nights out or have any social life, so I see it as my luxury.”

We also eat well, but would find it hard to spend £240 per week on food alone, are you including alcohol,detergents etc?.
missloo
16-04-2012
about £50 per week for 2 of us - I get a meat parcel from my local butcher every other week which is really good value and that keeps us well stocked up.
elliecat
16-04-2012
About £160approx a month for everything between the two of us. We buy lots of chicken, mince, gammon, sausages and freeze it and then we top up on fresh bits and pieces throughout the rest of the month. We tend to buy good quality meat (free range, organic, farm assured etc) and I do like mooching about Waitrose for bits and pieces.

We haven't had to buy any houshold cleaning products for nearly a year as my brother worked for a company that made them and before he left he stocked up from the staff shop, so we have about two years supply of toilet cleaner and bathroom cleaner!
Utopian Girl
17-04-2012
Originally Posted by Teddybleads:
“My head and heart agree, my back doesn't.”

Hi Teddy! We grow some stuff in our garden too - great isn't it? I'm in charge of all herbs - throughout the year and hubby grows green/broad beans rainbow/& Swiss chard, borage, spinach, tomatoes (well we don't rely on them due to weather) we haven't got a green house - I'd like a small tunnel thing but haven't got that far!
Wish we had great weather to grow more stuff. I'm in South Wales, lush ok. trying to grow horseradish & salsify too.
We've concreted a lot of our garden & hubby built a BBQ & pizza oven - if only more veg could be grown here! weather!
petit-pois
17-04-2012
We spend around £50-70. It'll be at the lower end if we don't need nappies or household items. We eat meat in pretty much every meal which is where the money goes! This money doesn't include any bits we might get popping to the local Tesco or a takeaway.

I used to shop weekly at Tesco (online) but after too many disappointing deliveries with them we've switched to Sainsbury's. Only slightly more expensive but worth it. I love using their Live Well For Less website for meal planning.
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