(UK) How much do you spend weekly on shopping?

BooAndKitty

Also what do you buy? I'm trying to sort out a shopping list and how much I need to spend lol :grumble:

jkwolly

No idea what prices are over there, but I usually try and spend about $300-$350 every two weeks (Western Canada).

rachiealx

£40 a week, I live alone. That's including cleaning products, laundry powder, etc.
I buy always buy bran cereal, almond milk, bananas, apples, grapes, orange juice, salad stuff, chicken, tinned soup, frozen veg, chickpeas, houmous, rice, bread, pototoes and tea. Then I get extra stuff if it's on offer.

I eat pretty much the same thing every day. It's boring, I know, but it works for me.

TavistockToad

Around £80 a week and then I maybe spend an extra £5-10 in the week.... That's for 2 of us.

legless11

I meal plan for the week and spend average £30 a week, I live alone and i'm skint.

Breakfast is usually porridge or muesli (so those things and milk are on the list).

Packed lunches - salads with egg or meat, houmous and veggies, fruit, pasta salad, bulghur salads.

Dinner - lots of pulses, chicken and quorn when its on offer. veggie curries etc.

herbal tea and greek yoghurt are staples.

Raynne413

I spend way too much. I'm a foodie and I love trying new things, so I have the bad habit of picking up anything that catches my interest. Which also drives home the fact that I need a walk in pantry in my next house!

60sPanda

Over the summer I spent about £50 a week (two of us) - lots of salads (salad veg just seems to cost more than winter veg), meat and fish for me. The winter tends to be cheaper (about £40-£45 per week for 2) as I make a lot of stews in bulk with cheaper veg and freeze meals. Weekly shopping includes frozen veg, fresh veg, meat or fish that is on offer (bogofs etc - freeze what I am not using for the future), bread and sandwich stuff (ham, lettuce etc). This spend also includes ice-cream treats (again, dictated by what's on offer). I don't buy a lot of processed stuff. Also love the winter for porridge - so cheap and filling for breakfast.

Juliarosemary66

I tend to use the cheaper supermarkets that have good priced basics - Aldi do lovely salads for 89p which I have with an omlette, chicken or ham etc. You probably need to do comparision shopping if budget is important to you. I realise how tragic I am when I won't buy branded items and go to the cheapest place I know to get equivilant. I suppose it depends on where you live as to what choices you can make and how much time you can devote to shopping. i stock up on things in certain shops, like low fat greek yogurt which is 50something pence in one shop and £1.29 in another. Hope this helps. I can't give you a weekly total as some weeks are a lot cheaper than others!

3Alice3

About 50 - 70 pound including necessities other than food! That's for two adults and a very hungry toddler

I buy things like dried fruit and nuts, yoghurts, tonnes and tonnes of fresh fruit (from fruiterers as it is fresher and cheaper), chicken, pasta, rice, curry sauces, porridge, usually frozen vegetables (I know, I know but it is so much for convenient for now!), brown breads, everything that goes in a salad. Tinned food for emergency days hehe. So much stuff for a small amount of money, I'm very thrifty

LeafyEdge

For myself and my boyfriend, I spend around $90 a week. We used to spend much, much less. I had a budget of $35 and we made it work. I don't want to go back to that, though. It was rough, and often meant relying on cheap frozen pizzas and sodium heavy soups.

Gel_W91

Ugh, too much. Around £120 a week for 2 adults & a 4 year old. Can range from £80-£150 though. But mostly around the 120 mark.
We tend to eat different meals so that really pushes up the price as OH is a big meat man and won't touch veggies. Little one loves his fruit & I spend ridiculous amounts on prepacked salads / veg / chicken instead of just doing it myself.
Includes general household goods too & around £25 in diet coke for my partner.

Things on my weekly list without fail food wise are, bananas, apples, grapes, berries, raisins, green beans, broccoli, corn on the cob, yogurts, cheese, grated cheese, bacon, mushrooms, salad pots, fruit pots, around 9 pieces of various meats some from the 3 for £10, wraps, bread, tuna, chicken packets (2 for £5), milk.

KarenJanine

It's hard to say as I live in a city and tend to buy a bag of shopping here and there (I live alone). But I'd estimate a total of around £50-60 per week, which would include cleaning products, cat food, protein powder/bars, toiletries, etc.

A 'basics' food shop will include

Milk
Greek yoghurt
Eggs/egg whites
Vegetables
Salad (tomatoes, peppers, cucumber, etc)
Berries
Tinned fish
Fresh fish
Tofu
Vegetarian sausages
Cheese
Soup

and whatever treats I fancy - ice cream, biscuits or chocolate, etc.

amwood89

Between £80 - £110 per week (Depends whether I need cleaning products etc.)

But typical food shop would look something like...

Veg & fruit (depends what I've planned to make for the week, but typical things are: Lettuce, greens, Stir fry veg pack, onions, garlic, bag of mixed peppers, new potatoes, green beans, cucumber, fresh red chilli's, carrots, mango, cherry tomatoes, pineapple, berries, red grapes, apples, tangerines, banana's)
Wholemeal pita bread's
Eggs
Cheese
Greek yogurt
Mixed nuts
Salmon
Chorizo ring
Chicken breast/thighs
Some form of lean red meat
Some form of white fish
Turkey breast mince
Tinned tomatoes
Chickpea's
Tinned mixed beans
Whole-wheat pasta
Brown basmati rice
Couscous
Sugar free jelly pots
Rice cakes/crackers
Fizzy flavoured water
Ice cream
Chocolate!

Some of the things I enjoy & make regularly are things like:

Stuffed peppers (stuffed using turkey breast mince, spices, red onion, garlic, rice) with side salad
Spanish chicken bake (Chicken thighs, spices, halved new potatoes, sliced chorizo, peppers, red onion, garlic all put into a casserole dish and cooked for a couple of hours)
Pasta (sauce made from anything that I have left over & what needs using in the fridge)
Teriyaki Salmon fillet with noodles & stir fry veg
White fish, such as Seabass with roasted garlic potatoes & green beans in tomato, garlic & olive oil sauce
Omelettes (again, using left overs from fridge)
Stews

The list could go on & on, but hope it helps a little!

berz82

40 pounds a week, i live alone.

SimonCypher

I spend around £35 a week on grocery shopping, however every 2 weeks I spend £25 on 5kg of chicken breasts. I try and stick to the same meals every week so I can control my eating habits as I find if I deviate from them then I fall off of the wagon & eat rubbish,

chezzabelle82

We spend about £90 on food/cat food/cleaning stuff that's for 2 adults and 2 children, I don't think it's that bad But with veg I normally buy frozen unless it's onions, mushrooms, spinach etc.. I always buy tin tomatoes or passata cos I always make my own pasta/Spag Bol etc... sauce.
I think your own personal budget will also depend on what brands you buy as we buy value but I do know people that will only buy branded stuff and not touch value.

spanderholic

We spend between $100 and $120 but this frequently lasts closer to two weeks. I would approximate $120 every 10 days or so. This is about 60 pounds according to the interwebs We get plenty of fresh fruit and veggies from a coop, but we grow our own salad leaves. We spend probably 1/3 of our budget on meat, whatever is on sale or reduced to clear generally. We get things like tinned tomatoes, dried beans, nuts and plenty of chocolate. This is for two people in general, with several week night meals being eaten by three.

itsjustmish

I live alone and spend £30-£35 per week. Things I always have at home are; chicken fillets, turkey steaks, quorn, cod, salmon, veggies (all frozen - broccolli, peas, spinach), salad (tomatoes, mushrooms, peppers) herbs & spices, garlic, wraps, cottage cheese, nuts, eggs, greek yoghurt, various nut butters, coconut milk, pasta, rice, flour, noodles, dark chocolate, sweet potatoes. The £30-£35 also includes any toiletries and cleaning products. Some weeks its more, some weeks its less, but it averages out that around that amount.

jenlarkin300384

I live near Birmingham and for 2 adults and a dog, I spend roughly around £50 a week with tesco on shopping.
I find that meal planning for a whole month stops me buying items for the sake of it.
I found when I wasn't meal planning my shopping bills were nearer £80-£90 a week, and that didn't include the two takeaways a week either!
So I highly recommened researching good recipes, (Rosemary conley online have amazing low GI recipes which are easy to make and filling!) sitting down for an hour and make a plan for a month.

krhn

You peeps are amazing at this savings thing... I spend around £55 for myself - expensive meats play a massive role

yourpalsoap

I spend £30-40 a week for 2 people (and a cat) on the regular shop (sainsburys), plus an extra £40 once a month at costco for any bulk things so basically £40-£50 a week for 2 people :--) I'm vegan and my partner eats meat which people think would mean buying 2 completely different shopping carts but we eat a lot of the same meals (risotto, pasta, pie, etc) and then just throw meat in theirs!

I save so much more money than I used to by making a weekly meal plan and then just buying the ingredients I need (also stops me buying a bunch of sweets I'll likely pig out on lmao).

jenny24012014

I spend between £80 and £100 (including toiletries/cleaning supplies etc) and that is for a family of 5.

AverageUkDude

Food £28 a week, shop at Aldi (Ewh yeah I know right!) but the meat is cheap and i really only eat Meat, Vegetables, Tinned Veg and bread, its pretty boring, I also live in up north where *kitten* cheaper.

bugaha1

Close to everything.

zezelryck

I spend around £50 a week on myself for food. Plenty of fresh vegetables, fruit and meat. I also love fish and the very occasional meal out :-)

JenniDaisy

Last months shopping cost me £40 + eggs, milk, and a bit of beef bought during the month, So maybe £60. But it's usually just me at home and then dinner for husband two nights a week, when I lived on my own I could spend £25 a month on groceries.
As an FYI I make all meals from scratch (and bread if I have time) and only buy quality meat from the butchers, the good thing about the butchers is you can say 'I want £2 of mince' etc. and only get what you can afford, but if I can't budget for meat we go without.

pinktoesjb

£40-£50 a week for two of us. Lots of fresh veg, cereal, eggs, apples and usually 3-4 meat dinners in the week. We do scour through the supermarket for the deals though and religiously check out the reduced section wherever we go- Vultures Corner with the yellow stickers lol.

Patrick0321

Between the two of us we normally spend about £15 at the greengrocers and then around £50 at the supermarket getting everthing else. Gets up to around £80 if we are buying alcohol.

eldamiano

20 quid, and then I nick the rest.....

Duchy82

I spend between £45 and £60 a week depending on how empty the cupboards are and it includes catfood, cleaning products, etc. for 2 people.

Weekly staples are bread mainly for the other half, ocassionally I will buy myself a granary loaf, skimmed milk, no added sugar squash, cheese (for him again I hate cheese), some veg but it varies but I always have tomatoes, carrots, celery, red onions, peppers, cucumber, radishes, potatoes, lettuce and garlic in the house, some fruit but it varies to whats on offer and what I'm in the mood for.

Store cupboard staples are eggs, tomato puree, stock cubes (veg, chicken and beef), tinned kidney beans,tinned tomatoes and baked beans (for him I don't actually like baked beans), passata, , pasta shapes, spaghetti, red lentils, green split peas, brown rice and noodles (again for him I'm not keen on noodles I rather just have the veggie stirfry), stirfry sauce usually something like them sweet and sour or sweet chilli sachets you can buy everywhere now. Meat wise I usually have a selection depending on whats on offer but staples are beef mince, bacon and chicken breast then I might have pork shoulder steaks, turkey breast steaks (I love the hot and spicy one from morrisons grilled with some salad), steak, chicken thighs, whole chicken for roasts, braising steak in winter for stews. I always have vegetable oil, coconut oil and olive oil and a selection of sauces (I'm a bit of a sauce fiend). Almost forgot, plain flour, self raising flour, yeast, sultana's, porridge oats, selection of nuts and seeds, brown sugar, most important tea bags, coffee and sugar for him.

I cook a lot from scratch I'm not overly keen on pre packaged food but I will have at least 1 or 2 easy meals a week such as mini pizza's (I mean for 50p who can say no just add salad he presto), I always have homemade pasta sauce in the freezer just cook spaghetti or something and done! I do ocassionally buy pasta bake sauce or korma sauce in a jar but these can be quite calorific so its more of a treat. I don't tend to buy branded foods Its over priced and supermarkets own or even value range can be just as good except for tomato ketchup that has to be Heinz I'm afraid.

Whoa quite a lot actually once I see it all written down, I don't buy this all in one week though I should really point that out.

TheTiagooo

£30 a week since I stopped buying alcohol.