What is your average weekly food budget?

[Hollis]

About 50 quid.

Christ! The price of marmite these days.

 

[mentalchik]

Am i the only one that is quite astounded by how much people have to spend on their food budget ?

 

[aurora green]

Family of 5. ours is about £60-80 a week

Blimey, how do you manage that? Do tell.

 

[pinkmonkey]

Am i the only one that is quite astounded by how much people have to spend on their food budget ?

I dont spend on anything else though. I have really cut down on what we spend recently. We go out rarely, we don't eat out. But I love cooking. Lots The two of us live on a budget of about £1100 a month. I don't think that's that excessive.

 

[EastEnder]

Christ! The price of marmite these days.

Marmite don't make wine, more's the pity...

 

[spring-peeper]

I spend at least £100 a week, usually a bit more, but thats to feed four.

Same here, but for 5 and the b/f who spends week-ends here with my daughter.
This also includes the occasional "let's eat now instead of going home" meals and school lunches and milk programs.

In an effort to decrease it, I'm now attempting to cook my own breads, muffins, snacks etc. and am decreasing the amount of prepared foods.

Once the last child leaves for school, I'm going to start some oatmeal-molasses
rolls. (At least, that's the plan).

 

[mentalchik]

I dont spend on anything else though. I have really cut down on what we spend recently. We go out rarely, we don't eat out. But I love cooking. Lots The two of us live on a budget of about £1100 a month. I don't think that's that excessive.

Wasn't commenting on how much people should/should not spend....


i don't go out or drink or eat out......(do smoke though), the above is £200/300 a month more than i earn in total and i have to suport a household on mine !

 

[toggle]

Am i the only one that is quite astounded by how much people have to spend on their food budget ?

i go without other stuff so that we can afford decent food. i've got a kid that si borderline adhd, i won't give him sweets or junk, so to keep a small child feeling that he's getting nice stuff, we buy a lot of fruit, some expensive stuff.

 

[aurora green]

i go without other stuff so that we can afford decent food.

same here.

 

[Numbers]

We spend £200 per month in the supermarket but that doesn't include milk, bread, booze and veg & fruit which prob' average £50+ a week additional. We occasionally have takeaway's too so prob' close on £500 per month for 2 of us.

<strokes paunch>

 

[pinkmonkey]

Wasn't commenting on how much people should/should not spend....


i don't go out or drink or eat out......(do smoke though), the above is £200/300 a month more than i earn in total and i have to suport a household on mine !

It must be hard to manage..... are you in London?

 

[Ms T]

I have to say I have absolutely no idea how much we spend on food every week, because we don't really do a supermarket shop, and I tend to buy stuff as and when we need it from local shops. We don't really have a budget, to be honest (I know I'm lucky).

I have a weekly veg box, which costs between £8.50 and £12.00 depending on whether I get the fruit option or not. We got to the butcher every couple of weeks or so and maybe spend about £20. Booze comes in the form of a trip to France every six months or so. A fortnightly Ocado shop is around £40. And probably at least £20 a week in odds and sods from M&S, Lidl, the deli etc.

Maybe around £70 a week for the two of us? Maybe more. But food is very important to me, and I usually take all my food into work to avoid the rip-off prices and disgusting food from the canteen.

 

[Cloo]

Averages about £30. I'm very good at guessing what the bill will come to from week to week, even though it varies from about £22 - £40ish. I suppose I know it's less if no/little meat or fish, and more with occasionals like big bags of catfood, fish or house cleaning stuff.

 

[feyr]

£20 a week for me and 2 toddlers. use re-usable nappys. about £15 goes on food for the tiddlers, £5 on my stuff.i tend to budget £100 for the month so i have £20 emergency fund

 

[Shirl]

I have no idea, I don't want to guess but I think it would shock some people We spend loads but in my defence I want to say that I lived for a long time on benefits, I've been homeless and I now raise shit loads of money for charity

 

[moose]

I have no idea, tbh, except it's loads. There are no fruit/veg shops here so everything fresh comes from the supermarket, but we go to a fancy breadshop, a lovely deli, and spend a great deal on nice wine.

 

[aurora green]

£20 a week for me and 2 toddlers. use re-usable nappys. about £15 goes on food for the tiddlers, £5 on my stuff.i tend to budget £100 for the month so i have £20 emergency fund

I can hardly believe this. Feyr, you should be taking better care of yourself (no offence like)

 

[toggle]

I can hardly believe this. Feyr, you should be taking better care of yourself (no offence like)

that leaves me wondering how in the hell you can eat on that little.

 

[The Pious Pawn]

i suppose about £100 a week between the 3 of us but it will be less this time of year as i can start to go hunting more often so i will be able to have a good few meals a week with meat the dogs an i have caught , this saves a few quid but its hard getting the lad to eat decent food when he would rather have a chicken burger ive tried to get him to eat healthily but it always ends in tears !! he gets upset i get upset his mum gets upset !!!

so i buy plenty of fruit he likes an let him stuff himself on that ! may cost a little more but it will do him the world of good an some things i dint think you can put a price tag on .
ive a rake of pheasants here so iam chopping the breasts out an feeding the rest to the muts !! they are lucky chappys ! ! ! an with luck will knock over a deer this weekend so we can have a nice venison roast .

 

[pennimania]

Iff you are only talking food then i would say about £100 a week (me, 2 kids, and mr m) this does not include the horse or the cats tho! or cleaning or other stuff.

School dinners ( money and packed lunches ) cost at least another £20 a week.

Should like to know how others do it for less - I could spend £20 at the greengrocers without blinking - and it really ISN'T that much more expensive here.

 

[sheothebudworths]

£50-60 a week for four of us - the small girl isn't eating much more than fruit and veg at the moment (organic mind you, which puts the cost up), although she will be very soon - but that includes nappies, packed lunches for my son etc...and I think we eat pretty well (it doesn't necessarily take £100+ a week to avoid eating turkey twizzlers, being my point! ).

We do have a takeaway a week on top of that too I'd say and odd loaves of bread/pints of milk, bit of extra fruit and veg etc here and there....but we also have whatever's available from heo's allotment.

mentalchik - I shop online (with Tesco) every fortnight and review their special offers (but only buy if it's something I'd use anyway - although I'll also bulk buy good offers - got a freezer full of packets of frozen raw king prawns atm, which were on a bogof a few weeks back ) and then use the 'online/offline discounts/vouchers' bit of the forums at moneysavingexpert.com to get an online voucher (I get at least £10 off each time.....which more than balances out the £4 delivery fee).

 

[moomoo]

I probably spend easily 150+ per week on groceries for 5 of us (and the dog) and we are on benefits But we don't go out much and my children don't like eating 'convenience food' (they get enough crap in their school dinners ).

My husband drinks one of those smoothie cartons each day at 3.25 each and he needs plenty of calorific food to keep his weight up

The children eat loads and I have to shop every day as we only have a small fridge, but my plan is to rip out a kitchen cupboard and put in another fridge and freezer so I can do a big shop once a week - that way if they eat everything at once they will have to go without the rest of the week!

 

[sheothebudworths]

A freezer is definitely a good investment (baking a load of cakes and freezing them/buying reduced packs of meat and freezing them, or like I said - just buying multiples of bogofs that you would normally use etc.....).

 

[DaveCinzano]

i tend to do a big shop every month or so, making sure there's plenty of stock cupboard stuff, meat in the chill box, veg in the fridge etc... that'd be about £60-£80. i trawl the butchers/greengrocers etc rather than do the supermarket thing (normally). 5lb of chicken legs for £3

then generally just top up on bread, cheese, veg and whatnot, as and when. i wish i had a freezer though , for the reasons sheo points out

 

[sheothebudworths]

Get one from the catalogue like I did krs...I very, very rarely buy anything on credit, but it's interest free for 6 months...and with another online discount voucher from moneysavingexpert.com (I would expect to get at least 10% off but as a new customer, you'd most likely be able to find a much better deal) it can work out pretty reasonably and you'd just pay £18 a month or so for 6 months. It's been well worth it for me.













I expect your credit's shit though isn't it?




((((((((((((( krs's pocket )))))))))))))



(Here - maybe you could post up a request for a freezer on the freecycle forum!?! Worth a try and ofcourse you could always just keep bumping it once in a while if it fell off the page... )

 

[Firky]

When I was a student, I'd always get my loan and spunk £100 in waitrose - as a treat to myself. Was supposed to last a month, but it lasted a week

Generally I spend about £40 a week on food to myself, but I am an utter food snob and make other sacrifices to compinsate (no TV, rarely buy clothes etc.)

 

[DaveCinzano]

I expect your credit's shit though isn't it?

very true

however, my mum's with a catalogue, so once i've sorted out a few of my teething cashflow problems ( ) i plan to get me a decent new freezer, energy a-rated if i can. there was one in index for a bit over a hundred quid, but the bastards closed down

anyways, i'm tempted to get a chest freezer rather than an upright, to save energy like - what do you reckon?

<wonders why he is treating sheo like the queen of white goods>

 

[sheothebudworths]

I got a chest freezer instead of an upright for similar reasons (and it was £120 iirc - about £105 after discounts btw ) but I wish to fucking god I'd got an upright (I'm notorious for spending ages sensibly weighing up the pros and cons and coming to the most sensible and economical conclusion - only to completely fucking regret it....not to mention be astounded by my own simple mindedness - it's always fucking obviously a stupid bastard idea in hindsight ).......not only is it a real waste of surface space in a small kitchen (at least you can stick stuff on top of the upright), but it's also a massive hassle finding things/keeping it organised when it's fairly full.

 

[DaveCinzano]

hmmm, well... 'food for thought' anyhow

see what i did there?! lol!

 

[The Pious Pawn]

nice site that moneysaver , thank you