How much do you spend on groceries?

Just curious to know...how much do you spend on groceries per week or month?  For how many people, and where do you shop?

Just curious to know...how much do you spend on groceries per week or month?  For how many people, and where do you shop?

An up to the minute response. We did the monthly shop today for the two of us and it came out to $97.36

We will get a few additional things during the month like milk and bread.

We both noticed that the prices seemed to be a lot higher than previous shops but when we saw our total we felt we did alright.

Oy. I was just logging in to UKY for the first time in ages to search for this very topic! For a family of three, our spending is right around £95 a week. Our spending seems really high, but I can't seem to cut it down - if I only spend £75 one week, I'll make up that extra £20 the next. I make all of our meals (we eat out maybe once a week), I don't buy any "ready meals" or pre-processed foods, so everything's made from scratch. We don't waste much, either.

Help!

My husband and I spend about £60-75 a week and we shop at Asda. We also Ru. To the store every two or three days for extras, so it would be safe to say we spend about £100 per week.

We spend £70-85 per week for two of us.  I think it's high, but I honestly don't know how we could get it much lower and keep the quality of food that we're used to.  

We tend to have our five a day all fresh stuff, I get all meat from the butcher- but I'd love to cut our grocery budget without sacrificing quality.  Also, I make all DF's breakfasts and lunches (as well as my own) and we generally only have one takeaway or night out per week.  

Our shop at Morrison's is about 40-50 pounds a week...this is for me, my husband and the baby. We buy a lot of things off the day-old and clearance sections....mostly value stuff but we do allow ourselves some treats. This also includes cleaning supplies and paper products (toilet roll, etc) which we usually get there too. I think we usually do pretty well but my husband is still shell-shocked from living alone and hardly buying anything for himself!

We spend £70-85 per week for two of us.  I think it's high, but I honestly don't know how we could get it much lower and keep the quality of food that we're used to.    

Try Morisson's if you have one near you, they seem to be the cheapest I've seen and have good offers often.

Also Lidl has some things for cheap, and often has good quality random foreign stuff, it's worth a look.

We spend about 75-80 for the two of us. 

No Aldi, no Lidl and no Morrisons nearby (as in within a 15 mile radius). 

If I were stay at home and/or had a big freezer I could fill with cheap, about to expire or on sae, meats and the like I could probably spend less. 

But I am not and I don't so I am fine with it.

I mean, I could stress about saving 20 more pounds a week in shopping, bringing my bill to 55-60, but then would the extra time I spent be worth it?  Meh, not right now.  If I were laid off that might be a different story.

I can get it down to £50ish if we don't eat meat, and I reign in the junkfood monster that is my husband.  If we order fruit and veg boxes that goes up about £10.  Eating meat, I aim for £70-80 including the produce boxes.  If I am not careful, it can easily go up to £100.  This includes pet and cleaning supplies and most medicines.

We shop mostly at Sainsbury's.  I don't mind Tesco, but they don't have all the things we're used to.  We'd like to do Waitrose/Ocado, but it's outside our range.  We've not been happy with Asda and find their policies with grocery orders crappy.  It took a few deliveries to run foul of them, but even the attitude from the person we spoke to on the phone turned us off them.  Just as well I guess.

We sometimes try Lidl or Aldi (although there really isn't an Aldi close to us).  I don't think we could shop at either exclusively.  We just don't eat the types of food there often (ready meals, highly processed stuff).  I haven't found their produce all that brilliant.  Some things are really great at both though.

We get our veg box through Riverford.  When we shop in the actual shop, we sometimes buy discounted stuff, but we must not hit the shops at the right time.  We get deliveries because it's a lot easier, and aim for discounted slots or do a big order once or twice a month for free delivery.

ETA: I sound like a total food snob, and I am not.  And I love a good ready meal/bag of crisps just as much as the next person, if not more.  Maybe that's why I can't live on it or even eat it very often.  If I have to cook something from scratch, I eat less often and only when I am hungry.  I also aim to have the most nutrition I can pack into the food I eat.  When I visit MSE, I marvel at how little they spend on their food, but a lot of them, even the ones that make a lot of their stuff from scratch, eat a lot more sugar, refined flour, etc than we do.  We don't eat out often, and instead of doing a weekly meal out, we tend to make something like pizza (or buy it frozen) as a treat.  We probably go out for a meal once every month or two.

For DH and me, I spend £40 a week on my Ocado shop and about £5 at Tesco for a mid-week produce top-up.  We eat out twice a month, and I usually buy lunch once a week, but otherwise this includes all food and household goods.

Like you, bookgrl, I don't have a large freezer, but I wish I could load up on those clearance meats.  They can be so cheap!

Much to my surprise, switching to online drastically reduced my shopping budget.  I was able to plan my weekly meals around what was on offer and what I had in my tiny fridge, rather than re-jigging my meal plan on the fly because I discovered stuff on offer in store. (Also, I don't have a car, so I can finally take advantage of more multi-buy offers and bulk buying - I've gotten very creative about hiding stuff around our small flat).

Generally the weekly shop at Morrison's for the 2 of us is between £60 - £80. Does go higher when we have the higher value stuff as well.
Then again that includes a couple of magazines, maybe some alcohol etc. Lot of fresh fruit and veg.
We look for meats on offer and other stuff as well. Cook from scratch, no ready meals. No takeaways, or at least fairly rarely and don't eat out often either.

Sounds like I'm spending a similar amount over here in the US then (I was curious whether our grocery bill would go up or down when we moved). 

For two of us, we spend about $450/month including toiletries, cleaning products, alcohol etc.  We shop at a bunch of different places: Costco for bulk stuff, Trader Joe's and a local coop for general groceries, Whole Foods for bits and pieces during the week, and we are also in a farm share in the summer/fall which is great value. 

On top of that, we eat out once every 1-2 weeks, and spend about $35 each time. 

I'd like to get our bill down to about $300/month, but with what we buy I'm not sure how.  For example, I like to buy whole grains rather than white pasta/rice/bread etc, and always buy free range eggs etc.

I suppose my bill also includes other householdy items.

However, I bake.  A lot.  No really, a lot.

Last week in our office we had the MacMillian Coffee Week (we don't do days).  I made fudge, three pies, cookies, muffins, a pumpkin bar thing and something that I don't remember. 

So that adds up.

I suppose my bill also includes other householdy items.

However, I bake.  A lot.  No really, a lot.

Last week in our office we had the MacMillian Coffee Week (we don't do days).  I made fudge, three pies, cookies, muffins, a pumpkin bar thing and something that I don't remember. 

So that adds up.

Any interest in coming up to Manchester to work? that sounds amazing!

We probably spend about £250 (at most) a month for two for food, cleaning supplies, etc. I don't really eat that much meat, and our drinking has really tailed off (and our eating out!) as we are both silly busy with work right now.

We do online shops through mysupermarket, usually Sainsbury's for about £60-70 every 10 days, plus £15 per week fruit and veg box and milk and eggs about £40 per month. Meat from the butcher about £55-60 every six weeks.

We've found it easier to budget doing the online shops, we have problems with impulse buying if we go in person.

This is for two adults, a 3 yr old and a nearly 7 month old with a massive appetite!