how much do you spend?

katknapp

Having just read Rehabs post about iceland......how much do you spend on your weekly shop and where? we are a family of 4 and i tend to spend between £60 and £80 a month and a lot of that is cooking from scratch,mainly from tesco's as you get points and vouchers which are very handy for christmas,i dont think i have ever done a shop in iceland lol

katknapp

Thats still quite good,i think ours would be cheaper but the youngest member of the family is a fruit addict she has her own section in the fridge chocker block with fruit and veg shes only 4!!we have started to grow our own raspberries and strawberries to cut the cost,although its a case of getting to them before the damn birds! its shocking just how much fruit can cost

tkachev

We grow a lot of veg and fruit but still manage to spend loads Sometimes OH can spend £60 a time but usually it is over £100 per week....especially when I go shopping. And we don't spend on alcohol.


Elizabeth

prefabkid47

katknapp wrote:

Having just read Rehabs post about iceland......how much do you spend on your weekly shop and where? we are a family of 4 and i tend to spend between £60 and £80 a month and a lot of that is cooking from scratch,mainly from tesco's as you get points and vouchers which are very handy for christmas,i dont think i have ever done a shop in iceland lol

Hi katnapp
Only £60-£80 a month?That's £15-£20 a week!Or do you mean £60-£80 a week?
Ron

tjt6768

That's what I thought Ron.. Lol
We don't have a set shopping day as such, which is deadly and ends up a lot more expensive..
Probably between fifty and eighty per week for the two of us plus the cat. I too am a fruit fiend though. I basically live on fruit and chicken..

And I do go through a great deal of tetley teabags, milk, sugar and volvic water.

katknapp

ohhh lol...i meant a week!! im good but not that good!!!! we dont get alcohol on it,we go through loads of tea and milk

constable

I reckon we're spending around £100 to £120 for a family of four. Our eldest daughter is a veggi. So where are we going wrong. ours seem a lot higher than everyone else.

Karen xx

NinaKKang

We're a family of 5 and spend about 60-70 a week... then we do a food shop at the local Asian store about every 3 months to stock up on lentils, spices, garlic, ginger etc which costs about 50 each time...

Indian food is very cheap and easy to make... We have an Indian meal about 6 nights a week, me and hubby were brought up on it and we're intending on bringing our girls up the same, so cheap and nutritious, would be a shame not to pass it on. Apart from the chapattis, it's gluten free too, so I don't spend a lot on GF products.

I have to confess that a lot of our food bill goes on snack-type items. I've always been a snacker and am a crisp-a-holic

Nxx

tjt6768

I must confess that I eat one large bag of tai sweet chilli crisps every two days at least.. Lol
Luv em.. Part of mi five a day as they're made from spuds, haha..

tkachev

Hi Tony I have been told that spuds aren't included in the 5 a day.

Elizabeth

NinaKKang

Hi Elizabeth

Spuds are considered starch, not a vegetable, as such, so not one of your five a day, I agree... But shhhh! Don't spoil things for Tony and Len!

Nxx

lupin15

I have got to be honest i am not sure. We use the reduced shelf at tescos and do get some really good deals. Most things are made from scratch and i also buy GF but have a brilliant Nepalese shop where i buy rice/maize flour cheap along with cornflour and loads more. Adli for fruit and veg and eat what is on offer. We have 5 of us living at home (4 adults one child) and 1 that stays and eats more often than not. Also use cheap food sites which i don't think i am allowed to say on this site but if anyone wants to know about them inbox me and i will send you the details. I will have to work it out and find out...wonder if i will get a nasty shock???

NinaKKang

Trust me, Del, it's like bread - if the chapattis not made from wheat flour, then it's just not as nice. My mum's suggested all kinds of gluten free chapattis - from corn flour to MUNG BEAN FLOUR - and she wonders why I pull faces and won't even try them!

It's not being able to have chapattis that's the real killer - I was brought up on them (I've never eaten much bread) and I still make them for my kids At least I can still have dahls, it's not all bad.

Nxx

valval

about £70 a week including cleaning products for 4 of us do have chinese every other week extra val

craigp

usually £70 a week for the three of us but that doesnt inclued the overly expensive GF treats for our lass its disgusting how the price of gf food is so much higher my other half actually gets alot on prescription bread/flour/pasta/biscuits so its not too bad she just pays a one off payment once a year and can get as much as she wants delivered to boots where i usually after carry 5 or 6 bags lol

tonesp

Probably about 100 euros a week between the two of us That includes copious amounts of wine and spirits.Is cider part of your 5 a day?? :evil :evil

katknapp

Probably about 100 euros a week between the two of us That includes copious amounts of wine and spirits.Is cider part of your 5 a day??

You would think so considering its made from apples lol

charrisse

I live on my own and spend app £15 a week and then have a delivery of all the heavy stuff once a month which is usually in the £40 range.
Think that I might be being a bit extravagant although I do eat all fresh veg and fruit and cook from scratch.

valval

to be honest what you spend depends on what you can afford you cut your cloth to suit your pocket more money equals treats steak instead of mince the odd bar of chocolate. i always shop around hate to pay more for something than need be but when bad just get what we need from close to home it all a matter of what best for you at that moment in time.
the other question is how much do you spend on taxis /petrol getting your shopping ??????

lupin15

M & S .....very nice but to pricey for me ....only for a treat. I am not surprised your bill is so hard. We use markets, Aldi, Lidl, tesco but i do like asda and Morrison but by we travel about 10 miles it is not worth the fuel.
wonder what shops other people use???

NinaKKang

I mainly used to do a food shop at Asda because we live near it and it's very handy on Saturday mornings as it's next door to the girls' ballet lessons. Then when we got our kitchen done and got a big fridge/freezer, I started doing a food shop once a month at Asda... I now do most of my food shop online every couple of weeks as I've had a lot of vouchers recently for free delivery. Our lastest one came from Ocado - I know, very posh!

Nxx

elnafinn

I do an online Tesco shop about every 5 weeks and did one today. The total was £240 this time with a £5 off voucher. I shop for fruit and veggies, milk and other perishable items once/ twice a week from our waitrose local, M&S local or Sainsbury's local.

Elna x

dippyhips

With family of 5, usually spend between £80 - £120 a week and shop anywhere, hate shopping at the same place, hate food shopping full stop. Since I've not being able to shop since having the hip op, I've been doing the shop online and now it's between £50 - £80, I think I shall carry on with this online shopping as making a good saving not tempted to over shop when doing it online, plus someone else is doing all the hard graft of picking it, packing it, loading it and bring it in the house, all I do is put it away and not had a problem yet.