How much do you spend on food and household goods per week per person?

Desmo

They pretend to but it's a load of balls. They don't match against own brand goods which probably make up a large percentage of their sales and they only do on minimum spends of £20 or so.

cabanatuan

you must eat small

Meat alone for a family of 4 would cost close to £30 on its own if not more and thats mainly cheap meats like chicken. if you want things like steaks, lamb chops or a beef joint, each of those cost close to £10 on its own.

Chicken breasts costs a lot as well. £4 for like 4 slices

Dextur

Instead of throwing what amounts to rude/childish comments about.

Why don't you define exactly what we should be "getting a grip of" exactly.

4 people around £175 a week including our food, kids stuff, presents, clothes etc as specified we purchase from the supermarkets.  If it goes over, it's been an expensive week for our kids or kids friends mini parties we hold - again our choice to cater for friends.

In regards our food choices, if we choose to eat fresh salmon and fillet steak, and have a house full of quality and often esoteric foods,  that is our / my choice, not yours to define why we should "get a grip" and how in your expert opinion I have more money than sense.

We can soak £30 -£40 of that alone in a few  bottles of wine in week. We entertain frequently in our home. Again, Our choice, not yours to define my families degree of "sense".

Perhaps, while you're at it, you might like to fill me in inregards your knowledge of what I do for a living and how nutrition plays a part it it .

This forum at times. How sad, you can't give an insight into a life style choice without having some rude ,ignoramus letting you know their abusive thoughts on the matter.

This places deserves better.

EDIT -- Retrospectively acknowledging Steve's apology, thank you Steve.

Pisto_Grih

I was quite surprised at the receipt for a shop yesterday - we've bought a slow cooker to try and make some better home cooked meals rather than the usual "put in oven" or "pour over sauce" type thing. We got the recipe book out and bought all the ingredients for 5 different meals, came to about £70. I was expecting it to be a lot more, as we had some random things on there like fish sauce and curry paste.

Each of those meals will make 4 "normal" portions, so thats 20 main meal portions for £70, or about £3.50 a head. A lot of those ingredients wont get used up all at once (fish sauce i'm looking at you) so you could probably get that portion price down to below £3 - or even more if we divvied each pot up so that my little boy could eat what we eat, instead of separately.

Fair enough that didn't include any staples, any snacks, milk, drinks toiletries etc.

I think if we sat down on Sunday morning and planned out the weeks meals ahead, we would save hundreds over a year, just on being sensible about portions, and how much meat we ate (we don't need to eat meat every day etc).

But again, it is the nice, fresh stuff that pushes the cost up - my two year old loves fresh fruit and we could spend £20-£30 a week alone on things like strawberries, pears, nectarines and grapes. If we were all attempting to get our 5-a-day that would probably bankrupt us.

ldoodle

We do this, and when done properly (so as to avoid waste), it's not actually much more expensive than buying ready meals.

For example if we know we need spring onion, which comes in bunches, we'll design our menu to have 2 or even 3 meals which require them. Otherwise you use half and throw the rest away.

I absolutely despise food waste, when there's people around the world dying of starvation it should be a crime. I know people who open a new loaf of bread and instantly throw the crust pieces away without second thought! When you suggest buying loaves without them, "but it's 10p more expensive" is usually the answer!

blue max

Can you imagine how much food sits on the shelf and ends up as landfill, animal feed or whatever they do with it. It must be a staggering proportion of all the fresh food in a supermarket.

Importing food by air should be a crime!

booyaka

agreed - this is what pushes up the cost of my weekly shop with 2 kids (6 and 2) who eat well and enjoy fresh fruit and veg generally. Probably around £15 a week in apples, banana's various berries etc that they all enjoy.

Dextur

Domestic household waste is significant, estimates suggest around 40% gross.

Pretty alarming figure, even worse, around 40% of that 40% is entirely avoidable apparently.

I can't ever remember throwing any food out, ever. We even refrigerate our fruit etc. Nothing ever gets dumped, just gets made into green smoothies if it coming to the end of it's life.

chump

£70-80 a week for me. And I live alone. Don't drink alcohol or smoke. Zero waste as well. Hate wasting any food.

SparkShot

You shopping at marks and spencer or something?


I don't drink or smoke either but your spending over double what I do.