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

jonna

Sounds like a healthy family, my youngest daughter has always been a healthy eater and she is at University studying Nutritional Sciences, we get many a lecture on our eating habits.

Ste7en

120 quid per week on a family of four. But we rarely shop at M&S, Tesco and Sainsbury's.

Well, we'll buy 'treats' at M&S, Sainsbury's or Waitrose. The main shop is at Asda. For meats we use a local wholesale butcher (23 quid for enough chicken breasts to last a month).

We'll also pick up odd items at Home Bargains (toilet rolls, tinned tuna) and Aldi (which I hate but the Mrs swears by).

Toiletries we'll compare Boots, Superdrug, Savers and Bodycare.

Sounds like a lot of hassle but where we are they are all very close.

As for booze, I don't drink but the Mrs gets a bottle of red wine or two in every weekly shop.

blue max

I find that there is pressure to buy two lots of everything to get the best price. You would think it would even itself out the next week, but there is always something else on offer!

Tins of tomatoes are well worth stocking up on as they are so versatile. Our freezer is not too large, so we have to be careful what we freeze. My mother has a large chest freezer and I'm sure there is food in there from the seventies

I always worry about very cheap food - especially meat. It does seem that some cheaper foods are much worse for you. Larger percentages of saturated fat and sugar. Or goodness knows what going into cheap meat - water being one of the least objectionable things.

CooperUK

£25 per week per person (me and the wife)

We cook mostly from scratch as she is a chef and I have learnt to do so over the past 17 years with her!

bobflunkit

About £150 per month for a large shop (sainsburys, delivered) and £50 per week for fresh fruit and veg and local butchers. And beer

Me,wife and daughter so about £30 per week.

No waste whatsoever, it really bugs me if I have to throw one thing away.

Dextur

I'm convinced my wife has bought shares in all the supermarkets and is using them as a hidden pension fund by distributing as much of my income in them as is possible..

2 Adults - 2 Children (under 6)

Average weekly spend  on the main shopping | £125-£150  

Additional "mini trips" to Asda, Sainsburies, Tesco's etc. | Around £25-£50  per week.

Should note that we are now a trap of buying dozens of presents for the kids friends, between birthdays and special events etc., those are typically purchased from supermarkets. Books, games, films, clothes etc.

Also note, however, I eat a lot of chicken and beef -  and actually buy that on-line separately from the weekly shop..

It's not unusual , somehow for us to have spent nearly £1000.00 a month on food / supermarket tat, when I include the £100 a month approx I spend on meats delivered .

Dancook

I'm not sure i want to calculate mine stopped doing weekly supermarket shops - because of our diet. I'm buying food i want each day at the moment..

Just bought a bag of salad, 6 tomatoes, bag of celery, honey flaked salmon - £5.50? had half of some cheese in the fridge which was £4 - so £2.   dressing. So £7.50 for my lunch today.. better keep me full alllllll day.

oh and a punnet of strawberries..almost forgot mmm really good too

ajdj1

2 people, 2 cats- we spend approx £80/week in tesco, £40/month in Costco and small weekly top up shops of around £20.

So, £55/person/week.

As a couple with no children, that probably sounds a lot but my OH eats copious amounts of fresh fruit, we have lots of veg and a range of meat and fresh fish.

All our meals are cooked from scratch, get wine when it's on multibuy 25% off deal and do a monthly trip to Costco for things like loo roll etc.

If we spent less we'd be compromising massively on quality to try and achieve the same healthy lifestyle. We've tried the local butcher and attempted farm shops, but ended up spending most of our free time doing the food shop! Wasn't any cheaper either...

Graham27

I agree. Some people view food purely as an essential to keep them going, and that's fair enough, but I love my grub so if I can spend a few bob extra to have a much tastier meal, or for it to be easier to prepare, that seems sensible.

We don't throw much away at all. I tend to find we throw more away when we buy cheaper stuff, with the tasty stuff there's more motivation not to let it go to waste, so for us it's better value.

Something I consider is the value of my time. Say, even at minimum wage that's £7 an hour or so. So if you save a couple of quid on your dinner, but spend an hour making it, that's a false economy for me. If I buy a ready meal, that gives me more time and energy to spend doing something fun like going out for a walk with the missus, or going for a run or whatever.

Desmo

Ours can range from £50-80 a week for two adults and two cats

That includes all toiletries and other household goods as well. We eat very well with lots of fresh fruit, veg and meat from the butchers.