how much is your household food bill each week........roughly.
Mrs ton has been away for a week, so for the last 2 weeks i have done the food shopping.
£130 the 1st week, £120 yesterday.
when talking about this today, she told me than we spend £150ish on average each week, for 3 people.
does this seem a lot?
i dont eat half as much as i used too now, so i thought it would be a lot cheaper.
and any idea's how to lower the bill a bit pleas.
If thats a full shop, with 7 days food etc and the usual household stuff - from one of the bigger supermarkets, then probably about right (there are 3 of us too).
If you want to save some cash, try Aldi (veg esp. is cheap and decent).
well i supose its about average (i spent 96 quid yesterday (for 3 people..and that was in morrisons (depends where you shop ( i always look for the 'deals' and 3 for 2 prices , but if my hubby goes shopping:he just throws stuff in the trolly without looking for bargins and i wonder why he spends soo much and comes back with hardley anything... :evil:lol
i never go Tesco i think they are expensive...
Grow you're own, we built some raised beds and saved a fortune, very satisfying as well as tasting better
I'd say I send about £35ish per week on food (no booze in that) for just myself
Mostly stuff I need, & a few want's (nice biscuits & cake)
Only buy what you need, buy own brand stuff & be wary of special offers, sometimes they're not as good a deal as you'd think. That should help lower the bill (assuming you don't already do this)
kick the sprog out at sixteen as well, the little buggers eat like horses 
We spend about £75 a week on our weekly shop, for 2. That's everything; food and household stuff. We work out what dinners we're having and what we're short of and write a list. Most importantly: There shall be no deviation from THE LIST!!!!
Most importantly: There shall be no deviation from THE LIST!!!!
yep.. for a budget shop this is the golden rule..
£100-£150 a week sounds about right.
Its around the £100 for 2 of us, that's everything including a couple of Indian/Chinese takeaways a month.
Summer tends to be less as we don't seem to eat as much when its warm.
We do about £75-£85 per week for four of us at Sainsburys.
There's probably about another tenner a week on fruit & veg from the local market.
I found that if you take cash & stick to the list it's amazing how much you can save 
Mmm that seems expensive to me.
I am lucky enough to be able to shop every other day locally. So everything is fresh and nothing gets wasted. I prefer to buy quality stuff, not rubbish. We rarely have take-a-ways or ready meals.
We also grow alot of our own stuff.
There are 2 of us during the week and 3 at weekends, so probably just under the £100 mark. This does include household cleaners, washing powder and beer etc. and lots and lots of chocolate.
First year of uni i was spending about £25 a week for just myself. Now in my fourth year and it's more like £35-40. I do spend less on alcohol now though, very little in fact.
crikey i don't know what you lot are eating but i'm not happy if we spend more than £75 a week for the four of us, are you eating ready made meals or making from recipes as we do?.
£60/wk to keep 5 of us well fed. Dont buy any crap and waste nothing.
family of 4,
2 girls aged 3 and 5 and us,
wife spends between 90-100 per week,
no booze, (i fill the cellar when i can be bothered).
i have home filled sarnies etc all week with fruit, she makes all the sweets.
Only two of us and I seem to spend around £100/£120 a week that's probably with all the household stuff and booze but we usually then get a takeaway at some point in the week too. I buy a lot of fruit and it doesn't usually get eaten but blimey it's expensive to eat healthily. 
in the name of austerity i've got my 1-man food shop down to a shade under £15 per week, still equates to 3 decent meals a day. all the own brand stuff, and not eating much meat - plus loitering around the "nearly out of date" section throws up the occasional find, got a months worth of chicken for £2-50 last week, raaa!!
even in the rich days i'd struggle to spend more than 25/30 quid.
(suppose i should mention i'm a scrawny runt)
hmmmm we spend 50 quid on an expensive week at the shops for 2 of us
we do make almost all our own meals from scratch though with the odd pizza thrown in because we like them
dont believe in eating crapply though if we want steak/roast chicken/pork/ we get it.
planning your meals is key though!
edit - spent 60 quid yesterday on a weeks shop and 30 of that was a new freeview box for the house! - when working away i get 50 dollars a day to feed my self and only need to average over 7 weeks spend 10 to eat well including eating out regular.
all meals are made from fresh produce
never have ready made stuff.
we take home made sarnies every day, me and the wife to work and the daughter to school.
breakfast is porridge, sanrnie and fruit for work and meat and 3 veg most nights in some form.
odd bottle of rose or some cider, dont really drink at home.
dont buy much in the way of sweets either, we all like savory stuff.
Many people in Britain eat too much/spend too much on food. And eat the wrong types of food for their lifestyle. Whilst I can't understand how Spasmic Gherkin manages to stay alive on £15 a week, I don't think it's necessary for anyone with normal dietary needs to spend more than £25-30 a week on food, even allowing a few luxuries.
Many people lie about the food they buy too. 'Oh, it's all fresh produce, raw ingredients etc'. Yeah, right. You forgot to mention the biscuits, crisps, snacks, frozen stuff, deserts, etc, etc, etc.... Many folk eat too much meat, too.
Jeez, I must be doing this shopping lark wrong...
Just spent almost £30 and have got enough ingredients to make a meal for one! Still recipe needs white wine in it and red wine to drink with it. Oh and a beer to drink whilst preparing it..
Sometimes things look like bargains that ain't such a good deal. In most supermarkets on the price sticker it says cost per kg/litre/whatever it's best to look there to see the real savings. Value toilet roll for example isn't such value you might get more rolls but less sheets, buy the one with most sheets per £, or if like me just use your hand. We go to costco for bulk items, Lidl for food and the farm shop for fruit and veg. I grow a few things on balcony, used to grow loads when I had a garden.
Yep, seems a lot. With 5 of us in the house I usually spend £130/week for the online shop and then there are papadirt's regular trips to the offie on top of that. Since two of my lads have recently left for Uni our food bill has plummeted to nearer £80/week - off licence expenditure remains the same though 
odd bottle of rose or some cider, dont really drink at home.
dont buy much in the way of sweets either, we all like savory stuff.
See, you're doing it wrong Ton. Substitute some of those fresh ingredients for beer and sweets and your food bill will halve
off licence expenditure remains the same though
Well, you could be like me, and never touch alcohol, thereby saving money.... 
What?
£150 for 2 seems high - we spend that on a family of six!
Whilst I can't understand how Spasmic Gherkin manages to stay alive on £15 a week
i agree this is probably too little for a sensible budget, but the fags won't pay for themselves..
at least 150 quid per week for 2 of us. But here is in Norway and the prices are sky high
probably eat too much meat and a really good cut of beef can cost 40 quid per kilo
the fags won't pay for themselves.
No way to talk about your housemates
Heh! But the ciggies suppress the appetite, so you end up saving on food.... 
I spose it's possible to live on £15 a week, but must get a bit boring. I really think I'd struggle on that, and wouldn't be able to do it if I was exercising loads. I'd be hungry all the time.
I spend about £20-£30 a week for one but I don't buy any junk like biscuits,sweets or cakes. And I only buy veg on the day or day before I need it else I seem to forget about it or don't fancy it and it ends up getting chucked away and I hate waste. Also if I do something like spagbol or chilli i'll cook enough for 2-3 meals and freeze it.
Another good trick is if you pop into the shops midweek for one or two items is don't grab a basket else your tempted to put other things into it. Just grab the things you need and get out quick again.
But I do tend to eat a lot of rice or Jacket spuds.
about £20 -it's cheap being a vegan ,given above.apparently.
I am obviously doing something very very wrong here.
I spend about £90-100 a week for my food (one person). This excludes work lunches as I have got out of the habit of making my own, so my lunches Mo-Fri are on top of this figure.
I do shop shop only at M&S and Waitrose. This is out of convenience mainly, as neither Tescos or Sainsburys are nearby, but other than for the basics I do not believe they are significantly cheaper.
The thing is I wouldn't even say I eat particularly well. I also do not drink so there is no alcohol in my budget
Time for a re-think me thinks.
Bloody hell GJP my bill is mainly shopping at Waitrose 
Shittin 'ell GJP! What do you live on, Filet Mignon, oysters and caviar??
Seriously, I'd be interested in seeing what you buy! That's a colossal amount for one!
The thing is I wouldn't even say I eat particularly well
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