Trying to answer questions.
Largely depends on how much you drink though, shops with wine/beer could easily be 20-30 quid more
We don’t drink much. About a beer each per fortnight.
Are you including toiletries/cleaning products in that supermarket shop? I find they tend to put the price up a bit.
No. No toiletries.
Are you throwing much food away?
Very little gets wasted. This was something we addressed a while ago.
to be fair £100 of meat is quite a chunk.
Is it all organic/corn fed/whateverelseisfancy?
It is from a local butcher. Prices per kg don’t seem much different to supermarket. For example, 10 chicken breasts for £29. 4 packs of lean steak mince for £22 (1.6kg).
Also, are you bulk buying?
Not really, unless there’s an offer on at the supermarket. Butcher rounds down to nearest 10 usually. So a little bit of a discount there.
You haven’t said where you do your shopping. Or how many you are feeding.
Combination of Ocado, Waitrose, Tesco.
2 adults, one child under 2.
Already done.
Lidl or Aldi for produce, stop eating stuff that you don’t make yourself
Been meaning to. Are they really that much cheaper?
Everything is cooked from scratch apart from 2 frozen pizzas a month. That would save £3-6 I think.
Eat less meat. Partial shift to becoming vegetarian.
Roughly 50:50 split already. Not sure where else to get the protein apart from chickpeas and lentils. Nuts are costly.
Some basic tips, shop seasonally, don’t but the same things all year round.
Lastly is 500/month excessive for your income and do you enjoy the food you eat?
Veg box is seasonal. Some fruit we buy out of season. Looking at cutting some of that out now. Any tips for fruit?
We’re not feeling the pinch financially, but it would be good to cut down that amount by £100.
Yes, we really enjoy the food we eat and enjoy cooking it. There’s the occasional ropey meal when my partner tries something a bit slap dash, but nothing inedible! That’s the bit that makes me question whether there are any real savings to be made, but the amount in itself feels like a lot.
We buy no branded food apart from a few items where we’ve comparison shopped using the lower level brands for (groan) A/B testing.