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How much is your weekly shop?

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How much are you spending on grocery weekly? How big is your family? Where do you shop?

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ShirtAndMuayThai@reddit

Around £100 a week for 2 people. Varies between £80-120 depending on other household stuff like toilet rolls etc That does include lots of fresh fruit and meat. Meat is expensive so shopping is expensive when trying to put on muscle mass 🤣
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elleelleelleelleell@reddit

£50-£55 per week for 2 adults. No kids and no pets.
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Ant203040@reddit

£200 per week, 2 adults and 2 kids. We buy a lot fruit which is expense. And this includes cleaning products, washing tabs, shower gel etc.
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Independent_Cow_9495@reddit

Probably about £50/60 for 2 adults.
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Upbeat-Fish-3348@reddit

I spend about £100 per week for 2 people and shop from Morrisons, I do get about 20% cash back for the whole shop though so realistically the order comes to around £80.
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PianistWonderful6811@reddit

About £100-£130/per week. 2 adults, one toddler, one baby.  We shop at Aldi and Morrisons. 
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TablePanic@reddit

£60 1 person, shop at Iceland
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iStreet98@reddit

2 adults, about £60 a week at aldi
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Westgateplaza@reddit

£90 weekly. I shop at Waitrose. Not as expensive as some people make out. That also includes daily lunches to take to work. We try to have meat free days once or twice a week so we buy lots of legumes. I bulk buy tinned stuff whenever they’re on offer as well.
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Defiant-Cupcake-8984@reddit

£30 - £50 a week for one person. The pricier is dependent on when I run out and need to stock up on the more expensive stuff. I also try to buy more frozen things over fresh as it lasts longer
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Glad-Business-5896@reddit

2 people - sometimes it's £60 - sometimes it's £100. Totally depends on how we're feeling.
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Helicreature@reddit

Everything included - toiletries; fruit; raw dog food; laundry & cleaning stuff - 2 adults, 1 large dog and a few bits to supplement a friend who is struggling- around £250 a week. Combination of Sainsbury’s and Waitrose and includes all meals.
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TimetravellingElf@reddit

2 people around £100ish every 2 weeks
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Redgrapefruitrage@reddit

2 people and baby on the way. Our shop is around £75 a week. We do a full list of meals and plan ahead for the week so that we can keep costs down. 
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Bitter-Crazy4119@reddit

2 adults and 2 kids under 4. About £80 on our main shop and I do a few top ups, mainly because my kids demolish fruit in seconds. I reckon £130 total.
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Uncoordinatedfitness@reddit

£40-£50 a week as a single person (One big weekly shop plus likely running to the store midweek to get bits and pieces). On a restrictive diet at the moment where I am cooking pretty much everything from scratch as well as dealing with existing allergies and intolerances e.g. I need gluten free bread, lacto free milk. My shopping costs continue to rise and I am uncomfortable with how expensive it is. There is no alcohol in my shop nor fancy sweet treats. Just some ready salted crisps and dark choc.
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cgknight1@reddit

Two people and I got heavily downvoted last time this came up by being honest and saying I don't really know? We have a joint bills account, money goes into it - groceries come out of that - it doesn't run out of money so I don't track it closely.
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LastofAcademe@reddit

£30-£40 per week total for me and my wife.
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mymessytoddler@reddit (OP)

Can you break that down? I think that’s remarkable in this economy.
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LastofAcademe@reddit

Combination of shopping at Aldi and being a tight arse lol. I will literally buy a full chicken, roast it, strip it down, and that'll be my lunch all week for like £4. And I buy rice in bulk. Lasts forever. We plan our evening meals out pretty meticulously and freeze what we can. Probably not conducive to life with kids, but just us it's doable.
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Funky_monkey2026@reddit

Couple - £50 a week if I do it and that's a BIG shop. £50 if she does a small shop (fresh berries and her special greek yoghurt).
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Beef-dot-dot@reddit

Avg £42 per week, 2 adults.
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mymessytoddler@reddit (OP)

How?
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Lessarocks@reddit

Easy. I spend about £35 a week for myself. I eat everything. But I do t eat much red meat, maybe one or two portions a week. I also eat a fair amount of lentils, chickpeas and beans. Otherwise it’s fish, chicken or eggs. But I do cook everything from scratch. And being an experienced cook I can make good use of any special offers I see. I dont eat much in the way of junk though or snacks. I don’t waste any food either.
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Impossible_Delay1023@reddit

This ^^^^ most people I know who spend over £50 per person but utter shite like pop and chocolate, crips etc. We meal plan, cook from scratch & eat well. We never going over our weekly £100 budget. We tend to have 1 fish meal, 1 chick meal, 2 red meat meals at a minimum each week, then we have things like a pasta dish, Jacket potato’s & omelette’s as easy meals.
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mymessytoddler@reddit (OP)

I don’t think it’s fair to blame on pop and chocolate. I don’t buy pop and chocolate but I do buy a pack of crisps for my daughter. The bulk of our spending is on protein and fruits. Protein is so expensive now especially if you are tired of eating chicken every day! My daughter eats 1-2 packs of berries a day. Thankfully veggies are not so expensive.
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Artistic_Train9725@reddit

I'm similar in both spending and diet. It used to be more, but for health reasons (my weight and slightly high cholesterol), I changed the way I shopped. Being on the road once or twice a week, while eating processed food will kill you over time. I now take food with me.
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Beef-dot-dot@reddit

Plan out all meals for the week, mainly veggie (meat or fish dishes sometimes once a week) so generally cheaper. Multipack purchase where possible to spread across the weeks meal plans of ingredients (onions, potatos, peppers, tin multipacks). Cool everything from scratch. Sometimes we have more expensive shops when buying olive oil, washing detergents and things but never really more then £55.
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melanie110@reddit

Just did my usual online shop at Tesco. It’s come to £127 3 adults, 1 teen and 3 cats. We have some decent meals but the price has gone up loads in weeks. My eldest has just enlisted and is very scrawny so it’s going to be a lot more in the coming weeks as he needs a fuck tonne of protein as he has started to do a bit of a bulk up/gym with help of his PDP to prepare for his fitness and basic training!!
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Puzzled-Barnacle-200@reddit

About £40-£50 for two adults, mostly Lidl with a sprinkling of Tesco
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TheTruth_329@reddit

One person, about £50 on average on food
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chaosfollows101@reddit

£80-100 2 adults. Lidl usually
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EmptyStock9676@reddit

Family of 4 ( kids 18 and 15) we budget about £1200 a month. Can’t believe how little some people are spending. Is that including cleaning stuff, washing powder etc? We shop at Tesco and Aldi. (No booze btw)
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massiveextremehalal@reddit

I think they’re missing stuff out tbh… one person said £42 a week for two adults!!?? Surely this doesn’t include food for work etc?
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mymessytoddler@reddit (OP)

We’re about £500 per month for 2 adults, 1 child. But that’s not including cleaning stuffs etc or the odd takeaways. If I had 2 teenagers, I suspect it would be very different.
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runew0lf@reddit

£100 a week for 3 adults!
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djashjones@reddit

Cheaper than the cats weekly shop!
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mymessytoddler@reddit (OP)

Children and pets are expensive. 😂
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djashjones@reddit

Especially the fussy feckers!!!
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callendoor@reddit

I have a "Food and household" budget of £300 a month for 1 person. I usually spend around £50 a week at Lidl on food, then a monthly spend on washing/cleaning/toiletries. Throw in a few meal deals and snacks throughout the month.
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BroadCat-9799@reddit

Usually about 40/week shopping just for myself
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Ill_Satisfaction_611@reddit

Why do you want to know?
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chickengenes@reddit

not me but my parents, 2 adults 4 kids (including me) its probably like 250-350 a week, they shop at asda or corner shops mostly, 500 if its christmass
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MushieMushroomy@reddit

I wouldn't say spending up to £300 a week is in poverty. That is £1300 a month which I think wins the record on this feed so far. I think you are in poverty as you are spending a excessive amount on food ❤️
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chickengenes@reddit

i dont buy any of it so idk how much is really spent, im just guessing
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Expert-Project-1885@reddit

£70 family of 4
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Disastrous_Cloud_558@reddit

The same as when this got asked last week, and the week before.
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Educational_Worth906@reddit

So far this year… 2 adults £50 a week for all groceries from Tesco (not just food). There’s a few things we sometimes get from Lidl included in that £50. We don’t generally get takeaways or eat out.
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Low-Captain1721@reddit

£30 - £40 per week for one person. Not including any booze or eating out.  Healthy diet but a lot of it, beefy rugby player build guy. Loads of red meat, fresh fish & wholemeal etc.. Cook fair bit from scratch. Make good use of visiting butchers van.  Buy mostly selling off when I see it & stock up the freezer.   Main shopping haunts are Little Waitrose, M&S foodhall, Asda and basics from local Tesco. Local market store for fresh fruit.  Occasionally local Lidl but use very selectively.
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Flat_Development6659@reddit

£100-120, 2 adults, Morrisons.
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Outrageous_Jury4152@reddit

£300 for myself. Not even 10% of my weekly wage so I'm not even mad.
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ValuableIll1412@reddit

We are a family of 5 weekly shop in Aldi is £80 a week, and we do hello fresh with discounts 4 meals for 4 people for £38.58. This does not include nappies from Tesco, etc. The Hello Fresh does push it up but has made such an impact for us we were so Iver the meals we were having and the time it would take this had been a big help
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CaptainLilacBeard@reddit

Single person, about £37 a week
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rain_fall_rose@reddit

About £200 p/w, 2 adults three children. Mostly in Tesco and Aldi. I could absolutely get this WAY cheaper but my husband is on a high protein diet and my children are Autistic so can only eat certain things (like fresh mango, strawberries, blueberries raspberries, watermelon etc etc the money I spend on fruit is unreal, probably EASILY £10\£15 a DAY)
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toolazytowalk@reddit

There are two of us but we have the kids and partners over every weekend with lots of nibbles, dinner and desert. Probably host friends a couple of times a month. Rarely have take aways. I spend about £150 a week online, pop to lidl or waitrose as well can spend another 10 to 40 quid easily. It's shocking. Online shops not is just food though, cleaning stuff etc. Oh and there's the monthly Costco run....
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mymessytoddler@reddit (OP)

I’ve stopped going to Costco. Spent so much on snacks that I do not need!
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leninzen@reddit

£45,000
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EELightning@reddit

Around £120-140 a week for our main delivery depending on what we've run out of.  That's for a family of five, with three late teens. Though now two of them have their own cars we're seeing much less of them.  And actually the food shop has recently been more like £100-120. 
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CranberryCheese1997@reddit

We've had the same budget for about 5 years. £250pm for 2 people, so about 30pppw. It sounds really like when I break it down like that, but it's enough to eat comfortably. This is mostly food shopping only as we buy most of the other things in bulk every few months from Amazon. If I were to include those, it'd probably work out to about £300pm. We've noticed a significant drop in what we can buy with £250, but we're determined to stick to the budget for as long as we can and save the difference.
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gaydadoftwo@reddit

Tesco mostly. 1 adult 2 children. £500 a month. Very little alcohol purchased.
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mymessytoddler@reddit (OP)

We’re 2 adults, 1 child. About £500 per month too and Tesco or sainsburys’s. I swear I spend more on my child’s food and snacks.
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RichardsonM24@reddit

It varies from ~£70-£150 for 2 adults and a 7 month old baby. More expensive weeks usually include things that we don’t buy weekly like meat (bulk), washing powder, cat biscuits and a big Lurpak.
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SuspiciousTomorrow45@reddit

£60 a week for 1 person
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