Price of food.
 

How much is your weekly shopping bill? How much more are you willing to spend? I suppose we dont have much choice, its like fuel (petrol).
I spend around £80 a week for 4 of us. I know a family that spends £140 for 3. I never seem to spend enough and cant quite cope with the idea that the kids are growing and need more food. It'd be jam butties and water if i had my way ;).

But really, how much should an average households shopping bill be?

We try to never set foot in Asda, prefering Aldi instead. Adsa houses the devil i'm sure, life seems to ebb away from me when i go there. I'm sure the devil will also house Tesco when that arrives too.
Am i rambling? Probably. Apologies if so, but i wouldn't be surprised if the economy crashes and were all rationed again.

Re: Price of food.
 

depending on where i do my shopping my average weekly bill for me and Reece is around £30/£40

Re: Price of food.
 

Actually our food bill is coming down,!!!! i think due to the `credit crunch` we are being a lot more careful what we throw in our trolley so its having a positive affect on us at the moment.....! although we`ll see how long it lasts.........

Re: Price of food.
 

i reckon about £80, 18 months ago same stuff about £55.:mad:

Re: Price of food.
 

Buy alot of stuff from Asda , however places like Lidl who do really good fruit and veg etc save you that little bit of cash! Id say we must spend £60/70 - family of four

Re: Price of food.
 

our weekly bill is constantly rising
ive started looking at prices today never bothered much before
one item stuck out for notice my tub of marg had gone up 30p
in a week 1.68 for a standard tub of flora
what single item have you found to have risen drasticly ? :hidewall:
or is it everything

Re: Price of food.
 

bit hard to say what ours is as I buy some things montly and soem weekly and some as we need them. I'd estimate about £60-70/week.

I would say that I think most food basics are still cheaper than they were in real terms 10 years ago. I think teh major issue is brand snobbery. you often pay twice as much for teh 'brand' than a non brand version.

Re: Price of food.
 

1kg of Go Cat dried food £3.78 at Tesco then went down to £3.00 for a few weeks then yesterday.......................£4.49

Re: Price of food.
 

You'll have to try a different diet. ;)

Re: Price of food.
 

LOL........:D

Re: Price of food.
 

ALDI? CHEAP? HUH....if you call nearly £1 for some spring onions at aldi cheap then fair enough but i dont i think its ridiculous, i also noticed that their fruit has gone up too, i havent been in years and i went this week to see if i could save some money, they didnt have half as much on the shop floor as i expected, cheap beans where 22p, they are a lot cheaper at asda, tin of plum tomatoes where 20 odd pence, they are also cheaper at asda,, aldi's crap full stop, i wont be going again

Re: Price of food.
 

Must agree Flashy one.......Aldi is NOT cheap, you only save money at Aldi because they have nowt much really to buy.......... go to Tesco, Asda etc and stick to their own brands and don`t buy anything you don`t really want and it will be cheaper than Aldi.......tried and tested it loads to save some dosh but always end up back at Tesco..........their spring onions were 35p.......

Re: Price of food.
 

its true pipples....plus it cost me nearly £6 return on the bus to get there for me and Reece

Re: Price of food.
 

£6................! was that an american branch of aldi....?....no i know what you mean buses are ridiculous these days

Re: Price of food.
 

Re: Price of food.
 

I reckon I spend between £30 and £50 a week just for myself but I do get a lot of fresh stuff, and I like a wide variety of things

Re: Price of food.
 

nope, that was to Ewood and back

Re: Price of food.
 

I spend about £45 for just me and the cat - and the cat's share of that is about about £12 (cat litter and pouch food) - so I spend about £33 - that is food only - because I buy petrochemical free toiletries and cleaning products seperately

I make my own bread/confectionary and eat (mostly) organic and home made, but I do indulge in a wine box every month and add on half a bottle of whisky a week in winter.

Re: Price of food.
 

About one hundred pounds for the two of us, plus ten pound a week for a veg box. This also includes the price of food for various off spring that call to cadge a meal.
We are vegetarian (except for a little bit of fish) do not eat many processed food.However I do spend more because of my food intolerances meaning I have to buy a number of Fee From foods.

Re: Price of food.
 

I agree with you Flashy, places like Lidl and Aldi were meant to be cheap but I dont think they are anymore, asda and tescos are just as good and theyre stuff looks better.

My shopping budget? Depends on money. I can do a wekkly shop for 25 quid for two of us, or 100 quid lol. If i'm skint, i dont do cakes and treats and just get the basics. I like to over buy (am a real hoarder) so I like to permanently have full cupboards and freezers. Came in really useful though when I was confined to the house for a couple of weeks with 'ye poxy one'. lol

Re: Price of food.
 

I spend around £60+ a week thats for a family of 4...but that doesnt include loo roll and other cleaning stuff i might need during the week, also i sometimes have to buy extra bits nr the end of the week just to last!

so really im spending about £80...which is bloody ridiculous!....and now asda want us to pay for bags:eek:...ruddy cheek!

Re: Price of food.
 

is there a food co-op i can get veg from? I used to get it delivered before i moved over here, usually cheaper than buying it in the shops and better quality.

Re: Price of food.
 

I don't know of a food co-op locally, but I could be wrong.

We get fresh veg boxes from Chilli Lime Deli in Blackburn, they are as near to being organic as you can get without being terribly overpriced. Unfortunately there is no delivery service.

Re: Price of food.
 

Tesco also do `Fresh` boxes of organic seasonal veg and they are very good.......

Re: Price of food.
 

And on this theme...............
Tesco have just sent me an email entitled
'Price Cuts Accross Many Produts

I opened it expectantly..................

Champagne for just 75pounds a bottle
Cava just 59.79
More champagen just 118.43


I can see they are listening to peoples concerns about raising food prices!!

Re: Price of food.
 

Put me down for a few bottles then.........:rolleyes:

Re: Price of food.
 

Are these amounts what a careful shopper watching his/her nickles and dimes would pay? Or are they prices that someone like me would spend? I am fortunate enough to be able to buy what I want for me and the animals; so I don't look for specials unless it is for non perishables like cans of soup. Whatever ... your prices seem way high. Beechy mentioned margerine for 1.68 a container. I have just been to the corner store ... these are not the cheapest places around .... and saw large containers of margerine at less than half that price: $1.25. And Chocolate Milk ... a fav of mine ... was on for 99 cents a litre.

Re: Price of food.
 

No they don't. Every time I have been in they asked me if I wanted bags and got them out for me.

One checkout girl asked me if I was not interested in the enviroment. I said of course I am these bags are bio degradeable, they just take about 400 years.

She proceded to tell me that they kill marine life. I said that I never knew they killed marine life to make them into carrier bags.

That was when she decided I was a lost cause and started putting my food through the till.

Asda don't care about the enviroment. They have just started putting smartprice jaffa cakes into cardboard boxes. They used to be in bags. Now you get two packs in bags inside a cardboard box. Thanks Asda for using more packaging for nothing :mad:

Re: Price of food.
 

I have never seen non-organic veg yet :rolleyes:

Re: Price of food.
 

HAHAHAHAHA PMSFL :D

Re: Price of food.
 

Next thing people will want is vegetarian eggs :D

Re: Price of food.
 

lol dont, i nearly fell off my chair when you said that about the veg :D

Re: Price of food.
 

Got 400grms lean mince from Lidl - fried it up with an onion.Added tin of chopped tomatoes.
Day 1 Cottage Pie
Day2 Spag boll
Day 3 Mince &mash/veg
Total cost £2

Re: Price of food.
 

Re: Price of food.
 

Nooooo I never put chopped tomatoes in Cottage Pie, does anybody else?? They are fine in Spag Boll but would never put them in Mince, mash and veg either. Just the way I eat it, anybody else agree/disagree???

Re: Price of food.
 

Mince with onion garlic tomatoes and parsley = bolognaise
Mince with onion garlic tomatoes chilli powder and kidney beans = chilliconcarne
If you cook a batch of mince with onion and then divide it up for the other things to be added on later days, you will not get the same flavour because the meat wont have absorbed it.

Re: Price of food.
 

If you buy the value stuff at Tesco which is pretty good then you are better off than shopping at places like Aldi.
Me and my Fiance spend around 80 pounds a month on all our groceries which we don't consider to be too bad.
You just have to be careful when shopping and get the bargains.

Re: Price of food.
 

That's what I did - forgot to mention the garlic.Can afford A chop now for Sunday £5 for 10 at farmfoods:p

Re: Price of food.
 

Was what I wanted to say get a pound or even half a pound add the onions and use it over how many days it last!!!

Re: Price of food.
 

Jamie Winehouse would be going mad if he seen this thread.. he ain't to cool on cheap produce! cos it ain't "pucka"

Re: Price of food.
 

Is that Amies brother?:(Don't have the recipe for space cake)

Re: Price of food.
 

I would have to buy about ten pounds of mince to do that in this house, our bill varies because we dont do a weekly shop as such, but would guess about £120 - £140 per week.

Re: Price of food.
 

I must pay attention to how much im spending, it used to be about £60 a week but not sure now

Re: Price of food.
 

Gives you more reason to recycle then doesn't it?

I use those cloth reusable bags, they're brilliant and don't hurt my hands as much when I have to carry them long distances.


I spend about £20 a week on myself I'd say, though I have started getting two weeks worth of food so then I get a better selection of what I fancy eating during the week. I could probably cut it down a lot more if I wanted to but I like to get snacks and things. The lads buy the loo rolls and cleaning products.

I do most of my shopping in the market/butchers and get bread and bits from the spar. Prices are similar if I shop at sainsburys. The cheapest place to shop I find is farmfoods for frozen stuff.

Re: Price of food.
 

Just something that depressed me this morning. There is a report out this morning which says that the average family is now £8 a week worse of because of extra taxation, but we should stop moaning, we've never been so well off, well accroding to a Labour MP that is

Re: Price of food.
 

I tend to shop around and when things are B.O.G.O.F. i stock UP.I cant believe how the price of everything as gone up... its now £1.29. at Tesco,s for a warbertons loaf.....Shheeese you could get a full weeks shopping for that once..............:pblink:

Re: Price of food.
 

Tories are just as bad if not worse....most of them are toffee nosed S***s anyway...............i.m.h.o.

Re: Price of food.
 

I'm cut to the quick GC:eek: I'll have you know that my nose is round and red due to Thwaites over the years:D:p

Re: Price of food.
 

Re: Price of food.
 

My daughter tells me her shopping bill for the three of them has gone up £25 a week in the last month.:eek:

Re: Price of food.
 

my shoppin bill has double in the last few months, i spend about 100pound every 4days, i have 4 teenaged boys , and they eat me out of house and home, there is 8 in the family , even they have notised food has gone up

Re: Price of food.
 

Buddy of mine just got back from that side of the pond ... it was his first time in England and he loved the country, and found the natives very friendly once they found out he was Canadian and not American ... But he did comment on the high cost of basic living ... And he did not spend all of his time in London. Apart from trips to Scotland and Wales and Liverpool (he's a big Beatles fan) he spent quite a bit of time with some friends of his who ended up in Mansfield. I suppose that prices in Mansfield would be pretty well representative of what is the norm.

Re: Price of food.
 

Just nipped to morrisons.....wish i never bothered!, half the stuff in there is dearer than Asda:eek:.....The only thing i found good was Weetos at half price..:D

Re: Price of food.
 

i agree with you on that one panther, they are a bit more expensive but the thing with morrisons is they have a lot of bogof offers on all the time

Re: Price of food.
 

yeh but not the things im after:rolleyes:

Re: Price of food.
 

I was just talking to a friend of mine about the increased cost of food .... much of our food is hauled long distances, and with the increased price of diesel fuel, food prices are going up. I thought I would throw out a few prices from a flyer I received from a local store to see how they compare with what you are paying. Produce Town is a middle of the road place; prices at Loblaws would be a little higher, and at Food Basics, a little lower.

All prices are in Canadian dollars; so, to compare, you will have to convert.
1 pint of strawberries, $1.99. Local romaine lettuce, 79 cents. English cucumbers, 79 cents, Ontario strawberries, $3.75 a quart. Seedless green grapes, 99 cents. Green peppers, 99 cents a pound. Peaches, 49 cents a pound. Pineapples, $1.99 each. Mangoes, 2 for 99 cents. Value pack of meat: 5 lbs lean ground beef, 5 lbs boneless chicken breasts, 5 lbs boneless pork loin chops, 5 lbs top sirloin steak, for $79.00.

Damn ... this is making me hungry ... time for a snack:)

Re: Price of food.
 

40p for a cucumber , also lettuce over there!, its 70p over here!!

Re: Price of food.
 

i would say mine about £70 to £80 and that's with going aldi for my fruit and feg. i shop round now ware i did not bother be for.

Re: Price of food.
 

You may be correct Granny.. I reckon that must be around the time Oliver Cromwell was running the Country! just out of interest ..what did you think of Cromwell at the time? :)

Re: Price of food.
 

Whole wheat or white bread: 3 loaves for $3.29.:eek: Didn't do much grocery shopping back in the day; but I remember when fish and chips were 1/6d ... :mad:

Re: Price of food.
 

there is cheap bread though Eric, Warburtons is teh 'premium' brand