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summer06

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Just wondering how much people spend a month on there food shopping?

I’m moving into an apartment with my bf in 2 weeks and have never lived away from home before. Between the both of us we earn an okay wage but still have to watch what we spend.

Thanks in advance
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We spend way more than we need to on food shopping, the problem is neither of us have the time or inclination to go to the supermarkets and do a big weekly/monthly shop so one of us just stops off at M&S Food after work and buy enough for the next couple of days. I know it would work out cheaper to go to a big supermarket but I hate supermarkets :spank: I tried home delivery but they kept delivering wrong items and the quality of the fresh stuff isn't great.

If you are wanting to watch what you spend get into the habit of going to the same supermarket and get one of their loyalty cards - I still have a Tesco Visa card even tho I don't shop at Tesco but get Clubcard points when I use my Visa card elsewhere and I get £££ of Clubcard points.
 
We order online but it is a pain in the arse. Online we spend about £70 but I also tend to get extras during the week, about £30
 
I spend around £20 a week on lunch (need to curb that actually...), about £30 on dinners (plus £2 or something on cereal for breakfast) which will include a dinner out generally.

It's hard cooking for one and it's impossible for me to plan a weeks worth of food in advance because 3 to 4 times a week I'll not be in the house in the evening, either at a friends or out to dinner or in the office working late occasionally, all of which means that food would get wasted if I bought loads.
 
Barbie said:
We spend way more than we need to on food shopping, the problem is neither of us have the time or inclination to go to the supermarkets and do a big weekly/monthly shop so one of us just stops off at M&S Food after work and buy enough for the next couple of days. I know it would work out cheaper to go to a big supermarket but I hate supermarkets :spank: I tried home delivery but they kept delivering wrong items and the quality of the fresh stuff isn't great.

If you are wanting to watch what you spend get into the habit of going to the same supermarket and get one of their loyalty cards - I still have a Tesco Visa card even tho I don't shop at Tesco but get Clubcard points when I use my Visa card elsewhere and I get £££ of Clubcard points.
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Thanks Barbie that’s a good idea.

I’m going to try do one big Monthly shop and then do a small shop for fruit + veg by the week.

I hate supermarkets too. Stress.. :twisted:
 
summer06 said:
More money Threads,

Just wondering how much people spend a month on there food shopping?

I’m moving into an apartment with my bf in 2 weeks and have never lived away from home before. Between the both of us we earn an okay wage but still have to watch what we spend.

Thanks in advance
:) :)
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i spend about £30-50 a week, that includes food for making lunches for work... and most of it is spent buying basic meat, veg and fruit with hardly any "bad" foods.
 
chewie_oo7 said:
i spend about £30-50 a week, that includes food for making lunches for work... and most of it is spent buying basic meat, veg and fruit with hardly any "bad" foods.
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Thanks for that Chewie.

We’re on a budget so we wont be buying any bad stuff, which is good.
 
summer06 said:
Thanks Barbie that’s a good idea.

I’m going to try do one big Monthly shop and then do a small shop for fruit + veg by the week.

I hate supermarkets too. Stress.. :twisted:
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I don't know where you live but see if you've got any farmers markets local to you, their fresh stuff is far better quality than the supermarkets and cheaper.

I used to work for Tesco and I know that they were always cutting their prices to be cheaper than Asda and then Sainsburys would follow suit etc so you'll probably find that food shopping isn't as expensive as you think.

So is this your first time of living away from home?? It's exciting and scary isn't it cos I was like you I didn't have a clue how much anything cost and all the things you have to pay for that you don't think about :oops: :lol:
 
Buy your fruit and veg from local Greengrocers and meats from local Butchers rather than supermarkets. It is much better value and it is good for the neighbourhood too! 8)

Also if you have an Aldi close to you they have some great quality deli-style food at great prices.

Supermarkets tend to exploit our lazy spending habits. I used to always go to the same supermarket all the time just because i knew which aisles the different products were in - evern though there were two other supermrkets loser to where I lived.

I try not to give too much to the big chains out of pinciple nowadays.
 
We still spend ridiculous amounts on food.

Our weekly big shop costs around £150, then we pick bits up throughout week - maybe another £50-75.

Then there's the booze :oops:
 
Barbie said:
I don't know where you live but see if you've got any farmers markets local to you, their fresh stuff is far better quality than the supermarkets and cheaper.

I used to work for Tesco and I know that they were always cutting their prices to be cheaper than Asda and then Sainsburys would follow suit etc so you'll probably find that food shopping isn't as expensive as you think.

So is this your first time of living away from home?? It's exciting and scary isn't it cos I was like you I didn't have a clue how much anything cost and all the things you have to pay for that you don't think about :oops: :lol:
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Yeap first time living on my own. I’m 23 now and bf is 26 and we thought its about time we got somewhere of our own. I haven’t a clue about anything, Cooking, cleaning, shopping etc.. But I guess ill have to learn to do things for myself. Its about time I cut the apron strings. :)
 
Drew said:
We still spend ridiculous amounts on food.

Our weekly big shop costs around £150, then we pick bits up throughout week - maybe another £50-75.

Then there's the booze :oops:
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The booze always fills half my trolley too!

For some reason that large bottle of organic vodka / raspberry beer always seems essential at the time.
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btween mrs russ & my greedy self, we spend bout £50 per week on food

0% of that is spent in a supermarket.

go to a street market. its much cheaper, and nicer and you dont have to throw away loads of 'nasty' plastic. you get it in proper brown paper bags. perfect.
 
Drew said:
We still spend ridiculous amounts on food.

Our weekly big shop costs around £150, then we pick bits up throughout week - maybe another £50-75.

Then there's the booze :oops:
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That’s an awful lot Drew. I suppose in depends on your income tho. For the first few months we’re going to watch what we spend and then as time goes on we’ll get a bit more relaxed about it.
 
russ said:
btween mrs russ & my greedy self, we spend bout £50 per week on food

0% of that is spent in a supermarket.

go to a street market. its much cheaper, and nicer and you dont have to throw away loads of 'nasty' plastic. you get it in proper brown paper bags. perfect.
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Still don't know how you do it.

Our problem is time to shop around. We usually go to gym on Sunday mornings (yeah very sad :oops: ) then across road to Sainsbury's straight after.

Missus then picks up bits, again from Sainsbury's or M&S during week after she leaves work.

I'd even have it all delivered but "she likes to look first" :roll:
 
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