What's your weekly grocery Bill

Rimmy · 13-08-2020 2:49pm #1

I spend on average 65 euro just for myself.

Just wondering what yours is and how many people you feed.

corsav6 · 13-08-2020 2:53pm

2 adults and 3 kids under 7. Average in total between the weekly big shop and picking up bits in between we'd spend €200.

Queasy Tadpole · 13-08-2020 3:00pm

Usually €100 without alcohol for the two of us.

Undertow · 13-08-2020 3:04pm

On average €100 a week for one. Probably a bit much but I love to cook, bake and get good quality meat!

Nothing surprises me now · 13-08-2020 3:08pm

Between 100 to 115 per week for 2 of us.

suicide_circus · 13-08-2020 3:22pm

I read the title of the thread in Liam Brady's voice

Gregor Samsa · 13-08-2020 3:29pm

Just checked the pretty cool records and charts that the AIB website give you on your spending habits.

Seem we're averaging €1,100 a month on groceries (2 adults, 3 kids between 7 and 11). That's about €224 a week.

cj maxx · 13-08-2020 3:36pm

Cheers Gregor, I didn’t know about that

gibgodsman · 13-08-2020 3:38pm

80-100 per week for 2 of us, depends if we get more meat or not

ozbackineire · 13-08-2020 3:38pm

Approx €70 for 2. Shop in Aldi and get meat in butchers

SVI40 · 13-08-2020 3:59pm

3 adults in the house, circa €60.00 per week.

Gregor Samsa · 13-08-2020 4:03pm

SVI40 wrote: »

3 adults in the house, circa €60.00 per week.

€20 a week each on groceries? Do yiz eat out/get takeaways a lot?

Queasy Tadpole · 13-08-2020 4:43pm

SVI40 wrote: »

3 adults in the house, circa €60.00 per week.

How?!

13-08-2020 4:45pm

Spend about 80 once a week on a shop for the two of us and then we spend about 100 between us during the week.

gibgodsman · 13-08-2020 4:46pm

SVI40 wrote: »

3 adults in the house, circa €60.00 per week.

Lies, absolutely no way this is possible unless none of you use the home to eat in

Sgt Hartman · 13-08-2020 4:56pm

Approximately €100 a week for 2 of us without booze. We take turns each week paying for it.

miezekatze · 13-08-2020 4:58pm

Usually 100-150 a week for the 2 of us.

Cushtie · 13-08-2020 4:59pm

Approx 120 per week. 2 adults 2 children. That's the main shop. Will pick up a few bits n pieces during the week aswell. Maybe 20 worth.

Usually would have 1 take away at the Weekend aswell.

13-08-2020 5:02pm

gibgodsman wrote: »

Lies, absolutely no way this is possible unless none of you use the home to eat in

No it's perfectly possible I only spent around €20 on food the secret is to eat a vegetarian diet and only buy supermarket own brand products.

SusanC10 · 13-08-2020 5:05pm

At the moment in our current times between €130 - €150 per week.
2 Adults, 1 Teen, 1 Child.
Shop once a week with Tesco delivered.
Sometimes includes alcohol, sometimes not as tend to buy our favourites on special offer.
We also spend between €25 - €40 per week at the Butcher also once a week but mostly 3 weeks out of every 4.
So in total between €155-€190 depending on the week but the higher end of that would be rare.
No top up shops.
No Take Aways or eating out.

TM2015 · 13-08-2020 5:06pm

The weekly shop is around 180 euro, split between Tesco, SuperValu and Marks and Spencer. For 2 adults and a young child. It covers us for 3 meals for 5 to 6 days. On Saturdays and Sundays we usually eat out.

Wibbs · 13-08-2020 5:08pm

About 30-40 quid for one. Not a big eater though so there's that. Like Clear Air Turbulence notes veggies are cheap, as are eggs, things like porridge, even meat is pretty cheap these days. I don't drink soft drinks and tea is cheap. Once a month I might have a takeaway of a bag of chips, but that's about it. Avoid the prepackaged stuff and eating like a horse and eating is pretty damned cheap these days. I do like my red wine which adds to the total, but that's two or three bottles a week so..

krissovo · 13-08-2020 5:09pm

Even using Aldi for a large part of the weekly shop were at 300/350 a week for 2 adults and 2 children. If I add 1 take away and alcohol its not good reading.

gifted · 13-08-2020 5:09pm

Gregor Samsa wrote: »

Just checked the pretty cool records and charts that the AIB website give you on your spending habits.

Seem we're averaging €1,100 a month on groceries (2 adults, 3 kids between 7 and 11). That's about €224 a week.

Same...some weeks it's more but never less....there's no feeding them....3 girls 11, 10 and 8......fridge is filled.....fridge is empty....it's an endless cycle...bless um.....

andekwarhola · 13-08-2020 5:21pm

2 adults, 2 young kids. Probably about 100-150 a week basic supermarket. That doesn't include stuff like alcohol or butchers plus we don't buy stuff like soft drinks, juice, confectionery, biscuits; pre-made foods or sauces, and we bake most of our stuff like breads, scones etc. Wife is a veggie also but other 3 of us eat meat 3-4 times a week.

Queasy Tadpole · 13-08-2020 5:27pm

Wibbs wrote: »

About 30-40 quid for one. Not a big eater though so there's that. Like Clear Air Turbulence notes veggies are cheap, as are eggs, things like porridge, even meat is pretty cheap these days. I don't drink soft drinks and tea is cheap. Once a month I might have a takeaway of a bag of chips, but that's about it. Avoid the prepackaged stuff and eating like a horse and eating is pretty damned cheap these days. I do like my red wine which adds to the total, but that's two or three bottles a week so..

40 quid with meat and a few bottles of wine... would you jog on. Post up your latest receipt there... you must be eating tiny amounts of calories.

andekwarhola · 13-08-2020 5:38pm

Queasy Tadpole wrote: »

40 quid with meat and a few bottles of wine... would you jog on. Post up your latest receipt there... you must be eating tiny amounts of calories.

/Supermarket off

/Trolleys at dawn etc.

bitofabind · 13-08-2020 5:38pm

Usually about £60 - £70 for little old me. Maybe a take-away once every other week. Big fan of M&S and because I'm shopping for one I don't mind paying that bit more for stuff that I really really like.

Church on Tuesday · 13-08-2020 5:59pm

€55.32 cent.

13-08-2020 6:23pm

Looking at the receipts it's always booze and meat that are the big ticket items.

Cut them out and you could save a fortune.

And be a miserable git.

quickbeam · 13-08-2020 6:27pm

Less than €35 a week for one.

Deebles McBeebles · 13-08-2020 6:32pm

Probably about 20 quid. Once you add in what the kids have stolen and my "pregnant" wife has hidden under her "bump" it would be around 180. Add the alcohol to that and you're probably talking 400ish.

quickbeam · 13-08-2020 6:34pm

Could easily go less than €20 if I was tightening my belt and cut out the junk and alcohol.

HamSarris · 13-08-2020 6:43pm

80 cent and often I’ve change left over to ride the trolley from Battery Park to the Polo grounds

13-08-2020 6:47pm

Under 200/month..... I'd eat just under 3000kcals/day.
That's breakfast, lunch & dinner.

Alex86Eire · 13-08-2020 6:48pm

Usually around €25 for one. I'd eat very little meat though and shop in Aldi. If I was baking for someone it would be a little more.

Leg End Reject · 13-08-2020 7:48pm

Can I ask all the €20-35 per week people what they eat?

I'd spend about €50 per week and I don't have extravagant meals at all, but I don't buy the cheapest of everything. You'd easily spend at least €10 on fresh fruit and veg.

Household stuff - cleaning products, laundry products, toilet roll etc bring that up when needed.

SVI40 · 13-08-2020 7:54pm

gibgodsman wrote: »

Lies, absolutely no way this is possible unless none of you use the home to eat in

Nope, it's quite easy. No ready made meals, or sauces. My butcher does 10 extra large chicken fillets for €10 2 will do 3 of us. 16oz rib eyes for €6.99. Fresh loose vegetables are cheap.
We don't do biscuits, cake or any of that, as we can't be bothered with it.
32 pack of Charmin bog roll, €12.00. So many things are on sale, 2 for 1 offers etc. It's quite doable.

There is a big difference between items you need, and items you want.

Also look at how much food the average family throws out, as it's gone off, or out of date. Or the amount of dinners not finished, as we cook too big portions, far more than what we need.

quickbeam · 13-08-2020 8:01pm

Leg End Reject wrote: »

Can I ask all the €20-35 per week people what they eat?

I'd spend about €50 per week and I don't have extravagant meals at all, but I don't buy the cheapest of everything. You'd easily spend at least €10 on fresh fruit and veg.

Household stuff - cleaning products, laundry products, toilet etc bring that up when needed.

Am vegetarian which helps. I buy cheese, eggs, pasta, couscous, rice, frozen veg, tinned veg, jars of things like olives, dried lentils. olive oll, stock cubes, spices and seasonsings, tea, coffee - lots of those last ages so aren't bought every week.

As others said, no ready meals, or ready sauces.

I'd be at the top end of your scale when I add in alcohol and junk food which I do on occasion.

BionicRasher · 13-08-2020 8:05pm

We have averaged €93.17 per week on Gluten free products alone in 2019
One of the family is Coeliac

once we put in the rest of the trolley we are up in the €200 range and that excludes the occasional fill of booze and once a month stuff like coffee pods

we mix shopping between all the supermarkets as we find its good to get different items and not be eating the same ol stuff each week

2 adults and 2 kids (8 & 6)

s1ippy · 13-08-2020 8:09pm

On average, €50 each per week these last six months. We're a couple. We grow and forage a lot of our own food, make everything from scratch, often in bulk to freeze and use as needed (faster, cheaper and more nutritious than buying premade or frozen). I usually have a home brew of some description going, about 40 bottles every month. I used to spend a lot more on drink, meat and flour for baking when we had people coming over for parties. I miss it.

Unfortunately the savings have been almost entirely offset by both necessary and frivolous purchases recently.

Seamai · 13-08-2020 8:24pm

For the two of us it averages out about €110 to 120 a week. We don't eat meat every day (nasi goreng and fried eggs this evening) and maybe eat out once or twice a month. I enjoy cooking and am always trying new things so there are always a few exotic things in the trolley and a LOT of fruit and veg. We don't drink a lot either, I'm sure we must sound like killjoys, I can assure you that we are not, it's just we are at an age where we need to look after ourselves.

Lyle Lanley · 13-08-2020 8:33pm

Somewhere between 15 and 20 euro for the two of us, depending on how many beers I drink.
I buy good beers and great meat. I don't worry about getting the cheapest of everything.

Oh, I also don't live in Ireland. I guess that's important!

Upforthematch · 13-08-2020 8:35pm

krissovo wrote: »

Even using Aldi for a large part of the weekly shop were at 300/350 a week for 2 adults and 2 children. If I add 1 take away and alcohol its not good reading.

Wow! Like would that even all fit into one trolley?

Ted_YNWA · 13-08-2020 8:36pm

Batch cooking is a great way to keep the costs down when single. 3 for €10 type meal deals could easily do 7-10 dinners depending what they are, Very easy to throw on a few extra potatoes & veg & freeze a few portions.

Probably averages around €40-50 for 1.

ChikiChiki · 13-08-2020 8:38pm

Spend 48 euros on shopping today and just gave in to cravings and spent 28 euros on deliveroo. And also had one last night.

Eoin McGee needs to do a show with me to sort me out.

Harry Palmr · 13-08-2020 8:40pm

Food and drink? About 30 euro a week for one, I grow my own veg and a bit of fruit which helps a bit.

onrail · 13-08-2020 8:44pm

£60-80 per week for the two of us plus a small baby - got us through lockdown so covered every meal. Maybe a takeaway 1-2 times a fortnight.

Found that the forced single weekly trip to the supermarket saved us a fortune in avoiding those ‘popping out to grab something’ days.

Febreeze · 13-08-2020 8:44pm

I spend around €30-€40 a week on the food shopping and that would include the tolietries and cleaning supplies in dealz.

Myself and partner do our own separate shopping as he's a gym nut and it's constant supply of meats and god knows what else so sometimes it's a shop twice a week but for myself I go once a with a plan of what I'm making for my lunch and dinner for the week as I batch cook and whatever is left over before the next shop I try and drag them out for another day or two then make another meal plan.

The most I spent was €100 and that was at the start of lockdown as I hadn't a clue what I needed to get because everyone was panic buying at one stage but I hardly go over €50 on a bad shop

We always make a point to get a take away once a week just to be a little lazy one of the days and we look forward to it!

L1011 · 13-08-2020 8:45pm

About 100/week without booze; but its knocked off average hugely by weeks where we buy close to nothing in the shops (have a milkman and we don't eat sliced pans so that's the two main fresh things you need dealt with); and then a weekend where I might spend 300 restocking the cupboards/freezer

Use a local greengrocer for most veg; cheaper than anything that isn't on offer in supermarkets and much more consistent quality. Buy some stuff in bulk in Eurasia in Fonthill which is dirt cheap for the stuff they sell.

Takeout once a week normally. I have no idea what my partner spends on lunch for WFH, I've been mostly at work and getting lunch there as normal.

Roger Mellie Man on the Telly · 13-08-2020 9:11pm

I lived for a week on £4 stg once as a student in Belfast in the mid 90's.
Beans on toast and whatever I could find in the cupboard.

What's your weekly grocery Bill

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