Groceries - how much weekly?

Lia_lia · 05-01-2017 10:28pm

Paullimerick wrote: »

It could be between 200-250 a week no matter what.
The joys of it.

Jayzus.

Not that one · 05-01-2017 10:31pm

115 a week.

Around 50-55 in aldi weekly.
Another 30 for bread/milk/papers weekly.
Another 15 butchers weekly.

Bins tags/cleaning products/tinfoil/firelighters etc works out about 60/month. 15 weekly.

Every 3 months (im guessing) we spend 50-60 on butcher packs of beef and chicken burgers/fillets/sausages/goujons.

Family of 2 adults and 3 primary school kids.

Paullimerick · 05-01-2017 10:32pm

Well the 250 might be at the high end of it but hi people have to eat I think. That is 7 dinners a week X 7 people along with other meals. I think it's not too bad.

Lia_lia · 05-01-2017 10:35pm

Paullimerick wrote: »

Well the 250 might be at the high end of it but hi people have to eat I think. That is 7 dinners a week X 7 people along with other meals. I think it's not too bad.

I guess when you put it that way. Just seems like a huge amount of money. But when you work out the cost per person it isn't that much.

Paullimerick · 05-01-2017 10:36pm

Ah hi there is weeks a lot less too let me add where there is the cleaning out of the freezer.

Shenshen · 05-01-2017 10:41pm

Two adults and 4 cats, we usually spend around 50 - 70 EUR. We shop pretty much exclusively in Lidl and Aldi, with occasional small shops in the Asian and Polish shops. We get dry food and litter for the cats in MaxiZoo

meeeeh · 05-01-2017 10:42pm

I also think it very much depends what you buy. A pack of basic frozen burgers will be cheaper than a packet of decent mince. Free range chicken will be more expensive than standard one, same for eggs. Spices to make your own curry will add up to more than a jar of premade stuff...

qo2cj1dsne8y4k · 05-01-2017 10:51pm

just shy of 30 euro a week to feed my dogs
1 big shop per month that would be approx say 130, toiletries laundry detergents cleaning products etc
3 little top up shops between 50-70

Sue Pa Key Pa · 05-01-2017 10:51pm

2 adults. Probably around €100 a week to include food, household products, wine, beer, daily milk, bread etc. Minimum 75% spent in Aldi

Spanish Eyes · 05-01-2017 11:00pm

What's the story with people who have pets to feed aswell, I mean the four legged variety!

OMG it's fine if you can feed yourself and family, but sometimes, between pet food, walking, Pet health insurance, the Vets, I think the pets are sometimes in the ascendancy here!

Sorry that only happens in England where they love their pets more than anything. Woops.

harr · 05-01-2017 11:09pm

2 adults 2 kids .... I have a definite shopping list of what I need and a strict budget of €100 ... ALDI and butcher... once a month then I do a bigger shop maybe around 150-170 when I get dog food and cleaning products and a few bottles of wine

The Moldy Gowl · 05-01-2017 11:11pm

300 euro.

I like to treat myself to the finer things.

shocksy · 05-01-2017 11:12pm

_Brian wrote: »

2+2 family here.
Typically €80 in Aldi, €20 on butcher, €50 fruit and veg.

€150 total.

That's a crazy amount to be spending on Fruit and Veg, how can you even spend that amount considering how cheap it is nowadays.

Mister Vain · 05-01-2017 11:28pm

The Moldy Gowl wrote: »

300 euro.

I like to treat myself to the finer things.

Jasus I thought I was bad. I tend to splash out on healthy stuff like wheatgrass and coconut oil which aint cheap. Then there's the whey protein because I'm lifting like a motherfcuker so I need to keep up the protein synthesis.

RhubarbCrumble · 05-01-2017 11:52pm

Between €60-€70 per week for 2 adults and a cat. That includes non food/toiletries too.

elstingeo · 05-01-2017 11:57pm

€20 - €30 odd a week as a single man living alone. That includes 6 meals, lunches with snacks for the week and some toiletries. All from aldi and Tesco the odd time. Obviously there's some weeks when it's more costly if I have to buy cleaning products etc when they run out but that's my budget.

eviltwin · 05-01-2017 11:58pm

The Moldy Gowl wrote: »

300 euro.

I like to treat myself to the finer things.

What do you buy that you'd be spending that each week?

The Moldy Gowl · 06-01-2017 12:00am

eviltwin wrote: »

What do you buy that you'd be spending that each week?

Fillet steak and the fancy brand names. Wouldn't shop in tesco like.

Corkgirl18 · 06-01-2017 12:06am

I spend about €50-60 just on myself.
I'm fairly picky with food though, I only go for organic and unprocessed and that kind of thing so it all adds up.

SCOOP 64 · 06-01-2017 12:09am

€100, 2 Adults, 2 kids.

Mr. FoggPatches · 06-01-2017 12:11am

5starpool wrote: »

About €60 per week in Lidl for 2 people. If I did the shopping on my own though I could probably shave about a tenner off that most weeks.

You think that and so did I. Alas, that is not how it works.
Sure, you don't buy the fairy liquid or the plug in air fresheners that she hops in the trolley but you do buy other crap.

Example:
I was sent to the shop by an ex to do the weekly shop.
I asked had she a list and she said 'Sure just get the usual'
Grand.
I landed bacl with a few frozen pizzas, a chicken, 12 cartons of banana milk, biscuits, a few packs of emerald sweets, a dust buster for the car and the Godfather boxset.
She never made that mistake again.

byte · 06-01-2017 12:46am

Around €50-€60 for the 2 of us per week. There's usually a take-away day on top of that though.

Fighting Tao · 06-01-2017 12:59am

Buy meat and chicken breasts in butchers and then the rest between Aldi, Asian shop and Tesco (odd time) works out at about €35 per week for 2 adults. Cook at home and make lunches too. Usually it's chicken, fish or some suit of beef each day so were not exactly slumming it. Not much of the food we buy would be pricesssd and I think that makes a big difference when shipping.

Shenshen · 06-01-2017 8:54am

shocksy wrote: »

That's a crazy amount to be spending on Fruit and Veg, how can you even spend that amount considering how cheap it is nowadays.

We'd spend about half our budget or more on fruit and veg - what's so odd about that? It's what we eat most of, after all?

mrpdap · 06-01-2017 9:41am

Fighting Tao wrote: »

Buy meat and chicken breasts in butchers and then the rest between Aldi, Asian shop and Tesco (odd time) works out at about €35 per week for 2 adults. Cook at home and make lunches too. Usually it's chicken, fish or some suit of beef each day so were not exactly slumming it. Not much of the food we buy would be pricesssd and I think that makes a big difference when shipping.

€35 per week and you have chicken, fish or beef daily?

Parchment · 06-01-2017 9:54am

Corkgirl18 wrote: »

I spend about €50-60 just on myself.
I'm fairly picky with food though, I only go for organic and unprocessed and that kind of thing so it all adds up.

Unprocessed food is the cheapest - fruit/veg when you compare it to buying a prepared fruit salad etc.

Buying a bag of dried beans is cheaper than buying tins.

Organic stuff is more expensive but unprocessed stuff is generally cheaper as people want to pay someone to process it for them!

Fighting Tao · 06-01-2017 10:01am

mrpdap wrote: »

€35 per week and you have chicken, fish or beef daily?

Yes. Go to a great butcher that looks after regular customers. Visit him maybe once every 4-6 weeks for chicken and beef. I then split it into portions and freeze it.

jester77 · 06-01-2017 10:26am

Just had a look at last year, spent on average €161.25 per week for 2 adults and 2 children. Although that wouldn't include what gets spent at the farmers markets, so could probably add another €20 or €30 to it.

Plus 15 a week on takeaway, damn, got to cut back on that.

Bulmers · 06-01-2017 12:01pm

this thread caugth my eye as we were only discussing our shopping spend over xmas.

really surprised how some people with families spending so little compared to us ( 2 adults, no children / pets )

according to the banking budget tool for 2016 it's saying spent 9k on food stuff ( tesco / aldi / butchers / fish monger ) so that's about €170 / week (this would include all toiletries / cleaning stuff) , which from reading through the thread is high for only 2 people.

we dont throw out a lot either and always use everything..think need to take a look!

snubbleste · 06-01-2017 12:15pm

Bulmers wrote: »

( 2 adults, no children / pets )
according to the banking budget tool for 2016 it's saying spent 9k on food stuff ( tesco / aldi / butchers / fish monger ) so that's about €170 / week..!

:eek:
You should be aiming for ~€30pppw max

We are very lucky in Ireland in that we have so much choice, good quality food and importantly good value. We take it for granted.

Parchment · 06-01-2017 12:20pm

snubbleste wrote: »

:eek:
You should be aiming for ~€30pppw max

We are very lucky in Ireland in that we have so much choice, good quality food and importantly good value. We take it for granted.

€30 ? im not sure i would have enough to eat if i only spent that much.

We spent maybe 40e a week each and the house is never bare but i dont think we would come out with much for 60e. Some meat can be 8e a pop so thats almost 10e gone already.

Lux23 · 06-01-2017 12:23pm

If we are eating healthy it could be €100 with our spend on lean proteins and fresh produce. If you don't eat complex carbs, you need a lot more meat on your plate. I could feed us for a week on about €30, but we wouldn't be eating a balanced diet.

GLaDOS · 06-01-2017 12:25pm

Parchment wrote: »

€30 ? im not sure i would have enough to eat if i only spent that much.

We spent maybe 40e a week each and the house is never bare but i dont think we would come out with much for 60e. Some meat can be 8e a pop so thats almost 10e gone already.

Myself and my girlfriend comfortably feed ourselves on less than €60 a week.

SCOOP 64 · 06-01-2017 12:30pm

It all depends how much food you get for your money, between shopping at Tesco or Aldi can make a big difference.

06-01-2017 12:33pm

Not really sure as it varies every week depending on what needed but maybe around 60 euro per week between two of us on average. I don't normally eat breakfast, buy lunch everyday and we would eat out or get take away 2 or 3 times a week so that reduces the grocery spend a fair bit.

Shenshen wrote: »

We'd spend about half our budget or more on fruit and veg - what's so odd about that? It's what we eat most of, after all?

It looks very high to me if it's just referring to fresh stuff.. I don't eat fruit and veg is dirt cheap so less than 10 euro a week would cover us for both. I'd spend far more on meat.

snubbleste · 06-01-2017 12:34pm

Lux23 wrote: »

If we are eating healthy it could be €100 with our spend on lean proteins and fresh produce. If you don't eat complex carbs, you need a lot more meat on your plate. I could feed us for a week on about €30, but we wouldn't be eating a balanced diet.

Course you would.
There are plenty of recipes online to meet the €30pp spend.

Parchment · 06-01-2017 12:39pm

GLaDOS wrote: »

Myself and my girlfriend comfortably feed ourselves on less than €60 a week.

Maybe you eat less than us.

ct5amr2ig1nfhp · 06-01-2017 12:48pm

I'm very surprised how little is spent on meats. I presume most people are not bothered with free range or organic meats at the budgets you're taking about?

We are lucky to have most of the larger supermarkets close by us (Dunnes,Tesco,Aldi,lidl,SuperValu) including a local butcher, but free range/organic meats are bloody expensive no matter where you shop.

Bulmers · 06-01-2017 12:50pm

snubbleste wrote: »

:eek:
You should be aiming for ~€30pppw max

We are very lucky in Ireland in that we have so much choice, good quality food and importantly good value. We take it for granted.

really, €30 each / week?

we do buy organic stuff and fresh, we don't eat processed stuff that much. What i do notice dear are nuts and seeds as we make our own flap jacks and muffins , stuff like that.

We would also get free range chicken, same when we get fish, so maybe that's part of it too.

We bring our lunches / meals to work aswell so no money spent ( my place has no canteen anyway )

Our main shop is done in tesco, just for handiness every 2 weeks which is usually around 160 - 200 and then maybe fruit / bread top up weekly in Aldi or local Dunnes.

meats / fish would be 4-6 weeks and about €40ish each time

Shenshen · 06-01-2017 12:52pm

Ronald Slimy Greengrocer wrote: »

It looks very high to me if it's just referring to fresh stuff.. I don't eat fruit and veg is dirt cheap so less than 10 euro a week would cover us for both. I'd spend far more on meat.

Fresh fruit and vegetables are by far the largest part of our weekly shops. Yes, buying only Lidl's and Aldi's special offers you can get some fruit and veg for under €0.50, but that leaves you with a very small selection. Most of the other fruit and veg range between €1.50 - €3.00, that does add up quickly.

Shenshen · 06-01-2017 12:54pm

Arya Raspy Sinusitis wrote: »

I'm very surprised how little is spent on meats. I presume most people are not bothered with free range or organic meats at the budgets you're taking about?

We are lucky to have most of the larger supermarkets close by us (Dunnes,Tesco,Aldi,lidl,SuperValu) including a local butcher, but free range/organic meats are bloody expensive no matter where you shop.

I'm hoping that most people buy meat that had a good enough life, and just eat less of it. But them I'm a hopeless optimist with too much faith in the good side of humanity.

06-01-2017 12:56pm

snubbleste wrote: »

:eek:
You should be aiming for ~€30pppw max

We are very lucky in Ireland in that we have so much choice, good quality food and importantly good value. We take it for granted.

30 euro per week for all meals for 7 days?

I spend that just buying my lunch the 5 working days of the week.

Lux23 · 06-01-2017 1:01pm

snubbleste wrote: »

Course you would.
There are plenty of recipes online to meet the €30pp spend.

But they probably aren't carb free.

RobertKK · 06-01-2017 1:02pm

I average about €30 to €35 a week.
Fresh fruit, veg and meat, fish, milk, porridge oatlets every two weeks or so, a frozen pizza, an apple tart, bread, yogurt, crisps.

Sam Kade · 06-01-2017 1:03pm

Ronald Slimy Greengrocer wrote: »

30 euro per week for all meals for 7 days?

I spend that just buying my lunch the 5 working days of the week.

I can never understand why peopled can't make their lunch at home for work instead of buying it ready made.

Parchment · 06-01-2017 1:03pm

Lux23 wrote: »

But they probably aren't carb free.

Well carb free isnt really ideal either - a balanced diet has carbs.

fg1406 · 06-01-2017 1:04pm

2 adults and a doggy and we do ours for about €45 per week. There'll be spikes when we stock up on meat but we only buy that once every six weeks or so.

andekwarhola · 06-01-2017 1:16pm

Always changes as time goes by but of late I think around 75-80 a week for basic groceries (2 adults, 2 young kids) and household stuff. Don't really buy that much crap and all meals planned and home cooked. That's not including stuff like bread (make it a lot of the time), weekend treats, milk, alcohol, pet food etc. I eat cheaply for work lunches: usually bring in a smoothie and we've bread, fruit and coffeee provided by work.

It sounds like a low budget compared to some but it's enough. Not a question of affordiblity and I think we all eat well and healthily.

06-01-2017 1:18pm

Sam Kade wrote: »

I can never understand why peopled can't make their lunch at home for work instead of buying it ready made.

Because its much less effort (no planning what to buy, having to buy the stuff, preparing the stuff, if you want choice its not cheap etc) and I much prefer to stroll into town and buy a nice fresh sandwich from a choice of multiple different places depending on what I feel like. I've no interest in bringing my own lunch even if it was free (which it isn't). Also I don't like eating dinner food at lunch so I'll just end up making a sandwich everyday or maybe a salad both of which are much nicer bought fresh at lunch and with far more choice.

eviltwin · 06-01-2017 1:21pm

Where you shop will have a lot to do with it. I do most of mine in Aldi, there are a few specific diet items I can only get in Dunnes and Holland and Barrett. I buy a lot of household items in places like Mr Price and Dealz as they tend to be discounted. I cook everything myself so I'm not spending money on ready meals. I have a meal plan each week so I'm never stuck and only buy what I need. If I didn't have the animals or the special diets I could feed the four of us on 50-60 a week.

Groceries - how much weekly?

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