When I was living at home, my mum would spend between £100-£150 on food for the week. This was for two adults, two teenagers, and also included stuff like lunch for the people that worked for my Dad at the house.
I personally can get away with spending about £5 a week on food, because I'm a Uni student and just buy Asda's 8p noodles ;)
I think in my house we spend about £70 a week? That's 2 adults 2 teens.
Though I have a friend who spends about £170 for 2 adults 1 teen... I guess it depends on the family/where you're shopping/what kind of food you're buying >> whether it's premium or 'smartprice' y'know.
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In my student house we spend £5 to £7 a week on food and eat very well for it. We shop at Aldi and our meals revolve around pasta,rice,chopped tomatoes, sweetcorn, frozen peas, carrots,potatoes,sweet potatoes. All sorts of stuff. If you shop around and don't eat meat it's really easy to spend very little on food.
I spend up to £20 a week on food which includes lunches at uni but normally its only about a tenner if i am trying to be cheap.
My parents would only go shopping every fortnight due to being an hour for a supermarket and would spend maybe £150 or something but dont know the exact numbers due to it being so long since i lived at home.
About £80-100 for 3 adults and a teen. Depending on where the parents go to get their shopping. Am trying to have more control over what they get now (Y)
We spend around £100 a week, though when we go shopping we buy other things as well like washing up liquid, deodorant etc, you know what I mean. There's the essentials like bread and milk which we have to buy quite often but yeah, it amounts to around that. Whether you're spending too much on food really depends on your household income too though. For some £50 a week would be scandalous..
I just shop for myself [though loo roll and such is shared between my flatmates and I] and spend on average about £50 a week on food and household stuff.
This includes packed lunches for work days.
Shopping for one does tend to put the price up, as you have to get things that stay fresh, or in small packs, or that fit in the freezer.
Me and my husband spend around £50 between us on food but that includes going out once a week. We bargain for low prices at the market and decide what we'll eat around special offers on meat etc.
Its not just processed crap thats expensive, the healthy foods (apart from from fresh fruit) are expensive to, the juices that aren't from concentrate, dried fruits etc.
For the four of us, thats my mum and dad and my brother who is 16 and me, im 19 but don't eat meals we spend about £100 we do normally end up feeding 2-4 other 16 year olds at least once a week, normally more.
we speand about £20-30 about every 10 days on food for 2 adults. usually closer to the £20 unless we need to top up the herbs/spices (we cook all meals from scratch)
but when I lived with my mum she could easily spend £130 in a week for 2 adults my brother and me...
