On average what is everyone's monthly food shop cost?

We try to keep ours to £500 per month to afford nursery fees 😓

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In the region of £500-£600. It's disgusting! That's including toiletries, washing powders etc as and when needed. 2 adults, one toddler and a baby. I swear the toddler eats hundreds of pounds of fruit a month 🤣

Around 3k

Sorry forgot to add family of 4

£120ish a week for a family of 3 including cleaning products, toiletries and the odd clothing item

Also about £120 a week. 2 adults, 3yo and an 8mo + a dog

Around £80 a week for essentials for a family of 3/4 (if my stepson is here) plus animals. We do a lot of cooking from scratch as it’s cheaper. Sometimes we will treat ourselves though and it will be more like £100.

£120-£140 a week for 2 adults, 9 month old and a cat. I could probably get it down to 90-100 but the Aldi middle aisle has me in a chokehold

£90-110 per week depending on cleaning stuff ect for a 2 adults and a toddler.

We shop at ocado which is expensive but the fresh stuff last longer so our wastage has gone down, we are quite good at meal planning and have calmed down on takeaways and snacks.

We spend around £120 a fortnight that’s including toiletries & laundry detergent. That’s for 2 adults & a 2 year old. We have a dog but don’t buy his food with food shopping

£350 2 adults 1 toddler

We usually spend about 600 a month, I get hello fresh boxes weekly, 300 a month, which I feel like actually breaks even with what would be the cost of groceries for those meals and then we end up spending about 300 more at grocery stores

£150 a week roughly- 2 adults + 1 toddler

About &560

£80 a week. 2 adults and 2 toddlers x

About £60 a week - 2 adults and a toddler. The differences on here are wild. I don’t understand how some people spend so much!

£150 a week not including take out or eating out… family of 3 🙃

Its me and my 10 month old and cant effort more then £100 a month
Only got UC so cant effort anything at the moment 🙃🫣

I’m gluten intolerant which adds quite a bit 😩 we tend to be around £700 a month.

I’d say around £500 a month for 2 adults and 2 cats x

About £80/week for 2 adults and a toddler

Between £60 and £100 a week for two adults, toddler and a dog, covers all food, cleaning products and toiletries. I cook everything from scratch and also batch cook, I aim to make two dinners a week without meat which really helps keep the cost down.

400 a month for everything

We budget £800-£1000 a month. Family of 2 adults, 2 children ( 4 year old & nearly 11 months old) & 1 cat. 🤷🏼‍♀️

£80 per week for 2 adults, 1 toddler and 1 baby. This may be more if extra cleaning products etc are needed. We get the minimum (all own brand) xx

I think the price of meat is horrific which really pushes our shopping up, going to trial some veggie alternatives x

I try to keep it to £75 per week as a family of 3

We only have £450 a month that we put into a separate pot in our bank to spend on food for 2 adults, 1 toddler we physically don't have anymore to spend. We tend to make up dump bags for the week so arent wasting any half used veggies etc and only buy what is on our meal plan for the week.

We aim for an average price of £80 a week for the two of us and our 3 year old daughter. Most weeks we hit it, others not so much

Somewhere around £70-£90 per week, depending on if we need cleaning supplies/ toiletries, that’s for a family of 3.

how on earth do you spend £50 a week on food?! Tell me your secret!

£300 a month but I normally shop 3 shops so get bits from everywhere

So food Lidl £150
Tesco bits I can’t get in Lidl
Home bargain for the cleaning essentials

£60 every 2 weeks and then about £30 top up every week. So about £180 every month. My partner works in the day so he gets lunch out and I work part time so I have lunch at work meaning we only really need tea most days because we both don’t eat breakfast

in our community

Is this clever or cruel?

My husband and i were talking and with social media and the internet in general being a terrifying dumpster fire, we are trying to figure out the best way to keep our son safe while still teaching him how to safely be online and moderation.

We landed on the idea of giving him the 90's kid treatment. A computer in the living room for us to keep an eye on what hes doing online, and once we feel hes mature enough to hang with friends without adult supervision he gets a flip phone. When we feel he is responsible enough and he earns and saves up the money for the physical phone, case, and screen cover, then we will be happy to take him to get a smart phone.

I thought this was air tight, but now my brother says its cruel to give a kid a flip phone, and besides he can just use his friends phones at school.

My husband and i remember a time before the internet, and we remember having complete access to something no one understood yet. We saw unspeakable things and are always battling with the urge to put the phone and social media down. I dont want that for my son, especially with his brain so vulnerable still.

If your partners parent passes away

And you and that parent didn't get along are you still go to the funeral?

Not my situation!

Partner no longer wants baby #2

Before our son was born we originally both wanted minimum 2 kids but we were hoping for 3-4. My partner found the birth traumatic to watch and also struggled a lot with the newborn/baby stage. He no longer wants to have any more children and it’s completely breaking my heart. I need another baby. We’ve spoken about it a lot and the options. He said he wasn’t COMPLETELY closed off to it so I asked him to try and work through his feelings and reconsider his decision. He eventually said he definitely doesn’t want another. I know that I will always want one and my feelings will never change. Do we have to break up or does anyone know anything else I can do to help change his mind? Has anyone else’s partner said this and then changed their mind? I don’t want to break up because I adore him and our life together and I’d hate to split up our family for “selfish” reasons and make my son miss out on having both of us together but I just don’t know what to do

Nursery funding

My child turned 9 months last week. I applied for government funded hours nearly 2 months ago and so well within the required timeframe for the April term, however upon receiving my first invoice without the funding applied and having questioned this, I have now been informed that the stretched funding doesn’t start until 4th May.

Has anyone else been told it won’t start until May?

The government site states it should start from April 1st, and so I intentionally set my nursery start and return to work as the start of April for that reason, knowing that I wouldn’t be able to afford the nursery on my sole income without the funding

Jealous of my husband

I’m so jealous of him and it’s making me resentful. We have a ten week old and I’m jealous that he is at work all day. I’m jealous he can leave for lunch and actually eat an uninterrupted lunch. Take a phone call uninterrupted. Chat with a friend he runs in to uninterrupted. Even go to the bathroom when he wants uninterrupted. He comes home from work when he wants. He’s not on a set schedule. Some days are late some are early. It depends on when he’s done. I’m jealous he can come home at 10pm and shower, eat and go right to bed uninterrupted because I already have the baby asleep. He doesn’t have to worry about anything house wise or baby wise because I’ve done it all. Meanwhile I’m covered in puke and crap and smell like rotten milk. When he is home he is VERY active and helpful. So it’s not that. I’m just jealous his world hasn’t changed and mine has I guess. This isn’t something he’s doing wrong so I’m not sure how to get past this. I wish I could keep him home all day because that’s how helpful he is, but I understand he obv needs to work.

Calpol

My mum has just given my 4 year old calpol because he asked for it. He isn’t poorly (although was last week, been fine this week) he just likes the taste of it. My mum didn’t check, didn’t ask, just gave it to him and when I’ve questioned her she said “he asked for it”. Then quizzed 4 year old who said he asked for it because it tastes nice.

How would you react?