Groceries: How Much Do You Spend Per Week

[Rouge]

We just survived on $160 a week. And it was fine. We weren't eating gourmet but no one suffered, and I entertained twice in a fortnight on that budget too.

Our usual budget is about $250 but what we don't spend we put away for things we need.

[Lisa]

Our weekly bill is around $300, that is groceries, meat, fruit & vegies.
That feeds all of us, gives the kids & DH morning tea & lunches. DH always has a meal for lunch rather than sandwiches or similar. Because DS1 is 15, it is like feeding a full grown adult, plus I also cook a meal once a week for my brother and SIL.

[Inanna]

I spend about $300-$350 per week... I buy from farmers markets where possible for fruit and vege. I buy organic meat - but I limit red meat to once per week and chicken to once per week with a fish meal and the rest vegetarian.

My shop is more exxy as I choose organic where possible. I use very little in the way of cleaners/sprays etc. & what I do buy is as green as possible. However it's all concentrated and lasts for about a year for a litre concentrate that I just make up...

I have a large family too which always makes it more expensive. DD14 eats as much as me and DS8 could eat a horse and chase the rider!

I do not buy bikkies or cakes and bake almost every day. I use rapadura instead of sugar where possible and I buy 3kg bags of spelt flour for most of my baking.

Pasta is non wheat so it's all nore expensive.

some weeks it's more than this and others it's less but on average that's what it would be..

[MantaRay]

I would spend between $150 and $220 per week. The more expensive weeks are usually when we are entertaining or maybe I just end up needing all the toiletries and stuff in one week. Often during the cheaper weeks it's because I have meat in the freezer or left overs from the previous week. It does also depend on what meals we plan.

[Pandora]

no idea. we dont shop weekly or fortnightly, I cant remember the last time we did a proper shopping but it would have been around 200 I guess. We buy meat in on go from a butcher, vegies and fruit as we need them and other stuff in between. Hmm, not the most organised.
Its particularly hard as I prefer to do the shopping, becuase DH will buy things we dont need like chips, popcorn, softdrink etc, but Im not getting a chance to ATM with a newborn in the house.

[~clover~]

We usually make sure we have $200 for shopping. Thats all shopping for 5 of us. Meat, fruit & veg & often a pack of smokes for DH, but usually there's not enough.
A big shop for us is around $300. Every time we have spare money we try to do a big shop. When we can afford it.

We only buy the kids chips maybe once every month or 2. I use cloth nappies, & we are very basic with our food. But we still get some great meals on that price. Chicken's a rarity It can be exxy. Roasts are also a once a month thing. Its usually mince, sausages, then chops or something I can marinade for something different. We only buy $2 bread too. We go through a loaf a day, so there's no way we could afford more than that!

Kids have sao's & salada's for school. Cheap le snacks are our junk food.

[Olive]

we shopped today and spent $150 at aldi we shop there fortnightly i buy meat from a bulk butcher and just a normal one every 8ish weeks last time i spent around $80 ,fruuit and veg is around every 10 days and we spend around $50-$60

[Astrid]

Probably spending around $200pw here, that is including toiletries, cleaning products, nappies and DH lunches. Thinking about it, we probably spend more. Would like to get it down. We do grow some of our own veg which really helps some weeks. Have really started to make a lot of things from scratch, so I think that is costing us a bit as I am stocking up on basics like spices and other baking ingredients.

We do have some wastage, I am not the best at meal planning and when I do it seems to get sabatoged (have to be somewhere else that arvo, so meal can't be put on etc). Can't seem to get my head around planning lunches, DH gets priority with leftovers for his lunch, so we just scrounge.

[Astrid]

Chicken's a rarity It can be exxy. Roasts are also a once a month thing. Its usually mince, sausages, then chops or something I can marinade for something different.

Just had to ask how much are you paying for chops and chicken? Down here free range chicken is almost cheaper than chops. The cheaper chops are often more expensive than rump steak.

[Trillian]

As a lamb producer I can tell you that lamb is only going to get dearer - prices are exceeding $120 per head on a regular basis ATM so that cost is going to be passed onto the consumer. There is no sign of a slowdown in the lamb market in the near future either. (but a huge bonus for us though as sellers)

[cocobambino]

Ours can range anywhere from 150-210