How much do you spend on supermarket shops?

[Underturd]

For a family of 3, I usually spend between £65 and £80 a week. The price is pushed up by toilet rolls/washing tablets/fabric softener that seemingly is always needed. My son can't stop shidding.

If you stopped feeding him he probably would, saving money on both food and toilet roll.

[IsavedLatin]

I honestly feel sorry for people on a lower budget, sometimes my trolley costs £50 before I can identify an actual meal.

Absolutely my experience in recent times, and I consider myself a total cheese-paring skinflint -- I am not a profligate or thoughtless shopper.

That was magisterial, @Sherringford Hovis.

[iamcoop]

I would say around £100 a week for a family of three, sometimes slightly more. But that would include lots of toddler-centric stuff like nappies and bath stuff (which is all insanely expensive usually), and that cost will include stuff to make lunches for myself and my partner with so we don't really spend anything throughout the day.

I am also not ashamed to admit I enjoy a drink (no time to go out and socialise really anymore) so we probably go through two or three bottles of nice-ish wine between us a week.

I know I'm stating the obvious here but the price of groceries is now absolutely absurd, and I'm genuinely delighted to see they're all getting thousands of pounds worth of stock lifted on an hourly basis. If you cunts want to start charging £6 for a block of cheddar then you get what's coming to you. The price hikes are here to stay Tesco et al are all no better than a mafia organisation at this point.

I'm not really close enough to a Lidl or an Aldi to really take advantage of shopping at one regularly, the closest big place to me is a Morrisons and they're as expensive as Waitrose basically at this point.

We get a veg bag every fortnight of stuff grown locally that we pick up from someone's back garden which has been good as a)it's nice stuff and b)encourages me to cook better as I'm forced to use many things I wouldn't normally buy. But chill out with the beetroot guys!!!1!

[Sebastian Cobb]

I know I'm stating the obvious here but the price of groceries is now absolutely absurd, and I'm genuinely delighted to see they're all getting thousands of pounds worth of stock lifted on an hourly basis. If you cunts want to start charging £6 for a block of cheddar then you get what's coming to you. The price hikes are here to stay Tesco et al are all no better than a mafia organisation at this point.

Tesco are especially bad as loads of stuff has two price tiers depending on whether or not you have a clubcard, essentially turning not being tracked (yes I know they can probably still do it through card transactions but that seems a bit naughty under gdpr) into a privilege not a right.

[iamcoop]

Tesco are especially bad as loads of stuff has two price tiers depending on whether or not you have a clubcard, essentially turning not being tracked (yes I know they can probably still do it through card transactions but that seems a bit naughty under gdpr) into a privilege not a right.

Yep, and Sainsbury's have jumped on that bandwagon as well. Most of the bigger stores have a Nectar Card section now at the front that's several aisles of stuff with quite a big price discrepancy on items depending on whether or not you have a Nectar card.

[canadagoose]

How on earth are a lot of you getting it so low? What's an example shop for you? I'm guessing you just get a lot of rice, pasta, vegetables etc and eat that all week?

[Jasha]

Tesco are especially bad as loads of stuff has two price tiers depending on whether or not you have a clubcard, essentially turning not being tracked (yes I know they can probably still do it through card transactions but that seems a bit naughty under gdpr) into a privilege not a right.

If you look at the 'discount' price it's no better that the special offers you see in Iceland or Home bargains or Asda, it's a manufacturer unit volume discount so Tesco simply aren't passing the promotional price on but are still hovering up clubcard data. Getting paid in both hands.

[Emma Raducanu]

How on earth are a lot of you getting it so low? What's an example shop for you? I'm guessing you just get a lot of rice, pasta, vegetables etc and eat that all week?

More is the point, what are YOU getting?

[FeederFan500]

If you look at the 'discount' price it's no better that the special offers you see in Iceland or Home bargains or Asda, it's a manufacturer unit volume discount so Tesco simply aren't passing the promotional price on but are still hovering up clubcard data. Getting paid in both hands.

For the brands that is the case but Sainsbury's do it for their non-brand stuff as well.

I used to see this in France and was surprised it has taken so long for supermarkets here to do the same.

[Jasha]

I used to see this in France and was surprised it has taken so long for supermarkets here to do the same.

Was at a Carrefour in France that has clubcard only tills!

[canadagoose]

More is the point, what are YOU getting?

That's a good point. Bread, a couple of types of cheese, tortilla wraps, frozen pizza, frozen sausage rolls, lemons, oranges, grapes, onions, burgers, "celery, fruit and nut salad", chicken fillets, iced coffee, cream, a bottle of Frijj, cherries, mushrooms, cholesterol-reducing yogurt drinks, plain yogurt, cranberry sauce, vinegar, bum wipes, tequila, wine for Friday, eggs, orange drink, tinned veg chilli, ice tea, ginger ale, bleach, pineapple & coconut juice, limes, Pepsi Max, macaroons, Up & Go, sparkling water, berry granola, multigrain hoops, scones, Dr Pepper and paracetamol. Total £112.

Edit: Bear in mind I'm typically too knackered to cook.

[Midas]

get our data harvesting app and you may not have to suffer our thirty percent price increases and for every penny you spend you'll get one loyalty point and if you collect a billion points you'll get a voucher to redeem one kick in the balls at selected stores only

members prices are for bastards and nonces imo

[Uncle TechTip]

Just order a new clubcard every month then they can't track you for long.

Equally we could set up a network where cards are swapped around in a massive circle just to corrupt the data. Occasionally someone would send you the voucher they got on their address.

[bgmnts]

Yeah if youre not cooking you're fucked, really.

Fruit, veg, beans, lentils, wholegrains and the like won't break the bank.

Although I'm admittedly in a perversely privileged position.

[superthunderstingcar]

sparkling water,

There's your mistake right there.

[idunnosomename]

love walking round M&S at about 5pm like the Terminator with a HUD, but instead of John Connor I'm looking for yellow stickers

[TrenterPercenter]

prolly about £50-70 but we do like to cook interesting things and that includes lunches as we are both WFH at the moment - but I can do much thriftier if necessary.

If you want to save money then it is all planning, ditching convenience foods and going for staples, though ultimately to still eat well you'll need a herbs and spices cupboard.

Once you've got all that stuff you can still knock together some cheap eats and then buy in bulk (trying not to think, in days or weeks but  fortnights) then it is 3 days cooking, 3 meals in the bank (i.e. freezer).

Some real cheap lunches I've been having recently are sprucing up instant noodles or rice with stuff like Lao gan ma (chilli oil), douchi (fermented black beans - cheap af and last for ages), crispy onions, fried egg, stir fried leeks/veg, all pretty cheap.  Learning how to make cheap food banging is a great skill to learn regardless.

[derek stitt]

Befriend somebody who works in a supermarket and pretend to be their partner, that way you may be able to also claim a discount card and get up to a fifth off stuff for being the supposed other half. Really works out well when bulk buying bog roll, washing tablets and Nazi paraphernalia.

[AllisonSays]

I just can't bring myself to do a weekly shop, I know it's stupid. I like popping in the shop on my way home from work and getting some ingredients! Ideally they'd be in a brown paper bag and I'd live in an apartment in New York in the 70s but you can't have everything.

We get a veg box every fortnight so largely structure my cooking around that. Probably spend about 50 quid a week on groceries outside of the veg box, not counting cat food and baby stuff which we mostly buy online, not having a car.

I do struggle with buying stuff for midweek working from home lunch that isn't leftovers or potato waffles, though. Pasta with onion and anchovies sometimes, but usually I just have tinned sardines and cherry tomatoes on toast.

[Jockice]

My brain saw "type of wine my cat likes" there.

Lotte's more of a hard liquor fan.

[Icehaven]

Equally we could set up a network where cards are swapped around in a massive circle just to corrupt the data.

I don't know about other loyalty cards but with Sainsbury's nectar cards you can just use a screenshot of the barcode and it works fine, so you could send it to any number of people anywhere, they'll get the discount, you get the points, and Sainsbury's profile of you is based on you buying nappies in Cornwall and tequila in Edinburgh on the same day.

[Uncle TechTip]

I don't know about other loyalty cards but with Sainsbury's nectar cards you can just use a screenshot of the barcode and it works fine, so you could send it to any number of people anywhere, they'll get the discount, you get the points, and Sainsbury's profile of you is based on you buying nappies in Cornwall and tequila in Edinburgh on the same day.

Yes! Morrisons do this and Tesco have a QR code. So set up a suite of accounts, have an app that pulls up the relevant code for a store, you get the loyalty prices, the account builds up points and vouchers which can then be given to charity, and the data gradually becomes meaningless.

[Huxleys Babkins]

love walking round M&S at about 5pm like the Terminator with a HUD, but instead of John Connor I'm looking for yellow stickers

"Have you seen this boy?" *holds up picture of cheese and onion sandwich*