Weekly spend £££

Hi, I normally spend about 35-40 pounds in Aldi on the basics like fruit, veg, bread etc, and then usually about another 40 in Morrisons to get all the branded stuff I like that Aldi don't do. I am cooking for two adults and a child and feeding four cats, a rabbit and two guinea pigs! Hope this helps!
I will also add that when I did the Dukan diet, (I lost loads of weight very quickly but couldn't keep it up by the way) it was way more expensive. Slimming world is just normal food, with perhaps a leaning towards more fruit and veg but if you shop at the cheaper stores, the cost isn't too great.
 
I also shop at aldi and probably spend about £60 a week plus maybe a top up shop at Asda around £30 a week. I get all my meat from the farm shop, which is another £35 a month. We are a family of 3. But I used to shop at sainsburys and would spend about £150 a week.
 
Would you ladies recommend Aldi for fruit and veg? I ship at Tesco mainly and will top up at Asda now and then. I don't know about weekly, but monthly my budget is £450 and I struggle to stay within this :/
Am going to go to farmfoods once paid next week but it's the fresh bits that are the real penny pincher :(
 
There's me & OH in my house alongside 5 vegetable- munching lizards, 4 Guinea pigs, 5 rabbits & 2 squirrels. Per week I think i spend about a tenner at the market on fruit & veg. £20 or so at lidl on cupboard/frozen/tinned & about a tenner in the farm shop. At least £20 on bits through the week- milk, bread, branded stuff etc.
I can't recommend markets, aldi/lidl and local butchers enough! Markets stock seasonal food usually, so its what tastes good now! And butchers you can get however much of whatever it is you need so you don't overspend or waste food x
 
I live with my Mum and Dad and cat, and when I do online shopping (usually Sainsbury's) we spend about £80 a week on shopping. We usually get our fruit and veg from Lidl/Aldi which is quite a bit cheaper but we're taking advantage of the first online shop deals at the moment
 
Would definitely recommend buying your fruit and veg from Aldi. I always did my weekly shop exclusively at Sainsbury's or Morrison's as I have to admit, I was a bit of a snob and, a few years ago the quality of fruit and veg at Aldi I felt was poor. They have completely upped their game though in recent years and I am a convert! ok, perhaps you can't get the range of fancy prepared salads or fruit like in the more expensive stores but for your every day stuff it is so much cheaper and just as good quality.
 
Definitely looking forward to a bit of super market surfing next week then :)
I tried Aldi before for meat but I will admit I did find that not of the standard I'm used to. But am willing to try again for sure!
Although my home town is known for its market places, these have diminished greatly in recent years with the invasion of every supermarket going! But will defo have a look at the only fruit veg stall available too :)
Thanks ladies :)
 
I spend about 40 per week but do my shopping fortnightly so about £80. This is three meals a day for three of us but doesn't include top ups of milk and bread

Oh and i use tesco or sainsburys online or else Lidl (don't have an Aldi)
 
I spend between £45-80 for 2 adults and 2 children. Today, I spent £78. All of that was on fresh fruit, veg, fish and meat. My cheaper shops are when our meals are more carb based.
 
Sometimes it does seem I'm spending more when eating healthier, and following SW.

However, looking back at what I used to spend on takeaways/crap/junkfood - I am way better off.
 
I plan all our meals then make a list of what i need to buy, i spend from £38-£60 depending if i need meat or not as i buy that local from a farm but my main shop is aldi then asda for things like quark and alpen lights
 
We tend to stick to Sainsbury's as they have started cutting prices on vegetables plus there is plenty of variety and good quality, even the basics stuff is nice.
I get 1.5kg of carrots for 65p and mix things up with peppers, aubergines and courgettes.
Weekly spend is approximately £60 which covers mealtimes, I go and buy extras like energy drinks for a pick me up and pay for those personally and separately as I don't feel it right for my family to fund my pep drinks when I am really burning the candle at both ends.

I went into my local Aldi for a probe to see if it was feasible to actually switch my vegetable shopping over to them but it appears that my local Aldi is not worth it.
I really wouldn't mind walking there with a backpack to get the items I wanted as my group is literally across the road from Aldi but their ranges were disappointing. The only time I was pleased with them was when they had a run of Figs (I have a big taste for fresh ones as I have a mediterranean background) but even that was short-lived and was only available for a week.

I guess my problem with them is that their vegetable ranges only seem to be in for a week.
Branded shops there and in Lidl are actually more expensive than Sainsbury's (yes, I actually needed to sit down to comprehend that when I saw the prices) and their own brands are not in the same league as Sainsbury's.

Guess I will stick with them for now and keep checking, Waitrose and M&S (we have those near us as well) have some nice specialist products which can be desirable :)
 
We avoid supermarket meat like the plague. We go to Gabbott's Meat Mart in Tyldesley near Bolton and stock up on meat for the month, best quality and cheaper than supermarket meat.

I've been trying (and failing) to find a local greengrocers so we're still buying fruit and veg and everything else from the supermarkets.

We probably are spending a bit more to keep our fruit and veg and other free foods stocked up, but it's so worth it. Like others have mentioned though, a takeaway was costing us about 15 quid near enough every weekend, so I'd rather be doing this, spending marginally more overall, and losing weight.
 
I too am an Aldi convert. I used to shop at Waitrose and the quality of the fruit and veg is nowhere near as good as Aldi's and three times the price. I buy a trolley load of fresh fruits, vegetables, yoghurts, wholemeal breads etc for a usual total of £45.00. Once a month I go to one of the 'big 4" for the branded items I can't get from Aldi and for my less than 5% mince meat. So glad I swapped!
 
We shop Tesco online and sub with Aldi and Sainsbury's and end up spending about £60 on the four adults.
 
I've just spent £50 in farmfoods filling up my freezers, got to do tesco yet for branded main shop. Hoping I can fill the kitchen for £150 and that'll last a fortnight. I usually spend £170ish on first shop at payday in tesco alone! And that's for a week-ish.
 
I do a meal plan in advance and then go shopping, it's just for me so I spend about £30-£40 (including veg, which I buy frozen because it lasts longer) but I do tend to buy own brand tinned stuff/pasta to keep the cost down. I only get in season fruit too. I can live on that £40 shop for 2 weeks if I plan properly :)
 
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