Food & wellbeing – How We Live Well On A £50 ($65) A Week Food Budget (Family of 4)
The food budget is one area that most people find difficult to challenge for savings.
Whilst chatting with a friend, she mentioned to me that her food budget is £200 ($260)/week.
I nearly fell off my seat because we live on a fraction of that and happen to also be a family of 4.
She, of course, could not believe it when I told her what we spend on food every week, and was curious to know how!?
Our Food Journey
Our current budget is £50 ($65) per week even though we can choose to spend £200+ per week on food.
I personally don't find it reasonable to spend £200 on just food per week. My brain can't process that.
In the same way, for many of you reading this, your brain can probably not process £50 per week!
Well, you'd be surprised how easily you can adjust as time passes. We live healthily on this amount and embarrassingly have to tell you that we too have food waste sometimes.
Since I met Mary years ago, we’ve always had a £50/week food budget as a guide.
I can’t remember exactly why we chose £50, but it stuck out as a neat round number.
Maybe it followed from the £30/week virtual budget I had when I was a single man and barely cooked anything.
Mary grew up in Hackney in London. If you have no idea where Hackney is, it used to be a somewhat run down and edgy part of London.
Today, it continues to be edgy but super trendy after a totally different “crew” moved in. It’s now so expensive that you’d struggle to buy a studio flat there.
Mary grew up there for 27 years and during special occasions when the family would host others, she would seek out bargains at 5 am weekend wholesale markets with her mum.
These are markets where you go to buy quality bulk fish and meat at unbelievable prices. Details below.
I, on the other hand, grew up in Lagos until I was 14 and then moved to London. What’s interesting about doing life there is that I’d gotten used to scarcity as an option.
What I mean by that is, if I suddenly got poor again tomorrow, I'd adjust very quickly.
Over there, you eat what you kill. You learn to be resourceful very quickly. In fact, it's a must if you want to survive and thrive.
There are no benefits as we have in the UK, USA, and similar countries.
So you can see, I already had quite a lot in common with Mary when we met. Although, we didn’t quite realise it.
When you’re courting, you can’t be seen to be too frugal as I’ve touched on re money and relationships.
Anyway, the honeymoon phase came and we carried on with our neat £50 budget as a guide.
You’d find this hard to believe but we continued this budget even when we had our two sons.
That’s right, even with the need to buy baby food, nappies, etc. Having two boys helps as we bought nothing new for the second child.
There were the odd weeks when our spend exceeded £50 and maybe hit £60 for the week.
But on the whole, it has hovered around the £50 – £55 mark on average.
It is hardly ever below this amount, although there have been a few occasions when Mary made it happen.
Now here is the thing, as time passed, resistance against this food budget grew. Resistance is a good thing by the way.
Mary would speak to her friends with larger pots for shopping and would then later drop the hints about our low budget.
I’ve always quietly laughed at this because £50/week is quite a decent amount of money.
However, given our incomes have increased over time (beyond inflation), there is a case for an increase.
In time though, she has gotten used to it although now and again she would give me that look.
I personally think that having this budget is symbolic and has helped slow down our potential lifestyle creep.
It has also helped us among other things towards paying off our mortgage early.
Our Food Habits
Our eating habits and choice of food has also changed over the years. When I met Mary, we used to love buying Spanish chorizo for example.
I also loved my steak and meatballs and would buy luxurious yogurts and the like.
We also used to buy juices of various kinds and enjoyed them with every meal. We’d eat all kinds of things from seafood to meat dishes, and also went out to eat a lot.
Over time, things started to change as we gradually moved away from eating red meat.
We did this primarily for health reasons although once in a while we might eat meat.
By once in a while, I mean at social gatherings but not at home. This is deliberate.
To get deeper into the micro details of our weekly shopping, I’ve invited Mary to write the rest of this post.
If it’s not clear, I’m the Chief Financial Officer of our home whilst Mary is the Chief Operating Officer.
These are fun titles to have but hopefully, indicate to you that Mary does a lot to keep things running well at home. In addition to work etc.
As Mary does the school runs and gets home earlier, she also shops for us and decides how the food budget is spent.
I make sure the cash is available although more recently we now spend for reward points on our AMEX.
I’ll now hand over to Mary to get into a bit more detail.
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How We Spend It
Guys, below are some of the tips on how we shop and live on £50 per week.
The biggest point is that we now have a mostly Vegan inspired diet. A lot of our shopping consists of fresh fruits and vegetables.
Below is a sample from a recent shop:
Note that in addition to fresh vegetables we also buy some frozen vegetables to add to the above.
Even more noteworthy is the fact that there is no alcohol in our shopping. We aren't drinkers unless socially.
The majority of our shopping is done at the local Aldi Supermarket. This used to be at Tesco and Sainsbury’s.
Aldi does the Aldi Super 6 section. I buy from that section if it is something we will eat. As you can see below, it's near empty as it's very popular!
It took a while for me to adjust but I don’t buy branded products. For example, I didn’t like eating anything else but Heinz Baked beans.
What we found was that our palates just adjusted over time. We eat Aldi branded baked beans, cereals, etc.
Even if it’s Organic, it’s still much cheaper than the big branded products.
With shower gels, we always only ever used the brand called “Simple”.
Aldi had a brand that did the same thing, and when we tried it out, we found that it was just as good.
I’d say about 85% of our shopping is from Aldi. The rest of it we get from elsewhere.
Take milk, for example, we use Coconut milk and it can be expensive.
We tend to buy those from Coop or Sainsbury’s. If they’re doing a deal such as a buy 1 get 1 half price, I tend to go abit over budget and explain it to hubby as a future purchase.
It’s not so strict that we will stick to the £50 budget if we think it will save us money in the future.
Other things like rice, we buy big bags from the Asian and African shops and compare it to the price at Sainsbury’s.
If you know what products you buy on a regular basis, it is good to check on price comparison sites ‘cos it could be cheaper elsewhere.
For example, Aldi sells 2kg bags of rice, but it might make sense to buy a 10kg one from somewhere else.
I’ve found that Lidl sells some of the snacks that we like. Toilet rolls and things we buy on a recurring basis, we now plan to buy bulk from Costco.
Detergents, we also buy the much larger size to economise over a few weeks. This feeds into the £50 and sometimes breaks it, but again it’s a future purchase.
Some weeks we make savings because we don’t always finish our food. For example, we might have been invited to people’s homes or social events or eat out.
When that happens, the next week’s shopping will be slightly cheaper and also offer us the chance to buy things like Avacado, which is quite expensive.
If you eat red meat, one thing you can do is to buy frozen rather than fresh. Or even consider your local butcher.
For fruits and vegetables, I have a dirty dozen list which I refer to. These are the fruits and vegetables, which contain the most pesticides.
If you’re conscious of eating purely organic foods, it’s very good if you can afford to as they come with a markup price.
What we do is look at the dirty dozen list.
If there are items that are not on the dirty dozen list, we just won’t bother buying them organic.
For example, bananas, mangoes, pineapples don’t tend to contain as many pesticides, just because of the skin.
Whereas, apples and berries, for example, get bought organic if I see it. If you simply can’t afford organic, there are ways to get rid of the pesticides on your fruit.
For example, soaking it in warm water and vinegar. You can look online for other ways too.
Another important point is that we do not buy ready meals. This makes a lot of savings.
We also do quick meals and at the weekends, we cook in bulk and freeze. A lot of this food helps on some evenings and end up as packed lunches for work.
When we cannot be bothered with cooking, we might simply buy a fresh pizza and whack it in the oven with chips.
Another important point for those with children is that we trained our children to eat what we eat. This means we don’t buy them fancy branded meals, which can be very expensive.
Some parents might find this very difficult but I would say that it’s usually not the child making the choices but the parents.
Children adjust very easily and forget about things in a matter of days.
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Other Food Points
We typically visit family monthly, and once a month, we have cooked food from parents. This helps as we don't cook for about a day or two.
In addition, we travel for about 4 weeks a year and outsource our cooking to have a break. That too helps in some way.
I hope you’ve found some of that detail helpful. This continues to be a work in progress and is unique to our family.
I’d like to hear some of your tips. Please share them in the comments.
No matter what your current budget is, I'd say there is always room for improvement.
The key is to be intentional about the whole thing and be prepared to put some work in for savings if you want it.
Below are some links for wholesale purchases. These are some of the places I would visit quarterly when I lived in Hackney. I visited the fruit and veg market fortnightly:
Fruits and Vegetables – New Spitalfields Market
Meat Market – Smithfield Market
Fish Market – Billingsgate Fish Market
If you don’t live anywhere near London, there will no doubt be similar options near you.
I'd also highly recommend the Aldi Super 6, which is available at all Aldi Supermarkets.
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You are a truly inspirational family. Your commitment to gaining financial independence is commendable!
You have provided a very informative article which I’m sure will inspire many to evaluate their monthly household shopping expenditure.
I too batch cook one weekend per month. This really helps me not just by providing a healthy alternative to purchasing expensive ready cooked unhealthy meal alternatives when paused for tine or just too tired to cook from scratch, but it stops me wasting time in supermarkets and being sucked into buying additional items that seem a ‘bargain’, but are more often that not items I would not normally purchase and certainly do not heed!
To name a few; I portion freeze chilli, bolognaise, Mexican chicken, chicken curry, pasta bakes, casseroles (during winter) and soups (great to make from leftovers and save for lunches). I also freeze roast chicken leftovers for sandwiches, stir fry’s and other meals.
I make whole meal pizza bases that I freeze as I also make my own sauces from tomatoes grown in my garden, then frozen in ice cube trays. This makes defrosting the right amounts quick and easy. Jamie Oliver taught me to grate and freeze all leftover/soon going out of date cheese. With the pizza base, sauce, chicken and cheese all stored in the freezer, you have a very quick healthy option ‘fast food’ alternative to make a quick pizza or calzone in the time it would take for your chips to cook or to prepare a delicious salad.
I’m loving the articles on your blog and the provision of helpful links! Please keep them coming!
Rea, whoa! Such amazing tips!! I love the variety of your dishes. I tell you what, I’ll take up the tip about pizza bases. Joshua and Elias LOVE Margherita pizza and we get through alot of it! About wasting time at supermarkets, this is so common. Although having a shopping list helps, it takes some willpower to go in there and come out with no extras.
Thanks so much for reading these and for your support. Much appreciated.
I loved reading this. I’ve been working towards a weekly grocery budget of 50 pound for me and my 18 year old son. He was away for a month and I easily ate for much less. He has returned and will be a student living at home. I’ve decided to have a budget for both of us – an experiment. I’ve become simpler and simpler in my shopping. I now shop at Aldi which helps. I’m sure I will be able to keep it to 50 pounds.
Does Ken remember me from the meeting in London earlier this year.
Hey Sonia, great to see you stop by. I enjoyed our Money Bloggers picnic and it was a pleasure to hang out. I like your experiment by the way. Much in life is achieved by trying things out and seeing what happens. 18-year-olds eat alot! It would be good to hear back from you on how you get on.
This is very impressive. My weekly shopping budget is still in the region of £130 and I know I need to cut down but I haven’t found ways to compromise yet… lol. We tried shopping at Aldi for a while but I just end up getting frustrated when I don’t find exactly what I need and have to go elsewhere.
Hi Waiki, £130 is ‘baller’ level ;). To be honest, most people probably spend in that region or more. Where you shop certainly matters. Simply shifting to a different store is an easy way to cut that budget without much work. The other thing I’d recommend is that you see what takes up the bulk of your shopping and consider where else you could get them cheaper. This way, you know exactly where you are going. Some things can also be bought way in advance i.e. non-perishable stuff. Aim to chip away £13 (10%) then £26 (20%). This could be a fun challenge. Who knows, you might even get to £100 total spend.
Here is another perspective though – Imagine an external person controlled your budget. If they only gave you £100 cash to shop for the family each week, would you make it work? I think so.
A great article Ken. I met you at one of the FI meet-ups earlier this year and have followed your blog since. We spend far too much on food and I am always challenging my wife and me to find ways to reduce this significantly. I’m almost embarrassed to admit our average monthly supermarket spend tops £1k. We were not really aware of this until we got serious about tracking our spending – i.e. what gets measured gets managed. This is a frightening amount when it looks like your family and others are achieving a fifth of that. We are a family of five with three little ones and probably the hardest aspect is having the time to plan and structure meals for the week (our youngest is just 1) so it has been a crazy year in that regard and I think this reflects in our spending in this area. We are making multiple moves to significantly reduce costs (cars etc) and the food category is definitely on our radar now. This article is helping to fuel that fire. Thanks
Hi Dan,
WOW! That is an astonishing spend. Although, I’d naturally expect a much higher spend than ours given you’re a family of 7. May I ask where you shop currently? Also, do you shop to a list or not? I get the time issue. We barely manage with 2 children… So I cannot imagine 5! Well done on that front. What I’d suggest is doing the planning on the go. For example, we do ours on our way back from Church on a Sunday afternoon. We have a 45mins drive and it fits in well with planning for the week ahead. So we talk about the exact meals we are going to eat by day and also what the packed lunches will be.
Mary types all this on her phone whilst I drive. Then, from that meal plan, she makes a shopping list. This was we are both on the same page about what to expect for the week. The list also covers things like snacks for the boys’ lunch boxes etc. Given she knows the exact budget we have, that’s all the money that’s made available. That way there is some discipline to stick to the budget.
The good thing about doing this is that the following week, we simply edit the meal plan we already had as there aren’t usually too many changes. About your lack of time issue, it may be worth considering the possibility of using family or friends to give you abit of a break. We aim to do this once a month and it’s amazing how much “Us Time” we get. That too is necessary.
Hope to see you at the next FI Meetup in October.
Hi Ken, we are five total (not 7) so it’s the wife and I and three little ones. Our shops vary between higher-end and lower-end shops but really the result of circumstance rather than intention. We fall into the pattern of multiple little shops throughout the week (because we have not planned in advance) and so this is where the running total creeps up. My wife is home with the three kids so is chasing her tail most days and so the food shopping is reactive rather than proactive. We will carve out time to fix this I assure you!
Cheers
Ah, understood. Do feedback whenever you can on how things turn out.
Great topic Ken and I love that Mary gave real examples of how you keep to £50 per week. As soon as we started a family it was out with the luxuries (gone are the days where we’d buy french trimmed lamb cutlets!!) and in with the lower cost supermarkets. It always surprises me how much cheaper a shop at Aldi is compared to Sainsburys, let alone Waitrose. Taste wise we don’t feel like there’s much of a sacrifice either, it’s comparable and sometimes we think it’s even better. One thing I have been doing lately is meal planning – I print out a simple meal plan template from the internet and plan out all our meals including breakfasts and snacks. Not only does it give you a concise shopping list and less food waste but it relieves you of having to think about what to cook on a day-to-day basis.
Hey Ros
I find interesting that you switched with the arrival of children. Did you initiate this or was it Mr? Meal planning is very useful and you seem well advanced. Do drop a link to a useful template if possible.
Hey Ken,
This is a very useful post with some real-world examples and a great collaboration with your wife Mary!
Sounds like you are both very frugal.
I wonder which one of you is the spender and which is the saver!
My wife and I shop at Sainsbury’s and our budget is £50 per week for 2 (no kids, yet).
There is some fat in there, but we get to buy what we want. To be fair it has been this amount for the past 7 years and so it has absorbed the annual cost of food inflation (no lifestyle creep here!).
I am tempted to shop at Aldi, but we have only done so abroad and I have a bit of a task to convince my wife that it will be worth it.
What’s your weekly or monthly entertainment budget?
You know, takeaways, restaurants, cinema and date nights with the wife.
Ours is £50 per week, but we easily underspend that amount because we see it as a budget and not a target!
Hi Leon
Thanks mate!
I’ve historically been the spender among us. But more lately, I’d say that i am probably a little more frugal than Mary is.
Entertainment is an interesting one. With kids, we at best have entertainment time once every 2 weeks.
When we are lucky to have this escape time for a date night, we usually do cinema or meal or an event. For cinema, we get Vitality cinema tickets for free. 4 per week. So we never pay. But for meals, I’d say we expect to spend up to £50, although it’s never that as we have Gourmet Society via Barclays Rewards and get discounts on meals.
So I’d day at most we spend £50 every 2 weeks. We rarely do takeaway because they’re all so unhealthy and mostly meat dishes.
We are a family of 4, parents with 2 children although our eldest is 18. I have shopped at Aldi for over 20 years, at first for just a few items but as their quality and range improved my spend with them increased to the point where I now purchase nearly all my food from them. I use the local butchers sometimes for meat as they do have some good offers. I also use the local market for veg as it can be cheaper and it’s not packed in plastic. Generally I spend around £65 – 70 per week which I figured was pretty good for 3 adults and a 12 year old. I cook from scratch most days, we rarely eat out and never ever have take-away. We eat healthy meals too, lots of veg and fruit always, fish 2 or 3 meals each week and at least one meat free meal. I now feel challenged to spend less on my weekly shop having read your post…….
Ellie, gotta say, it sounds like you are doing amazingly well. You’re the first person I’ve met who has shopped at Aldi that long. Wow! By the way, how has your budget changed as your children grew up?
I first experienced Aldi in Germany back in 1980 so I knew they were OK.
Our food budget has increased as the children got older particularly with our son who has always been active and now he’s 18 he eats more than my partner at meal times. I am fortunate that I changed career a few years ago which has afforded me more time to cook meals from scratch and batch cook to freeze which has kept our budget in check. Plus I always meal plan, use a shopping list and always pay in cash so I know exactly what I spend.
Have you tried soap nuts? I
I have used them for the last 12 months in place of laundry detergent. They are so cheap and work great and are also environmentally friendly. I bought a bag for less than £4 a year ago and I still have a quarter of the bag left.
Hi Adele, that sounds interesting. Never heard of it before. I can already see Mary getting excited about this one! Does it wash whites well?
For those who are unsure about shopping at Aldi, I’d suggest just going there maybe once every couple of months and stocking up on your household stuff: washing up liquid, kitchen and bathroom cleaners, floor cleaner, washing tabs/powder and conditioner, toilet rolls, kitchen towels, etc and seeing what you think of those. Then next time you go, buy what you liked from that list plus have a go at the toiletries section and / or the frozen food section. I’m on my own and I like what I like so do some shopping at the big supermarkets but I always get my ‘regular’ products from Aldi, shop there about once every 6 weeks. I buy the above (household and toiletries) but also get my extra mature cheese from there (love it, best on the market) plus my frozen veggies and wedges. Also get my tinned fruit (in juice) for my breakfast together with their muesli (again, best on market). There are things I don’t like in there but by trial and error and a once every few weeks shopping trip, I reckon I’m saving quite a lot on my food budget without too much hassle. That and the batch cooking all helps!
Hi Savannah
Cheers for sharing your practical tips there. I like the trial and error approach for sure!
Hi Ken and Mary,
Good article – thank you. We are fortunate in that we grow a lot of our own fruit, vegetables, nuts and seeds and also have our own hens for eggs so that provides us with quite a good portion of our food.
Like you we have cut back a lot on red meat for health reasons and I really prefer fish anyway. It’s an added bonus that it’s also cheaper!
We preserve quite a bit too from our garden and orchard so even through the winter we get some food which is pretty much free.
Warm regards,
Wendy
Hi Wendy,
It sounds like you’re living the dream! Mary would do anything to have that set up :). Are you able to share a photo of your garden? Gush, last time I saw chickens laying eggs takes me back to my childhood. Something our kids are actually missing out on living a fairly modern life now.
I would love it if you could share some of your favourite cheap meal recipes. Many thanks.
Hello Ken and Mary. I was quite shocked to hear that you spend £50pw on food because I’ve just found your website a couple of months ago and signed up for a free course. I’ve just recently started budgeting and meal planning so still getting the hang of things. I’ve been trying to get our food bill down (actively) for about a month and have also set that budget for a family of 4 (2 adults & 2 kids). I like to shop at Lidl and find all there food to be great. What I do is buy meat at my local butcher (he sells 6 packs of meat for £20) and then I have £30 to spend in Lidl for everything else. What helps me is that I’ve also given up on buying Name Brand things. (Example: their “simply” range of spaghetti is just 20p and penny pasta is just 30p), I figured pasta is pasta no matter what package it comes in and just make due with eating those two varieties instead of having different shapes. With everything else, I also look for the cheapest (which may not always be the healthiest option) but I do get to buy fresh veg & fruit, frozen veg, snacks for the kids and household products. The only thing that I do different is make an extra £10 available for nappies and wipes and then the change of that £10 is to top up for bread & milk for the week. I buy a medium pack of nappies (about 30) for £2.89 and a pack of wipes (4bags) for £1.99 at Lidl – I love their wipes and their nappies are perfectly fine too and work just as well as the leading brands. Anyway, just wanted to also say that I found your post super helpful and I’m glad I’ve found your website for tips and inspiration on how to save more and be more money smart. I will definitely be checking back. Thanks for all the ideas!
Hi Sandra
WOW, I love your detail!! Amazing stuff. I am glad to hear that you’re a happy reader. Makes all the behind the scenes work worthwhile 🙂
Yeh, avoiding name brands gives a massive saving! On nappies, I never forget the day we bought our last pack haha. Relief not spending on that was good.
Such a great post! I’ve learnt so much! Thins are getting tight around home now so I need to adjust and learn how to budget. I’ll deffo be using the tips here!
Thanks, Janice!
Hi,
Great blog post and gave me something to compare in terms of spend.
We are a family of 5 (3 adults, 2 children) and soon to be 6 and have a total budget (food, non-food) of £105 per week.
We shop at Waitrose, Sainsburys, Tesco’s, Asda, Aldi depending on who offers most discount in any given week to keep us within budget.
I would say as budget holder, that about £60 is spent on food, £20 on meat and £25 on non food items per week (W Midlands). The budget is unlikely to change with the addition of a child as we will likely shop more at Aldi or potentially purchase some non-food items in bulk. We already buy some food items in bulk like rice. So quality of food will certainly change (if we start shopping only at Aldi) but we can get used to that for short periods…one thing that we are looking at also is purchasing cheaper food items from local farms…
My other half spends the budget for food/non food and has been telling me if I could do any better with the same budget. I also class my time as a cost itself – so looking for cheaper foods VS. cost of time is really important to us. Again both our skills so balance is better. Also although one can get used to cheaper foods, it does come at a price – that’s a drop in quality and taste. I always think of it this way – would you rather put rich organic produce in the body or cheaper alternatives? You really don’t get more with less (unless buying in bulk from quality producers) in terms of quality…but it may certainly help manage family finances…!
Hope this help…
You make really good points about the balance of cost and quality. I appreciate your perspective. Interesting point about time as a cost. I guess this is an issue if one moves around fairly often to seek bargains. Bulk buying does help solve some of that.
hi reading you blog has been very educational. I find it really hard to believe that you can spend £50 per week shopping as a family of 4. How do you manage to do this please?. I will like more information on how you do this as an Africans.
Hi Titi
Interesting comment. Thanks for stopping by.
What is your current food budget? What do you typically spend the most on? Where do you typically buy your food?
Hi, our budget each week for a family of four is around £80-90. This is made up of two deliveries from Sainsburys of around £40 each. By switching to home delivery and their app I spend far less than before but can’t quite get down to one delivery. Fresh fruit and vegetable are a must (we eat a vegan-pescetarian diet) so it’s hard on a single delivery. How do you handle the end of the week when stuff is either gone or going off?
Also I value the time I save by not going to the supermarket… should that time value be factored in?
Hey Tony
£80 – £90 is a pretty decent budget. Regarding the end of the week, we tend to actually put fruits in the fridge especially for the ones we expect might not be quite as fresh later in the week. This helps extend the life.
On the value of time point, absolutely! Makes sense to factor that in, although for us, it works well as Mary typically shops after the school run on her way back home.
Hi Tony,
We also eat a lot of fresh fruit and veg. To use everything we buy I either make a double recipe and freeze half or I get creative towards the end of the week to use things up. I find planning the week’s menu helps too so I know what will be likely to be left over from one recipe and then plan something else to use it up. Sometime I just make things up and the family get a surprise that night!!
Nice Article it’s really helpful
Thank you for such an insightful article. We’re a family of three and have been surviving very happily on £60 food and £20 household a week, which has been fine and even allowed us the luxury of buying plastic free household goods like loo roll and toothbrushes.
Like so many people, we’ve had our finances permanently slashed by covid, and are going to have to reduced our food budget to £40 and £10 for household. All this at a time when food prices look set to rise thanks to brexit. It’s definitely going to be a challenge!
About to explore the rest of your fantastic blog.
Thanks so much, Rhiannon. How are you all getting on?