A week of dinners, and what it actually costs.

Most cheap-eating advice skips the bit that matters: the till. This is a real week with a real shopping list and a real total, priced off supermarket shelves rather than estimated.

• Seven dinners for one person, with what each costs a portion
• The whole shopping list, grouped by aisle so you are not zigzagging
• What to buy once and what comes round again every week
• Standard, vegetarian or vegan, whichever you pick

Every price in the PDF comes from the same data as the rest of the site, read off shelves by hand rather than taken from a feed. Anything we have not checked says so on the page.