Yes, if you are willing to share a room for three, you might find things are available if you phone hotels, particularly independent ones that don't have corporate rules. You can change your choices at any time by visiting Cookie preferences, as described in the Cookie notice. If you're wondering how much households like yours spend on food each week or month, below we break down weekly and monthly food bills for households of different sizes, based on expected caloric needs of different ages and genders.

Budgeting apps like this (there are a number of others in the market, including Emma and Plum) can be a great resource if you're watching your spending. We multiplied these per-person figures by the relevant caloric needs and added up the people in a household to find the budget for different families. We are so lucky that we had the luxury of staying with family for the first week and that our kids are generally really easy to deal with, but next time we go away, and boy I do hope there will be a next time (although the husband may need some convincing) there’s a few things I’d change.To enable personalised advertising (like interest-based ads), we may share your data with our marketing and advertising partners using cookies and other technologies.

Compare this to the highest earning decile, where households only spend 12% of their budget on food and non-alcoholic drinks. Jeremy Hunt’s 2023 budget also included plans to expand 30-hours free childcare to children aged between nine months and two years in England.I also really missed my freezer stash of batch cooked meals, so if I had my time again, I’d do a big batch of cooking on day one, so he would have lots of healthy snacks and finger foods for the whole week. While this attempts to take into account different food needs for family members of different ages and genders, please keep in mind that these are estimates. However, in light of the fact that the latest ONS report is for the period April 2021 through March 2022 (ending over a year ago) and the current high food inflation in the UK, we've adjusted the figures in this article for inflation from the time period of the ONS Family Spending report until April 2023.