Explain my result
Understanding your Grocery Basket Planner result
Your grocery figure is a monthly planning midpoint for one household in a given city, scaled by household size. Here is what it means and how to make it match your real trolley.
What the number represents
It is the cited city grocery band (a low–high range from the SetTern catalog) taken at your chosen intensity — frugal uses the low end, premium the high end — then scaled for extra adults and children using the OECD-modified equivalence scale. It is not a receipt total; it is a planning midpoint.
What drives it up or down
Household size is the biggest lever, followed by intensity. Cities with higher catalog grocery bands (often high-cost or import-dependent) push the number up. Cooking most meals at home lowers it; frequent convenience or specialty shopping raises it.
How to make it yours
Paste one week of your own supermarket spend, multiply by 4.3, and enter it — the tool then uses your quote instead of the catalog midpoint. The source chip always shows whether a figure is catalog or your own.
Honesty & sources
Catalog grocery midpoint × OECD scale unless you paste a supermarket quote.
What to do next
- Compare two cities by opening the grocery planner for each.
- Cross-check against the cook-vs-dine tool to see how eating out shifts your food budget.
- Open the city-specific version for prefilled, cited local cost bands.