It always surprises me when people post recipes or ideas here and talk about price, like " a week of sandwiches works out to 75 cents a day!" or "just buy a 10lb bag of rice for $3!".
Not only do we all use different currencies but we all live in different economies. So I thought I'd share a small haul of basic groceries I picked up yesterday and give people a chance to guess what this cost me, to give an idea of how the price of food varies from place to place. Receipt in the comments.
by FrankaGrimes
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[Receipt (CAD currency)](https://imgur.com/a/BGeF7I6).
*”You know it would be a lot cheaper if you made your own soup, grew your own vegetables, fruits, seeds, and grains, and raised your own cattle, right”?*
$109
Your receipt is right there …that guac was what $7? And why the boxes carrots when you have a bag?
Make your own guac, it’s cheaper to buy 2 avocados and an onion. Get a line juice concentrate container, some dry cilantro and garlic powder these 3 will last for multiple batches as well as be used in other things
That’s how you budget. Simply buying food you want doesn’t = budget
How do you like the Silk creamer?
I was thinking $50-60 US and your total works out to a bit more in USD. Some of your items were surprisingly more expensive than I thought but you also have some items I don’t generally buy and I don’t know what they are priced at locally.
It’s interesting to see what others buy on their budget.
I know we’ve got great prices where I live, and I’m super grateful. Living within walking distance of a Walmart wouldn’t be my first choice (I also live within walking distance of an ALDI; that I’m fine with) but it sure does drive down prices. Walmart/Kroger/ALDI battle it out to be the cheapest and the customers win.
where do you live where you can get a beautiful cut of tuna like that? and do you eat it raw or cooked
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Ahi tuna steak, pistachios, pre-made guac, and boxed carrots are not what I would call budget.
That “haul” for $109 CAD – is really terrible.
Thankfully that’s only 75 freedom bucks when converted, but even then – still not remotely close to being budget food.
Not sure why anyone contesting your caption is being downvoted because I’m seeing like $40 worth of groceries in this picture and a ton of plastic waste.
edit: looked at the uploaded picture of your reciept. I don’t think OP understands the premise of this sub. It’s to shop affordably – $8 for blueberries, $5 for sliced peaches, $13 for flavored pastes, $8 for pistachios isn’t shopping affordably.
That package of pistachios is $18.99 cdn at Costco. Totally not in the budget.
This would be about $85 in CA where I live
Either way sadly it’s the norm now
Something something eggs….
Would be about 30-35 Euros in a discount supermarket in Germany.
About $50-$60 if I bought it where I am from
The bag of pistachios is $9 where I live, which I could easily get three dinners for my family of four with instead. I wonder how cheap the actual cheap off brand stuff is there.