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We are off to Europe for a month and are wondering if there is a significant saving to be made by taking a as much of our groceries with us as possible. We are on our 5th euro tour but everyone returning seems to be astonished by the rise in the cost of living over there?
Well that's a relief. A very good friend said they paid 2 euro's for 500 gr of tomatos and all and sundry appear to have needed to spend way over their anticpated spending allowance.
Well that's a relief. A very good friend said they paid 2 euro's for 500 gr of tomatos and all and sundry appear to have needed to spend way over their anticpated spending allowance.
Warm regards,
John and Jan
hi100kilo. everything in euro land is getting expensive we spend 5 months abroad off and on. for instance a cooked chicken 8euros u.k £4 -small pocket purse 4 euros u.k £1 and Italy has always been expensive. because of the crisis with the euro going abroad will cost more just look at portugal has started to charge for going on the motorways now.take as much as you can and just buy fresh stuff ( bread-veg-salad-milk ) and tea bags are expensive and there tea bags are not the same as ours ( there crap ) i should know we lived there 5 years the only thing which has stayed cheap is your bread. there is people on this forum who keep a record of there trip including money spent they will be able to tell you correctly . jud
Ciao, well it depends what you call expensive, and how you eat.
If you eat in season fruit and veg. it wont cost you that much.
€2 for half a kilo of tomatoes is not that much if they're not in season. Right now for €2 you can get 2 kilos.
Right now Lidl supermarkets are offering pork at €8 per Kilo, I pay the
same amount at my local butchers. Top quality beef is around €15 per kilo. Bread is becoming expensive at around €3/4 per Kilo. Butter is expensive. Cheese is expensive. Chicken and Turkey is cheap. Parma ham is expensive, and so is boiled ham, at about €19 per Kilo. Fresh anchovies are cheap, and delicious, and only cost €4.60 per Kilo. Fresh melon is €1 per kilo.
Moral - dine off fresh melon, home grown tomatoes, and fresh anchovies like I do. oh, eggs are cheap, €1.6 for a carton of 6.
Fresh whole milk is €1.51 per litre at my grocers. That is a fixed price printed on the bottle. A jar of Nescafe €4.90. Fresh ground coffee €4 for 250grams.
If you want bacon, and steaks, and so on, you will pay.
Can reccomend you bring a box of Typhoo or PG tips tea bags. Any left over I'll have 'em
saluti,
eddied
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We were in Italy for a chunk of April, the whole of May and a bit of June. Our van was fully loaded at the outset with man non perishables as I find the cost of food shopping to be through the roof, but you can manage this by shopping at Penny Market, Lidl etc if you wish. As an example, one litre of fresh milk is about 1.50 euro in the Auchan or Carrefour (yes, both are common in Italy), yet in Penny Market, fresh milk is 59 cents per litre.
Markets are good value for fresh veg etc.
Meat was highly priced everywhere except poor quality pork mince or turkey!
Russell
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Ciao, well it depends what you call expensive, and how you eat.
If you eat in season fruit and veg. it wont cost you that much.
€2 for half a kilo of tomatoes is not that much if they're not in season. Right now for €2 you can get 2 kilos.
Right now Lidl supermarkets are offering pork at €8 per Kilo, I pay the
same amount at my local butchers. Top quality beef is around €15 per kilo. Bread is becoming expensive at around €3/4 per Kilo. Butter is expensive. Cheese is expensive. Chicken and Turkey is cheap. Parma ham is expensive, and so is boiled ham, at about €19 per Kilo. Fresh anchovies are cheap, and delicious, and only cost €4.60 per Kilo. Fresh melon is €1 per kilo.
Moral - dine off fresh melon, home grown tomatoes, and fresh anchovies like I do. oh, eggs are cheap, €1.6 for a carton of 6.
Fresh whole milk is €1.51 per litre at my grocers. That is a fixed price printed on the bottle. A jar of Nescafe €4.90. Fresh ground coffee €4 for 250grams.
If you want bacon, and steaks, and so on, you will pay.
Can reccomend you bring a box of Typhoo or PG tips tea bags. Any left over I'll have 'em
saluti,
eddied
It would be interesting for me to see the comparison to UK prices. We do most of our shopping at the Lidl as it is much less expensive however the quality of some things is lower and much is imported from Germany where they don't have the same high quality standards as Italy.
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Motorway tolls are surprisingly good value in Italy.
We were in Europe for eight weeks in early summer and thought prices were high compared with last year. Back in the UK we found that everything had shot up whilst we'd been away and Europe wasn't so bad.
JHELM - here ae a few random prices from my Tesco shopping list.
500g Lurpak butter - £2
4 pint carton of fresh milk £1.49
300g Nescafe instant coffee - £6
Coke - 12 tins for £3 (Coke, not a cheaper brand)
Jar of Napolina tomato pasta sauce - 2 for £2
Walkers crisps - 18 packs for £2
Large chicken breats - 2 for £4 (can multibuy 3 packs for £10, mixing with pork, lamb etc)
Lean mince - 500 g - £3
Sliced white loaf - Hovis - £1.25
I think the UK is a lot cheaper than France, Spain or Italy for grocery shopping. I agree that ALDI, LIDL etc was cheaper in Italy but the quality left a bit to be desired.
Russell
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Hi
We can never understand why people buy expensive motorhomes, pay ferry costs and fuel costs and then worry about the cost of day to day items whilst away!!
The UK is cheaper than the continent generally, because there are so many more people per kilometre and of course there is so much more competition.
We would rather pay the extra and have great weather, peace and quiet and no riots!!!
Regards
Alshymer
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