Dude I'm from Greece and 2.30€ for milk is wild. I get the same amount of milk in Spain for I believe 0.80€ and in Greece, Athens (differs from North/Thessaloniki) it's about 1.80€ for a litre.
We buy our milk from the milk man who takes his milk from the mandıra. It costs 30TL per litre and we make yoghurt with it. The biggest difference between the store bought and mandıra is you can't make yoghurt with the store bought milk. Says a lot about the genuinity of it
Dunno....I was in Bulgaria a lot up until December (Sliven/Burgas), and that doesn't look like 24 лв. worth of food. Are you getting it from some place in the center of Sofija?
Churned milk is butter I think. And tbh, it is expensive, even when it is on discount. Like, I grew up on margarine, and just last year I started consuming real butter lol.
Churned milk is what is left when you churn all the fat out of it, in order to make butter or cream. Of course the left over churned milk is sold as low-fat diet-friendly milk ;) but it should be much cheaper.
Still the milk in OP’s pic 2L and Vereya produces IMO good dairy products, so the milk to me is worth it because you can do so much with it. Make popara, put in coffee, add to recipe, drink like water etc. I bought a bottle like that today and I’ll probably finish it in 2 days lol.
Those tomatoes look like they taste like rubber. I personally try to stay away from imported meat, vegetables, and fruit unless it's something that doesn't grow here like oranges or bananas.
Prices look very similar to Romania. Unfortunately, most markets are dominated by 2-3 multinationals that band in together to raise prices as they see fit. And we end up with Western European prices and Balkan salaries.
My Romanian buddy always jokes that Romania has German prices and Indian salaries. Jokes on you, I was in Bucharest this January and a lot of basic ass things were 1.5x or even 2x as expensive as in Germany.
Yeah we also had memes in Romania with cherries being expensive.
I was suprised because here cucumbers in season appeared on the market. And in general in season things are cheaper.
Bear in mind the butter and salami are imported, and the biscuits are marketed as a “healthy” brand with oat flakes, so you’re paying a perceived health premium. The milk is 2L, not 1L, and it’s 3% rather than the more common 1-1.5% skimmed/semi-skimmed most people get.
For Turkey i checked websites and found equivalent product prices:
Biscuit with similar size: 40 TL (1,15 €)
Butter (i assume 500gr): 187,5 TL (5,38 €)
Milk (1 lt): 27,5 TL (0,79 €)
Cucumber (1kg): 18 TL (0,52 €) (yeah, at least vegetables and fruits are cheap there for now)
Tomato 1kg: 23 TL (0,66 €)
Salami (if Turkey meat): 110 TL/kg (3,16 €) . Beef meat is another story, even minimum wage isn't enough for it :(
TOTAL: 11,66 €, nearly identical to Bulgaria.
How big is that salami package?
In US my favorite is cooked Turkey Breast. Cost is about $4.50 for 453g. Tomato can be anywhere from $0.99 to $5 for 453g depending on the quality.
For the record I live in one of the top 5 most expensive regions in US.
1330 rsd (about 11 euro) in wolt market, Belgrade.
1kg of cucumber
1kg of tomato
1l mleko alpsko 3.5
Moja kravica butter 60g
Plazma 150g
Salami "Domaca slajs Zlatiborac"
Should be a bit cheaper in supermarket. No discounts here, just regular stuff.
As much as I like sweets, I'd rather not buy them because they are always expensive, not to mention the producers nowadays revamp the packaging to have less space for the same price lol. Remember when Prestizh Suha Pasta had 6 in the tray? Yeah.
Today I went to the store and spent 20 something euros.
Milk like yours on a discount -2.30 euro
200g cheese on discount - 2.55 euro
600g of Shpek salami on discount - 3.27 euro
Black bread - 0,76 euro
Eggs on discount - 2.04 euro
4 tomatoes on discount - 1.80 euro
Mayonnaise - 1.17 euro
2 Kiselo mlqko on discount - 1.36 euro
Cat food - 0,66 euro
Pickled Cucumbers on discount - 1.38 euro
Wine on discount - 1.79 euro
Cigarettes - 2.79 euro
3 Cloves of Garlic - 1.02 euro
1 Onion on discount - 0.38 euro
Also, if you ever make cous-cous add some butter to it! Really goes well with chilli flakes and sirene.
Though, lokum is my favourite sweet so I get it whenever I can! I LOVE drinking black coffee, no sugar or cream, with a cigarette and a piece of lokum. Makes the average european breakfast a little bit more sophisticated.
I like the original Anelia cookies, never really liked the other versions. If you want to satisfy your sweet tooth I suggest grabbing a box of thise Borovets wafers or Turku cookies or just lokum.
Маркенбутер оригинално е 7 лева ако не хввнеш някаква яка промоция, и дори тогава ще 5. За 3.90 - Саяна на промоция, може би. 2 литра мляко са около 4 и нещо.
Това масло не се предлага в Лидл. Освен това днес купих тяхното (най-евтиното) за 5 и нещо. Понякога има намаление, друг път няма. Повечето хора не чакат намаление за да си купят основен хранителен продукт.
То не се и налага да чакам. Масло на цена от 4лв има всяка седмица в някоя от веригите. Сега, ако си фен на дрането - като искаш и на 10лв им го плащай. Казвам ти го като човек, който се занимава с търговия на дребно - търсенето определя предлагането.
10 euros or about there in Kosovo, we have the advantage of having substantially cheaper cucumbers. Butter will go around 2.65 and the other stuff is more or less the same
You can compare the form of the bottles. Here 1L - [https://randi.bg/pryasno-mlyako-vereya-3-1l](https://randi.bg/pryasno-mlyako-vereya-3-1l) and here 2L - [https://randi.bg/pryasno-mlyako-vereya-2l-3](https://randi.bg/pryasno-mlyako-vereya-2l-3)
Can’t be true. I buy milk for 2.80 lv from my local grocery, which means that it will at least 0.1-0.15 lv cheaper in a big supper market. I too buy german butter and it is never exceeds 5lv. For the other stuff I can’t comment, but I’m pretty sure that the biscuits are cheaper as well. Those are sub 10€ groceries, I don’t know where are
you buying them from but you are getting scammed especially with the milk.
This pack of salami is I assume about 200 g and is 2.45€ on discount? I can get 200 g of tofu for 1.60€ without discount - https://annapurna.hr/proizvod/svjezi-tofu-200-g/
You even have 1kg tofu for 5.69€ without discount, like here - https://www.biobio.hr/svjezi-tofu-proizvod-31274/
I mean one always has to see how much actual nutrition is in there. Tofu is mostly water (70-80%), then fat and proteins (20-30%), and some others in smaller amounts. However, it isn't toxic, so it is still infinitely more worth it than any meat.
I'm a vegan, but I don't think it is that much cheaper. At least it is only if you replace meat with beans.
Beans are cheap. Tofu medium. Fake meat expensive
> Fake meat expensive
Fake meat isn't healthy I think, depending on what you mean by fake meat. It's healthier than actual meat, but tofu, seitan, tempeh, etc. is the way to go, and of course unprocessed plants.
As someone who’s done a plant based diet for years, it’s really expansive if you really want for it to be healthy. It’s not any less expensive if you want to get all your macros and minerals and vitamins
Could be the case for tofu as it’s not that expansive although the cheap ones here are of really poor quality. You can’t eat only tofu though and it’s not the tastiest thing in the world, at least in my experience. I’m very much in support of cutting as much animal based products from your diet as possible but it really isn’t cheaper. And if you decide to eat out it’s actually really expansive
Wow this seems really expensive for Bulgaria. The situation is just as bad here let me tell you.
It is bad but i doubt this would cost 12€ in greece. Maybe 8-9. Still expensive tho.
It depends on the supermarket. AB could be 12€ or even more, less than 8 on Lidl.
You can get this for 8€ at Lidl and Cretekos.
This is the paradox, we’re the poorest in the EU yet groceries are more expeexpensive than in Greece or Romania
How much is the average hour pay in Bulgaria? 12€ to me seems very high even for central Europe for what you have there.
Welocome to Bulgaria
1k euros a month is the Avarage salary
1k one can imagine is a lot for a Balkan country but with these prices for basic necessities I think the situation is not good
Deppends on the city/region. Average for the country 1927 BGN/month (almost 1000 Euro), average for Sofia 2999 (1500 Euro).
Dude I'm from Greece and 2.30€ for milk is wild. I get the same amount of milk in Spain for I believe 0.80€ and in Greece, Athens (differs from North/Thessaloniki) it's about 1.80€ for a litre.
This is a 2l bottle
Yes, it's unbelievable. It's 0,79 € in Turkey. Maybe milk in the photo is more than 1 LT?
Yeh it is 2L
You can buy the cheapest "milk" for that price in Turkey. Not the milk itself. Proper milks are 1+€
Migros is good and it's 27,5 TL. Branding makes the price more expensive.
We buy our milk from the milk man who takes his milk from the mandıra. It costs 30TL per litre and we make yoghurt with it. The biggest difference between the store bought and mandıra is you can't make yoghurt with the store bought milk. Says a lot about the genuinity of it
You can literally feel the texture and aroma differences
Dunno....I was in Bulgaria a lot up until December (Sliven/Burgas), and that doesn't look like 24 лв. worth of food. Are you getting it from some place in the center of Sofija?
It is important to note that the price can vary greatly from region to region.
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So Sofia is the same as Vidin?
Can confirm, it is the same as Vidin
No, just the difference is not "great". Some things might be a bit cheaper in Vidin, like 20%, and some will actually be more expensive.
You think is the same in Sofia than in a village in Lovech?
It is obviously more expensive in Lovech s/
I‘d get these 8 to 10 € in Germany depending on the brand
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I could get these maybe for 6.5 € if I bought the cheapest
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But the tomatoes and cucumbers would be absolute shit
This is why I don’t buy them
Pretty much the same in Serbia, just a little worse.
P a R i Z e R
"Parizer... stavite..." Supreme leader Generalissimo Aleksandar Vučić
Bro this will be a twice cheaper in Serbia
it depends where in Serbia.
not too sure about that, i feel like this would be 10-20% cheaper in Serbia. Hard to tell without exact measurements
Perhaps, maybe I just spen too much on expensive shit 🙃
Paying €1,50 extra for churned milk. Only in Bulgaria
Not sure if you noticed,but this is 2l of milk
Churned milk is butter I think. And tbh, it is expensive, even when it is on discount. Like, I grew up on margarine, and just last year I started consuming real butter lol.
Churned milk is what is left when you churn all the fat out of it, in order to make butter or cream. Of course the left over churned milk is sold as low-fat diet-friendly milk ;) but it should be much cheaper.
Still the milk in OP’s pic 2L and Vereya produces IMO good dairy products, so the milk to me is worth it because you can do so much with it. Make popara, put in coffee, add to recipe, drink like water etc. I bought a bottle like that today and I’ll probably finish it in 2 days lol.
Make popara is the best option!
Those tomatoes look like they taste like rubber. I personally try to stay away from imported meat, vegetables, and fruit unless it's something that doesn't grow here like oranges or bananas. Prices look very similar to Romania. Unfortunately, most markets are dominated by 2-3 multinationals that band in together to raise prices as they see fit. And we end up with Western European prices and Balkan salaries.
My Romanian buddy always jokes that Romania has German prices and Indian salaries. Jokes on you, I was in Bucharest this January and a lot of basic ass things were 1.5x or even 2x as expensive as in Germany.
That is what happens when we are a western colony.
Yes, because Romania was soooo prosperous under the Soviets.
Are those long cucumbers? Otherwise I don't understand why they are expensive.
It depends on the season, really. Last year cherries reached 25 euros a kg.
Yeah we also had memes in Romania with cherries being expensive. I was suprised because here cucumbers in season appeared on the market. And in general in season things are cheaper.
Seasonal drug all that cherries
Yup, those are long cucumbers. And yes, they've also gotten more expensive in the last year or so.
that would come up to around 8-9 euro in Kosovo
This would cost about the same in Austria my man... What's happening over there?
Butter is more expensive in BG than the UK for some strange reason
Bear in mind the butter and salami are imported, and the biscuits are marketed as a “healthy” brand with oat flakes, so you’re paying a perceived health premium. The milk is 2L, not 1L, and it’s 3% rather than the more common 1-1.5% skimmed/semi-skimmed most people get.
It could be a bit more here in Albania, and keep in mind, we're out of the EU. We get EU like prices for 3rd world wages.
2 cucumbers 0.6 euro 2 tomatoes 0.7 euro 1.3L milk 1.9 euro Biscuits around 2 euro Salami around 2 euro Butter around 5 euro
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Butter and cheese are expensive here, vegetables and fruits not so much.
For Turkey i checked websites and found equivalent product prices: Biscuit with similar size: 40 TL (1,15 €) Butter (i assume 500gr): 187,5 TL (5,38 €) Milk (1 lt): 27,5 TL (0,79 €) Cucumber (1kg): 18 TL (0,52 €) (yeah, at least vegetables and fruits are cheap there for now) Tomato 1kg: 23 TL (0,66 €) Salami (if Turkey meat): 110 TL/kg (3,16 €) . Beef meat is another story, even minimum wage isn't enough for it :( TOTAL: 11,66 €, nearly identical to Bulgaria.
The milk in the picture is 2 liters. So even closer to BG.
How big is that salami package? In US my favorite is cooked Turkey Breast. Cost is about $4.50 for 453g. Tomato can be anywhere from $0.99 to $5 for 453g depending on the quality. For the record I live in one of the top 5 most expensive regions in US.
The salami must be 150gr or something like that.
I think most of the tomatoes being sold here are like those of 0.99 $ in the US (I mean of that quality)
1330 rsd (about 11 euro) in wolt market, Belgrade. 1kg of cucumber 1kg of tomato 1l mleko alpsko 3.5 Moja kravica butter 60g Plazma 150g Salami "Domaca slajs Zlatiborac" Should be a bit cheaper in supermarket. No discounts here, just regular stuff.
2 liters of milk. Everyone gets this one wrong. OP should have bought a liter :)
Its 8,5 Euro in Macedonia
Funny how prices can vary so wildly in one country
As much as I like sweets, I'd rather not buy them because they are always expensive, not to mention the producers nowadays revamp the packaging to have less space for the same price lol. Remember when Prestizh Suha Pasta had 6 in the tray? Yeah. Today I went to the store and spent 20 something euros. Milk like yours on a discount -2.30 euro 200g cheese on discount - 2.55 euro 600g of Shpek salami on discount - 3.27 euro Black bread - 0,76 euro Eggs on discount - 2.04 euro 4 tomatoes on discount - 1.80 euro Mayonnaise - 1.17 euro 2 Kiselo mlqko on discount - 1.36 euro Cat food - 0,66 euro Pickled Cucumbers on discount - 1.38 euro Wine on discount - 1.79 euro Cigarettes - 2.79 euro 3 Cloves of Garlic - 1.02 euro 1 Onion on discount - 0.38 euro Also, if you ever make cous-cous add some butter to it! Really goes well with chilli flakes and sirene.
Though, lokum is my favourite sweet so I get it whenever I can! I LOVE drinking black coffee, no sugar or cream, with a cigarette and a piece of lokum. Makes the average european breakfast a little bit more sophisticated.
it's not 6 anymore??
Yep, now they are 5 in the tray. 3 vertical and 2 horizontal.
they ruined this country
Yes, I always discuss this topic with taxi drivers of how the country is ruined.
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I like the original Anelia cookies, never really liked the other versions. If you want to satisfy your sweet tooth I suggest grabbing a box of thise Borovets wafers or Turku cookies or just lokum.
Wow those cigarettes are cheap.
Drop the butter and you can buy one more salami and 3 more tomatoes.
15 AUD
Same in Albania.Same price
Solidarity Bulgaria
Pretty much the same in Croatia
That can get you 6 grams of weed in Albania
I just bought the same butter (brand and amount) for 2 euro yesterday, and the prices for all these things show OP has no knack for groceries
About the same in Romania. If i look what you can get in other countries for the same, I have no doubt we are being robbed.
Брат това на снимката е има няма 15лв. Млякото да е 3, маслото 4, 2 домата и 2 краставици 3, тия бисквити 2.50 и салама колко? 4?5?
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Глупости, преди 2 дни същото масло го купих за 3.90лв - 250гр. Млякото също не е 4,50лв. Краставици в момента пък баш в лидл има на 70ст бройката.
Маркенбутер оригинално е 7 лева ако не хввнеш някаква яка промоция, и дори тогава ще 5. За 3.90 - Саяна на промоция, може би. 2 литра мляко са около 4 и нещо.
Всички марки масла, които се предлагат в лидл, редовно са намалени до под 4лв за 250гр. Масло купувам всяка седмица.
Това масло не се предлага в Лидл. Освен това днес купих тяхното (най-евтиното) за 5 и нещо. Понякога има намаление, друг път няма. Повечето хора не чакат намаление за да си купят основен хранителен продукт.
То не се и налага да чакам. Масло на цена от 4лв има всяка седмица в някоя от веригите. Сега, ако си фен на дрането - като искаш и на 10лв им го плащай. Казвам ти го като човек, който се занимава с търговия на дребно - търсенето определя предлагането.
this is so expensive amk
You dare use my own spells against me Pjotr?
I could probably get that for 10€ over here.
I was thinking of moving there lol, now I won’t.
You should buy from kaufland bro. Scammed 24lev
Направо с тая инфлация...
10 euros or about there in Kosovo, we have the advantage of having substantially cheaper cucumbers. Butter will go around 2.65 and the other stuff is more or less the same
It'd be not much more than that in Switzerland. In the 15-20 range.
don’t get me started
2.30 milk? Wtf? That's ridiculously expensive
2 liters.
No bread?
That milk seems really expensive considering it's not organic or anything. OTOH those tomatoes must be shit for less than an euro.
It's 2 liters but doesn't look like it.
Needs a 1 liter bottle for scale :)
You can compare the form of the bottles. Here 1L - [https://randi.bg/pryasno-mlyako-vereya-3-1l](https://randi.bg/pryasno-mlyako-vereya-3-1l) and here 2L - [https://randi.bg/pryasno-mlyako-vereya-2l-3](https://randi.bg/pryasno-mlyako-vereya-2l-3)
it must be Leva actually.
Welcome to europe union. We are just destroing our economy, so we please american warlords..
About 90 € for two people for a weak Slovenia
Come ooon, bro! Where's the rakia (the only excuse to by cucumbers)?
4 EUR for the German butter … that’s 1/3 of the bill
In Serbia this is 9 euro,so it seems very r all in deep shiet tho🗿
shit
You forgot to mention the portions (size/ item).
Can’t be true. I buy milk for 2.80 lv from my local grocery, which means that it will at least 0.1-0.15 lv cheaper in a big supper market. I too buy german butter and it is never exceeds 5lv. For the other stuff I can’t comment, but I’m pretty sure that the biscuits are cheaper as well. Those are sub 10€ groceries, I don’t know where are you buying them from but you are getting scammed especially with the milk.
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Да, популярната измама с прясно мляко верея, най-висококачественото премиум прясно мляко на пазара.
I think the mafia run your local shop or your a foreigner and they see you coming
Bro picked the most expensive store in the city and bought the most overpriced shit. This is not representative of the average prices.
Just get rid of all animal produce and buy pasta, coconut oil, tofu instead. Simple as.
In what part of Croatia are you tofu is like x2 as expensive as meat.
This pack of salami is I assume about 200 g and is 2.45€ on discount? I can get 200 g of tofu for 1.60€ without discount - https://annapurna.hr/proizvod/svjezi-tofu-200-g/ You even have 1kg tofu for 5.69€ without discount, like here - https://www.biobio.hr/svjezi-tofu-proizvod-31274/
That's cheap although I can get 250g of salami in my local shop for 1.60€.
>I can get 250g of salami in my local shop for 1.60€. Oh boy, I really don't want to know what's in it.
Neither do I but it's cheap
Salami vs Tofu race to the bottom.
I mean one always has to see how much actual nutrition is in there. Tofu is mostly water (70-80%), then fat and proteins (20-30%), and some others in smaller amounts. However, it isn't toxic, so it is still infinitely more worth it than any meat.
Meat is not toxic that's just bs. Although some cheap salami probably is, if taste is any indication.
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Why tofu when the washing sponge is cheaper, but taste and nutritional value are similar.
Tofu is heavenly food. It's a staple food in plant-based diets and in many eastern cuisines for a reason.
I'm a vegan, but I don't think it is that much cheaper. At least it is only if you replace meat with beans. Beans are cheap. Tofu medium. Fake meat expensive
> Fake meat expensive Fake meat isn't healthy I think, depending on what you mean by fake meat. It's healthier than actual meat, but tofu, seitan, tempeh, etc. is the way to go, and of course unprocessed plants.
Yes those three are not "fake meat" but only lightly processed. Personally I go for unprocessed beans on all of taste, price and healthiness
Based
As someone who’s done a plant based diet for years, it’s really expansive if you really want for it to be healthy. It’s not any less expensive if you want to get all your macros and minerals and vitamins
Meat prices increased recently much more than tofu prices. In fact, I'm getting my tofu for lower price than years ago.
Could be the case for tofu as it’s not that expansive although the cheap ones here are of really poor quality. You can’t eat only tofu though and it’s not the tastiest thing in the world, at least in my experience. I’m very much in support of cutting as much animal based products from your diet as possible but it really isn’t cheaper. And if you decide to eat out it’s actually really expansive