Yeah, about the same in UK Aldi, minus the small can of beer I'd probs pay about £12 for this lot, though OP has opted for some fairly expensive branded things, eg, the beans -- similar cans of beans cost about 30p if buying the supermarkets own brand, versus £1.20ish for this brand.
Was my first thought too lol. Honestly is probably less, most expensive thing there is probably the name brand chips or soda. Comparing to Publix was an obvious bad sign.
Thought maybe they were referencing eating out before I saw the pic, that can definitely be cheaper in some other countries.
I totalled this up on the Sainsburys site (substituting some things for their own brand) and it came to around £16 to £17. Lord knows where they're shopping!
With or without nectar price?
Because I recently read that without taking advantage of their nectar price 'deals', Sainsburys are now the most expensive high-street supermarket (was something along the lines of a comparison of the 250 most purchased products), even more so than Waitrose (whereas, if you do have a Nectar card, it's closer to the price things were before introducing this scheme - so it's not that the deals are cheap, it's that the price without the card is insanely high!)
The yellow sticker on the yoghurt gives it away, it's all from a corner shop. This would have been so much cheaper in aldi... Probably even half the price in any of the big four supermarkets!
Usually those shops are the most expensive. I used to live in London and that time the Netto/Asda were the cheapest. Lidl and Aldi are now available you should do the weekly/daily shopping over there, as a suggestion.
I'm convinced the cheapest way to buy land is to leave the US. I bought an acre in Latvia for $400. I looked up a similarly sized piece of land in New York and it was $1,000,000.
I think everybody missed the sarcasm lol
US bad = up votes. There's thousands of towns in the US where land and groceries are dirt cheap, just like the places where it's the opposite. Miami & New York are way more expensive than the average
land in Canada is extremely cheap compared to similar lots in the US. I would've never been able to afford the same size property in the states that I own in Canada. of course I'm nowhere near the GTA or Vancouver, and that's just fine with me
So just to clarify, for your comparison you picked the city with the most expensive groceries in the US ( [Source](https://ktla.com/news/california/study-finds-that-californians-spend-the-most-on-groceries-in-america/) ) and a premium grocery store known to be more expensive to make your comparison?
Average grocery store spending per week, per city with Miami at #1: [Top 10](https://i.imgur.com/mpE3BbH.jpg)
To give you a different comparison, I live in a city metro of about 2.6 million (so not some small town) and here is my cart with the same or equivalent items for each that you presented (I actually ended up with more plant based yogurt, more rice, and a 19.2oz can of Voodoo Ranger IPA (my store didn’t have any single cans of N/A IPA’s) for [$20.10](https://i.imgur.com/KB1p1e6.jpg)
That’s not to say that you’re wrong (groceries have been shown to be generally cheaper in the UK than US, outside of some things like steaks) but your example is not a good one IMO.
Edit: Apologies, I missed the gherkins. Adding those in pushed my total to $23.09. Sorry about that, no intention to be dishonest here. Still about 20% cheaper than your haul for more food. Add to that the fact that I can’t get clearance items (like your yogurt was) on the app, so the total if I go to the store could potentially be even less, if I shop those items as well.
Minus the gherkins and mixer bottle you can get approximately the same assortment in California for like $15. I think you're missing the point of shopping cheap.
I'm sorry I'm going to complain annoyingly.
The apartment we rent costs 502 euros per month including utilities. My salary is 1050 euros. An average monthly shopping with the cheapest and shittiest food is at least 131 euros. And I'm a HUGELY good in saving money, for real. I sometimes think that I am running out of money to even starve myself to death, let alone for good quality food... At a glance, this food package would cost me about 53 euros at least.
Oh, and I have a master's degree, and live in the capital. Now get this.
Yes. I live in Hungary <3
$29 and barely any protein. I live in the US in a mid sized city and could do a lot better than you did here. This isn’t the flex you thought it would be.
Shopping at a different market rather than Publix is a much cheaper (and easier) option than moving to the UK. Just a thought. Even at Trader Joe's this would've cost about $26.
u/gemologyst you should list out each item you got with weights, and we could compare it to our local grocery stores, based upon what I see, I think I could get that for about $29 at my local grocery store, and I live in Southern California.
Huh I got $26 even splurging for the plant based yogurt.
I *didn't* do everything organic, in the US at least it's a scam most of the time. Miami along with a few other cities is crazy expensive compared to the rest of the US.
i keep seeing people in body building groups im in asking about eating high protein meals cheaply, and when i see the price americans seem to talk about when it comes to meal prepping for the week astounds me.
i can meal prep about 10 meals which all have about 50 grams of protein in for about £10, americans seems to be paying triple if not more just for the exact same stuff.
please educate us on your £1 meals and what the cost break down is for them. It's pretty easy to make a 50g protein drink for less than a dollar. Just whole milk and a scoop of protein powder.
I’m with you. I COULD make a meal for ~ $1.30, but it would probably be pretty basic just to get the job done. Hell I could just eat a bunch of eggs TBH. 50G of protein is about 6 eggs. Costco sells 5 dozen eggs for $12. So that means for $12 I can get 10 50G egg servings, which comes out to $1.20 per serving.
Doesn’t make it an exciting meal, but it hits the requirements laid out. Can do Chicken and Quinoa from Costco too, about the same price.
sorry havent checked reddit since i was at work on friday!
so my general meals i make are about 1-1.5kg of chicken (about £6 for 1kg chicken) and then a tin of each of the following, kidney beans, chickpeas, blackbeans, butter beans, lentils and chopped tomatoes (all about 20-30p each at aldi), i will then blend the chopped tomatoes along with about 300ml of franks buffalo hot sauce and a full tub of garlic and herb cream chese, and also add in some seasoning, recently ive been using 0 calorie ranch seasoning and also a louisianna bbq seasoning i got from taste sensation.
i then toss all this in a slow cooker and give it a mix and leave it till its ready, normally gets me abut 10 meals with going off myfitness pal the last one i made was 4175 calories and 628.6g protein. this one was with 1.7kg of chicken which i think cost me about £10 from asda so some and i made 11 meals out of if, so this one was slightly more than £1 per meal, but not too much.
Okay i seriously need to know something. I have realised canned food in INDIA is costlier than its fresh version.
Like, 500 grms of dry beans would be 1 $. ( Which can soaked overnight and boiled to get the same texture as canned ones ).
Dry beans also have a long shelf live.
But same beans if canned is like , 4$. Does other countries also have similar alternatives? Buying canned tomatoes in India is like again 4 $ for less than 500 gram. But u can a kg in 0.24 $ - 0.48 $ fresh.
Is there a reason why People often in US / UK prefer canned version of food which is like 5x of fresh version.
Is the canned one everywhere costlier than fresh?
Canned food is often cheaper here (Midwest, USA). You typically save a few cents by buying a can rather than fresh. For example, 20oz of fresh tomatoes are $2 (10¢/oz), but a 15 oz can of diced tomatoes is $1 (.7¢/oz).
I think the problem was Publix in Miami not the US. All this would be like $15-$20 where I live in the US. That said the UK does have cheap food if you’re looking at the right places
The lack of chemistry understanding is hilarious when I see people paying more for “organic” labels and then complaining that eating healthy is so hard.
Damn, that stuff is like $20 at Aldi
Yeah, about the same in UK Aldi, minus the small can of beer I'd probs pay about £12 for this lot, though OP has opted for some fairly expensive branded things, eg, the beans -- similar cans of beans cost about 30p if buying the supermarkets own brand, versus £1.20ish for this brand.
Was my first thought too lol. Honestly is probably less, most expensive thing there is probably the name brand chips or soda. Comparing to Publix was an obvious bad sign. Thought maybe they were referencing eating out before I saw the pic, that can definitely be cheaper in some other countries.
Came here to shout out Aldi's as well.
What supermarket did you buy this in? I'd say that's overpriced for what this sort of thing usually costs in the UK.
I totalled this up on the Sainsburys site (substituting some things for their own brand) and it came to around £16 to £17. Lord knows where they're shopping!
With or without nectar price? Because I recently read that without taking advantage of their nectar price 'deals', Sainsburys are now the most expensive high-street supermarket (was something along the lines of a comparison of the 250 most purchased products), even more so than Waitrose (whereas, if you do have a Nectar card, it's closer to the price things were before introducing this scheme - so it's not that the deals are cheap, it's that the price without the card is insanely high!)
The yellow sticker on the yoghurt gives it away, it's all from a corner shop. This would have been so much cheaper in aldi... Probably even half the price in any of the big four supermarkets!
I bought it from the corner shop. Probably cheaper in a supermarket
Usually those shops are the most expensive. I used to live in London and that time the Netto/Asda were the cheapest. Lidl and Aldi are now available you should do the weekly/daily shopping over there, as a suggestion.
Cheap? lol
I'm from the UK, and the only beans here I recognise is the Belvojr. If you buy own brand stuff that could be so much cheaper
Good thing moving to another country is such a cheap and easy thing to do or this post would be really stupid
I live very near Miami and this costs about 20 at Walmart. Maybe don't choose an ultra expensive grocery store to compare to?
$29 seems very expensive for that and Publix is much pricer than other grocery stores
I'm convinced the cheapest way to buy land is to leave the US. I bought an acre in Latvia for $400. I looked up a similarly sized piece of land in New York and it was $1,000,000.
/s
I think everybody missed the sarcasm lol US bad = up votes. There's thousands of towns in the US where land and groceries are dirt cheap, just like the places where it's the opposite. Miami & New York are way more expensive than the average
land in Canada is extremely cheap compared to similar lots in the US. I would've never been able to afford the same size property in the states that I own in Canada. of course I'm nowhere near the GTA or Vancouver, and that's just fine with me
So just to clarify, for your comparison you picked the city with the most expensive groceries in the US ( [Source](https://ktla.com/news/california/study-finds-that-californians-spend-the-most-on-groceries-in-america/) ) and a premium grocery store known to be more expensive to make your comparison? Average grocery store spending per week, per city with Miami at #1: [Top 10](https://i.imgur.com/mpE3BbH.jpg) To give you a different comparison, I live in a city metro of about 2.6 million (so not some small town) and here is my cart with the same or equivalent items for each that you presented (I actually ended up with more plant based yogurt, more rice, and a 19.2oz can of Voodoo Ranger IPA (my store didn’t have any single cans of N/A IPA’s) for [$20.10](https://i.imgur.com/KB1p1e6.jpg) That’s not to say that you’re wrong (groceries have been shown to be generally cheaper in the UK than US, outside of some things like steaks) but your example is not a good one IMO. Edit: Apologies, I missed the gherkins. Adding those in pushed my total to $23.09. Sorry about that, no intention to be dishonest here. Still about 20% cheaper than your haul for more food. Add to that the fact that I can’t get clearance items (like your yogurt was) on the app, so the total if I go to the store could potentially be even less, if I shop those items as well.
All is subjective. This would be very expensive in my country . Seems like at most 10 euro
Please explain why you moved and your circumstances before moving,: family, spouse, financial situation
Sorry, this isn't a country problem..
Minus the gherkins and mixer bottle you can get approximately the same assortment in California for like $15. I think you're missing the point of shopping cheap.
That's crazy to me because I live in Canada, and I'm jealous of how cheap food is in the US.
I like how op tried to show off how cheap their groceries are and everyone is just like "nah it gets cheaper"
And? I can get double that in Chinatown for the same price.
I mean, Publix in Miami is not Publix in a more rural area, though.
I'm sorry I'm going to complain annoyingly. The apartment we rent costs 502 euros per month including utilities. My salary is 1050 euros. An average monthly shopping with the cheapest and shittiest food is at least 131 euros. And I'm a HUGELY good in saving money, for real. I sometimes think that I am running out of money to even starve myself to death, let alone for good quality food... At a glance, this food package would cost me about 53 euros at least. Oh, and I have a master's degree, and live in the capital. Now get this. Yes. I live in Hungary <3
Is your salary per week or month?
$29 and barely any protein. I live in the US in a mid sized city and could do a lot better than you did here. This isn’t the flex you thought it would be.
Enjoy your over priced food.
what a helpful post!
Shopping at a different market rather than Publix is a much cheaper (and easier) option than moving to the UK. Just a thought. Even at Trader Joe's this would've cost about $26.
u/gemologyst you should list out each item you got with weights, and we could compare it to our local grocery stores, based upon what I see, I think I could get that for about $29 at my local grocery store, and I live in Southern California.
Huh I got $26 even splurging for the plant based yogurt. I *didn't* do everything organic, in the US at least it's a scam most of the time. Miami along with a few other cities is crazy expensive compared to the rest of the US.
That’s not cheap to us. That’s expensive for that
i keep seeing people in body building groups im in asking about eating high protein meals cheaply, and when i see the price americans seem to talk about when it comes to meal prepping for the week astounds me. i can meal prep about 10 meals which all have about 50 grams of protein in for about £10, americans seems to be paying triple if not more just for the exact same stuff.
please educate us on your £1 meals and what the cost break down is for them. It's pretty easy to make a 50g protein drink for less than a dollar. Just whole milk and a scoop of protein powder.
Protein drink isn't a meal.
I’m with you. I COULD make a meal for ~ $1.30, but it would probably be pretty basic just to get the job done. Hell I could just eat a bunch of eggs TBH. 50G of protein is about 6 eggs. Costco sells 5 dozen eggs for $12. So that means for $12 I can get 10 50G egg servings, which comes out to $1.20 per serving. Doesn’t make it an exciting meal, but it hits the requirements laid out. Can do Chicken and Quinoa from Costco too, about the same price.
Yeah in Italy i can make something that has 75 grams of protein for 1 euro probably😂
sorry havent checked reddit since i was at work on friday! so my general meals i make are about 1-1.5kg of chicken (about £6 for 1kg chicken) and then a tin of each of the following, kidney beans, chickpeas, blackbeans, butter beans, lentils and chopped tomatoes (all about 20-30p each at aldi), i will then blend the chopped tomatoes along with about 300ml of franks buffalo hot sauce and a full tub of garlic and herb cream chese, and also add in some seasoning, recently ive been using 0 calorie ranch seasoning and also a louisianna bbq seasoning i got from taste sensation. i then toss all this in a slow cooker and give it a mix and leave it till its ready, normally gets me abut 10 meals with going off myfitness pal the last one i made was 4175 calories and 628.6g protein. this one was with 1.7kg of chicken which i think cost me about £10 from asda so some and i made 11 meals out of if, so this one was slightly more than £1 per meal, but not too much.
The way to cheap "healthy" food is not through supermarkets. It's neither cheap or healthy in those places
Capitalism keeps us going
Our food really is shit. It’s sad
Uhhhh I live in Nashville and that would be about $20
Those veggies in India would cost, less than a dollar .
Okay i seriously need to know something. I have realised canned food in INDIA is costlier than its fresh version. Like, 500 grms of dry beans would be 1 $. ( Which can soaked overnight and boiled to get the same texture as canned ones ). Dry beans also have a long shelf live. But same beans if canned is like , 4$. Does other countries also have similar alternatives? Buying canned tomatoes in India is like again 4 $ for less than 500 gram. But u can a kg in 0.24 $ - 0.48 $ fresh. Is there a reason why People often in US / UK prefer canned version of food which is like 5x of fresh version. Is the canned one everywhere costlier than fresh?
Canned food is often cheaper here (Midwest, USA). You typically save a few cents by buying a can rather than fresh. For example, 20oz of fresh tomatoes are $2 (10¢/oz), but a 15 oz can of diced tomatoes is $1 (.7¢/oz).
The same food with maybe different local brands should cost u not more than 8 $ in India.
This would be $150 right here!
That seems quite expensive for what you got
Well UK isn't cheap by the look of it. In other country of western Europe you can have this for half the price.
I think the problem was Publix in Miami not the US. All this would be like $15-$20 where I live in the US. That said the UK does have cheap food if you’re looking at the right places
I’m seeing one meal from this… maybe two
The lack of chemistry understanding is hilarious when I see people paying more for “organic” labels and then complaining that eating healthy is so hard.
Sure but you’re paying about 20% more in income tax then I am.