Weekly single person grocery haul | Week 51 2024
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- Опубліковано 6 лют 2025
- This week's grocery haul, including what I'll be using everything for. It breaks down as follows:
Produce - € 26.50
Meat and dairy - € 25.82
Other - € 27.22
That makes for a total this week of € 79.54 or $ 82.95
I post all my meals over on Instagram, if you are interested in what I make with all these ingredients: / paul215821 . A lot of my meals are low carb and keto friendly
As an American, I am always AMAZED at your grocery prices. We would pay twice that here in the States.
You don't seem to do much of your own baking. You need to try it. Of course, maybe there you have decent breads.
Anyways, enjoyed your haul. Have a wonderful holiday.
We have amazing bread here, better than I ccould bake myself. Though I have baked bread in the past. I don't do a lot of baking, because I'm diabetic. and don't eat a lot of baked goods in general, homemade or store-bought. Good thing I'm not really into sweet things anyway, apart from chocolate. I'd love to see more American prices, to see how we compare.
It's because we grow our own vegies and fruits locally in greenhouses. With space as our biggest enemy, efficiency is very important for us. The definition of fresh seems to be slightly different here as well since I hear many Americans say that our fresh products last longer. You can buy tomatoes that are harvested the day before.
And I noticed that Paul knows well where to go shopping for reasonable prices. You can pay twice as much for some products if you go to the wrong store.
I live in a small town in the Privonce of Zeeland and I often go to local farmers for their products. Some even have vending machines in front of their houses. You can buy all sorts of things like patatoes, milk and yoghurt, eggs, fruit like apples, pears, cherries, blueberries etc.
Even the food we import, is a lot cheaper here than in the US. Things just spend so much more time in transit there, going from one massive transport hub to another, to another, before finally getting to a shop. Which adds a lot of costs, and makes produce last a lot less after buying it. Here, transport is a lot more efficient, and more frequent with smaller batches, so it's fresher.
There are plenty of farm shops around me, too, but they're actually relatively expensive, in addition to being just a little bit far away to cycle to. Though it would be kind of fun to do it for a video some time.
And yes, you can save a lot of money by knowing where to go. Street markets for produce, sales for supermarkets. And it actually makes sense to shop around, since you're just on a bike, so you're not just using the money you save on groceries for gas for your car (just FYI, gas is close to $10/gallon here, so cycling makes sense).
@@PaulvanGulik Oh my---the gasoline is terribly expensive there. I would certainly rethink my driving habits!! (which is probably a GOOD thing!)
You have a lot of great info. Always like learning things and even as an old lady-I STILL get lots of great info.
And yes yes yes on doing more bike tours to further out shops. Love seeing different places. Thanks!
@@PaulvanGulik By small town I mean really small. The first Farm is only 3 minutes cycling away.
But, I happen to have a Lidl 50meters from my house so I walk for groceries.
The farms are not always that cheap indeed but I like the idea of supporting local companies over (inter)national ones.
Besides that, when a field is harvested, you are allowed to grap leftovers from the field.
That's how I get kilo's of fresh patatoes and vegetables for free.