The problem with having "the option" of suuuuper cheap milk, and animal products, is the well fare of the animals. Much milk, meat and other animal products from the US is banned in the EU, to the USs frustration, but one reason for this is the treatment of animals. The EU have much higher animal welfare standards, and will not support/import from places where the animals are mistreated/not properly cared for..
True, but it's not amazing in Europe either. We just have a higher rock bottom minimum standard then they do... But I'm pretty comfortable with my choice of going vegetarian and keeping my nonvegan intake low and from specific brands only.
Most of the milk in Norway is suplied by TINE who buy exclusivly from Norwegian farmers. Both animal welfare and product quality are up to Norways wery high standards.
@@Kari.F. The EU countries aren't as standardised as you'd think when it comes to livestock. That was my only point. The US are able to use more chemicals in their meat processing. Many of the food borne microbes that kill and make people I'll are still coming from fresh vegetables.
20:15 your reaction told me you're not ready to hear that chocolate in norway usually goes all the way from 3$ to 5$ and the ceep ones are like 2$, you can get chocolate for more than 5$ but that's fancy stuff
Fruit, food and stuff in Norway is also a bit more expensive because it has to meet a certain quality criteria, which is very high/strict in most nordic countries and especially Norway. While in USA there are "barely" any safety/quality criterias for food compared to the EU standard. So that is also a reason why things are more expensive in Norway. Basically quality over quantity.
The grocery store Kiwi here in Norway has tried selling 'ugly produce' as a way to break through the 'all must look perfect' problem. I don't think it was very successful.
think you are overly positive about this. Remember this leads to a loooooot of food waste. And this "quality" is actually leading to very many vegetables and fruits getting thrown right in the dump before they get to the stores. (im norwegian)
One of the main reasons to why candy is expensive is because of the "sugar fee", it was an attempt to make people buy less candy, and they decided to keep it, even though it showed little to no effect. They do that for everything, alcohol and smoking stuff also has a fee and is also more expensive because of this. Sweden sells the same items for lower, which is right across the border, because the lack of fees or lower fees than ours.
There are these so-called 10-kronersmarked periods in almost every grocery store in Norway. Its a period when lots of groceries cost 10kr which also includes chocolate and other types of food. They have these periods maybe 4-5 times a year. Lasting for about 2 weeks. Norway ain't cheap. But with some research it wont empty your pocket too much ;)
@@XTCyph3r Where in Norway do you live? It's been $8 pr. gallon fairly steadily for awhile here (Østlandet). Been ages since I saw it under 20nok pr. liter.
@@XTCyph3r oof... in Tromsø it's currently around 22-3 and 25-6 NOK pr liter When the whole war started in Ukraine the diesel was around 28 NOK pr liter which was crazy af
Hi, I don't know if you know this but 10 kr is the third largest coin. We have 1 kr, 5, kr 10, kr and 20 kr. The smallest bill is 50 kr or like a $5 note, and the largest is 1000kr/$100 A fun fact is that a krone iterally means a crown. You can even see the similarity in the words because of the joint roots of Old English and Old Norse.
0:23 The Euro to dollar exchange rate fluctuates, but generally speaking a Euro tends to be slightly more valuable than a dollar, although lately with all of our problems here in Europe it has actually occasionally dropped under the dollar briefly, and may do so again.
Surprised yall dont have fried onion in the US. (atleast sold like that). Cause it is VERY popular to have on hotdogs here in norway and its very good tbh, adds a nice crunch cx
11:22 In some other stores here in Norway, I think I've seen rolls for 2-4 NOK. 13:30 That's not Yogurt. That's porridge made with barley 15:34 Not entirely it also has a lot to do with labour costs being higher. But there is of course stricter standards for quality 20:08 Sugar fee You also can't buy alcohol above a certain percentage in regular grocery stores, so no wine or liquor. For those you need to go to a special store here in Norway known as "Vinmonopolet"
From what I can see in my local store, only about 10 things on that list are currently under 10kr, not including the 10kr market weeks they have from time to time. The frozen peas are only 9,90, though, but I don't live in a big city. Two of the biggest culture shocks for me moving to Norway from England was not only the high cost of things, but the lack of choice in the supermarkets. My local supermarkets have no real deli counter, and no fresh fish counter (something I thought would be in every grocery store!). The trade off, though, is very high quality produce.
15:23 In USA you have the Food and Drug Administration, where as in Norway they are two seperate administrations. Allowing them to focus more closely on their respective fields. The Food Administration (Mattilsynet) has a reputation for holding a scientific and conservative approach to food safety, cleanliness and the health of livestock. They will shut down any type of restaurant if they fail to comply with standards. Although what concerns me is that they allow the salmon farms to operate. They are good to make a profit, but bad for the health of the fish and its consumers. Stuff like that make me question the whole 'no corruption' thing, or if it's just bad policy making from our part. I think we are getting more aware of these issues now and as we see more data come out we will hopefully make the appropriate adjustments.
The breeding is bad.. chemicals(color and growth hormones) leaking into the sea water(not properly sepperated from the sea).. killing sea life. Yeah it has been more focus on it the last years... but i'm still waiting for them to actually do something about it.
In the animal rights community the food administration does *not* have a good reputation here in Norway... Honestly the wellbeing of the animals and the quality of the *good* should be split from each other too... Because right now good quality seriously takes priority over the wellbeing of animals... Both in terms of resource allocation *and* in the mindset of a lot of the people working there... That said, they're not all the same, and some of them *do* care about animal welfare, they're just underfunded...
Some of those items are 2 or 3 times more expensive as of 2022.. those soups she mentioned cost 27Kr now (after effects of pandemic and infaltion form fuel and elextrisity cost and so on)
Do not forget that prices in Norway on things like this includes VAT. Edible stuff have 15% and non edible items have 25%. Services like transportation, accommodation, cultural things like going to a theater or cinema will include 12% VAT. The 15% on edibles do not apply if you eat out at the restaurant, then its full 25%, but if you do takeaway its 15%.
There's basically just two brands of Milk. I remember when it was a big deal that Tine milk got competition from Q milk. The most common Cheeses and chocolates are top tier. Also, Extra is just an average chain of grossery stores.
In general, Norway is an expensive place to live. Stuff is expensive. It is hard to find candy for 1$, but candy is still considered cheap. You can buy 5 plates of assorted chocolates (100g) each, for 10$. Half a kilo of chocolate for 10$. This is when its on sale, but its very often on sale. We have 3 stores that really fight to be the cheapest. Extra, Kiwi and Rema. So she did go to one of the cheapest ones.
It’s only expensive if you don’t consider how much you earn there on average. I bet if you compared what you earn per month to what you can buy for that money, it would work out to being actually cheaper comparatively speaking to live than a lot of other countries.
I think these prices was before the current inflation, i think it's even harder now to find something that costs 1£. But like you said America has more processed food and super farms. While Norway got a lot of small farms. Sadly supermarkets like Coop and Rema 1000 has made their own brands, something that has made it harder for farmers to compete and it's far more processed food. The stores makes the prices so their brands can always out compete the farmers.
I know! My hubby and I tasted Hershey's in the US one time. (Yes, once was more than enough.) We were like "What IS this stuff? Yuck!" Please, Tyler, let us know how we can send you some Norwegian milk chocolate! 😋
here in calgary canada, for $1 in the vegetables area, I could get.. like.. 1 potato, or 2 stalks of celerey (stalks, not bunches), maybe an apple or an orage. our food prices are pretty high
23:21 It's not just the quality products that's more expensive. There's also junk that's way more expensive as you can see. Because yes, we *do* have junk sold here too. It's not popular products, but it exists.
I've heard of Coop. It is like REWE but for skandinavic swiss and Italian Country. Bid Retail Market Company with different shops. Paprika and Mushrooms. Ok it us even a little bit more expensive. 80 or 90 Cent more.
An argument against candy is that if you eat quality food your body will crave less sweets. We do love candy in Norway to even though it's more expensive than most other countries.
X:-tra is like a very cheap store that is part of Coop. We have it in sweden aswell. A year ago there were like 7 shops in the entire Sweden, nog there are over 20. I know its kinda an old video but I have never seen spinach that cheap. 1,5-2 dollars. Apples have always been super cheap though. 😋
One thing that you must remember is that all the prices in Norway are with tax. We never put before tax prices at stores here. So if you did take away 12% of taxes on all of her prices it would have been less than 1 dollar. At the dollar store in the US you need to add taxes
And i have to say, the Canned food, the reason why it is so expensive is because we go a lot on hikes, and canned food is perfect for camping 😂 so it is like the thing you mentioned with the proteinbars, because of the popularity it is expensive
Yeah, I don´t see a lot that is 10NOK anymore, not unless the store has "10 kroner Market" days where some things are put down to 10NOK. The prices are ridiculous. And when I went to DollarStore in Sweden... most things were not a dollar/10SEK.
Allways enjoy your reactions.😊 Pleas chek up "The norweigen kings speach." from 2015 and "Living with the polarnights and the midnightsun" by swedish youtuber Jonna Jinton. Greetings from Denmark.
Would you mind it if I comment on some spelling errors? Or would you prefer it if I just leave them alone? If we correct them it might be easier for him to find them. Also, good choices, love those videos. :-)
I used to love arizona green tea but it cost 4-5 dollars for a small can in norway 10 years ago. When I traveled to LA I found a gallon jug of arizona green tea for 1.25 dollars at wallmart :¨) That was a culture shock :D
There might be other reasons for candy being expensive in Norway is that we have something called sugar tax, that increased the price of sugary items, like candy and soda, among others. Thats why those living near the swedish border, usually drive over the border and buy same things cheaper.
Norway is easily the most expensive country in the Nordics. There are a lot of Finnish and Swedish people who live near the border and work in Norway because the cost of living there is just a lot higher, but so are the wages. That way you get higher wages and a cheaper cost of living
Just to say.. a tuna sandwich (two slices of bread, mayonnaise spread, a sprinkle of salt and pepper and gently toasted (and I mean toast it after it is prepared, not two pieces of toasted bread).. .Oh, man... also it is what is used as a snack capable to build up tour protein intake... I even had to do do it as a part of my recovering therapy as a child, and I love it.. Try it, you might like it and it's good for you...
One thing is in the US a company has an almost endless amount of potential customers so they can streamline their purchases of raw materials and production based on this. Because we're only about 5 million people the market is instantly narrower, the distances goods have to travel on less than ideal roads and the raw materials being more pricy due to their higher quality demands means everything is going to be more pricy. We also import most of our fruit and veg. We have some production, but our land is more suited for animal husbandry than the growing of massive amounts of crops =)
If you want chocolate for under a dollar in Norway, find the store brand version of cooking chocolate. You can buy 100 gram of dark chocolate or light chocolate. You will not find it in the candy section though, but rather together with raisins and such things, so look around in the store till you find it.
Just to put the price of candy in perspective; when I was in the US I bought a store display box of ring pops for the price of just one ring pop in Norway
Norwegian frozen pizza is not as bad for you, because what makes them so bad for you in the US, that's illegal here. Our frozen pizza is... About 5-15 dollars. She'd get more for that euro in a kiwi store.
@@Asa...S I didn't know that Orkla had a norwegian Grandiosa factory. Is the norwegian recipe any different from the original Felix recipe? Probably the same I'd imagine.
@@DXS_RyonGoris I don't think Felix was the original, but I don't know...my guess is that the recipe has changed thoughout the decades, it usually does, and also different types of pizzas has been added to the brand. Like for instance Kebab pizza, which I think it the most popular one in Sweden (don't know which one is most popular in Norway) was probably not around in the 80s. In Sweden Grandiosa is made in Vansbro. Frozen pizza isn't as popular in Sweden as it seems to be in Norway though, in Norway it seems to be a thing, for some reason, while here most people prefer to order pizza or make their own, I think. Frozen pizza is just something you keep in the freezer for just in case situations like if you get a pizza craving in the middle of the night or something.
Would it cost less than $1 though? Thinking about the tax you have to pay when you get to the counter... Whereas here you pay the pricze that's on the shelfs.
My friend was on a vacation in New York.She said that the food there was expensive,the healthy food I mean.We have stright regulations on much of our food.And most people want to eat healthy.
One thing to note is that American supermarkets have way more options to chose between. Norway doesn't for example have two and a half dozen different types of cereals, or fifteen hundred varieties of canned foods. That can be both a good and a bad thing, like with that experiment where if you have too many options you tend to be less satisfied with your choice.
In Norway, the gouvernment really try to make people take the right food choices, so we have a tax-type that is called «sugar-tax». That means that all foods containing white sugar costs more 🫣 like Candy, cookies, cake, soda with sugar etc, is crazy expensive! Most Norwegians travel to Sweden to buy Candy on the weekends 😂
At 13.39 she is not holding a yoghurt, it's actually a cold porrige wiyh jam. A common snack/dessert in Norway. And why don't you buy pears? They are in my opinion better than apples.
and extra is one of the cheapest brands you can get aswell, you should check the price of beef jerky..and norwegian chicken does not contain any salmonella whatsoever
Anything being less than 10 kr here is usually a miracle. 10 kr is VERY LITTLE here in Norway compared to in America or England. It still shocks me how much foreigners are used to things being under 10 kr
I think the regulation on eggs are too strict when you consider that no egg with double plum will be let through no matter what unless there is a mistake. Other than that it’s completely fine
Yes..Choclate is not a Grundnahrungsmittel. It means its not Milk, Wheat,Vegentables. Milka 170 g Cookies around 2,70 € If it is not a big Brand you can get it a little bit cheaper.
Honestly I think the best way to check how expensive a country is to live in is to see what percentage of the average salary things cost rather than seeing what you can buy for one fixed amount.
Ive seen some of your videos now, and what comes to mind is that you should check out how it is to run a business in norway. That is expensive! All of the rich ppl move to other countries- like switzerland, cyprus etc. You might understand why things is expensive😮
going to a different store wouldn't have made much difference overall, they have some cheaper store brand stuff, but if you shop everything at the same store the overall comes out about the same. I live alone, make most of my food at home, i spend 60-100USD pr week on food. to put it this way, a plastic bag is 0.3USD, so you get 3 plastic bags for 1USD.
Most stuff is rather exspensive, food in general is very exspensive. Sweets had sugar tax. A way to force products beeing healthier. Frozen pizza is like between 40-70 nok, but i believe a few brands got sold for 10nok, but i dno if those exist anymore.
In Norway it's not uncommon to use 14 000 NOK (ca.1400 USD) monthly on food for 4 adults. Btw in Norway you can't get GMO food, and can only use spesific pesticides that are approved, and "luxury" food like sugar and alcohol has a fee on them.
If you go to the ATM to take out the money to use in the shop, you would not have any to spend, because it cost 10 NOK to take out the money. (Being a student that is free) If Norwegian, coming from the US, I am sure that your idea off spending one dollar in a shop, will set you down at least 5, going to an ATM. So all use debit/credit cards, and it is supposed to be free, but there are some charges everywhere. And the plastic bag to put all of that good stuff you could have gotten, will set you back 3 NOK.
Imported goods, fruits and veggies.. Cargo, border taxes and gov. Taxes increase prices.. We do not have a lot of canned meals, and they are expensive.. Right now, 2 liters of milk is about 3dollars. We do have "cheaper" stores (like your dollar store, but they are not known for quality products.. A bag of plain, mid ranged priced potato chips are 2 to 3+ dollars..
Metal cans are getting banned in Norway, due to the nature damage. So they are starting to produce it in paperboxes. Like the one with "silver" in it, that are used for juice.
Those aren't exactly amazing for the environment either. It's hard to separate the metal, plastics and papers from each other in those products... You're pretty much just left with burning it and then extracting the metals, unless they've come up with something new that I don't know about... I don't know if the impact of metal boxes is lower... Honestly I kind of wish we'd do canning in reusable glass containers like in the old days... Then just hand them in and reuse them... No more processing needed then a cleaning before reuse.
@@silviahannak3213 Is it though? I seriously doubt Tetra Pak like cartons will keep for potentially decades like metal canned goods do? I know best before dates are just a guarantee that the product will not degrade within that time, but they are way shorter on the tetra pak versions than the canned versions as far as I have seen?
Hey Tyler! Just wanted to say that I'm really enjoying your videos. I wanted to offer my help if you have any questions regarding Norway (daily life stuff, translations, whatever you might need help with or info about). For a video like this one, for example, with the current situation in 2022, you won't really find ANYTHING for less than a dollar in Norwegian stores. I'm also an English-Norwegian translator, so yeah. Let me know!
Btw, how many accounts do you have? I have seen your Norway and Canada account, but I think I have seen one more country…I like these kind of videos, so you should put all your accounts in your descripton or something.
she should have gone to Kiwi, everyone knows that's the cheapest. And what you think is yogurt is actually a kind of wheat-porridge. It is a very popular lunch here in Norway. we usually put the fried onion on our hot dogs. it is very delicious. And I wouldn't say candy in Norway is expensive. We have a brand called First Price. They have a lot of candy that's cheap for us. And remember, Norway is a wealthy country, so 10 kroner is very little to us.
A Big One pizza in Norway costs around 6-9 Euro. Bell peppers now costs around 3 Euro, nice with inflammation isn't it. But then again Norway has real food and not processed chemicals, etc.
You should try go buy candys for 10$ and you get one person i norway go shop for about 100kr.. like only choclate, chips, big soda and some small things. Like buy the same things
The problem with having "the option" of suuuuper cheap milk, and animal products, is the well fare of the animals. Much milk, meat and other animal products from the US is banned in the EU, to the USs frustration, but one reason for this is the treatment of animals. The EU have much higher animal welfare standards, and will not support/import from places where the animals are mistreated/not properly cared for..
True, but it's not amazing in Europe either.
We just have a higher rock bottom minimum standard then they do...
But I'm pretty comfortable with my choice of going vegetarian and keeping my nonvegan intake low and from specific brands only.
Most of the milk in Norway is suplied by TINE who buy exclusivly from Norwegian farmers. Both animal welfare and product quality are up to Norways wery high standards.
Spain and Italy have some of the worst conditions for pigs. It is not as standard as you think. I was surprised, too.
@@TheAccidentalViking It's far from great, but it's still overall better in EU the than it is in the US.
@@Kari.F. The EU countries aren't as standardised as you'd think when it comes to livestock. That was my only point. The US are able to use more chemicals in their meat processing. Many of the food borne microbes that kill and make people I'll are still coming from fresh vegetables.
20:15 your reaction told me you're not ready to hear that chocolate in norway usually goes all the way from 3$ to 5$ and the ceep ones are like 2$, you can get chocolate for more than 5$ but that's fancy stuff
9:15 Consider Oranges are grown "locally" in the US. We import ours. That adds extra cost to ours.
Do oranges not grow well in Norway?🤔
@@timothyreel716 we dont have oranges here no, all import
@@Miamia_01 Okay 👍
Fruit, food and stuff in Norway is also a bit more expensive because it has to meet a certain quality criteria, which is very high/strict in most nordic countries and especially Norway. While in USA there are "barely" any safety/quality criterias for food compared to the EU standard. So that is also a reason why things are more expensive in Norway. Basically quality over quantity.
Exactly. In Austria we tend to be more regional. Exotic stuff like Avocado is not cheap.
Meld jer ind i EU så vil med tid få mere ud af kronen
Thanks for the insight Norwegian goat. I'm sure as a byproduct food is much more healthy in Norway as well!
The grocery store Kiwi here in Norway has tried selling 'ugly produce' as a way to break through the 'all must look perfect' problem. I don't think it was very successful.
think you are overly positive about this. Remember this leads to a loooooot of food waste. And this "quality" is actually leading to very many vegetables and fruits getting thrown right in the dump before they get to the stores. (im norwegian)
You should check out the traditional celebration of High School Seniors in Norway. 😃
Aka "Russefeiring"
Please don't, Tyler. It's just ... not good.
One of the main reasons to why candy is expensive is because of the "sugar fee", it was an attempt to make people buy less candy, and they decided to keep it, even though it showed little to no effect.
They do that for everything, alcohol and smoking stuff also has a fee and is also more expensive because of this. Sweden sells the same items for lower, which is right across the border, because the lack of fees or lower fees than ours.
There are these so-called 10-kronersmarked periods in almost every grocery store in Norway. Its a period when lots of groceries cost 10kr which also includes chocolate and other types of food. They have these periods maybe 4-5 times a year. Lasting for about 2 weeks. Norway ain't cheap. But with some research it wont empty your pocket too much ;)
Best thing you can probably get in Norway for 10kr is a hotdog at Shell gas station :p
@@erwaldox not anymore ;)
I think Norwegian petrol prices will shock you, Tyler.😆
Probably give him a heart attack these days..
it`s only about 7,24$ pr. gallon. Not bad yet. xD
@@XTCyph3r Where in Norway do you live? It's been $8 pr. gallon fairly steadily for awhile here (Østlandet). Been ages since I saw it under 20nok pr. liter.
@@speedbully_84 Rogaland. 20.99 and 21.99 NOK pr liter atm.
@@XTCyph3r oof... in Tromsø it's currently around 22-3 and 25-6 NOK pr liter
When the whole war started in Ukraine the diesel was around 28 NOK pr liter which was crazy af
Tyler has discovered the eternal law of the internet. Mention Norway and the Norwegians arrive in flocks.
Hahahahaha det har du helt rett i 😆 vi liker tydeligvis når andre lærer noe om landet vårt.
Well is'nt that the whole point ?
Hey! Im from Norway and i really enjoy your videos. But i want to say that the prices has increased so much and now its way more expensive
its like that all over the world NOW, because of that satan Putin !
Yeah it’s insanely expensive, especially alcohol
Yup
Jeg er fra Norge😂
Him talking about $1 pizza. The cheapest ones here is $4-5 😂
Hi, I don't know if you know this but 10 kr is the third largest coin. We have 1 kr, 5, kr 10, kr and 20 kr. The smallest bill is 50 kr or like a $5 note, and the largest is 1000kr/$100 A fun fact is that a krone iterally means a crown. You can even see the similarity in the words because of the joint roots of Old English and Old Norse.
Tyler, get a P.O box and get Norwegians to send you Norwegian sweets
Free food
Watched all the videos now,i learn so much about my country. Keep en coming
Important note, all prices in Norway include sales tax, its 15% for supermarket food, so for comparing to US sticker prices that shod be deducted
0:23
The Euro to dollar exchange rate fluctuates, but generally speaking a Euro tends to be slightly more valuable than a dollar, although lately with all of our problems here in Europe it has actually occasionally dropped under the dollar briefly, and may do so again.
Norway, Sweden and Denmark all use kroner. But the currency are different just like it’s like with USD, Canadian Dollar and Australian Dollar.
Surprised yall dont have fried onion in the US. (atleast sold like that). Cause it is VERY popular to have on hotdogs here in norway and its very good tbh, adds a nice crunch cx
11:22 In some other stores here in Norway, I think I've seen rolls for 2-4 NOK.
13:30 That's not Yogurt. That's porridge made with barley
15:34 Not entirely it also has a lot to do with labour costs being higher. But there is of course stricter standards for quality
20:08 Sugar fee
You also can't buy alcohol above a certain percentage in regular grocery stores, so no wine or liquor. For those you need to go to a special store here in Norway known as "Vinmonopolet"
From what I can see in my local store, only about 10 things on that list are currently under 10kr, not including the 10kr market weeks they have from time to time. The frozen peas are only 9,90, though, but I don't live in a big city. Two of the biggest culture shocks for me moving to Norway from England was not only the high cost of things, but the lack of choice in the supermarkets. My local supermarkets have no real deli counter, and no fresh fish counter (something I thought would be in every grocery store!). The trade off, though, is very high quality produce.
15:23 In USA you have the Food and Drug Administration, where as in Norway they are two seperate administrations. Allowing them to focus more closely on their respective fields. The Food Administration (Mattilsynet) has a reputation for holding a scientific and conservative approach to food safety, cleanliness and the health of livestock. They will shut down any type of restaurant if they fail to comply with standards. Although what concerns me is that they allow the salmon farms to operate. They are good to make a profit, but bad for the health of the fish and its consumers. Stuff like that make me question the whole 'no corruption' thing, or if it's just bad policy making from our part. I think we are getting more aware of these issues now and as we see more data come out we will hopefully make the appropriate adjustments.
The breeding is bad.. chemicals(color and growth hormones) leaking into the sea water(not properly sepperated from the sea).. killing sea life.
Yeah it has been more focus on it the last years... but i'm still waiting for them to actually do something about it.
In the animal rights community the food administration does *not* have a good reputation here in Norway...
Honestly the wellbeing of the animals and the quality of the *good* should be split from each other too...
Because right now good quality seriously takes priority over the wellbeing of animals...
Both in terms of resource allocation *and* in the mindset of a lot of the people working there...
That said, they're not all the same, and some of them *do* care about animal welfare, they're just underfunded...
Some of those items are 2 or 3 times more expensive as of 2022.. those soups she mentioned cost 27Kr now (after effects of pandemic and infaltion form fuel and elextrisity cost and so on)
Do not forget that prices in Norway on things like this includes VAT. Edible stuff have 15% and non edible items have 25%. Services like transportation, accommodation, cultural things like going to a theater or cinema will include 12% VAT. The 15% on edibles do not apply if you eat out at the restaurant, then its full 25%, but if you do takeaway its 15%.
There's basically just two brands of Milk. I remember when it was a big deal that Tine milk got competition from Q milk. The most common Cheeses and chocolates are top tier. Also, Extra is just an average chain of grossery stores.
In general, Norway is an expensive place to live. Stuff is expensive. It is hard to find candy for 1$, but candy is still considered cheap. You can buy 5 plates of assorted chocolates (100g) each, for 10$. Half a kilo of chocolate for 10$. This is when its on sale, but its very often on sale.
We have 3 stores that really fight to be the cheapest. Extra, Kiwi and Rema. So she did go to one of the cheapest ones.
It’s only expensive if you don’t consider how much you earn there on average. I bet if you compared what you earn per month to what you can buy for that money, it would work out to being actually cheaper comparatively speaking to live than a lot of other countries.
Well I've been following you for a while but I can now say your videos are being shared around r/Norge. So congratulations I guess 😂😁
For one of our stores which is Spar, they have something called 10Kr market, which they put some prices down to 10kr
I think these prices was before the current inflation, i think it's even harder now to find something that costs 1£. But like you said America has more processed food and super farms. While Norway got a lot of small farms. Sadly supermarkets like Coop and Rema 1000 has made their own brands, something that has made it harder for farmers to compete and it's far more processed food. The stores makes the prices so their brands can always out compete the farmers.
She didn't buy yoghurt... She bought lunch porridge with blueberry jam 😂
Norway chocolate is expensive but oh my GOD is it so much better. I will never touch Hershey's again!
I know! My hubby and I tasted Hershey's in the US one time. (Yes, once was more than enough.) We were like "What IS this stuff? Yuck!" Please, Tyler, let us know how we can send you some Norwegian milk chocolate! 😋
Sauce she means dry powder to mix with milk or water, any sauce is over 1 dollar, and most are. 3-4dollar per 250-400 ml
here in calgary canada, for $1 in the vegetables area, I could get.. like.. 1 potato, or 2 stalks of celerey (stalks, not bunches), maybe an apple or an orage. our food prices are pretty high
I bought butter just yeterday - the *walmart brand* salted butter, 1 lb, was $6
Ok now Tuna, canned tuna here *is* better priced. Still not as competitive thogh. Walmart brand tuna was $1.17, name brand were around 1.75
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It's not just the quality products that's more expensive.
There's also junk that's way more expensive as you can see.
Because yes, we *do* have junk sold here too.
It's not popular products, but it exists.
But this is a really interesting channel to watch for having a insight in what the rest of the world think about us Norwegians. Tank you! :)
I've heard of Coop. It is like REWE but for skandinavic swiss and Italian Country. Bid Retail Market Company with different shops. Paprika and Mushrooms. Ok it us even a little bit more expensive. 80 or 90 Cent more.
I watched all of Your videos, they are amazing :D
Hope Youll end up moving to Oslo. Its nice here!
Marie kjeks is my favorite cookie of them all, tastes so extremly good, and it's cheap :D
An argument against candy is that if you eat quality food your body will crave less sweets. We do love candy in Norway to even though it's more expensive than most other countries.
There are stores that sell a whole bread for under one $.
The same with butter. Or Margarine.
For five years ago the food was “cheap”, if you look at what it costs now. One thing that is over the top is cheese, fish or meat..
X:-tra is like a very cheap store that is part of Coop. We have it in sweden aswell. A year ago there were like 7 shops in the entire Sweden, nog there are over 20. I know its kinda an old video but I have never seen spinach that cheap. 1,5-2 dollars. Apples have always been super cheap though. 😋
The thing she held up and kalles yoghurt is actualiy not a yoghurt but a type of otmeal lunch type thing
One thing that you must remember is that all the prices in Norway are with tax. We never put before tax prices at stores here. So if you did take away 12% of taxes on all of her prices it would have been less than 1 dollar. At the dollar store in the US you need to add taxes
And i have to say, the Canned food, the reason why it is so expensive is because we go a lot on hikes, and canned food is perfect for camping 😂 so it is like the thing you mentioned with the proteinbars, because of the popularity it is expensive
Yeah, I don´t see a lot that is 10NOK anymore, not unless the store has "10 kroner Market" days where some things are put down to 10NOK. The prices are ridiculous. And when I went to DollarStore in Sweden... most things were not a dollar/10SEK.
The butter she found was not for bread or sandwiches but for frying and baking etc
Just wanted to add that the sales tax is included in the price, not added at the till
Allways enjoy your reactions.😊
Pleas chek up "The norweigen kings speach." from 2015 and "Living with the polarnights and the midnightsun" by swedish youtuber Jonna Jinton.
Greetings from Denmark.
Would you mind it if I comment on some spelling errors?
Or would you prefer it if I just leave them alone?
If we correct them it might be easier for him to find them.
Also, good choices, love those videos. :-)
I used to love arizona green tea but it cost 4-5 dollars for a small can in norway 10 years ago.
When I traveled to LA I found a gallon jug of arizona green tea for 1.25 dollars at wallmart :¨)
That was a culture shock :D
There might be other reasons for candy being expensive in Norway is that we have something called sugar tax, that increased the price of sugary items, like candy and soda, among others. Thats why those living near the swedish border, usually drive over the border and buy same things cheaper.
The vegetable section she is kind off wrong, it is many vegetables that you have to pick yourself. Leek for example, I am pretty sure is 5kr pr leek.
In some shops you only get bundled onions. Depends on the size of the store.
Norway is easily the most expensive country in the Nordics. There are a lot of Finnish and Swedish people who live near the border and work in Norway because the cost of living there is just a lot higher, but so are the wages. That way you get higher wages and a cheaper cost of living
Norwegian smallest note is NOK 50 (~ USD or EUR 5).
The coins are NOK 20, 10, 5 and 1.
Smallest coin is comparable to USD or EUR 0.10.
Just to say.. a tuna sandwich (two slices of bread, mayonnaise spread, a sprinkle of salt and pepper and gently toasted (and I mean toast it after it is prepared, not two pieces of toasted bread).. .Oh, man... also it is what is used as a snack capable to build up tour protein intake... I even had to do do it as a part of my recovering therapy as a child, and I love it.. Try it, you might like it and it's good for you...
One thing is in the US a company has an almost endless amount of potential customers so they can streamline their purchases of raw materials and production based on this. Because we're only about 5 million people the market is instantly narrower, the distances goods have to travel on less than ideal roads and the raw materials being more pricy due to their higher quality demands means everything is going to be more pricy. We also import most of our fruit and veg. We have some production, but our land is more suited for animal husbandry than the growing of massive amounts of crops =)
Also, they have since added a sugar tax, so candy is even pricier now ;)
If you want chocolate for under a dollar in Norway, find the store brand version of cooking chocolate. You can buy 100 gram of dark chocolate or light chocolate. You will not find it in the candy section though, but rather together with raisins and such things, so look around in the store till you find it.
Just to put the price of candy in perspective; when I was in the US I bought a store display box of ring pops for the price of just one ring pop in Norway
Norwegian frozen pizza is not as bad for you, because what makes them so bad for you in the US, that's illegal here.
Our frozen pizza is... About 5-15 dollars.
She'd get more for that euro in a kiwi store.
I've never heard of a norwegian frozen pizza brand. Enlighten me, I'd like to try it out.
@@DXS_RyonGoris Grandiosa. Probably just available in Scandinavia.
@@Asa...S I didn't know that Orkla had a norwegian Grandiosa factory. Is the norwegian recipe any different from the original Felix recipe? Probably the same I'd imagine.
@@DXS_RyonGoris Grandiosa is pruduced by Stabburet in Stranda, Møre & Romsdal.
@@DXS_RyonGoris I don't think Felix was the original, but I don't know...my guess is that the recipe has changed thoughout the decades, it usually does, and also different types of pizzas has been added to the brand. Like for instance Kebab pizza, which I think it the most popular one in Sweden (don't know which one is most popular in Norway) was probably not around in the 80s. In Sweden Grandiosa is made in Vansbro. Frozen pizza isn't as popular in Sweden as it seems to be in Norway though, in Norway it seems to be a thing, for some reason, while here most people prefer to order pizza or make their own, I think. Frozen pizza is just something you keep in the freezer for just in case situations like if you get a pizza craving in the middle of the night or something.
Norway is among the three most expensive countries in Europe
Very nice video! I think about half of these items are over 10kr now tho. Greetings from Norway.
Most if not all chocolate sold in Norway is milk chocolate, so that adds to the price.
Where i work, we sell a frozen pizza for about 7 bucks and the cheapest 1L carton of milk will be around 2,2 bucks.
Would it cost less than $1 though? Thinking about the tax you have to pay when you get to the counter... Whereas here you pay the pricze that's on the shelfs.
Man I truly hated that in the US. The price shown was never what you actually paid.
My friend was on a vacation in New York.She said that the food there was expensive,the healthy food I mean.We have stright regulations on much of our food.And most people want to eat healthy.
One thing to note is that American supermarkets have way more options to chose between. Norway doesn't for example have two and a half dozen different types of cereals, or fifteen hundred varieties of canned foods. That can be both a good and a bad thing, like with that experiment where if you have too many options you tend to be less satisfied with your choice.
In Norway, the gouvernment really try to make people take the right food choices, so we have a tax-type that is called «sugar-tax». That means that all foods containing white sugar costs more 🫣 like Candy, cookies, cake, soda with sugar etc, is crazy expensive! Most Norwegians travel to Sweden to buy Candy on the weekends 😂
Does the 1 dollar store end up as 1 dollar or is it more with the sales tax?
What is the wending machine price for a 0,33 Coke in the US now?
I remember it was 60c back when I was there in 1992, 2000, 2008 but not in 2013.
Fried onion is a staple condiment for hotdogs in norway, and are commenly found at all Norwegian backjard BBQs.
No wonder food is cheap in the US. Got pretty big farms in the US.
You from the US or Norway?
At 13.39 she is not holding a yoghurt, it's actually a cold porrige wiyh jam. A common snack/dessert in Norway. And why don't you buy pears? They are in my opinion better than apples.
Someone should send you some Norwegian candies and food then you can test it! 😎
and extra is one of the cheapest brands you can get aswell, you should check the price of beef jerky..and norwegian chicken does not contain any salmonella whatsoever
Anything being less than 10 kr here is usually a miracle. 10 kr is VERY LITTLE here in Norway compared to in America or England. It still shocks me how much foreigners are used to things being under 10 kr
I think the regulation on eggs are too strict when you consider that no egg with double plum will be let through no matter what unless there is a mistake. Other than that it’s completely fine
Yes..Choclate is not a Grundnahrungsmittel. It means its not Milk, Wheat,Vegentables. Milka 170 g Cookies around 2,70 € If it is not a big Brand you can get it a little bit cheaper.
love the candy reaction haha and yeah it is really expensive here. we pay sugar taxes
In Norway remember the "e" at the end of a word is pronounced. "e" . i.e. krone, pronounce the "e". It is not silent.
Honestly I think the best way to check how expensive a country is to live in is to see what percentage of the average salary things cost rather than seeing what you can buy for one fixed amount.
You should try tuna fish with dill, onion and garlic and it tastes yummy on the bread Or in a salad
Ive seen some of your videos now, and what comes to mind is that you should check out how it is to run a business in norway. That is expensive! All of the rich ppl move to other countries- like switzerland, cyprus etc.
You might understand why things is expensive😮
going to a different store wouldn't have made much difference overall, they have some cheaper store brand stuff, but if you shop everything at the same store the overall comes out about the same.
I live alone, make most of my food at home, i spend 60-100USD pr week on food.
to put it this way, a plastic bag is 0.3USD, so you get 3 plastic bags for 1USD.
Most stuff is rather exspensive, food in general is very exspensive. Sweets had sugar tax. A way to force products beeing healthier.
Frozen pizza is like between 40-70 nok, but i believe a few brands got sold for 10nok, but i dno if those exist anymore.
Fried onion on a hotdog with ketchup is 😍😍😍
In Norway it's not uncommon to use 14 000 NOK (ca.1400 USD) monthly on food for 4 adults.
Btw in Norway you can't get GMO food, and can only use spesific pesticides that are approved, and "luxury" food like sugar and alcohol has a fee on them.
If you go to the ATM to take out the money to use in the shop, you would not have any to spend, because it cost 10 NOK to take out the money. (Being a student that is free) If Norwegian, coming from the US, I am sure that your idea off spending one dollar in a shop, will set you down at least 5, going to an ATM. So all use debit/credit cards, and it is supposed to be free, but there are some charges everywhere. And the plastic bag to put all of that good stuff you could have gotten, will set you back 3 NOK.
before the damn 2008 depression... the USD equalled 5NOK and the Euro equalled 6-7 nok. everything foreign was so cheap.
Imported goods, fruits and veggies.. Cargo, border taxes and gov. Taxes increase prices.. We do not have a lot of canned meals, and they are expensive..
Right now, 2 liters of milk is about 3dollars. We do have "cheaper" stores (like your dollar store, but they are not known for quality products..
A bag of plain, mid ranged priced potato chips are 2 to 3+ dollars..
Metal cans are getting banned in Norway, due to the nature damage. So they are starting to produce it in paperboxes. Like the one with "silver" in it, that are used for juice.
Wow. How can other Countries do that? Sounds great but how does it work.
@@silviahannak3213 Eh, check out Tetra Pak.
Those aren't exactly amazing for the environment either.
It's hard to separate the metal, plastics and papers from each other in those products...
You're pretty much just left with burning it and then extracting the metals, unless they've come up with something new that I don't know about...
I don't know if the impact of metal boxes is lower...
Honestly I kind of wish we'd do canning in reusable glass containers like in the old days...
Then just hand them in and reuse them...
No more processing needed then a cleaning before reuse.
@@silviahannak3213 Is it though? I seriously doubt Tetra Pak like cartons will keep for potentially decades like metal canned goods do? I know best before dates are just a guarantee that the product will not degrade within that time, but they are way shorter on the tetra pak versions than the canned versions as far as I have seen?
@@Luredreier the thing is those boxes are sorted as paper or (kartong). But I wish we could go back to glasses too.
Nowdays this does not cost 10NOK for this, the prices has gone up from exemple 20NOK til 70NOK for some products because of the Ukraine conflict
Norwegian here. I like how the lady pronounced Rema like it was Hebrew.
Hey Tyler!
Just wanted to say that I'm really enjoying your videos. I wanted to offer my help if you have any questions regarding Norway (daily life stuff, translations, whatever you might need help with or info about). For a video like this one, for example, with the current situation in 2022, you won't really find ANYTHING for less than a dollar in Norwegian stores.
I'm also an English-Norwegian translator, so yeah.
Let me know!
Chocolates and candies here in Norway are expensive because of sugar high price
Btw, how many accounts do you have? I have seen your Norway and Canada account, but I think I have seen one more country…I like these kind of videos, so you should put all your accounts in your descripton or something.
In Norway we have high tax on sugar, and low tax on fruits and greens
she should have gone to Kiwi, everyone knows that's the cheapest.
And what you think is yogurt is actually a kind of wheat-porridge. It is a very popular lunch here in Norway.
we usually put the fried onion on our hot dogs. it is very delicious.
And I wouldn't say candy in Norway is expensive. We have a brand called First Price. They have a lot of candy that's cheap for us. And remember, Norway is a wealthy country, so 10 kroner is very little to us.
A Big One pizza in Norway costs around 6-9 Euro. Bell peppers now costs around 3 Euro, nice with inflammation isn't it. But then again Norway has real food and not processed chemicals, etc.
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We sell our milk in liters, and yeah, way, over a dollar...
Extra is one of the cheapest stores in Norway. In line with Rema 1000, Kiwi , Coop Extra is one of the three stores that are cheapest.
You should try go buy candys for 10$ and you get one person i norway go shop for about 100kr.. like only choclate, chips, big soda and some small things. Like buy the same things
Yeah, shit cost more because we pay our farmers and workers, and we have sugar tax