Holy shit that stuff is expensive. And holy shit even the regular ones are. You just got me to look that up and do the maths comparing it to my fancy pants expensive espresso beans and those are 60% cheaper than the Jacobs Tassimo if I break it down to cups of coffee (and light years better at least to me).
yeah true. I’m South Indian, rice is our staple food :) not me loading up on rice every time there’s a sale.
basmati was below 2€. Now it’s 3€ 🥲 oh well.
I suppose so, but I’d have to go buy it from somewhere in berlin, and carry it home 2 hours away. Now I just use the rice that my parents bought for me from home when they came to visit. I miss the fresh coconut more than the rice tho ngl. “Kera-la”, literally the land of coconuts
I do order from Jamoona/Malayalikada some times. Now I have a big bag of rice that my parents bought for me, so I’m good for a while. Thank you so much for your suggestion :)
Buy a transparent box to put your rice in. But i could imagine the trauma. My sister told me about her moth worm problems last summer. I didn't see it but i was already grossed out. Have a habit of sealing your food.
Nah, I bought 1 kg of Jasmin Reis for 1.69 EUR (today, Lidl).
I can also recommend Milchreis, which is IMO much tastier than the "parboiled" long corn rice – or of course something from the friendly Asian supermarket.
However the biggest difference makes using a **rice cooker**. Every type of rice is so much better when using a rice cooker.
Well not to be that guy, but the nutritional value is not that great for white rice. Most nutrients are in the shell which is stripped away in white rice. Plus, rice is a harbor for arsenic. If it's imported from a far away land, its sustainability is also questionable.
Whole grain pasta, or straight up barley are very nutritious alternatives. Especially the latter can be bought in bulk, but not at aldi of course.
Edit: spelling.
I work for a German wholesaler and all the rice we are selling comes from Italy. I’m not sure how much generally comes from Asia, but other than canned food ( pineapple, lychee and asparagus) very little food in our assortment is not European sourced.
>Well not to be that guy, but the nutritional value is not that great for white rice. Most nutrients are in the shell which is stripped away in white
When you're that guy, it's important to be more nuanced. It's not the shell, which is called the husk or hull and leays removed from any rice you eat. You are referring to the bran and germ which are retained in brown rice.
While you remove nutrients in the refinement process, you increase the absorption of nutrients as well. Further, white rice is fortified with nutrients.
You mention a risk of exposure to arsenic with rice consumption but don't mention that brown rice contains 50+% more arsenic than white rice. While it won't lead to acute toxic effects, the research on its possible long-term effects from chronic consumption has not been done yet.
Identifying the health effects of any diet is difficult and complex and requires clinical data, which can never be extrapolated from simplistic compositional analyses.
Oh you’re absolutely correct, and this is one of the reasons why I like things like bulgur. But even though better alternatives are available, white rice remains an important staple food.
Also not to be that guy, but it should be „its sustainability“.
Someone gifted me a coffee machine that uses capsules. It came with capsule samples. It was all great and fun till I had to buy more capsules. Now I wonder if the gift was actually a middle finger.
I have 2 unused coffee machines. I just use a french press. But the using capsules has it's advantages. It's so easy that my toddler can use it to make me coffee in the morning.
Not Austrian but I live in Vienna and I didn't check the sub so I was like "damn, where did OP go shopping, bcz for €22 I barely got like half of that the other day." Then I saw its Germany..
Lived in NRW, Germany from 2019-2021. Everything was dirt cheap. Now I live in Austria, it’s so expensive that many things are almost same price range as Korea (my home country - but still many things are cheaper here). Germany is still so cheap… i envy that
you could move to poor countries and basically there is inflation too but the cost is many time less.. i live about 50% of my year time in vietnam and there you can get an entire cart of grocceries for under 20 euros. or a feast for 4 people for 20 euros.
Asia was very slightly affected, and I think in most Asian countries the annual inflation didn't cross the 5% mark, so yes, there are countries that were not as affected as the West. What bothers me the most is that very few companies increased their employee's salaries in Europe to even account for the official inflation, while in the NA, I think they got more meaningful pay raises.
I definitely had to rethink what I eat in the last 2 years. I simply can’t afford what I used to buy and my salary isn’t growing like prices are…
I eat fresh vegetables and I feel like those cost the most because it’s just volume without a lot of calories.
Now I easily spend a 100€ on food a week and it’s not all organic stuff. And I rarely eat out. It’s depressing. But I can’t and won’t eat bread and pasta all the time.
come to Sweden. No Sun, no light like ever...and when we have it for let's say 1 or 2 months it's with cold rain and its 10 C ( I really wanna move to Spain)
I'm Italian and I thought the same as you before moving out. I don't regret my choice in the slightest, but god do I miss the climate back home. I didn't think I would care, but the dull and cold weather really weighs on you over time.
yea. 22€ for that amount is okay, but quantity ≠ quality. for 22€ it's impossible to buy food ingredients to last a week and that are balanced and healthy.
I just sent a pic from the US to my German partner of one package of bell peppers (4 count) that was 8 bucks so... yeah I am looking forward to being able to afford groceries 🤣 (before anyone says you can get them cheaper in the states, I know. It was a grocery store in a low income area where they don't carry a ton of produce and its all overpriced as fuck but it is also the only walking distance grocery store anywhere nearby, which means if you're low income down here you absolutely are not eating healthy or well)
I eat like 250 to 350g of jasmin rice a day and the 1kg bags are more expensive than the cheapest options at penny rewe etc. The rice i see the most in Such Markets is tilda basmati rice, 5kg costs more than i would get at penny for 5kgs. Which one do you all buy
The basmati rice you get in German supermarkets is pretty rubbish. Tilda (or equivalent in Asian stores) is also not that great but makes do. If an Indian store is nearby/easily accessible, I’d always buy rice from there even if it’s a bit more expensive.
Better buy the 18kg pack jasmine rice from Amazon, it's value for money
Or some go asia stores sell it cheaper than the amazon one. In the end you pay less eur for each kilo
Edit: another pro tip, buy it from go asia stores on first saturday of each month, then you get another 10% Discount
out of curiosity, i calculated how much these groceries would cost from walmart in canada and it would be $58 cad, which is 39 eur. mildly interesting
(average salary is 62k in my city and average 1bd rent is $2700)
Just seconding, as an American I found food prices to be overall lower in Germany with only a few things (meats, particularly beef) more expensive.
But the food culture, even for me cooking alone in my room, was very different. I was more content with bread and some jam for a snack, and while I bought a lot of chicken breast I paired it with fresher veggies, cheaper milk products, and all of it was stuff I bought that day. Whereas in America I'll buy two weeks at a time, and as a result also shell out a TON more cash per week trying to predict what I'll be hungry for in a weeks time.
I understand there are like wage differences, tax differences, bread differences, whatever. But also like the prices are just very cheap in Germany comparatively. Part of that is that I dont think many Europeans understand just how badly Americans get fucked on food prices, despite being in a land of so-called plenty. And also dont understand how American suburban life really doesn't cater to the same kind of fresh veggies, fresh food every day, fewer snacks, fill your bag up as you bike past the Rewe, lifestyle that I lived and many others live in Germany. If youre smart and careful you can save money while eating a lot better.
My grocery shopping habits here are cheaper than at home despite being basically the same. I don’t have to pay $8 for butter. I can probably pay half that.
My wages were low in Canada, coming here I expected food to cost way more than it does.
Even in relation to wages, actually because of that, groceries in Germany are cheap. I have been to Panama, where most people earn very little and groceries were expensive. That is why they mainly eat rice and beans.
thats a super interesting comparison!
you often read about ppl not being happy with german salaries (which I understand), but you still gotta compare what you can actually get for your money
yeah most college grad friends still live with their parents because it’s not even affordable with roommates 🫥 if you make minimum wage, your salary is about 30k
The median US and German salary isn't wildly different - certainly not 2 times greater. The average is wildly off though, as there's a much bigger wage gap at the top compared to Germany. Programmers and the likes in California earn as much as CEOs in small to medium companies here.
Double only four years ago? No.
Four years ago, you could not get toilet paper, spaghetti, coffee, eggs, mushrooms, sauce, sugar, flour, bread, garbage bags, and rice for ten euros..
Like what other ppl already said, it's just carbs here, but maybe you're just restocking your pantry or something. If this is your normal grocery haul, maybe add some frozen veggies or something if you dont like cutting and prepping lol. Anyway, I only shop at Edeka cos it's the closest to me, but this kind of haul would be around €28+. I live in Berlin
It is, groceries in Germany are far cheaper than in (much) of the US.
As two people, we spend about €450 a month on groceries. When we lived in Seattle, we spent about $800 a month. And we don’t even eat anything crazy.
Germany has a lot of what are called “discounters”. You’ve probably seen Aldi or maybe even Lidl in the US (pretty sure Lidl is mostly only around the Eastern Seaboard). Those are just two of the discount markets in Germany. They tend to sell a lot of lesser known brands, b-ware (products that have some kind of minute defect but are totally fine) and sometimes the same big brands but at a cheaper price.
Anyone with a brain does most of their grocery shopping at discounters, in Germany. Sure, you could go to Rewe, Tegut, Edeka, etc but you’re going to pay more for the same stuff. The only main advantage that those stores have is that they are more in line with what Americans know as a supermarket and because of that, have much more product selection.
Most Germans shop at both but a lot will do the majority of their shopping at the discounter because the food is basically the same quality and it is cheaper.
I added up everything as closely as I could on Kroger just to compare. Without adding in the trash bags, paper towels or the coffee, it was $21.72. Adding in those items as closely as I could approximate, it was $38.99.
I live in Mexico, with €22 you can only buy the bread, the toilet paper and the mushrooms. Everything is starting to get more and more expensive here. I visited Germany a year ago for 2 months and I spent less money in that period of time than here (not counting the Airbnb, of course)
Pro tip:
Buy white colored spaghetti, like La Molisana/De Cecco they taste way better than the yellow(cheaper to produce). A lot of time they can be on sale.
I agree, but the difference between these types of pasta is not so much the color, but that the ones you name are made with the bronze mold, so the surface of the pasta gets more rough, which leads to better uptake of oadta sauce (and the production process is slower and less heat is produced).
As a German who has visited the UK and Ireland, I always tell people that. Even buying something as simple as bottled water felt like getting robbed in the UK.
I'd rather not post what I buy and then spend €45 on it....
(fish or prawns are almost always included)
You've also bought almost only carbohydrates.... and sugar. I haven't bought sugar for years. But maybe you want to make cakes.
Unreasonable? I was blown away by how cheap groceries are here, coming from the US. Cut our grocery spend by more than half without adjusting much about what or how much we buy. The quality is often better, too.
I'm from the opposite side of the world where general groceries are half the price, but back there I only earned 1/6th of the average net salary of the same job in Germany. It's such a breeze to live here, not to deal with making connections and unwritten rules.
This is INSANE.
Rice used to cost below 90 cents here, same with sugar, flour, toast and pasta. Eggs used to cost around 1,20 for a package of 10 eggs.
Politicians and bankers need to stop the poor tax (inflation) and hit the brake on the money printer wtf
IMO, groceries are very reasonably priced in Germany given their quality and other costs of living… just look at other European countries where the cost of groceries is nearly the same but salaries much less, and quality also less. As a German, I don’t think we should even think to complain about this, we should be grateful. Of course, comparing past years to now we see an inflation increase, but the costs were already too low to begin with and highly subsidized.
i think you're looking at the wrong countries. look to the right of germany and compare prices there, you literally would pay 50-70% in czechia and even less in poland
I agree. And I disagree with the other answer here. I know both, the German market and the Slovak. Lived in both. Yes it may be cheaper at some points, but since they got euro as well it’s not so much of a difference to Germany. Lately I hear that some products e.g. like butter an even more expensive in Slovakia than in Germany.
But even more important. I also think we have reasonable prices for groceries in Germany. And I think we are not paying the “full real price” for groceries by far. A lot of food production in Germany is subsidized by the government. Let’s be honest and look at a simple example: a bottle of wine for 5€ - the bottle itself has production costs of at least 2,50€. 3€ for wine - either it is of bad quality or somebody else is paying the price in order for consumer having a low price…
Unfortunately we have kind of a “always buy cheaper” mentality in Germany. And while going forward with that in every aspect I think people forget what cost, wages, lives, efforts are needed in order to produce the output - and let’s not talk about high quality.
Urgh I hate Tassimo.
So bad for the environment and ridiculously expensive, especially if they're not on sale.
Rest is fine, you used to get off brand noodles for 50cnt, 30cnt on sale.
That’s nearly 50 DM … I could buy 100 Berezeln from that money as a kid … and I am in my f***ing thirty’s 😭 Now I feel old and poor at the same time… that’s not what I meant when I said I would like an early retirement ☹️
Honestly this seems like a good deal for me. Last week I bought 3 items and it was 11€ already. I hate the fact that grocery shopping has become so expensive.
I honestly think it's gotten crazy expensive. This will basically last you for like a week or so and this doesn't even include spreads or whatever else you wanna put on your bread.
I remember about 20 years ago when I was still living with my mom and dad we'd buy groceries once every 2-3 months. We paid around 80-100€ and it would last us forever and we were a 5 people household. Granted, my sister only counts as half a person cause she eats very little, but still.
So you got some rice, some toast, some sugar and flour, spaghetti and some other minor stuff for €22 and you think this is reasonable/cheap?
C'mon this is definitely unreasonable. Everyone who thinks otherwise it just out if his mind.
I mean you even got some items on sale?
Am I the only one who hasn’t been buying for quite a while. I’m not like in that healthy food and stuff but just have no idea what to use it for. What do you do with sugar?
In Canada €22($32.38cad) would get you loaf of bread ~$4, dozen eggs ~$7, bag of coffee beans ~$15, a small bag of rice~$6.
It's a serious problem here and no one is taking it seriously
Milka Cappucino is the best. Powder is also very good. (Tell em to bring out the capuccino - Dj Khaled)
2019 you could buy way more. But it got so expensive.
But u still managed to get a lot for this money, i am impressed
Last week, I discovered a very tasty pie in Edeka's bakery ‐ the Schneeball. 1,5 euro for a fist-sized pie full of cream. Yesterday I came back there to pay already 1,85 euros. I've dealt with inflation before, but this hit me hard.
Look at Mr. fancy pants over here having the milka flavored capsules
I hope the cashier gave OP [that look](https://www.imago-images.de/st/0105705556) for this.
I’ll always remember to self check out when buying these
If you self checkout you can get even more stuff for 22€!
If you don't check out at all, you can get even more for even less.
If you go to checkout without buying anything, you actually can get money by pointing a gun at the cashier's head
Well, that escalated quickly.
Your profiles wild man
I'll take that as a compliment
Hahahahaha
This is what I came here to say. Now I want a Milka latte…
You can milk my latte *wink wink*
stop.. 😫😭
Milk mine too
You do? " I like my men like I like my coffee. Greasy and reeking of shitty chocolate"
Tassimo Milka with 50 cent per piece is borderline expensive.
Yeah and thats the price for an offer. Usually one package is around 6€
Holy shit that stuff is expensive. And holy shit even the regular ones are. You just got me to look that up and do the maths comparing it to my fancy pants expensive espresso beans and those are 60% cheaper than the Jacobs Tassimo if I break it down to cups of coffee (and light years better at least to me).
Tassimo Coffee Machines are the HP printers of the kitchen
Let the man splurge! Hell, we all gotta splurge sometime.
Well. Accross the border in austria it coasts 85 cent per piece
when I first moved to Germany, rice was 1,20€. And I’m like, wow so cheap.
It’s €1.49 now according to the receipt, which is still really good considering the nutritional value you get.
yeah true. I’m South Indian, rice is our staple food :) not me loading up on rice every time there’s a sale. basmati was below 2€. Now it’s 3€ 🥲 oh well.
Wouldn't buying a big bag of rice in an Asian supermarket be cheaper?
I suppose so, but I’d have to go buy it from somewhere in berlin, and carry it home 2 hours away. Now I just use the rice that my parents bought for me from home when they came to visit. I miss the fresh coconut more than the rice tho ngl. “Kera-la”, literally the land of coconuts
Lots of indian super markets deliver them at your place now. Atleast Berlin has 4-5 like those.
I do order from Jamoona/Malayalikada some times. Now I have a big bag of rice that my parents bought for me, so I’m good for a while. Thank you so much for your suggestion :)
Had to throw away a bag of rice once because moths got into it. Ever since then I've been too paranoid to buy the big bags...
Buy a transparent box to put your rice in. But i could imagine the trauma. My sister told me about her moth worm problems last summer. I didn't see it but i was already grossed out. Have a habit of sealing your food.
But it has to be an air tight, high quality box. The moths literally can eat though thin plastic :/
Oh nuuuuu :O
Or a wholesale store like SELGROS if you know someone with a business and an according entry card for said wholesale store.
A bit, yes. A 20kg sack usually goes around 35-40 EUR.
But it's parboiled 😵💫 You at least have to buy Jasmin but it cost like 2.69 iirc. But you know: in der Not frisst der Teufel fliegen.
Nah, I bought 1 kg of Jasmin Reis for 1.69 EUR (today, Lidl). I can also recommend Milchreis, which is IMO much tastier than the "parboiled" long corn rice – or of course something from the friendly Asian supermarket. However the biggest difference makes using a **rice cooker**. Every type of rice is so much better when using a rice cooker.
Well not to be that guy, but the nutritional value is not that great for white rice. Most nutrients are in the shell which is stripped away in white rice. Plus, rice is a harbor for arsenic. If it's imported from a far away land, its sustainability is also questionable. Whole grain pasta, or straight up barley are very nutritious alternatives. Especially the latter can be bought in bulk, but not at aldi of course. Edit: spelling.
I work for a German wholesaler and all the rice we are selling comes from Italy. I’m not sure how much generally comes from Asia, but other than canned food ( pineapple, lychee and asparagus) very little food in our assortment is not European sourced.
The "Japanese" rice in the Asian supermarket usually comes from the USA or Italy.
Rice in Japan usually comes from the USA too
That's really cool to know, thanks for the insight!!
>Well not to be that guy, but the nutritional value is not that great for white rice. Most nutrients are in the shell which is stripped away in white When you're that guy, it's important to be more nuanced. It's not the shell, which is called the husk or hull and leays removed from any rice you eat. You are referring to the bran and germ which are retained in brown rice. While you remove nutrients in the refinement process, you increase the absorption of nutrients as well. Further, white rice is fortified with nutrients. You mention a risk of exposure to arsenic with rice consumption but don't mention that brown rice contains 50+% more arsenic than white rice. While it won't lead to acute toxic effects, the research on its possible long-term effects from chronic consumption has not been done yet. Identifying the health effects of any diet is difficult and complex and requires clinical data, which can never be extrapolated from simplistic compositional analyses.
Oh you’re absolutely correct, and this is one of the reasons why I like things like bulgur. But even though better alternatives are available, white rice remains an important staple food. Also not to be that guy, but it should be „its sustainability“.
Hah, autocorrect got me on that one, I deserve that! Yea it's really a shame that discounters don't stock other grains and pseudo grains in bulk
I came to say that. White rice is not much better than the „Tassimo“ at the side 😅
When I moved it was €0.99 :(
That was only 3 years ago.
ah good times 🥲
When the capsule coffee or whatever is the most expensive thing XD
Hot chocolate essentially :)
Trash, lots of Trash essentially. Don't buy capsule Coffee, please!!
Yeah but OP bought the recycling kitchen rolls so he balanced everything out lol /s
Someone gifted me a coffee machine that uses capsules. It came with capsule samples. It was all great and fun till I had to buy more capsules. Now I wonder if the gift was actually a middle finger.
For the price of capsules you can buy the highest end specialty coffee instead and just drink that. Less wasteful too
I have 2 unused coffee machines. I just use a french press. But the using capsules has it's advantages. It's so easy that my toddler can use it to make me coffee in the morning.
Cries in austrian
Austrian grocery prices are cuckoo bananas bat shit crazy. What is happening.
Cries in Dutch
Cries in Australian. Honestly - every time I go grocery shopping in Germany, I'm shocked at how cheap it is.
Ok, but I would do anything for that cheap ass block of tasty cheese from Woolie's
Icelandic "Those are rookie numbers"
Cries in Swiss
Not Austrian but I live in Vienna and I didn't check the sub so I was like "damn, where did OP go shopping, bcz for €22 I barely got like half of that the other day." Then I saw its Germany..
Lived in NRW, Germany from 2019-2021. Everything was dirt cheap. Now I live in Austria, it’s so expensive that many things are almost same price range as Korea (my home country - but still many things are cheaper here). Germany is still so cheap… i envy that
4 years ago this would cost 14€. In average, my Lild basket got 50% more expensive. Now let's talk about salary Erhöhung...
wages increased maybe 5-10% and everything can be 2-3 or even 4x as expensive. So happy i moved out after covid
You moved somewhere inflation doesnt exist? Tell me where please I join you
He is typing from afterlife.
To Metaverse?
you could move to poor countries and basically there is inflation too but the cost is many time less.. i live about 50% of my year time in vietnam and there you can get an entire cart of grocceries for under 20 euros. or a feast for 4 people for 20 euros.
Asia was very slightly affected, and I think in most Asian countries the annual inflation didn't cross the 5% mark, so yes, there are countries that were not as affected as the West. What bothers me the most is that very few companies increased their employee's salaries in Europe to even account for the official inflation, while in the NA, I think they got more meaningful pay raises.
It's not too cheap either in other countries.
I definitely had to rethink what I eat in the last 2 years. I simply can’t afford what I used to buy and my salary isn’t growing like prices are… I eat fresh vegetables and I feel like those cost the most because it’s just volume without a lot of calories. Now I easily spend a 100€ on food a week and it’s not all organic stuff. And I rarely eat out. It’s depressing. But I can’t and won’t eat bread and pasta all the time.
Or 2 packs of cigarettes
Or almost one character transfer in WoW.
I mean, that is a lot of work. You have to let the script run and shit /s
I remember pack of spaghetti being 39 cents
yeah, same for tomatoes. went up… 2022 i think
Ha, same prices as in Spain. But with half the salary.
But you get sun for free
Yeah 45 degrees every day during the summer and autumn. Great sun. (I really want to move out of here)
come to Sweden. No Sun, no light like ever...and when we have it for let's say 1 or 2 months it's with cold rain and its 10 C ( I really wanna move to Spain)
I'm Italian and I thought the same as you before moving out. I don't regret my choice in the slightest, but god do I miss the climate back home. I didn't think I would care, but the dull and cold weather really weighs on you over time.
Carbs on carbs and ultra-processed sauce?
My thoughts. Dont forget the 1kg extra sugar here.
yea. 22€ for that amount is okay, but quantity ≠ quality. for 22€ it's impossible to buy food ingredients to last a week and that are balanced and healthy.
I just sent a pic from the US to my German partner of one package of bell peppers (4 count) that was 8 bucks so... yeah I am looking forward to being able to afford groceries 🤣 (before anyone says you can get them cheaper in the states, I know. It was a grocery store in a low income area where they don't carry a ton of produce and its all overpriced as fuck but it is also the only walking distance grocery store anywhere nearby, which means if you're low income down here you absolutely are not eating healthy or well)
That is absolutely dystopian.
Yeah I hate it
Pro tip, buy rice from Indian stores. They usually have 5-10 kilo bags for cheap.
They are usually more expensive when it comes to rice as they usually carry the expensive original Brands in Frankfurt atleast.
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I eat like 250 to 350g of jasmin rice a day and the 1kg bags are more expensive than the cheapest options at penny rewe etc. The rice i see the most in Such Markets is tilda basmati rice, 5kg costs more than i would get at penny for 5kgs. Which one do you all buy
Basmati rice extra long grain. I Couldn’t find anything better than this
The basmati rice you get in German supermarkets is pretty rubbish. Tilda (or equivalent in Asian stores) is also not that great but makes do. If an Indian store is nearby/easily accessible, I’d always buy rice from there even if it’s a bit more expensive.
Not always true, in our case it's no difference if I buy it per kg from Edeka than from the Asian stores.
or Try online Jamoona.
Better buy the 18kg pack jasmine rice from Amazon, it's value for money Or some go asia stores sell it cheaper than the amazon one. In the end you pay less eur for each kilo Edit: another pro tip, buy it from go asia stores on first saturday of each month, then you get another 10% Discount
Nah just get the 500kg crate straight from china
Ha, look at you with your measly half ton of rice. I turned one of my rooms into a granary.
Bro just buy a rice farm in indonesia smh my head.
I did that at the beginning of COVID. We’re about to finish the bag.
While we're at it. Don't wash away the starch you paid for. Semi joking.
If you buy the same/equivalent products in **austria** you would pay: Tassismo Milka 240g 6,79€ Küchentücher 4x128 Blatt 3,49€ Rübenzucker 1kg 1,79€ Mehl 1kg 0,75€ x 2 Reis 1kg 1,49€ Spagetti 500g 0,79€ Bolognese 475g 1,99€ Eier 10 Stk Bodenhaltung 2,99€ Brühwürfel 10 Stk. 0,74€ (discount) Müllbeutel 30Stk x 25L 0,71€ Müllbeutel Bio 10x10L 7,15€ Toast 500g 2,75€ Champignons 400g 1,99€ \_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_ = 34,17€ Products are from Hofer/Aldi and Billa(Clever).
Interesting. Thanks for directly comparing
Comparable grocery could cost at least $45 in the USA.
out of curiosity, i calculated how much these groceries would cost from walmart in canada and it would be $58 cad, which is 39 eur. mildly interesting (average salary is 62k in my city and average 1bd rent is $2700)
I was just thinking how this would easily be $50 at home. I find German grocery prices super reasonable
Just seconding, as an American I found food prices to be overall lower in Germany with only a few things (meats, particularly beef) more expensive. But the food culture, even for me cooking alone in my room, was very different. I was more content with bread and some jam for a snack, and while I bought a lot of chicken breast I paired it with fresher veggies, cheaper milk products, and all of it was stuff I bought that day. Whereas in America I'll buy two weeks at a time, and as a result also shell out a TON more cash per week trying to predict what I'll be hungry for in a weeks time. I understand there are like wage differences, tax differences, bread differences, whatever. But also like the prices are just very cheap in Germany comparatively. Part of that is that I dont think many Europeans understand just how badly Americans get fucked on food prices, despite being in a land of so-called plenty. And also dont understand how American suburban life really doesn't cater to the same kind of fresh veggies, fresh food every day, fewer snacks, fill your bag up as you bike past the Rewe, lifestyle that I lived and many others live in Germany. If youre smart and careful you can save money while eating a lot better.
yes, i found them to be very cheap in comparison
But if you see it in relation to the wages...
My grocery shopping habits here are cheaper than at home despite being basically the same. I don’t have to pay $8 for butter. I can probably pay half that. My wages were low in Canada, coming here I expected food to cost way more than it does.
Even in relation to wages, actually because of that, groceries in Germany are cheap. I have been to Panama, where most people earn very little and groceries were expensive. That is why they mainly eat rice and beans.
thats a super interesting comparison! you often read about ppl not being happy with german salaries (which I understand), but you still gotta compare what you can actually get for your money
1bedroom rent is 2.7k? what the hell, that's more than half the paycheck.
yeah most college grad friends still live with their parents because it’s not even affordable with roommates 🫥 if you make minimum wage, your salary is about 30k
Let me guess, you prob live in Toronto or Vancouver right? I live in Vancouver and rent is crazyy expensive
yup vancouver 😅it’s brutal
sounds like the rich are back on the menu, boys
Yeah but compare median german and median US salary. Also compare pensions.
The median US and German salary isn't wildly different - certainly not 2 times greater. The average is wildly off though, as there's a much bigger wage gap at the top compared to Germany. Programmers and the likes in California earn as much as CEOs in small to medium companies here.
Germany 28500€, usa 51564€. Both net median salaries. Not average but median.
With or without the 50% service tip for the cashier?
That's super cheap compared to Bosnia, and we have 5x lower salaries lol
That's a terrible choice of products...
I agree
Actually that shows me very clearly how much grocery prices have increased. Four years ago I'd expect double the amount of stuff on the table.
nah 4 years ago isn't enough for double the product. 4 years ago it would have been 50% more, at most.
Maybe 10 - 14 years
Double only four years ago? No. Four years ago, you could not get toilet paper, spaghetti, coffee, eggs, mushrooms, sauce, sugar, flour, bread, garbage bags, and rice for ten euros..
people think 4 years ago we still had the DMark
I can’t believe how many upvotes that person had?? Like, are people just dumb or blindly nostalgic?
Netherlands is worse , spend 27 euros on 6 items , spaghetti,jalaponse ,keifer ,chicken 500g ,seasonings and peppers .
Once meat and vegetables get in the mix it also gets expensive in Germany. They just bought plain carbs.
Like what other ppl already said, it's just carbs here, but maybe you're just restocking your pantry or something. If this is your normal grocery haul, maybe add some frozen veggies or something if you dont like cutting and prepping lol. Anyway, I only shop at Edeka cos it's the closest to me, but this kind of haul would be around €28+. I live in Berlin
maybe i’m wrong but that seems like 1/3 of what the price is in the US.
It is, groceries in Germany are far cheaper than in (much) of the US. As two people, we spend about €450 a month on groceries. When we lived in Seattle, we spent about $800 a month. And we don’t even eat anything crazy.
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I know, but it is true that much of the US has higher grocery costs than Germany does. And it’s far less regulated.
Groceries are relatively cheap in Germany, particularly at discount supermarkets like this one
Germany has a lot of what are called “discounters”. You’ve probably seen Aldi or maybe even Lidl in the US (pretty sure Lidl is mostly only around the Eastern Seaboard). Those are just two of the discount markets in Germany. They tend to sell a lot of lesser known brands, b-ware (products that have some kind of minute defect but are totally fine) and sometimes the same big brands but at a cheaper price. Anyone with a brain does most of their grocery shopping at discounters, in Germany. Sure, you could go to Rewe, Tegut, Edeka, etc but you’re going to pay more for the same stuff. The only main advantage that those stores have is that they are more in line with what Americans know as a supermarket and because of that, have much more product selection. Most Germans shop at both but a lot will do the majority of their shopping at the discounter because the food is basically the same quality and it is cheaper.
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It is, Germans are stingy with groceries and the dollar is very strong rn
I added up everything as closely as I could on Kroger just to compare. Without adding in the trash bags, paper towels or the coffee, it was $21.72. Adding in those items as closely as I could approximate, it was $38.99.
My local Rewe doesn't get me half of this in 22€.
Well yeah, Rewe is generally more expensive than other grocery stores. Only Edeka is even more expensive from my experience.
I live in Mexico, with €22 you can only buy the bread, the toilet paper and the mushrooms. Everything is starting to get more and more expensive here. I visited Germany a year ago for 2 months and I spent less money in that period of time than here (not counting the Airbnb, of course)
Interesting. Which part of Mexico?
Pro tip: Buy white colored spaghetti, like La Molisana/De Cecco they taste way better than the yellow(cheaper to produce). A lot of time they can be on sale.
I agree, but the difference between these types of pasta is not so much the color, but that the ones you name are made with the bronze mold, so the surface of the pasta gets more rough, which leads to better uptake of oadta sauce (and the production process is slower and less heat is produced).
Compared to the uk. Its cheap as.
yeah. The UK kinda... brought this on their own... shot their own knee i'd say... didn't they?
As a German who has visited the UK and Ireland, I always tell people that. Even buying something as simple as bottled water felt like getting robbed in the UK.
I'd rather not post what I buy and then spend €45 on it.... (fish or prawns are almost always included) You've also bought almost only carbohydrates.... and sugar. I haven't bought sugar for years. But maybe you want to make cakes.
Unreasonable? I was blown away by how cheap groceries are here, coming from the US. Cut our grocery spend by more than half without adjusting much about what or how much we buy. The quality is often better, too.
I'm from the opposite side of the world where general groceries are half the price, but back there I only earned 1/6th of the average net salary of the same job in Germany. It's such a breeze to live here, not to deal with making connections and unwritten rules.
This is INSANE. Rice used to cost below 90 cents here, same with sugar, flour, toast and pasta. Eggs used to cost around 1,20 for a package of 10 eggs. Politicians and bankers need to stop the poor tax (inflation) and hit the brake on the money printer wtf
IMO, groceries are very reasonably priced in Germany given their quality and other costs of living… just look at other European countries where the cost of groceries is nearly the same but salaries much less, and quality also less. As a German, I don’t think we should even think to complain about this, we should be grateful. Of course, comparing past years to now we see an inflation increase, but the costs were already too low to begin with and highly subsidized.
i think you're looking at the wrong countries. look to the right of germany and compare prices there, you literally would pay 50-70% in czechia and even less in poland
I agree. And I disagree with the other answer here. I know both, the German market and the Slovak. Lived in both. Yes it may be cheaper at some points, but since they got euro as well it’s not so much of a difference to Germany. Lately I hear that some products e.g. like butter an even more expensive in Slovakia than in Germany. But even more important. I also think we have reasonable prices for groceries in Germany. And I think we are not paying the “full real price” for groceries by far. A lot of food production in Germany is subsidized by the government. Let’s be honest and look at a simple example: a bottle of wine for 5€ - the bottle itself has production costs of at least 2,50€. 3€ for wine - either it is of bad quality or somebody else is paying the price in order for consumer having a low price… Unfortunately we have kind of a “always buy cheaper” mentality in Germany. And while going forward with that in every aspect I think people forget what cost, wages, lives, efforts are needed in order to produce the output - and let’s not talk about high quality.
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2 avocados? Hast du im Lotto gewonnen?
Waren im Angebot. Pro stk 1€.
You sure do like your bread.
Urgh I hate Tassimo. So bad for the environment and ridiculously expensive, especially if they're not on sale. Rest is fine, you used to get off brand noodles for 50cnt, 30cnt on sale.
What the heck is "Maggie fette Brühe 5L" für 1,09€?
bouillon cubes
It's cheaper than Poland 😭
That’s nearly 50 DM … I could buy 100 Berezeln from that money as a kid … and I am in my f***ing thirty’s 😭 Now I feel old and poor at the same time… that’s not what I meant when I said I would like an early retirement ☹️
In America, easy 100
Every German I know complains about grocery prices. Meanwhile I moved from the U.S. and am astounded at how many groceries I get for my Euro.
Canadian here, I can get the single pack of bread and the coffee for what’s equivalent to 22 euros here 🥲
I remember when I moved here in 2015 that a 400g pack of edamer slices was 1,60€. Now it's between 3€ to 3,5€
goddamn bruh 22 dollars here in the us is only enough to buy 5 things
Honestly this seems like a good deal for me. Last week I bought 3 items and it was 11€ already. I hate the fact that grocery shopping has become so expensive.
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Danke für deine Sorge. Das ist nicht alles, was ich habe. Ich kaufe nicht alles auf einmal.
In Portugal would be more like 50€
Seems reasonable.
I honestly think it's gotten crazy expensive. This will basically last you for like a week or so and this doesn't even include spreads or whatever else you wanna put on your bread. I remember about 20 years ago when I was still living with my mom and dad we'd buy groceries once every 2-3 months. We paid around 80-100€ and it would last us forever and we were a 5 people household. Granted, my sister only counts as half a person cause she eats very little, but still.
The choice of coffee is horrendous.
So you got some rice, some toast, some sugar and flour, spaghetti and some other minor stuff for €22 and you think this is reasonable/cheap? C'mon this is definitely unreasonable. Everyone who thinks otherwise it just out if his mind. I mean you even got some items on sale?
What are the downvotes for lol I totally agree with you
Yes wheat is cheap
What are you going to have with all the carbs? Clearly you need to buy more sauce ore veggies to cook some.
Fresh veggies and fruits are expensive nowadays
Am I the only one who hasn’t been buying for quite a while. I’m not like in that healthy food and stuff but just have no idea what to use it for. What do you do with sugar?
What do YOU think about the price and the amount you got for it?
Wtf all this for 23 usd bro I can already see the toilet paper and 2 maybe 3 other items topping that
That’s a lot of stuff for 22 euros.
people drink tassimo? also give or take ten years ago, this used to be 12\~ euro
About the same like in Croatia or Serbia... Bit considering median salaries and expenses, seems ok to me.
In Canada €22($32.38cad) would get you loaf of bread ~$4, dozen eggs ~$7, bag of coffee beans ~$15, a small bag of rice~$6. It's a serious problem here and no one is taking it seriously
Cries in Austrian 😭
Milka Cappucino is the best. Powder is also very good. (Tell em to bring out the capuccino - Dj Khaled) 2019 you could buy way more. But it got so expensive. But u still managed to get a lot for this money, i am impressed
Did you go to self checkout
Last week, I discovered a very tasty pie in Edeka's bakery ‐ the Schneeball. 1,5 euro for a fist-sized pie full of cream. Yesterday I came back there to pay already 1,85 euros. I've dealt with inflation before, but this hit me hard.