I spent €480 on one-week's worth of groceries for 4 adults, yesterday.
Just saying.
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Over $100 per person for one week is high. But i am pretty confident your family eats well, so that’s good!
I was thinking that sounds pretty frugal these days 😂
It is, actually. Other people eat out, more.
expensive
Damn, we're moving towards a mortgage payment level for groceries, wtf?
Why do you think I keep pressuring my BIL to FINISH HIS HOUSE, so that we can move into the apartment in his parents' house and get out of rent?
That's almost 1000 DM, more than enough to feed your family for a month, in the good old days.
Yeah. The official inflation rate since the Euro is like 65%, but it feels more like 400%.
It sounds like a lot, but that's €120/person/week and includes local produce, meat from the butcher, and stuff like washing powder. And two of the adults are gigantic, physically-active Vikings. 😂
So, it's unusually low, for the quality and quantity of the end result. I suspect other people just eat crappier food.
That reminds me, the butcher's wife was instructing her new apprentice to slice the steaks really thin because customers freak out at the prices, otherwise.
and the green hoax policies are cutting energy supply for industry and reducing production of the meat so it all gets more expensive even faster
and believe me, after having fed myself with seed oil, high carb food for the last 20 years and wound up this sick, i come back to eating steak and mince beef and goat and the level of health and energy i get is completely incredible
so, you have to conclude they are deliberately making people sick, for their own pleasure
Yeah, we can't really reduce animal proteins further, for health and energy reasons. Even dairy and eggs will set you back, quite a bit, if you buy the good stuff. I could just buy cheaper cuts. I only buy steak once per month, for instance, and I usually have ground meat. This was my most-expensive monthly pantry stack. 😁
Everytime I've tried to save money by lowering the quality and/or nutrition-density, we all got constant attacks of the munchies. Even cheap meat leaves us all feeling hungry. I'd rather eat a good spelt sourdough, with lots of fresh butter on top, so that I don't feel like I'm starving while I eat.
the fats in beef there are special ones in quite high quantities that literally help make the chemicals that make you feel like you are full, cacao fat has some of it also but there is nothing like 500g of medium-lean beef mince to make you feel like you could easily not eat the whole next day
so the value of it is more than just the simple nutrients, it's also in how it affects your nervous system
Yeah, feels totally different. Beef is expensive here, but I refuse to give it up.
And there's no way I'm going to raise my kids on nothing but beans and rice. I love that stuff, but that's slave food, for good reason.
I cook it with ham, bacon, or fatback in it, so that do be good, tho. But still. Give the boy some meat! 😂
You know what I mean?
Like, I bake an Italian bread and then we each get a little dipping plate and fill it with good Greek olive oil and a bit of salt-n-pepper, and then we take a slice and dip, nibble, dip, nibble... until the oil is all gone. Soooo satisfying, especially when served with fresh olives and proscuitto and some sheep feta. 🤌
But eat some cheap turkey-hen schnitzel and 5 minutes later I'm like OMG WHERE FOOD?!!!
I swear that shit is literally 50% water. Put it in the pan and if just shrinks down to nothing.
european food quality nowadays is so bad it's disgusting, and so hard to find actual beef, all the meat behind the glass is veal and pork and chicken, and they treat those beasts abysmally where they produce them, stuck in tight little feedlots or even in cages, and it's ridiculous because actually the quality reduction is way more than the cost saving in production
and then they fatten it up with toxic salts in water and pretend there's no problem
Yeah, I can't do it. Grosses me out. I'd rather eat less of the good stuff.
I bought some cheap bacon strips, a few months back, and they literally shriveled down to narrow strings and smelled bitter. I threw it in the trash. Ugh.
yeah, almost nothing you see anymore is worth buying, it's disgusting... around here, the only beef you can get at all is frozen beef patties and the price is like 20eur/kg!
and most of the ones you actually see taste like 50% soy
Yeah, sus.
My butcher's ground beef is ground out of the end-bits and trimmings of the roasts and steaks, and it tastes so good. They grind it, while you wait.
yeah, the beef is one of the things i miss a lot from sarajevo
i think that the yugoslavians know what they are gonna lose to EU membership from their frequent visits to the nearby lands that are in... i mean, the most hilarious thing you will ever see in bulgaria is the serbian grills, it's like, try to make actual pljeskavica and cevapi without actual beef and lamb... you can't! it's so awful it's actually worse than the regular bulgarian pork based shite
burek bez govezdo meso? yedi govna
and here i was dreaming of how food in Germany 10 years ago was so much healthier, so much easier to not gain weight, feel bloated.
every guest i have from Europe complains how sweet every food and dish is in Texas.
serbian/bosnian > european > american
but honestly, i can't really imagine there is a big gap between european and american food quality anymore
it's all hydrogenated seed oils and modified starches and vegetable gums now, and the meat is mostly been soaked in nitrite brines to add weight and liberally mixed with soy protein and dowsed with more hydrogenated vegetable oils, and don't forget to add some extra maltodextrin
also, you still have beef over there, it's almost gone here
the UK there was still a lot of beef and lamb but also not very well processed, all coming in microplastic laden shrinkwrap packages at marks and spencers and whatnot
I visited El Salvador last year and the lake front hotel got their breakfast eggs and platanos from the groups of huts tucked behind waterfront. I assume the eggs came from chickens roaming the jungle.
the taste of simple eggs from the jungle were mind-bogglingly better than the eggs I get from Whole Foods.
A small roasting hen was €7,89.
1 kilo of local strawberries was €11,00.
500g locally-roasted espresso beans for €14,20.
Marinated, deboned cutlets at €17,90.
1 kilo dry-aged Porterhouse steak €57,50.
100 g liverwurst €1,99.
Slowly but suddenly we loose Fiat but Bitcoin wins!
We do work then it happens! But for now Fiat is a falling king.
I remember around 2015, buying grocery for 50€ per week per person. 🥹 now you can still do it in France but you have to take time for buying anti-gaspi, or with app like "too good to go" and other discounts