Cost of food
Jul 7th 2007, 10:48 am
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Cost of food
Does anyone else find the cost of food higher in the Netherlands? Three euro for a tin of meatballs?! What this place needs is a good, two-storey, 24-hour ASDA supercentre!
Jul 10th 2007, 8:48 pm
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Re: Cost of food
Hi we lived in Holland for about 2 years and found food to be very expensive. Albert Heijns especially - we did find a supermarket chain that was reasonable but cant think of the name (will come to me). All those little grocery shops were sweet though. Took a while all the time to do the shopping as you usually had to visit 10 different shops. Nice cheese though.
Jul 17th 2007, 4:03 pm
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Re: Cost of food
I find Holland a lot cheaper than the UK for shopping if you eat Dutch.
If you eat lots of typical English food, yes it is expensive, and Albert Hein is by far the dearest (but beats all UK supermarkets for snacks & speciality foods) but each as the Dutch do,and its easily cheaper.
C1000 is probably 20% cheape than AH, and still good quality. Lidl & Jumbo cheaper still, but not so good quality.
Jul 18th 2007, 9:12 pm
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Re: Cost of food
everybody here makes their own meatballs
I find Holland a lot cheaper than the UK for shopping if you eat Dutch.
If you eat lots of typical English food, yes it is expensive, and Albert Hein is by far the dearest (but beats all UK supermarkets for snacks & speciality foods) but each as the Dutch do,and its easily cheaper.
C1000 is probably 20% cheape than AH, and still good quality. Lidl & Jumbo cheaper still, but not so good quality.
I find Holland a lot cheaper than the UK for shopping if you eat Dutch.
If you eat lots of typical English food, yes it is expensive, and Albert Hein is by far the dearest (but beats all UK supermarkets for snacks & speciality foods) but each as the Dutch do,and its easily cheaper.
C1000 is probably 20% cheape than AH, and still good quality. Lidl & Jumbo cheaper still, but not so good quality.
Aug 23rd 2007, 2:52 pm
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Re: Cost of food
everybody here makes their own meatballs
I find Holland a lot cheaper than the UK for shopping if you eat Dutch.
If you eat lots of typical English food, yes it is expensive, and Albert Hein is by far the dearest (but beats all UK supermarkets for snacks & speciality foods) but each as the Dutch do,and its easily cheaper.
C1000 is probably 20% cheape than AH, and still good quality. Lidl & Jumbo cheaper still, but not so good quality.
I find Holland a lot cheaper than the UK for shopping if you eat Dutch.
If you eat lots of typical English food, yes it is expensive, and Albert Hein is by far the dearest (but beats all UK supermarkets for snacks & speciality foods) but each as the Dutch do,and its easily cheaper.
C1000 is probably 20% cheape than AH, and still good quality. Lidl & Jumbo cheaper still, but not so good quality.
Aug 23rd 2007, 5:35 pm
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Re: Cost of food
no such thing as hypermarkets in Holland, no big Tesco's, Sainsburys etc, think of grocery shopping in the UK about 50 years ago and there you have it. Twee /quaint though.
Aug 23rd 2007, 5:37 pm
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Re: Cost of food
Yes it is expensive, cheese and Vla (custard in huge cartons) is cheap so a nice healthy diet.
