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Old Jan 29th 2009, 10:34 pm
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Originally Posted by Rubie
There have been a few posts recently about the price of food in Canada being expensive and being a reason why people are moving back to UK etc, which is pretty scary
I don't believe for a second anyone has actually moved home because of their grocery bill here. That has to be BS. We've tested this to death and always agree it's about the same to 'slightly' more expensive overall here compared to home. If anyone cites that as their reason for leaving canada they're lie-ing or crazy.
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Old Jan 29th 2009, 11:06 pm
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Originally Posted by Stophie
That's great
I have no idea what I would do with that much flour, but, good for you!
Used for carrot cake, muffins, apple pies and lots of other goodies
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Originally Posted by fuschiagirl
Used for carrot cake, muffins, apple pies and lots of other goodies
Cookies by the load full, fruit bread, proper english buns
apple crumble, different pies (so my kids can have pie and peas ) many other things that have flour in inc sauces

Remember that sauces here are ok, but homemade are better, we have the sack in the basement and fill a sealed tub up as and when we need it, we go through it no probs
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Old Jan 29th 2009, 11:37 pm
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I have no doubt that if you go into one shop and one shop alone to do your shopping and buy whatever, regardless of whether it is on offer or not, then it will be slightly more expensive than the UK....

Shop smart and follow BristolUK's flyer mantra and it'll be cheaper for sure...
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Originally Posted by moondevil
We pay $11 for 20kg
Girl next door just found weavils in her flour - from keeping it too long. It was in a plastic container too!
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Originally Posted by seaham gal
Girl next door just found weavils in her flour - from keeping it too long. It was in a plastic container too!
Weavils are from a bad batch of flour, tell her to take it back to the supplier or contact the maker of the flour.
Weavils are when the eggs are too small to be crushed in the process and pass through, not because it has been stored too long, as long as they are storing it right it will be alright..............

O yeah hubby works in flour mill
He has seen the weavils and they walk like they have had too many on a friday night - he says
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I think overall it'spretty much the same. Every time i do a shop i buy what is on sale rather than getting stuck on a certain brand item. I've never paid full price for loo paper for example- there is always one brand reduced.

name brand can also be a good choice for most items.

Beer is definitely more - i'm not a big drinker but i think a case of 24 beers is around 40 bucks?? (in bc).

I always found wine and cheese to be outrageous.

Overall cost of living is cheaper here - depending on where you coming from and going to.

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Old Jan 30th 2009, 1:20 pm
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Originally Posted by Kaye.
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I have just done an online shop with Tesco, following your receipt.. as best as I could anyway.

Total comes to £109.64.
=$193 at todays spot rate, so really not a lot in it. Canada 10% cheaper, but the exchange rate fluctuation could easily make more than that difference.
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Old Jan 30th 2009, 2:35 pm
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4L of milk for less than $4, you're lucky, here in NS 4L of milk is about $7.50

Originally Posted by Stophie
Generally we find that it evens out. I mean there are lots of examples where things are more expensive here (like $1.29 being the very cheapest bread, compared to 45p, or $3.99 for 1.5kg bag of flour compared to 43p, and alcohol is certainly more here) but there are also lots of examples where things are cheaper here ($1.29 for 2L Pepsi compared to £1.53, $3.89 for 4L milk compared to about £3, apples 99c per lb compared to about 85p) Brain hurts now from all that working out
If you shop carefully you could spend less in Canada than you did in the UK. And by carefully I mean choosing where to buy which items, and not trying to live / eat exactly how you did in the UK (but then you wouldn't do that, otherwise why would you want to move? )
Finally, eating out is cheaper here, so if you factor that in, that helps too.
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Originally Posted by Sockdogg
4L of milk for less than $4, you're lucky, here in NS 4L of milk is about $7.50
Ouch. Hopefully you have other things that are cheaper than here. Yesterday I paid $3.69 for 4 litres at Safeway.
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Thanks for all the replies.

I'm gonna have a look at that Canadian food receipt later when I have more time. Thanks for pointing me to that. It appears that the price of food is not as scary as one would believe reading some posts.

Just to clear up a bit of confusion - I didn't mean to give the impression that that food prices were 'the' reason people were moving back but 'a' reason. Whether that is reason enough for them or just an excuse - who knows? I was just wondering.

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Heh, you guys buy way too much flour. I'm trying to think of a time when I would need flour.
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Old Feb 1st 2009, 10:11 am
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I used to convert everything back to pounds when I first got here 1 year ago, but I am not paid in pounds, so that's pointless.

You have to remember that when you are paid in $$$ you have to treat the $ like you would treat your pound, and shop for the best deal for that $.

So doing a like for like comparison in UK/Canada shopping and doing a currency conversion, is not realistic.

Sometimes you're ahead, sometimes your not, I have found though, that the wages are generally more here and that offsets the higher grocery bill and some.
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I find that the wages are generally a lot lower here, which is what makes the grocery shopping seem so expensive. Wish we could get milk for under $7 . The worst thing is meat, it's SO expensive!! We don't have chicken as much as we used to!!
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Originally Posted by Louisecooke
I find that the wages are generally a lot lower here, which is what makes the grocery shopping seem so expensive. Wish we could get milk for under $7 . The worst thing is meat, it's SO expensive!! We don't have chicken as much as we used to!!
which foods are cheaper in Canada?
Why are milk and meat so expensive?
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