wellinever

How much for these items in Portugal, bought this morning. Normal supermarket.


Interesting for anyone comparing UK with Portugal

sportpix

Looks far too healthy, but probably not more than six or seven euro

wellinever

LOL....apart from the chocolate and beer.....€9.83 in total from *ld*

chislenko

Probably less than a fiver in B&M or Home Bargains.

sportpix

Chocolate and beer are much needed ... Actually I have a spreadsheet listing everything I buy and at what cost and then the HK$ equivalent so that wife can get a handle on what things really do cost here. I’ve found out that I need to go to specific supermarkets for specific products and to look out for specific items which will be on discount on days such as today. I don’t know what things cost in the uk as I haven’t lived there for more than three decades but I know what things cost in HK where 99.9 percent of things are imported, and Portugal is much cheaper on just about everything. I get most of my fruit and veg from the farmers market on Saturday mornings and I’ve only just found out there is another market on Wednesday evenings. I usually head home with a bag that I can only just about manage to carry and I rarely spend more that 10 euros. Free range eggs at 2.1 euro per dozen are a steal as far as I’m concerned as I was paying 1 euro per egg in HK. This list goes on ...

wellinever

I reckon about €10.00 (@1.16) in Tesco, so very much same as the Algarve for these at least.

Artfuldodger128

That lettuce alone would cost about EUR 10 equivalent in citysuper HK. I once saw a cucumber in that same place for HKD 130 (about EUR 14) - I was gobsmacked. So expensive, but people still buy.

sportpix

Hard to know how anyone shops there with their crazy prices. Were you resident or on holiday ? I think I only shopped there three or four times but only when I couldn’t find what I needed elsewhere

Artfuldodger128

Was on a holiday there last year (during their 'peak' of their coronavirus situation) for a short while, but have visited the place many times before.

Moses2013

Then again a lot of Portuguese also feel they pay too much compared to other countries. If you look at salaries in Portugal, then the prices in Lidl & Aldi seem pretty high compared to other European countries. Apart from Alcohol, there's not always a huge difference.

liveaboard

Well the oranges you can almost always get for free.
I literally can't give away mine. Everyone has too many.

sportpix

True enough but it’s also the same for many HK people. The wealth divide is terrible and many people live in poverty, not least because of the crazy price of property, the world’s most expensive. Many people do their shopping in the wet market and avoid the high cost of the supermarket, and then we get things like SARS and Covid crop up, depending on what you believe the cause of these poxes was. There are still tens of thousands of HK people living in cages - yes, cages, because they cannot afford to live anywhere else, unless they want to sleep under a flyover. There is very little by way of social security so it’s common for people, many of them elderly, to have two or even three jobs - taxi driver, dish washer, office cleaner etc. At the same time the tai tais simply have to have the latest Gucci handbag costing a small fortune and will probably use it just once to show off at the races or at the ‘club’. The Portuguese people live in a beautiful country with clean air and from what I can see so far, a very good climate. I would think that most of the food we buy here is clean and healthy while the stuff in the wet markets of Asia is at best dodgy and at worst downright dangerous.

scrubbedexpat142

I reckon about 2500 Fts here, so just under €7 at present rates.

Moses2013

Of course and those living in Europe can count themselves as lucky. Just saying that if you consider the salaries and compare prices, it's not always cheap for locals. Even where we are the super savers are available for €0.49 and we're considered a high cost country. When you then look at the minimum wage compared to costs, you can then understand why so many Portuguese are frustrated.

riv

One question I have : are the strawberries local ( Portuguese ) produce and do they actually TASTE of anything ?

If so that is a huge plus compared to UK, where the flown in strawberries taste of cardboard or ( if you're lucky ) nothing at all.