England price comparison
Nov 13th 2003, 5:45 am
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England price comparison
We're visiting England next spring, staying in self catering rural
accommodation . I'm trying to get a handle on food prices. If I were to buy
the following ingredients for to cook a dinner for 4: Bread, chicken
breasts, vegetables, salad, desert, cheap red wine, from a local
supermarket, I would pay about £20 here in Vancouver. Roughly what could I
expect to pay in rural England?
Thanks for any input.
Keri
accommodation . I'm trying to get a handle on food prices. If I were to buy
the following ingredients for to cook a dinner for 4: Bread, chicken
breasts, vegetables, salad, desert, cheap red wine, from a local
supermarket, I would pay about £20 here in Vancouver. Roughly what could I
expect to pay in rural England?
Thanks for any input.
Keri
Nov 13th 2003, 6:20 am
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Re: England price comparison
"Keri Lemmart" <[email protected]> wrote in message
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> We're visiting England next spring, staying in self catering rural
> accommodation . I'm trying to get a handle on food prices. If I were to
buy
> the following ingredients for to cook a dinner for 4:
< Bread,
A large loaf of factory bread from a Supermarket would cost about 40p: a
large loaf from the Inn-Store bakery would be about twice that price.
< chickenbreasts,
pre-cooked, which just need reheating in the Oven? If so, a pack of four
would be about £5 - £6
< vegetables, salad,
potatoes, carrots, cabbage, other common vegetables are cheap
< desert,
You can get a litre of cheap ice cream for less than £1.
< cheap red wine, from a local supermarket,
A really rough plonk can be got for £3 or less, most of which is Duty and
VAT. For £1 more you could get a drinkable wine.
I would pay about £20 here in Vancouver. Roughly what could I
> expect to pay in rural England?
> Thanks for any input.
> Keri
news:RiQsb.384627$9l5.155455@pd7tw2no...
> We're visiting England next spring, staying in self catering rural
> accommodation . I'm trying to get a handle on food prices. If I were to
buy
> the following ingredients for to cook a dinner for 4:
< Bread,
A large loaf of factory bread from a Supermarket would cost about 40p: a
large loaf from the Inn-Store bakery would be about twice that price.
< chickenbreasts,
pre-cooked, which just need reheating in the Oven? If so, a pack of four
would be about £5 - £6
< vegetables, salad,
potatoes, carrots, cabbage, other common vegetables are cheap
< desert,
You can get a litre of cheap ice cream for less than £1.
< cheap red wine, from a local supermarket,
A really rough plonk can be got for £3 or less, most of which is Duty and
VAT. For £1 more you could get a drinkable wine.
I would pay about £20 here in Vancouver. Roughly what could I
> expect to pay in rural England?
> Thanks for any input.
> Keri
Nov 13th 2003, 6:46 am
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Re: England price comparison
JohnT wrote:
> "Keri Lemmart" <[email protected]> wrote in message
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>> We're visiting England next spring, staying in self catering rural
>> accommodation . I'm trying to get a handle on food prices. If I were
>> to buy the following ingredients for to cook a dinner for 4:
> < Bread,
> A large loaf of factory bread from a Supermarket would cost about
> 40p: a large loaf from the Inn-Store bakery would be about twice that
> price.
> < chickenbreasts,
> pre-cooked, which just need reheating in the Oven? If so, a pack of
> four would be about £5 - £6
> < vegetables, salad,
> potatoes, carrots, cabbage, other common vegetables are cheap
> < desert,
> You can get a litre of cheap ice cream for less than £1.
> < cheap red wine, from a local supermarket,
> A really rough plonk can be got for £3 or less, most of which is Duty
> and VAT. For £1 more you could get a drinkable wine.
> I would pay about £20 here in Vancouver. Roughly what could I
>> expect to pay in rural England?
>> Thanks for any input.
>> Keri
Decent cut loaf 60p
Fresh baked 80p
Chicken whole £1.99 ( if Safeway has an offer)
Chicken Breasts around £2.99-£4.99 for 4
Salad pack pre washed mixed leaves about £1
Q 50p - 80p
5 KG washed spuds £1.99
Carrots 30p lb- Root veg are really good value.
Ice cream Supermarket own 60p a tub
Syrup puddings with custard in Safeway £2 for 4 ( yummy!!!)
3 bottles of perfectly gluggable Blossom Hill (in Safeway) £10
So a fair bit cheaper than Vancouver i Think
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> "Keri Lemmart" <[email protected]> wrote in message
> news:RiQsb.384627$9l5.155455@pd7tw2no...
>> We're visiting England next spring, staying in self catering rural
>> accommodation . I'm trying to get a handle on food prices. If I were
>> to buy the following ingredients for to cook a dinner for 4:
> < Bread,
> A large loaf of factory bread from a Supermarket would cost about
> 40p: a large loaf from the Inn-Store bakery would be about twice that
> price.
> < chickenbreasts,
> pre-cooked, which just need reheating in the Oven? If so, a pack of
> four would be about £5 - £6
> < vegetables, salad,
> potatoes, carrots, cabbage, other common vegetables are cheap
> < desert,
> You can get a litre of cheap ice cream for less than £1.
> < cheap red wine, from a local supermarket,
> A really rough plonk can be got for £3 or less, most of which is Duty
> and VAT. For £1 more you could get a drinkable wine.
> I would pay about £20 here in Vancouver. Roughly what could I
>> expect to pay in rural England?
>> Thanks for any input.
>> Keri
Decent cut loaf 60p
Fresh baked 80p
Chicken whole £1.99 ( if Safeway has an offer)
Chicken Breasts around £2.99-£4.99 for 4
Salad pack pre washed mixed leaves about £1
Q 50p - 80p
5 KG washed spuds £1.99
Carrots 30p lb- Root veg are really good value.
Ice cream Supermarket own 60p a tub
Syrup puddings with custard in Safeway £2 for 4 ( yummy!!!)
3 bottles of perfectly gluggable Blossom Hill (in Safeway) £10
So a fair bit cheaper than Vancouver i Think
Jan
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Nov 13th 2003, 7:50 am
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Re: England price comparison
In article <RiQsb.384627$9l5.155455@pd7tw2no>, [email protected] (Keri
Lemmart) wrote:
> We're visiting England next spring, staying in self catering rural
> accommodation . I'm trying to get a handle on food prices. If I were to
> buy
> the following ingredients for to cook a dinner for 4: Bread, chicken
> breasts, vegetables, salad, desert, cheap red wine, from a local
> supermarket, I would pay about £20 here in Vancouver. Roughly what
> could I
> expect to pay in rural England?
Rural may be the key word here. As others have pointed out, you could pay
quite a bit less at one of the cheaper supermarkets. But rural shops tend
to be more expensive. Probably your best bet will be to find a good farm
shop close to your accommodation (despite the term, "farm shops" often
sell a lot more than the produce of just one farm). I suspect you'll pay
slightly less than £20, and a lot more than in the supermarket -- but you
should get much better meat and vegetables, at least.
Lemmart) wrote:
> We're visiting England next spring, staying in self catering rural
> accommodation . I'm trying to get a handle on food prices. If I were to
> buy
> the following ingredients for to cook a dinner for 4: Bread, chicken
> breasts, vegetables, salad, desert, cheap red wine, from a local
> supermarket, I would pay about £20 here in Vancouver. Roughly what
> could I
> expect to pay in rural England?
Rural may be the key word here. As others have pointed out, you could pay
quite a bit less at one of the cheaper supermarkets. But rural shops tend
to be more expensive. Probably your best bet will be to find a good farm
shop close to your accommodation (despite the term, "farm shops" often
sell a lot more than the produce of just one farm). I suspect you'll pay
slightly less than £20, and a lot more than in the supermarket -- but you
should get much better meat and vegetables, at least.
Nov 13th 2003, 9:19 am
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In article <[email protected]>, [email protected]
writes
>In article <RiQsb.384627$9l5.155455@pd7tw2no>, [email protected] (Keri
>Lemmart) wrote:
>> We're visiting England next spring, staying in self catering rural
>> accommodation . I'm trying to get a handle on food prices. If I were to
>> buy
>> the following ingredients for to cook a dinner for 4: Bread, chicken
>> breasts, vegetables, salad, desert, cheap red wine, from a local
>> supermarket, I would pay about £20 here in Vancouver. Roughly what
>> could I
>> expect to pay in rural England?
>Rural may be the key word here. As others have pointed out, you could pay
>quite a bit less at one of the cheaper supermarkets. But rural shops tend
>to be more expensive.
Assuming they will have a car, one is rarely far from a supermarket.
>Probably your best bet will be to find a good farm
>shop close to your accommodation (despite the term, "farm shops" often
>sell a lot more than the produce of just one farm). I suspect you'll pay
>slightly less than £20, and a lot more than in the supermarket -- but you
>should get much better meat and vegetables, at least.
--
Marie Lewis
writes
>In article <RiQsb.384627$9l5.155455@pd7tw2no>, [email protected] (Keri
>Lemmart) wrote:
>> We're visiting England next spring, staying in self catering rural
>> accommodation . I'm trying to get a handle on food prices. If I were to
>> buy
>> the following ingredients for to cook a dinner for 4: Bread, chicken
>> breasts, vegetables, salad, desert, cheap red wine, from a local
>> supermarket, I would pay about £20 here in Vancouver. Roughly what
>> could I
>> expect to pay in rural England?
>Rural may be the key word here. As others have pointed out, you could pay
>quite a bit less at one of the cheaper supermarkets. But rural shops tend
>to be more expensive.
Assuming they will have a car, one is rarely far from a supermarket.
>Probably your best bet will be to find a good farm
>shop close to your accommodation (despite the term, "farm shops" often
>sell a lot more than the produce of just one farm). I suspect you'll pay
>slightly less than £20, and a lot more than in the supermarket -- but you
>should get much better meat and vegetables, at least.
--
Marie Lewis
Nov 13th 2003, 9:32 am
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Re: England price comparison
In article <RiQsb.384627$9l5.155455@pd7tw2no>,
Keri Lemmart <[email protected]> wrote:
>We're visiting England next spring, staying in self catering rural
>accommodation . I'm trying to get a handle on food prices. If I were to buy
>the following ingredients for to cook a dinner for 4: Bread, chicken
>breasts, vegetables, salad, desert, cheap red wine, from a local
>supermarket, I would pay about £20 here in Vancouver. Roughly what could I
>expect to pay in rural England?
In London....
4 chicken breasts cost about 5 GBP. Bread 50p. Desert.. depends what desert
exactly! Perhaps 2 GBP for 4 people? Vegetables maybe 2 GBP for 4 people's
worth? Salad 2 GBP again. Cheap red wine 4 GBP... (go for something
Chilean or Australian for something drinkable).
So.... in London 17 pounds tops!
In rural England probably no more than 15 pounds.
phil
Keri Lemmart <[email protected]> wrote:
>We're visiting England next spring, staying in self catering rural
>accommodation . I'm trying to get a handle on food prices. If I were to buy
>the following ingredients for to cook a dinner for 4: Bread, chicken
>breasts, vegetables, salad, desert, cheap red wine, from a local
>supermarket, I would pay about £20 here in Vancouver. Roughly what could I
>expect to pay in rural England?
In London....
4 chicken breasts cost about 5 GBP. Bread 50p. Desert.. depends what desert
exactly! Perhaps 2 GBP for 4 people? Vegetables maybe 2 GBP for 4 people's
worth? Salad 2 GBP again. Cheap red wine 4 GBP... (go for something
Chilean or Australian for something drinkable).
So.... in London 17 pounds tops!
In rural England probably no more than 15 pounds.
phil
Nov 13th 2003, 9:35 am
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On 13 Nov 2003 22:32:03 -0000, in rec.travel.europe, [email protected] (Philip George)
arranged some electrons, so they looked like this :
... In article <RiQsb.384627$9l5.155455@pd7tw2no>,
... Keri Lemmart <[email protected]> wrote:
... >We're visiting England next spring, staying in self catering rural
... >accommodation . I'm trying to get a handle on food prices. If I were to buy
... >the following ingredients for to cook a dinner for 4: Bread, chicken
... >breasts, vegetables, salad, desert, cheap red wine, from a local
... >supermarket, I would pay about £20 here in Vancouver. Roughly what could I
... >expect to pay in rural England?
...
... In London....
... 4 chicken breasts cost about 5 GBP. Bread 50p. Desert.. depends what desert
... exactly!
Gobi will do, I'm sure. :-pp
arranged some electrons, so they looked like this :
... In article <RiQsb.384627$9l5.155455@pd7tw2no>,
... Keri Lemmart <[email protected]> wrote:
... >We're visiting England next spring, staying in self catering rural
... >accommodation . I'm trying to get a handle on food prices. If I were to buy
... >the following ingredients for to cook a dinner for 4: Bread, chicken
... >breasts, vegetables, salad, desert, cheap red wine, from a local
... >supermarket, I would pay about £20 here in Vancouver. Roughly what could I
... >expect to pay in rural England?
...
... In London....
... 4 chicken breasts cost about 5 GBP. Bread 50p. Desert.. depends what desert
... exactly!
Gobi will do, I'm sure. :-pp
Nov 13th 2003, 9:38 am
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Marie Lewis <[email protected]> wrote:
>In article <[email protected]>, [email protected]
>writes
>>Rural may be the key word here. As others have pointed out, you could pay
>>quite a bit less at one of the cheaper supermarkets. But rural shops tend
>>to be more expensive.
>Assuming they will have a car, one is rarely far from a supermarket.
Then one has to budget for fuel costs, and one might also wish to
think of the environmental cost.
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>In article <[email protected]>, [email protected]
>writes
>>Rural may be the key word here. As others have pointed out, you could pay
>>quite a bit less at one of the cheaper supermarkets. But rural shops tend
>>to be more expensive.
>Assuming they will have a car, one is rarely far from a supermarket.
Then one has to budget for fuel costs, and one might also wish to
think of the environmental cost.
--
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Nov 13th 2003, 10:10 am
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Not sure if prices would be much different in the country
(supermarkets here will supply the entire country from a limited
number of warehouses), and lot depends on the quality you're prepared
to pay (orr settle) for, but I would reckon:
loaf of sliced bread 60-90p
4 chicken breasts ?£3-4
2lb potatoes 60p
2lb green veg 60p - £1
Bottle of wine £4-5 (for reasonable quality, can get cheaper rotgut)
Desserts - well, whatever, depending on what you fancy, let's say £2
-3
Salad, again depending on tastes and quantities - a complete mixed
salad for 4, say £3
Total about £15 - say $Can 30-40. I think you might have meant $Can
20 for the Vancouver equivalent - my experience in Vancouver last
summer was that food was a good bit cheaper than the UK.
PJW
On Thu, 13 Nov 2003 18:45:05 GMT, "Keri Lemmart" <[email protected]>
wrote:
>We're visiting England next spring, staying in self catering rural
>accommodation . I'm trying to get a handle on food prices. If I were to buy
>the following ingredients for to cook a dinner for 4: Bread, chicken
>breasts, vegetables, salad, desert, cheap red wine, from a local
>supermarket, I would pay about £20 here in Vancouver. Roughly what could I
>expect to pay in rural England?
>Thanks for any input.
>Keri
(supermarkets here will supply the entire country from a limited
number of warehouses), and lot depends on the quality you're prepared
to pay (orr settle) for, but I would reckon:
loaf of sliced bread 60-90p
4 chicken breasts ?£3-4
2lb potatoes 60p
2lb green veg 60p - £1
Bottle of wine £4-5 (for reasonable quality, can get cheaper rotgut)
Desserts - well, whatever, depending on what you fancy, let's say £2
-3
Salad, again depending on tastes and quantities - a complete mixed
salad for 4, say £3
Total about £15 - say $Can 30-40. I think you might have meant $Can
20 for the Vancouver equivalent - my experience in Vancouver last
summer was that food was a good bit cheaper than the UK.
PJW
On Thu, 13 Nov 2003 18:45:05 GMT, "Keri Lemmart" <[email protected]>
wrote:
>We're visiting England next spring, staying in self catering rural
>accommodation . I'm trying to get a handle on food prices. If I were to buy
>the following ingredients for to cook a dinner for 4: Bread, chicken
>breasts, vegetables, salad, desert, cheap red wine, from a local
>supermarket, I would pay about £20 here in Vancouver. Roughly what could I
>expect to pay in rural England?
>Thanks for any input.
>Keri
Nov 13th 2003, 11:02 am
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>>>>>> Thanks for any input.
You might want to check out the input at this website, which has a few
choice observations about prices in Britain:
http://www.rip-off.co.uk/index1.htm
You might want to check out the input at this website, which has a few
choice observations about prices in Britain:
http://www.rip-off.co.uk/index1.htm
Nov 13th 2003, 11:07 am
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"Keri Lemmart" <[email protected]> wrote in message
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> We're visiting England next spring, staying in self catering rural
> accommodation . I'm trying to get a handle on food prices. If I were to
buy
> the following ingredients for to cook a dinner for 4: Bread, chicken
> breasts, vegetables, salad, desert, cheap red wine, from a local
> supermarket, I would pay about £20 here in Vancouver. Roughly what could
I
> expect to pay in rural England?
In the village I live in I'd expect to spend about the same or less
Allow £5 a bottle for the wine, £2 for the Salad , £2 for vegetables
(salad and veg from the greengrocer next to the Co-op)
£1 for fresh bread from the baker and Knibbs the Butcher
will do you a nice deal on the chicken, but dont forget his
own pork and herb sausages for breakfast .
Whereabouts are you staying ?
Keith
news:RiQsb.384627$9l5.155455@pd7tw2no...
> We're visiting England next spring, staying in self catering rural
> accommodation . I'm trying to get a handle on food prices. If I were to
buy
> the following ingredients for to cook a dinner for 4: Bread, chicken
> breasts, vegetables, salad, desert, cheap red wine, from a local
> supermarket, I would pay about £20 here in Vancouver. Roughly what could
I
> expect to pay in rural England?
In the village I live in I'd expect to spend about the same or less
Allow £5 a bottle for the wine, £2 for the Salad , £2 for vegetables
(salad and veg from the greengrocer next to the Co-op)
£1 for fresh bread from the baker and Knibbs the Butcher
will do you a nice deal on the chicken, but dont forget his
own pork and herb sausages for breakfast .
Whereabouts are you staying ?
Keith
Nov 13th 2003, 11:19 am
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"Douglas W. Hoyt" <[email protected]> wrote in message
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> >>>>>> Thanks for any input.
> You might want to check out the input at this website, which has a few
> choice observations about prices in Britain:
> http://www.rip-off.co.uk/index1.htm
H'mmm thats not exactly what I'd describe as an objective
source of information.
Keith
news:[email protected]...
> >>>>>> Thanks for any input.
> You might want to check out the input at this website, which has a few
> choice observations about prices in Britain:
> http://www.rip-off.co.uk/index1.htm
H'mmm thats not exactly what I'd describe as an objective
source of information.
Keith
Nov 13th 2003, 1:03 pm
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In article <[email protected]>, [email protected]
(Marie Lewis) wrote:
> Assuming they will have a car, one is rarely far from a supermarket.
That depends on your definitions of "far" and "supermarket". Sure, there
will probably be a Spar or similar within easy driving distance. But there
are plenty of places many miles distant from a supermarket that will
provide fresh produce as good as the OP may be used to in Vancouver.
(Marie Lewis) wrote:
> Assuming they will have a car, one is rarely far from a supermarket.
That depends on your definitions of "far" and "supermarket". Sure, there
will probably be a Spar or similar within easy driving distance. But there
are plenty of places many miles distant from a supermarket that will
provide fresh produce as good as the OP may be used to in Vancouver.
Nov 15th 2003, 1:09 am
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In article <[email protected]>, Magda
<[email protected]> writes
>Desert.. depends what desert
> ... exactly!
>Gobi will do, I'm sure. :-pp
My money's on Sahara.
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<[email protected]> writes
>Desert.. depends what desert
> ... exactly!
>Gobi will do, I'm sure. :-pp
My money's on Sahara.
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Nov 15th 2003, 2:19 pm
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On Thu, 13 Nov 2003 18:45:05 GMT, "Keri Lemmart" <[email protected]>
wrote:
>We're visiting England next spring, staying in self catering rural
>accommodation . I'm trying to get a handle on food prices. If I were to buy
>the following ingredients for to cook a dinner for 4: Bread, chicken
>breasts, vegetables, salad, desert, cheap red wine, from a local
>supermarket, I would pay about £20 here in Vancouver. Roughly what could I
>expect to pay in rural England?
>Thanks for any input.
>Keri
We usually pay £3.50 - £5 for a bottle of red (this is really the
lowest price you can expect - we usually buy the sale wines at
Sainsburys which are surprisingly good plonk for the price). I saw
chicken breasts in Sainsburys yesterday for £2 for a packet of two - I
guess you would need two packets for four people. You can buy those
plastic packets of pre-cut lettuce leaf mixes for between 0.89 and
1.89, a bit cheaper for normal unpackaged lettuces. Usually you can
get a French stick for something like 0.39 - 0.85/loaf, depending on
the size. The ice cream we like is about 2.50. So all told, that makes
between £11.28 and £14.29. This is the price you'd expect at one of
the chain supermarket - it's usually a bit more expensive at the mom
and pop shops.
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wrote:
>We're visiting England next spring, staying in self catering rural
>accommodation . I'm trying to get a handle on food prices. If I were to buy
>the following ingredients for to cook a dinner for 4: Bread, chicken
>breasts, vegetables, salad, desert, cheap red wine, from a local
>supermarket, I would pay about £20 here in Vancouver. Roughly what could I
>expect to pay in rural England?
>Thanks for any input.
>Keri
We usually pay £3.50 - £5 for a bottle of red (this is really the
lowest price you can expect - we usually buy the sale wines at
Sainsburys which are surprisingly good plonk for the price). I saw
chicken breasts in Sainsburys yesterday for £2 for a packet of two - I
guess you would need two packets for four people. You can buy those
plastic packets of pre-cut lettuce leaf mixes for between 0.89 and
1.89, a bit cheaper for normal unpackaged lettuces. Usually you can
get a French stick for something like 0.39 - 0.85/loaf, depending on
the size. The ice cream we like is about 2.50. So all told, that makes
between £11.28 and £14.29. This is the price you'd expect at one of
the chain supermarket - it's usually a bit more expensive at the mom
and pop shops.
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