Prices, prices... what a scary thing
Ireland and its prices has me horrified. My Dutch Euros are flying at top speed, and most of the time I wonder how. I swear I have stayed away from designer shops and anything related to Stephens Green Mall, Grafton Street or Wicklow Street (where I had the bad luck to discover two two stories temptations on the tags of Tommy Hilfiger and Camper). I swear I have stayed off the most expensive alcoholic drinks in the bar (no Cosmo, Long Island Ice Tea, etc.). I swear I even cook most of the days (only eating out once a week in Brasserie 66, and once in Starbucks), and still.
It is always a bit harder in the first month of a new country, so I try to chill.
I mean... I remember in AI we would cook with tons of peppers (better known as paprika) as they are tasty and cheap, and just yesterday as I was planning to cook chilli, I found peppers in the supermarket. How much were they? 1.20 per pepper. I was astonished. I had already stayed away from Fresh, where all the fancy people shop and everything looks immaculate and pay way too much for the same thing, and yet this pepper was an absolute vegetarian delicacy compared to Dutch or German prices.
So what to do if you are in Germany and you want to save as much money as possible? You go to LIDL. And surprise! In Dublin there is LIDL, which gave me hope for normal prices if not amazing quality for the first month of my stay in Dublin. So I walked 20 minutes to LIDL (which is considered "close by" here) to do my weekly shopping as I decided to stop thinking and comparing my German prices to the new Irish ones (a German colleague of mine confessed to me the other day that when she goes back to Germany, she fills her suitcase with toilettry on the way back as she has a trauma with the Irish prices on toilettry) in order to save me from madness.
So I walk down all the isles and get to the freezer... oh! I know that purple box. That box contains those cheap nuggets we would fry when we were broke by the end of the month when I was back in University. I was surprised to find something familiar if not delicious. In Germany they would cost 2 Euro... My eyes go up... 4 Euro. AAAAHHHHHH!!!!!
Get me out of there!... this is the most expensive cheap food in the world!
So I went through my groceries list and left, wondering again, why I am spending so much.
It is always a bit harder in the first month of a new country, so I try to chill.
I mean... I remember in AI we would cook with tons of peppers (better known as paprika) as they are tasty and cheap, and just yesterday as I was planning to cook chilli, I found peppers in the supermarket. How much were they? 1.20 per pepper. I was astonished. I had already stayed away from Fresh, where all the fancy people shop and everything looks immaculate and pay way too much for the same thing, and yet this pepper was an absolute vegetarian delicacy compared to Dutch or German prices.
So what to do if you are in Germany and you want to save as much money as possible? You go to LIDL. And surprise! In Dublin there is LIDL, which gave me hope for normal prices if not amazing quality for the first month of my stay in Dublin. So I walked 20 minutes to LIDL (which is considered "close by" here) to do my weekly shopping as I decided to stop thinking and comparing my German prices to the new Irish ones (a German colleague of mine confessed to me the other day that when she goes back to Germany, she fills her suitcase with toilettry on the way back as she has a trauma with the Irish prices on toilettry) in order to save me from madness.
So I walk down all the isles and get to the freezer... oh! I know that purple box. That box contains those cheap nuggets we would fry when we were broke by the end of the month when I was back in University. I was surprised to find something familiar if not delicious. In Germany they would cost 2 Euro... My eyes go up... 4 Euro. AAAAHHHHHH!!!!!
Get me out of there!... this is the most expensive cheap food in the world!
So I went through my groceries list and left, wondering again, why I am spending so much.
posted by M at 10:58 PM
2 Comments:
You are in Ireland! My brother lives there ... I will have to get you to meet him :) Miss you honey!!!
Ahhhh I am not gonna bother talking about London grocery shopping, but yes different times ;) jajaj missing Aldi !
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