Caviar on the table, the products with the seductive words “farm”, other Metropolitan depravity. This is my life in the second half of April. How much is spent, 2 people, not saving on food? Buy whatever you want. And is this difficult to do – not to save money on food?
The question is not as simple as it seems. When you are in your years the economy segment, very hard psychologically to climb a couple of notches higher. Everything around is unfamiliar and scary. There is no knowledge and guidance, all the time gnawing at the question – not whether the slip bullshit, 2 times more expensive than usual?
Very often it happens. Famous cheese made in Armenia for 900p/kg turned out to be a plastic piece of shit. Cakes in Vienna woods (Viennese or shop, don’t remember) for 320R though beautiful, but lose the sweets from the market that we buy for a hundred.
Tomatoes for the 250R, of course, better than those that are over 70, but have not yet earned the right to be called a tomato, it is the prerogative of the vegetables for the 350R/kg in the off-season. And here, floating in inflated Zenica, you start to wonder – is it really I want your fucking mascarpone and arugula, maybe borrow a robust “Russian” and parsley? Primova literally suffocating toad itself, and darting in vivid seductive packaging, we have experienced these terrible two weeks. Barely spruce-fir light-salted trout, smeared eggs and gulped cakes with salads.
Yes, in this mode, to eat, of course, far more interesting than the magneto-Pyaterochka survival. Let me remind you, the previous experiment showed that the economy mode, the two spend a month on food approximately 8-9000 rubles a month. And here, again, laid out the receipts on the table, everything is considered and multiplied by the number of days in the month.
The result of the following: want practically squeezed (within reason, of course, without “the globe-GURME” and elite varieties) – lay exactly in 2 times more. During the second half of April was spent 8600руб, which gives a monthly consumption of about 17-19000руб. In this amount can meet ordinary Moscow family of two people buying food at some “Crossroads”, not really watching the price tags. If they’re not maintained properly at all, feel free to cook for 25-30000rub for two, eat more unrealistic, even buying tomatoes for 450r/kg and steaks of fresh salmon.
What practical lesson I have learned from this experiment that lasted a month? Not worth much to save. The upshot will be just 3-5000 rubles, it’s not worth their victims. Much more pleasant than all month to feel confident in the shop and to indulge in sweets, for the price of just one promotional post. Well, or months of daily work on a variety of works in the Russian provinces, to say nothing. I completely changed the consumer behavior, improving quality of life. But very close with my olive oil and natural cheese “from Alexandrov” on the conveyor belt our citizens put this…
