Cheapest Supermarket in Helsinki?

alfalfa · Post by **alfalfa** » Wed Sep 30, 2009 11:21 pm

I just went over my monthly expenses and to my horror I found that I averaged spending $30 a day just for food and things (outside of rent). I live very close to an Alepa but I feel that I may be getting screwed by their prices. Which is the cheapest place to get food? Lidl? Are there little asian markets with good deals?

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Pursuivant · Post by **Pursuivant** » Wed Sep 30, 2009 11:49 pm

So learn how not to live like some rich foreigner but like a Finn

pea soup on fridays

EP · Post by EP » Thu Oct 01, 2009 12:17 am

I found that I averaged spending $30 a day

What (how) do you eat? How many people? I cannot get into that, even when my very expensive smokes go to the grocery bill. There are two of us, but for my husband lunch is the main eating, so on weekdays he eats just sandwitches and fruit and such at home. And in the mornings oatmeal with berries. A cheap man to maintain.

Do you cook?

Pursuivant · Post by **Pursuivant** » Thu Oct 01, 2009 1:02 am

I think I can do 5 euro weeks... but I buy in bulk... and I cook once and as I'm alone I get to eat a lot of leftovers

... and these guys help out a lot http://www.martat.fi/neuvot_arkeen/ruok ... kotiruoka/

jas_rho · Post by **jas_rho** » Thu Oct 01, 2009 10:05 am

Pursuivant wrote:So learn how not to live like some rich foreigner but like a Finn pea soup on fridays

Aren't you supposed to eat pea soup on Thursdays?

ajdias · Post by **ajdias** » Thu Oct 01, 2009 10:10 am

alfalfa wrote: Which is the cheapest place to get food? Lidl? Are there little asian markets with good deals?

Yes and yes.

Rick1 · Post by **Rick1** » Thu Oct 01, 2009 12:42 pm

Pursuivant wrote:So learn how not to live like some rich foreigner but like a Finn pea soup on fridays

I always get pea soup on thursdays, might be too early then, have to say something

I get the feeling that Hank has totally had it with everything that smells foreign

But it is not because of a Cartel that everything is so expensive here, if you might think that. And do not even mention that to the Finns.

Travmies · Post by **Travmies** » Thu Oct 01, 2009 12:53 pm

The skill is to plan the monthly meal and buy everything in one go. Of course you can not get everything, but almost everything. To often we buy our food each day which means we buy more than we need and things we don't need.

Also, the pea soup day is a good idea or I've heard of the Rice porridge day.

onkko · Post by **onkko** » Thu Oct 01, 2009 12:55 pm

Thursday is official pea soup day but due to complains about smell in workplace it had to be changed to friday

Mook · Post by **Mook** » Thu Oct 01, 2009 5:49 pm

alfalfa wrote:I just went over my monthly expenses and to my horror I found that I averaged spending $30 a day just for food and things (outside of rent).

try deducting the beer and wine...

maxxfi · Post by **maxxfi** » Thu Oct 01, 2009 7:59 pm

jas_rho wrote:
Pursuivant wrote:So learn how not to live like some rich foreigner but like a Finn pea soup on fridays
Aren't you supposed to eat pea soup on Thursdays?

Yes, but he probably meant collecting the left-overs from Thursday's pea soup

carolinemaher · Post by **carolinemaher** » Fri Oct 02, 2009 12:20 pm

Food is expensive in Finland, but then again everything is expensive in Finland, end of..

brengun · Post by **brengun** » Sat Oct 03, 2009 9:56 am

if you drive,then life is easier . drive to the lidl,the single most revolutionary occurrence in finland in centuries?. then do learn to cook, leave out or limit your buying of processed food( liha pirakkat..) google how to make potato cakes, , many more recipes if you need, .. as regards cheap and healthy living.. go vegetarian and ok ,even the asian shops in Hakaniemi know how to charge, eg, dried kidney beans cost double ,or triple english prices,,, tinned tmatoes, are very expemsive,, but did you know lautasaari lidl sell vine tomatoes at 90 cents a kilo.. red peppers 90 cents a kilo(yesterday), last week,potatoes,9 cents a kilo.. milk, 93 cents a litre.. .Long live the lidl revolution, and boycott the parasitic smarket etc cartels.

interleukin · Post by **interleukin** » Sat Oct 03, 2009 10:12 am

Why on earth would you need to drive to Lidl? I know of at least two Lidls in Helsinki with great public transport connections (the one in Kamppi and the one next to Pasila/Böle train station). In both cases, it would be a pain to go there by car. Take your backpack with you and you can carry tons of stuff.

maxxfi · Post by **maxxfi** » Sat Oct 03, 2009 10:51 am

Unless you need to bring food for a whole family, I would also recommend using public transportation.
If you are able to use Lidl as 'commuter stop' (as it is for me, as I go via Leppävaara/Sello)
you can just buy what is needed for a few days, and replenish with fresh stuff

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