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

"Keri Lemmart" 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

JohnT wrote:
"Keri Lemmart" 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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In article RiQsb.384627$9l5.155455@pd7tw2no, (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.

In article ,
writes
In article RiQsb.384627$9l5.155455@pd7tw2no, (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

In article RiQsb.384627$9l5.155455@pd7tw2no,
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?

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

Marie Lewis wrote:

In article ,
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.

--
PB
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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"
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

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

"Keri Lemmart" 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, 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