10€ worth of groceries in western Ukraine

~500 g of white bread
900 ml of milk
370 g of sour cream
900 g of pelmeni
180 g of butter
~400 g of onions
350 g of cheese
2 l of water
Total ~420 ₴
(The bread isn’t written on the receipts)

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by FormaggioMontBlanc

46 comments
  1. Not expensive actually.

    The only question is a quality, if it is good then I would say it is very good catch.

  2. Is it common in Ukraine to measure milk by weight instead of volume or is it a shrinkflation thing so it doesn’t need to be 1 liter for the same price?

  3. Wait, milk in a plastic bag is weird? I live in Estonia and we’ve always had this. Also yoghurt and sour cream in a plastic bag.. I thought that this is normal 😀

  4. Is 20 % the standard VAT rate in Ukraine? Do they only use one rate like in Denmark?

  5. Well, butter is the most expensive product here… I think. 82% Molokiya costs enough (and it tastes good). Or maybe pelmeni is the most expensive…

  6. My cyrillic isn‘t very good but does that read smetana in roman letters?

    If so, it‘s the same word in finnish.

  7. Bulgarian here.
    A 500g. Pack of Pelmeni would land you here around 5€. 400g. Cheese is another 5€. Loaf of bread – 1€. 1l. Milk is generally around 1.5€ and the cream is the same price for 200g.

    So, less than all you got and already 40% over the budget.

  8. Lol, was gonna do something similar but cigarettes added in.

    820 грн (€20) buys you a sleeve (10 packs) in UA.

    In Ireland about €16.50 (640 грн?) buys you a single pack.

    Pint of Guinness is also cheaper anywhere in Ukraine than it is in the majority of Dublin pubs. And in fairness to the barmen, good few of em know how to pour a proper pint… it can be a gamble though, I’ve seen a few abysmal pints poured.

  9. Cheese and pelmini are quite expensive. You can get much more for 10$ if you wish to attending markets rather then a shopping center and buy more veritables and raw meat, especially chicken.
    But yeah, prices since war started raised a lot.

  10. Are those white things in a bag, pelmeni?
    I absolutely loved them in my childhood, but I cant find any proper recipe for them.

  11. Your receipt says you bought 612 g of onion (цибуля), not 400 🤓👆🏻

    Thanks for sharing! Groceries have really gotten expensive in Ukraine huh

  12. 180 g of butter. Is it normal size in Ukraine or is it another example of shrinkflation? In Poland 200 g is normal but sometimes you can grab smaller sizes. Long time ago 250 g was standard (hello old recipes with “1 kostka masła” written).

    But most infuriating is 90 g chocolate.

  13. Given the average monthly salary in Ukraine (google search says around €500), it’s very expensive for the amount of food that you got there.

  14. Do they do glass bottles for milk in Ukraine or, alternatively, can you bring yours and get it filled?

  15. Wait so things haven’t skyrocketed by the war? Is the state subsidizing?

  16. It’s honestly the same in Sweden. Don’t trying to take away anything from this post though, war must be terrible.

  17. I’m in Hong Kong. A bundle of 5 bananas and a box of grapes set me back 12 euros.

  18. It seems like pretty much what you would pay in Germany for the same (except the imported Pelmeni can sometimes be more costly), but it must still be pretty expensive for the lower wages in Ukraine. But then again, that’s still a smaller price hike than what some countries experienced during wartime.

  19. That’s about how much I’d get for $10 at a grocery store in a major metropolitan area in the US.

  20. Holy shit that’s expensive (when taking average salary into consideration). I sympathize.

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