Gday!
The past few months I've down in Australia riding around on my bicycle. Not the cheapest place I've ever been to, in fact down right expensive for food. I baulk at the prices ever time I walk into a store to buy food.
$11/kg for mushrooms
$20+/kg for strawberries
$4/kg for apples
$8-10/kg for tomatoes
However I've begun a challenge for my shopping. I know I can't buy food as cheaply as I can in Asia or in North America.I can't always eat my favourite foods cheaply.
Welcome to the discounted nearing the expiry date and damaged cans food game.
Here Australia, they love to mark down food really really cheaply when they about to expire. 2L milk that retails for $4 will go for $0.50 the day before it goes 'bad'. Chocolate bars that are normally $1.50-2 are now $0.50 each. My score of the day yesterday was a bag of fancy ready to eat soup for $1.50, normally goes for around $7 (it an awesome breakfast BTW).
So in my efforts to stay under budget here, I'm only buying foods that are marked down from now on. I filled a 50L backpack yesterday for about $27 AUS and eating like a king for next few days.
