Do you think things are getting riddiculous expensive?
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tankee:
Think supermarket trips easily chalk up to few hundreds a month for our small family of 3, excluding diapers & formula milk!piyobaby:
It is so difficult to find food in hawker centers which cost less than $3 for a miserable portion! Not to mention every trip to supermarket cost more than $50 and end up wif so few items!
that's cheap. Our supermarket trip is usually > $100 -
piyobaby:
Seriously I feel dat buying from market can b more costly than supermarket purchases, only advantage is freshness.
wet market is more expensive but I know the stall holder so well that if I say it is not fresh, I get free replacement, no question asked. it is the 'honour' system
these days I don't pick the item (sea food) -- just let the stall holder pick for me and he will guarantee it, or don't pay. loyalty's little privileges -
smurf:
no leh, the pomfret not that big...wah, market now also expensive, siaan lah.
for CNY pricing it is S$65 per kg for exactly the same thing! -
verykiasu2010:
So it pays to be loyal! Personally prefer wet market shopping, pretty interesting.piyobaby:
Seriously I feel dat buying from market can b more costly than supermarket purchases, only advantage is freshness.
wet market is more expensive but I know the stall holder so well that if I say it is not fresh, I get free replacement, no question asked. it is the 'honour' system
these days I don't pick the item (sea food) -- just let the stall holder pick for me and he will guarantee it, or don't pay. loyalty's little privileges -
verykiasu2010:
The same apply for thread fin, double in price sometime triple.smurf:
no leh, the pomfret not that big...wah, market now also expensive, siaan lah.
for CNY pricing it is S$65 per kg for exactly the same thing! -
piyobaby:
Next alternative would hv to go for sweet potato! Hee[/quote]haha...go back to our grandparents/parents era, eat tapioca n sweet potatoes....... :boogie:
Russet potato is about S$5 per bag ? got to eat Indo or Viet potato liaoverykiasu2010:
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Got to eat potato le!
anyway, i luv tapioca n sweet potatoes kuehs -
Augmum:
Most probably our kids will starve or at least mine will, not a fan of sweet potato. Haa
haha...go back to our grandparents/parents era, eat tapioca n sweet potatoes....... :boogie:piyobaby:
Next alternative would hv to go for sweet potato! Hee
anyway, i luv tapioca n sweet potatoes kuehs -
Augmum:
these days hard to get the yellow-flesh tapioca which taste much nicer
haha...go back to our grandparents/parents era, eat tapioca n sweet potatoes....... :boogie:
anyway, i luv tapioca n sweet potatoes kuehs -
piyobaby:
Think supermarket trips easily chalk up to few hundreds a month for our small family of 3, excluding diapers & formula milk![/quote]oh...u have juz said it.....tankee:
[quote=\"piyobaby\"]It is so difficult to find food in hawker centers which cost less than $3 for a miserable portion! Not to mention every trip to supermarket cost more than $50 and end up wif so few items!
that's cheap. Our supermarket trip is usually > $100
juz the 3 or us, our supermarkets receipts can easily chalk up to $500 ......
fortunately, no need to pay for diapers n baby formula.....
i was rather shocked when i realised how much those baby formula milk cost nowadays.... :shock: -
Yes and the point is spending that amount yet yielding so little items!
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