Grocery shopping in Minsk. #shopping, #prices, #grocery, #eggs

hello everyone it's me again 10 minutes it's a monday about it's actually about uh quarter to seven not a good day for uh most people around the country well off belarus but the united states you know the stock market crashed so i'm feeling a little sick in the stomach right now my portfolio i don't even want to look at it i don't even want to look at it but i thought it would be a good time to go do uh food prices i'm gonna go grocery shopping grocery shopping in in minnesota at a popular grocery store um from what i'm hearing the price of food hasn't really gone up too much it's gone up but you know the inflation's not nearly as high as it is the united states um the us dollar is strong right now if you look at the exchange rate on all the main exchange rates it's 3.38 belarusian rubles per one us dollar but if you're in belarus inside minsk uh you're gonna you're gonna get an exchange rate of 2.5 so you know that's the lucachenko exchange rate um and i thought well maybe uh maybe maybe if i use my credit cards maybe i'll get a higher exchange rate maybe i'll get that 3.38 or 3.40 but showing on all the major exchange exchange rates but no um in the banks i got 2.52 and on my credit card i got 2.58 so so we're not getting that we're not getting a good exchange rate so oh anyways not a problem not a problem it's still a good deal when you're over here so anyways we're going to walk we're going to walk uh to a grocery store we'll go through look at the prices of uh some of the items and uh i'll try to calculate my head the exchange rate for you guys so uh stay tuned okay so uh we're just around the corner from my apartment actually and guess what i have the pleasure of having right right around the corner the namo stadium it was uh i think it was built yeah let's see built in 1929 and uh it got i think it got ruined during the world war world war ii i think in 1939 or 1940 um and then it was remodeled again like around the 50s and 60s and then remodeled again just before uh the 1980 uh summer olympics when uh when actually the soviet union uh hosted the olympics and they actually uh had had all the football matches were at this stadium in 1980 so i didn't know that and so union was so big right so you always thought it was in russia but a lot of the events were in different different countries or different states of the soviet union but this is a magnificent stadium so they have uh track and field you know so they have all the running events they also have all the field events like the shotput javelin and obviously they have football matches in here and um i think that's about it so that's all i know about it but but i am going to a football match on sunday so i will share that so uh stay tuned for that okay we're actually almost there right next to the stadium so we're gonna actually walk on up it's this building it's right in front of us and uh i don't know if you can really let's get a little bit closer the english version of this is it means supermarket supermarket and then the russian version i'll have i'll have katya share how do you say it in russian supermarket yes oh i thought it was another way okay all right so it's the same okay all right well there you go guys [Music] all right okay all right oh yeah i've been in this one i like this [Music] [Music] oh that's cool [Music] okay um [Music] okay all right so why don't you uh price out the bread here for us gotcha [Music] okay so that's like 50 cents right 50 cents for one of those for that bread okay so that's just over one dollar between bread lithuanian bread okay yeah why don't we do a specialty bread [Music] two robo's 34 so just under one dollar one dollar for this that's a pretty good deal i don't buy bread but i think that's a good deal [Music] okay and the cheese aisle here [Music] two ribs eighty-nine so that's just over one dollar one dollar for one of these okay that's a good deal that might be like three dollars in the states i'm a cheese lover so kind of know what the price is what else we gonna look at here for the chiefs about okay ricotta we got three three rubles 49. so just over just over a dollar about 1.25 all right okay so now we're in the specialty cheese or you can get blocks of cheese so how much would this be no there's one kill for one kill [Music] 18 fourteen five point nineteen so five verbals yes wow okay so it's like it's like two dollars [Music] 384 364. okay so about a dollar 25. all right okay i think it'll be double double in the states okay so now we're in the meat aisle so katya say we want to have a nice steak dinner which steak would you choose [Music] maybe over here so what happens is the chicken how much is that [Music] for one pound or or one kilo one kilo 15 so that maybe that's five six dollars okay well that's i think that's expensive all right all right one kilo 18 so it's about six seven dollars okay that's getting i mean i don't think that's as high as the states definitely not i think we're looking like if you go to whole foods maybe it's like ten dollars fourteen dollars a pound so if you want uh chicken chicken drums drumsticks so about two dollars for a pound or a kilo okay and that's 779 for one kilo so that's about uh three dollars okay that must been prime prime chicken over here really expensive is that chicken or is that turkey [Music] what is it yeah it might be turkey or a hen yes for spence 10 today yes okay all right okay so say we want to buy some water this must be mineral water yeah and that is a dollar 69 [Music] for that bottle so that's less than a dollar so russian water yeah so that's probably around 75 cents it's a pretty good deal this one's a little bit less than set so this one's about 50 cents the water is okay russian water okay oh that's a little higher so 305 for the large bottle 169 for the small bottle so that's for the small bottles about 50 about 60 cents okay so say we want to have a pasta dinner so we can see look at this bag it's 349. three ribbons 49 so that's about a dollar 25. i think we can probably get something similar in the states um so but really we have this at home uh this is uh four rebels 39. so it's about maybe less than two dollars there's a lot in there so i i'm thinking the pasta is about the same so uh yes look over here oh here we go so we can go with uh this is what i would do there's a pasta for one ruble 49 so that's about 55 60 cents so we probably couldn't couldn't get that deal in the states pasta okay okay so these are the sauces for the pasta they look a little bit different than ours they go maybe concentrate so 9 69 so i'll be like three bucks three or four dollars make sure you mix it with something okay all right let's go on to the next okay so we got different types of milk here so two rubles eighty two herbal 66. looks like it's uh reduced fat one and a half percent looks like it's heavy fat [Music] too herbal so so milk uh is less than a dollar okay i think that's a lot less than it is okay so here are the eggs they don't they don't do 12 they do 10 to a carton [Music] pretty sure let's see here maybe they do uh no they do 10. we do 12 in the states so what's the price for 10. so for this one two were both 79. so just over a dollar uh three rubles 25 that's over a dollar two rubles one that's less than a dollar [Music] probably just out of the cage maybe four rule of 71. so if i go to trader joe's i can get a dozen eggs for two dollars but if you go whole foods they're up to like six or seven dollars so probably on average three or four so that the eggs are much less they're probably they have half okay we're in the fish section these might be like sardines are similar um looks like they like dried fish could be this is carp um a lot of the slavic countries they like tarp i know czech republic does paul won not so much about belarus or russia but they do [Music] okay now for the food let's go to the let's go to the liquor liquor and the beer see what kind of prices were we're gonna get [Music] okay [Music] okay so this is more imported right what's the check where's the check bearer let's price that out i may not check her but uh bella russian there's actually czech beer here so you can get a czech liar the original budweiser two verbal is 85. actually six rubles 89. that's actually kind of high it's like one yeah it's like two two dollars katy you're not a beer drinker are you you don't you don't know the right uh bella russian beers oh here we go here's a bill at russian beer i recognize this so you can get one beer for one ripple 79 that's about 80 cents that's a pretty good deal it's four four point two percent basically half a liter that's not bad it's not bad zlati this is this looks like a czech beer or maybe oh that's about the russian so it's 449 that's that's just under uh two dollars okay oh look bud light one can three rubles nine that's about a dollar twenty five that's actually about what you get in the states for okay so we got we got wine and hard liquor in here so let's see you know bottle of chantel cantaloupe it's out of france it's 40 about 41 belarus so that's yeah that's pretty cheap that's probably like 17 18 dollars 15.80 that's not bad oh i've actually had this before look to rosso 51.99 so it's probably about 20 bucks it's not too bad that might be 50 60 70 in the states i could be wrong though i'm not really a big wine drinker see we go for white wine so what we got here go for a chablis oh it's a little bit more expensive 124 rubles which is about maybe about 50 30 alcohol okay let's go where the vodka is see what that is malibu this is very popular in the states 59 rubles this is probably 20 25 for the bottle i don't know what it would be in the states because i don't drink it oh barofka it's a czech uh lapor would be like 20 or so for a small bottle um oh a lot of vodka here finland commandia see this is 45 rubles so this is about 20 20 20 us dollars for this it's not bad so cody sark pretty popular whiskey 65 rubles so that would be 25 or 30 us dollars i think that's on par oh jamison triple distilled that'd be 95 rubles so that's probably around 40 dollars it's actually probably good i think that's a good deal makers mark whiskey very popular not that i drink it i don't like whiskey so that's about maybe like fifty dollars fifty dollars in the states oh then we got jack daniels single barrel select 228 rubles so that would be probably probably under a hundred dollars yeah it would be under a hundred dollars probably like seven about eighty 80 dollars okay jim beam 86 for a large bottle [Music] probably like 30 dollars okay i think that's i think that's everything i think we've covered everything what do you think okay [Music] so i just wanted to show everybody that they have quick check out your self-serve as well it's likely at you know whole foods or very modern here okay there you have it guys very modern grocery store in minsk belarus everything that the us has more just better prices better prices so i hope you enjoyed this video i will uh talk to you soon probably in tomorrow's video ciao