What can £40 Buy In A Russian Supermarket - Under Sanctions? 🇷🇺

How's it going everybody? Happy Sunday. It's a beautiful, bright day. The sky is lovely and blue. It is a little bit cold though, it's about minus 11. And it's a Sunday, so I'm going for my weekly food shop, but I thought maybe we'll make it a little bit more interesting today. I thought I'd do a $50 challenge. That's $50 US, about 40 pounds, about four thousand rubles. We're going to go and see what we can get. Would you like to come with me? Let's go. And if you like these type of videos and you're not already subscribed, please hit subscribe for me as it will really help me out. Okay, so today we're going to go to Perica Rostock in Akademicheskaya. Akademicheskaya is the neighbourhood that I live in. Perica Rostock is my local supermarket. I would equate it to basically a Tesco in the UK. I think it's a little bit better than a Nasdaq. Tesco's better than Nasdaq, isn't it? I'm not too sure. But it's not a Waitrose or anything like that, and it's certainly not an Aldi. So it's somewhere in the middle. I've also got my Perica Rostock card, a little barcode that they beep through. So that's like my Tesco club card where I'll get my discount. And this is where I come for my weekly shopping. Now maybe I would probably pay a little bit extra, but I think what I'll do for the video, $50 challenge. Anything else I don't get, I'll come back another time. Now this place is about a five minute walk from where I live, so it's not too far. But I did forget my gloves, so I'm holding the camera with one hand. I've got the other hand in my pocket. I think I'm going to pay for it on my walk back because it is quite cold on my skin. Now in Russia there's a wealth of different type of supermarkets. Vitorichka, I think, is the one of the cheap ones in Lenta. And then as Bukovarkosa was the expensive one, a bit like a Waitrose. So you can go wherever you want. I think the mid-range one's pretty good. Good choice. And the prices are always pretty good. Although the prices are higher than when I first came here. Right guys, this is actually one of the cheaper ones that we're going to walk past. And we're going to come up here and around to the right, and then we'll be at Vitorichka. Right guys, here we are. We're coming around here. There is a car park, but because most people live in the apartments nearby, I'm guessing that people aren't really going to travel far to go to a supermarket. Look at the icicles hanging off the Vitorichka sign. Wow, check that out. That's some serious icicles. Look, they've fenced this off so that nobody pats under, gets them a lawsuit. Okay, let's go up this little ramp here. Normally I would take a basket, but I think for this we'll take a trolley, so it's easier for me to film things. Let me take the hat off as well. So there's no pounding the trolley or anything like that, like I'll do, because a bit of trust. All right, let's go. So first of all, we're going to get some fruit. I think we'll get some apples and some oranges. Maybe I could take you around here anyway and show you. Look, if you want to come and get a coffee in the morning, this is open to eight. I'm passing by earlier than that, so I can't really come here, but there is a self-service and you can buy one of these meals. You can heat it up in the microwave and then you can sit here like this guy and hang out and have your dinner. So we're not going to go for any ready meals, I don't think. This is the lady that makes the sushi and the pizzas. So here we have the sushi and around here they have the ready-made pizzas. You can buy by the slice or you can buy one of the older ones and heat it up. Okay, we've got this little mister thing. There's always some kind of green veg under there being misted. Right, I like these kind of apples. Oh, not that one. That one's pretty bad. They're trying to put that on top to seal it first. Don't be fooled. All right, we've got these ones. They're going to be 200 rubles and let's get some oranges, I think. I prefer just to get the ones that are already bagged up. I think they're 200, I think. Just saves me bagging them up myself. All right, onwards. Do we need some vegetables? I'm going to get some spring onions which are here but there seems to be a bit of a shortage. Usually I would get a few packets because I like to put them in tuna pasta but there's not really much there. Right, we'll get some some spinach as well. Now I'm not really counting this in my head but I'm just going to hope that it comes to the correct amount and we're going to get some cherry tomatoes as well. I think these are the best ones so we'll get the best ones. I think that's 139. Onwards. Right, milk and stuff is down there. Russians don't really drink milk in the same way as British people drink milk. British people drink milk all the time, don't they? They put milk in their tea, all the rest of it, but Russians definitely don't drink as much. I don't really drink milk since I've lived here. Coming round. We'll get some cheese, I think. Let's get some cheese. That can't be all the cheese. No, I think we're in the wrong place for the cheese. The cheese that I get anyway. Here you can get things like bacon and more types of cheese as well. Let's get some eggs. They always put eggs right at the back, don't they? Let's go get some eggs. Oh, I'm passing the steaks. I better grab a couple of steaks. I always eat steaks. Now I eat out a lot and get some deliveries and I eat lunch and breakfast at work so actually I don't need to buy too much to be honest but I do like steaks. Let's see what there is. Now we're going to get these ones. Oh, it's upside down and they are about 800 rubles. That's actually quite a big bit of today's challenge gone. The bread here, we're not going to get any bread. I don't eat the bread but this is the worst bread you'll ever see in your life. Whatever you do, never eat that bread. It's awful. It lasts forever as well, never rots. Okay, here is the cheese. This is the cheese that we wanted. Right, so we'll get some of... Sear is the name, is the word for cheese. As you can see, this is the price with the card. That's the price without so it's a bit just like a Tesco club card, isn't it? Where you get a little bit off for having the card. The toiletries and stuff are down here but I don't think I need anything like that. And the washing powder for washing your clothes and all that stuff. But today I think it's just going to be food and drinks. We're in the wine aisle but I think I'm off it. I think my friend was telling me he's going to be off for a hundred days. Alcohol, I think I might do the same. Maybe not a hundred days but I feel like having a break from it. So let's get one of these waters. I just buy these as and when I need them. So buy one at a time and also I've got no gloves. I'm gonna have to carry them home. It's gonna be freezing. We're just cutting through the vodka section. As you can imagine, the vodka section in Russian supermarkets. It's quite big. Well, this one's not too big but it's got a lot of frozen vegetables. Just something quick and easy. I've spotted the eggs. The eggs are always hidden, aren't they? But all of these eggs for a hundred rubles which is about a pound. So let's check them out, see if they're broken. What about these ones? Yeah, I prefer the white ones. So that's like 89 pence for all those eggs. Check this out, might be interesting too. I don't think we've got this stuff in the UK where you just have like the shrimps and stuff. You just scoop them out yourself. I'm not gonna be getting any myself today but I just wanted to show you. Like tuna, we're gonna eat. I eat a lot of tuna. So which one do we want? It is, it's got all these different ones like with different stuff in them. I think we're gonna go for, these are 329 each. It's usually a different one that I get but I can't, I can't see it right now. Alright, let's get three of those and I want some pasta. I think I've got pasta but we'll just buy some pasta as well. I have a lot of tuna pasta with spring onions. Let's go for this one here. 77. Alright, here we go. That's what's inside, where you get all your fresh fish from. And here are the sausages. Russians always, they don't like me when I say that their sausages aren't very good but these type of sausages are just not for me at all. It's just not my kind of thing. Pretty sure that's turkey, not chicken. It doesn't say indica or kurita on it so I'm assuming it's turkey. As I'm going back to the vegetable aisle because I think I might need another few things because I'm gonna have like chicken salads, tuna pasta, steak and vegetables. So let's see what else we need. We've got the spinach for the salad. We've got the cherry tomatoes. What else can we get? Let's get some of these. I like these. I think that's everything that I'm going to get just now. I've not been counting this up so I'm not 100% sure if it's going to be in budget, over budget or where. But let's join the queue. Alright guys, take that out. Take this out. Let's put this back. Alright, I'm going to take this stuff home and let you know how much it cost. Alright everybody, we're home. I'm going to show you what I've bought and then I'm going to tell you the exact amount in rubles, US dollars and pounds. So first of all, we've got the water. Now I just ran out this morning but I usually get these delivered from Lavka. The guy comes and brings me two or three at a time but we needed them so we bought them. Right, let's go for the meats. We got some turkey for turkey salads. I don't want to say chicken salads but turkey's more popular here. We've got two steaks. These ones are pretty good quality. They're absolutely delicious. Really good. They were probably the most expensive thing that we bought and we've got three tins of tuna. It's called Fortuna. Fortuna. Like fortune. Fortuna. So we got three of those. We got some pasta. Fortuna pastas and I've got some arrabbiata sauce in the fridge that I have with them as well. We've got the eggs. We've got 10 beautiful white eggs. They were the equivalent of a pound. Is that a good price for eggs from the UK? Then we have just some frozen veg for when, you know, if I want to add something on when I'm having my steaks. I've got some potatoes. I would probably cook baked potatoes with the steak. Then we've got the sear which is cheese. Comes in slices. Don't eat a lot of it but it is nice to have it. Then we've got some apples. These are the best apples by far. I think. And some oranges. We've got apples and oranges. Got lots of oranges in there. Bear in mind I only eat maybe one meal at home per day and sometimes maybe not if that. If I'm going out, I eat everything else out. Tomatoes, cherry on the vine. Spring onions for the tuna pasta to give it a little bit more crunch but usually I get two or three packets but they only had one so I'll pick some up some other time. These little mini cucumbers. These are really good and as well. Alright guys, you want to know how much this cost? The total amount in rubles came to 3,456 rubles for all of this. Remember I've got the little discount card and remember this was a mid-range shopping supermarket so it wasn't the cheapest, wasn't the most expensive. So that means in US dollars it was actually under the $50 by nearly $6. It was $44.36 in American dollars and that means it was £33.15 in Great British Pounds. Sorry, I lost my train of thought there. What's happening to me? Alright, so 3,456 rubles, $44.36 and £33.15 if you're in the UK. Let me know in the comments below how does that compare? Is it better? Is it worse? Russians, is this expensive? Should I be shopping somewhere else? Let me know. I don't really know. I don't really put too much thought into my food shopping. I just go once a week, get some essentials. The rest of the time I eat at work or I eat out or sometimes I'll get a delivery just depending but as long as I've got some steaks, some turkey or chicken, some tuna, pasta, vegetables, fruit, cheese, I'm happy. Alright guys, thank you very much for watching. Let me know anything you want discussed in the comments. I'll see you next time.