People say that living in France is expensive, but like any other country you have all kind of shops and apartments to meet all kind of budgets.
If you are short on money, or you are looking to save some cash, here are some tips on where to buy to save on groceries:
Stay away from ‘Petit casino’ and ‘Monoprix’, those are the stores you find around every corner but which are indeed more expensive than the average shop.
If you choose to go to Carrefour, auchan, even franprix, leader price, among others you may come across some very sweet deals and if you buy their own brands you will see the difference on you total price.
However, the cheapest supermarket is called LIDL. Lidl’s aren’t hard to find but they are not usually located on the centre ville or nowhere near. Still they choose their location based also in public transportation. Usually they are right off the bus/metro/tram stop. You can find pasta packages (500 grs) for 50 cents, a dozen eggs for 1€50 and a wide variety of frozen meats, pizzas, etc. The food at that store is usually brand less or their brand, but sometimes you find ‘known’ brands such as coca cola and Heinz too.
You can buy at Lidl all your cleaning products, as well as personal care products. The food in general is good and the prices are incredible, however, I recommend you buy your fruits and vegetables else were since they are not typically very fresh.
I’ll tell you about ‘le marché’ in another post.
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