Today I read this post by @filotasriza3 where he wrote about what he can do in his country (Greece) with 10 LEO. The initial idea comes from @fabian98 who introduced the purchasing value of that in Venezuela. In this post, I'll write about Egypt where I moved recently.
At the time of writing this, the price of 1 LEO is $0.53 so having $5.3 at my disposal here in Egypt (which translates to 82.68 Egyptian pounds), I can get the following items when I’m buying from the local bakeries, vegetable shops, etc.:
- Bread: 16 pita breads ($0.32 per pita bread)
- Tomatoes: 4 kg ($1.28 per kg)
- Fresh Farm Eggs: 4.5 dozen ($1.15 per dozen)
- Buffalo Butter: 0.70 kg ($7.69 per kg)
- Feta cheese: 3.5 packs of 200g ($1.47)
- A sandwich wrap from a local shop: 5.5 pieces ($0.96 per piece)
- Coffee: 4 single espresso coffees ($1.28 per cup)
- Pizza: 1 pie of 30” diameter ($5.7 per pie)
- Face masks: 8 pieces ($0.64 per piece)
All of these products, except for the processed feta cheese (and masks), are actually very fresh and full of flavor.
Now, hygiene is a different story – chicken shit on the eggs is a standard; when you watch the veggies being unloaded from the truck you understand very clearly why they need to be washed; and I even found a piece of gravel on the pizza once… But you've got to love this place!
I thought the prices sounded pretty good until I see how not clean they are. Thanks for the cost comparison, I find them very interesting.
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When you pay a little more you can get very clean stuff from the supermarket, so there's choice. But the vegetables, eggs and butter are not nearly as flavorful and fresh as the ones from the smaller vendors that take the products straight from the farm. So it really depends what matters to you more.
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Oh wow, yikes. I don't think I could handle my goods being that dirty! That seems really big for a pizza. 30" is like a party pizza over here. Not that cheap though. Some of the items seem really similar to what they would be in the US and then others seem very inexpensive.
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Agree, there's almost always a cheaper option if you don't mind the drop in quality - for example, many people just buy vegetable ghee instead of butter, and the price of that is at about $1.30 per kg.
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Excellent friend, glad you could participate from egypt thank you very much :)
And wow, over $7 a kilo for buffalo butter, it must be super esque to cost that much.
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Yeah, it's really tasty and great for cooking too. Thanks for this challenge, it was very interesting to see the comparison between different countries.
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