Self-improvement: budget, family and money management ( bilingual English/Croatian )

Prices continue to rise, I guess won't stop any soon. We visited a few more shops to observe the situation. For us, it is definitely not so grim, as we do not buy so many products that are popular, but still, it is not a lovely sight.

I downloaded almost all discount and reward apps from local supermarkets and rationalize our shopping.

As I do not eat red meat aside once a week, I made more portions from a weekly shopping and spread it for two weeks instead.

My husband joined his peer in biweekly fishing trips so now we are enjoying fish two-three times a week as a luxury substitute for chicken that became really expensive sport. We are not at the price level of the USA but darn over it compared to our economic standard.

A kilogram of chicken is $8.25 to $10.50 depending on the shop and what part you are buying.

The last catch of fish, our cut, was worth about $70. Our friend decided to sell his share and possibly use the money for other things and groceries, while we store it and use fish for our needs as we need an alternative source of proteins other than the store-bought garbage.

I am thinking to buy a horizontal (chest) freezer in case we need to store bigger quantities of food. My husband thinks that storing so much food is useless, as we are incredibly resourceful and he doesn't want to see a higher electricity bill. Still, if price conditioning continues at the present rate, this is an idea to reconsider. Also, a panic shopping spree this conditioning caused is insane. Shopping malls' parking lots were literally crammed with cars where ever we go.

We were in the shop yesterday and shop assistants were filling up shelves, but still, some remained empty waiting on suppliers.

Only that caused people to loudly discuss that we are facing shortages, without actually thinking about what is going on - more domestic buyers, the tourists that started pouring into our country, and a bigger rate of food spoiling due to the higher temperatures or inadequate storage.

So far I manage to step on a mine with a few bananas that turned into a whiskey but thankfully nothing else.

I also have the issue of how the prices are calculated - apparently imported cultures and domestic cultures have nearly identical prices, which is ... well, impossible.

I am increasingly annoyed with the fact that apples that are domestic now cost the same as bananas $1.5 that are imported. The price of bananas somehow stayed the same, while apple prices have risen. Many cultures are imported from other countries, regardless of the domestic growers which we rarely see in shops.

Let me just name a few local shops for groceries:

Foreign

• LIDL - Germany
• Kaufland - Germany
• EUROspin - Italy
• InterSpar - Netherlands

Domestic (HQ)

• Plodine - Croatia, Rijeka
• Brodokomerc - Croatia, Rijeka
• Konzum - Croatia, Zagreb
• TommyHR - Croatia, Solin

We combine and utilize all of these shops plus a local city market, private suppliers, and friends to get natural groceries that we can eat without fear to cross paths with our intolerance.

Those products that we buy are not just for somebody with intolerance and allergy, but for anyone who doesn't want garbage in their food.

I will take photos during the next week and make you a photo post about these products when I am done, it might come in handy if you are using similar shops and many domestic people do. I will also post products that you should NOT buy and list the reason/s WHY.

[CRO]

Cijene nastavjaju rasti, i ne izgleda mi da će uskoro stati. Posjetili smo nekoliko šoping centara da promotrimo situaciju. Za nas sve ovo nije toliko crno, jer mi ne kupujemo mnogo proizvoda koji su popularni, ali ipak nije predivan prizor.

Skinula sam na mobitel skoro sve nagradne aplikacije sa popustima koji uključuju lokalne prodajne lance i racionalizirala sam kupovinu absolutno svega.

Jedem crveno meso jednom tjedno, tako da sam tjednu sumu podijelila na manje porcije koje će nam trajati dva tjedna ( otprilike).

Suprug se udružio s kolegom na ribičiji dva puta tjedno pa sad uživamo u ribi 2-3 puta tjedno kao luksuznijoj zamjeni za piletinu koja je postala skupi sport. Nismo na razini poskupljenja dalekog zapada, situacija je upravo puno gora s obzirom na naš cjeloukupni ekonomski status kao društva.

Kilogram piletine je između 59 i 75 HRK, ovisno o trgovini, i komadu mesa koji kupujemo.

Zadnji ulov, naš dio, je procjenjen na 500 kuna. Kolega je odlučio da proda za neke druge stvari, namirnice... dok smo mi svoj zaledili za vlastitu potrošnju jer trebamo alternativni izvor proteina više nego ( mesnato) smeće kupljeno u trgovinama.

Planiram kupiti škrinju, u slučaju da bismo trebali zalediti veće količine hrane. Suprug misli da je čuvanje toliko hrane beskorisno, jer se snađemo, i isto tako on ne želi vidjeti viši račun za struju. Međutim ako cijene nastave rasti, trebalo bi razmisliti o ovoj ideji. Panično kupovanje koje je ovo uvjetovanje cijena uzrokovalo, je nenormalno. Gdje god da odemo, parkin oko šopin centra je zakrčen.

Bili smo u šoping centru jučer dok su radnici slagali police, ali neke su ostale prazne čekati na dobavljače.

To je bilo dovoljno da neki ljudi glasno negoduju kako će biti još gore, to je samo početak, nestašica... bez da zapravo razumiju što se događa - više je domaćih (koji su navalili kupovati gluposti), turisti su se počeli ulijevati u zemlju i hrana se češće kvari zbog povišenih temperatura ili lošeg skladištenja ( ništa čudno, svako ljeto ista stvar).

Do sada sam nagazila na par banana koje suse pretvorile u rakiu, ali na sreću ništa više.

Isto imam problem kako su cijene računane - navodno uvozne i domaće kulture imaju skoro identične cijene, štp je... pa, nemoguće.

Sve mi više ide na nerve činjenica da jabuke koje su ( navodno) domaće sada koštaju isto kao i banane 10 kuna, koje su uvozne. I cijena banana je nekako ostala ista,, ,dok su jabuke poskupile. Mnoge culture se uvoze iz drugih zemalja, usprkos postojećim domaćim proizvođačima koje rijetko vidimo u trgovinama.

Evo da navedem par lokalnih trgovina za hranu:

Strani:

• LIDL - Njemačka
• Kaufland - Njemačka
• EUROspin - Italija
• InterSpar - Nizozemska

Domaći (HQ)

• Plodine - Hrvatska, Rijeka
• Brodokomerc - Hrvatska, Rijeka
• Konzum - Hrvatska, Zagreb
• TommyHR - Hrvatska, Solin

Mi kombiniramo i koristimo sve ove trgovine plus lokalnu gradsku tržnicu, privatne dobavljače i prijatelje da bismo nabavili prirodne namirnice koje možemo jesti bez da imamo problem sa netolerancijom.

Ovi proizvodi koje kupujemo nisu samo za nekoga tko je netolerantan ili alergičan, nego za bilo koga tho ne želi smeće u hrani.

Tijekom idućeg tjedna ću fotografirati i objaviti u postu o tim proizvodima, može nekome koristiti ako posjećuju iste trgovine što mnogo domaćih ljudi i rade. Iso ću objaviti slične proizvode koje bolje NE kupiti i navesti razlog ZAŠTO. .

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