Grocery Prices In Quebec

Top of the morning to you! Today instead of showing you all the big salads I ate last week I wanted to tell you about the grocery prices in Quebec.

We finally made it to Quebec for our mini vacation with The Kiln Guy and The Chef.

We drove separate cars {because seriously, who wants to do an 8 hour road trip with 4 adults and a crazy dog and arrive cranky? Not me.} 🙂

Before heading to the Airbnb we rented, our first stop was to the grocery store to load up on a few essentials.  I have no idea what city it was in… But it was well past Quebec City and up along the St. Lawrence River.

Call me crazy but food prices in Canada seem really high. For instance, a rotisserie chicken was $13.49 CAD {about $9.81 USD}. And this was at a BIG grocery store!

If you wanted to buy a whole chicken and roast it yourself at home it was even more! Holy canolies people. Someone explain that to me.

Bananas were going for about $0.65 USD a pound. Bananas, I guess they’re cheap everywhere.

One thing Canada has that our major stores here don’t, is REAL in season LOCAL berries. And they were fantastic!!! Also, the containers are cuter than ours too.

A giant tub of salad greens $5.08 USD. About a dollar more than at Market Basket {here in New England}.

English cucumbers $1.44 USD {that would be a sale price here in the states}.

Actual baby carrots. Now that’s not something you see everyday. There were rainbow carrots too! 

Clearly I was shopping for pickety bits. 🙂 

I thought the weenie prices were kind of high. But maybe that’s a good brand. What do I know. 

Milk was crazy expensive $4.06 USD at a major retailer! At home, Market Basket sells Oakhurst {the good stuff} for about $2.89 a half gallon.

The milk in bags was a much better deal.

Yogurt seemed a little high too. About $6.03 a tub.

A pound of butter $4.27 USD. I have no idea if this was the good stuff or just the no frills butter.

The cheapest eggs were $2.97 USD. Is that about the same? We usually get our eggs from Costco so I’m not sure if $2.97 is high or low or just about average price these days.

20 ounces of Cheerios $3.54 for 20 ounces. 

Want a jar of the best pasta sauce on the planet earth? It will cost you $9.80!!! Ouch.

I tried the get the HH to buy a bag of the ketchup Cheetos but he wouldn’t. Have you tried them? Are they any good? I can probably stand to eat 1 Cheeto every 5 years. 

But you know what I did buy? A jar of dill pickled hard boiled eggs. 🙂 I mean c’mon. When you’re on vacation you have to try SOMETHING new, right?

I LOVE checking out grocery stores in other countries!!

I can’t wait to share more about our trip.

Peace Out.

~Mavis