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cost of food
Sat, 02/24/2007 - 15:57
Roughly, how much money should I allot for food each day, while in western europe. I’m mostly staying in the large, touristy cities.
basically, is food extra expensive there?
Is $50 a day enough?
What cities are more expensive than others when it comes to dining?
really depends on how/what you eat. A lot of places you can get street food, (kebobs, sausages, and such) for under 5 euro. They are sometimes difficult to find, but some restruant/diner places that have big, cheap meals for under 10 euro. Of course its easy to find more expensive places.
Unless your into fine dinning, $50/day should be more than enough. If you are budget minded, you could eat on $30 or less per day.
Agreed. If you really want to keep a tight budget just go to grocery stores a lot. On $50 a day you’ll eat pretty well.
Yeah, I don’t eat much, I’m a 128 pound girl
hehe.
But I do have my boyfriend with me who tends to eat a bit more then I do. But I agree, $50 does seem to be enough.
Thanks!
If you have never been outside of the states, it might be a shock to you that every corner in Europe is not lined with some fastfood chain front. Also eating out at a sit down place is not done as much as I’ve seen here in the US. You can however, on the markets and such, purchase kababs and such. I would also recommend stoping at a grocery store to buy 1 liter bottles of water or fruit for snacks. Then 30-50 would be plenty.
I never worked out the grand total for an average, but I know the most I ever spent on food in one day in Sweden was $40 at this totally rockin restaraunt. Otherwise we would just go to grocery stores and make pasta and stuff for like 5 bucks total hehe

Keep in mind, too, that alot of hostels provide you with SOME sort of food. Look for things like “breakfast included” or “free pasta”. I stayed in like 10 places, and at least half had one or the other, or both
Bath, Haltwhistle, London, Füssen, Freiburg, Stuttgart, Speyer, Nördlingen, Salzburg, Hallstatt, Salzburg, Rome, Ostia Antica, Athens, Delphi, Athens
Me and a friend are budgeting eatting out of grocery store and markets for like 17euros a day? maybe less?
Reykjavik, Helsinki, Berlin, Amsterdam, Chester, Cork, Paris, Barcelona, Madrid, Venice, Athens