This is going to be a weird thing to ask, but are there any countries or major cities in Europe that don’t provide these foods at affordable prices?

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1. Define “affordable”.

   Overall, I’d probably only consider basic salt, cereals, and various fruits (depending on season) particularly affordable foodstuff. Everything’s certainly relative though.

2. >-Coconut milk or almond milk

   > nut oil, healthy sesame oil, or avocado oil

   >calamari,

   >cantaloupe

   those are rather higher price rage items and many of them might not be widely available in Poland nor Ireland

3. Why would coconut milk be available cheaply when no part of Europe is known for farming coconuts and non-dairy milk can be made from locally grown oats?

4. These are propably all available in most German supermarkets but what’s your definition of affordable?

5. Yeah that’s a weird question. Affordable for whom??

   And what’s affordable. Olive oil will be more expensive than almond milk of course, does that make it not affordable?

   And whereas salt is very cheap it could still be double than you are used to. I wouldn’t know.

   They are all wildly available except perhaps the various oils. Wouldnt expect to find avocado everywhere but olive oil is also available everywhere!

6. Fruit is quite affordable in Eastern Europe and the Balkans, or so I’ve heard. It’s not hugely expensive here, but it depends on the fruit.

7. What I have yet to see is anywhere with affordable olive oil lmao

8. Depends on what you consider affordable.

   For price references, these are the cheapest /kg or /L prices for the mentioned products that the app of a major supermarket chain gives me:

   – flour €0.89
   – coconut milk im assuming you mean the milk alternative not the thick stuff you use in cooking? €1.99, almond milk €1,35
   – peanut oil €4,49 olive oil €6.59
   – salt €0.65
   – the meat is a ridiculously broad category. Depends on the cut. Eggs are €2,19
   – depends on the fruit and the season. Apples are produced locally and still in season (though we’re nearing the end of it) so are about €1.80/kg depending on the variety. Bananas, pineapples, watermelon, cantaloupe, oranges and tangerines don’t grow here so always have to be imported and blueberries and grapes have to be imported at the moment because they’re out of season. Oranges are in season right now so they’re often around €1/kg. Bananas twice that. And most of the others range from around €5-10/kg

9. > -Edible salt

   Last time I bought salt it was 25cents/kilo.

10. What counts as “affordable” will differ wildly from country and product to country and product. For example, olive oil isn’t used much here so it doesn’t matter if it’s more expensive than in somewhere like Greece where it is a staple.

11. Virtually all of this is available in UK supermarkets at sensible prices.
    What is it you really want to know, OP?

12. I’m at my middle-class shop here right niw, so I can tell you.

    Coconut and almond milk are quite expensive, the oils you mentioned too. Cow milk is around 1.50,/L depending on the brand and shop, while non-milk is easily double and more of that. Sunflower oil is 5.-/L, cheap rapeseed oil 3.50; olive oil 18.50 if normal quality, 10.- if low quality. Organic sesame oil at 22.40/L. Quite expensive.

    Salt is subsidised by the guvmnt, so it stays affordable. The standard salt from the Jurassic salt mines with iodine and fluor is 1.05/kg. Sea salt is more than double.

    Grains are affordable but not exactly cheap either. Pasta is rather cheap. A kilo of oat flakes is at 2.80 Fr. Could be worse. A kilo of pasta is 1.90, rice between 1.50 and 5.50, depending on the quality.

    Lentils, 6.-/kg.

    Sweet fruit are expensive, sea food anyway, meat too, but not as much as it could be because it’s subsidised too.

    The cheapest chicken breast I see is 14.50/kg. The one that I would buy because I care at least a bit about animal welfare is 23.-. But animal welfare is quite good in Switzerland; there are no cages for chickens.

    I just bought a small onion for 0.10.

    There is no minimal wage, but the ideas floating around say that it should be at least 4500-5000 per month.

13. 🇪🇸🇪🇸 As I can’t know what you consider affordable, I will give you examples of supermarket prices (not specialised shops):

    -Cereal grain foods: 0,50€/100gr

    -Coconut milk or almond milk: 2,60€/1l
    It’s forbidden by law to call vegetable drinks milk, except almond milk, as it is considered to be misleading and leads parents to cause malnutrition problems in their children

    -Olive oil, nut oil, healthy sesame oil, or avocado oil

    Olive oil: ~9€/1l

    Nut oil: the supermarket price comparator I used only shows body products, not edible nut oil. You would probably have to go to specialised shops

    Sesame oil: ~20€/1l

    Avocado oil: same problem as nut oil. An avocado is ~1,5€/unit

    -Edible salt: 0,5€/100gr

    -Beef, chicken, turkey, calamari, chicken eggs, or pork

    Beef: ~20€/1kg

    Chicken: ~6€/1kg

    Turkey: ~10€/1kg

    Fresh calamari: ~18€/1kg

    Chicken eggs free-range hens: ~3€/dozen

    Pork: ~6€/1kg

    -Various sweet fruits (e.g. apples, blueberries, bananas, pineapple, grapes, watermelon, cantaloupe, oranges, and tangerines)

    Apples: ~2,5/1kg

    Dry blueberries: ~18€/1kg, its not a common fruit here

    Bananas: ~1,7/1kg

    Pineapple: ~2€/1kg

    Grapes: red ones ~3,7€/1kg, green/white ones ~7€/1kg

    Watermelon: ~4€/unit

    Cantaloupe: no idea what this is

    Oranges: ~2,75€/1kg

    Tangerines: ~4€/1kg

14. nothing edible other than potatoes available for a reasonable price in NL.