Food price comparaisons

Bonjour everyone, I was thinking about the cost of food today while down at the market. I find the food at the market dearer than the supermarket, so I don't usually buy a lot from the market. Anyway I thought I would do a price comparaison on a few things, so I went to mysupermarket.co.uk just to see what the prices were. Of course I can't price everything but I was interested to see the difference on a few things.

Lean steak mince £6.08 kg (France £3.07 kg) this was a surprise, although it does depend on the quality of the beef, I must say that the mince in france is very lean and delicious.

180g Scottish smoked salmon £5.49 (France) 170g Scottish smoked salmon £5.62.  I know not everyone likes smoked salmon, but I love it. So there isn't really a lot of difference here, the scottish salmon here is lovely.

Fresh salmon £12.50 kg (France £11.33 kg) Not a big difference, the fresh salmon here is from norway, and is really nice.

Tiger prawns £23.53 kg (France £8.69 kg) Well I'm not really surprised about this one, prawns are plentiful here and one of the cheapest seafoods.

Mussels £4.43 kg (France £1.97 kg) Same as the prawns plentiful, but isn't it strange that Ireland is an island and we don't have the same variety on seafood.

Tetley's teabags (80) £2.23 (France) 100 Teabags £3.51 Not a big difference, couldn't find a box of 100 teabags, but there isn't a big price difference.

4 pork chops £6.59 (France) 4 pork chops £3.07. Not too surprised about this, pork here is very reasonable and very tasty. Must be what they're fed.

Chicken breasts £12.78 kg (France) Chicken breasts £7.02. Now this was a surprise, I thought chicken in the UK would have been cheaper. The chickens here are mostly corn fed and are really good.

William pears £1.80 kg (France) William pears £1.04. A bit cheaper here, but I suppose the climate has a lot to do with the fruit to.

Lamb steaks £15.58 kg (France) Lamb steaks £10.50. I was also surprised about the lamb, this price was based on leg of lamb steaks, I thought the lamb here was really expensive.
Haven't got a comparaison on beef, but I do now stewing beef as well as steak is very expensive here.

So what will my shopping trolley look like in N.I. I will miss my prawns, mussels, chicken, and pork, but then again there is definitely a lot more variety in N.I. although I do find the quality great here. On average I would say we spend about €130 per week on food, which is about £114. stirling. 

So here is my quote for today:

'Maybe a person's time would be as well spent raising food as raising money to buy food'