Prices and Variety
My friends and family enjoyed my last Sultan Center post so much, I am going to add a couple photos here.
The price of eggs is breathtaking:
(Remember, for KD to $, you can figure about $4/KD)
Down below these packages of 6 (top shelf) and 12 second shelf) were flats of 30 for only KD 1.000. They are smaller eggs, and need washing, but that’s what I bought.
The Sultan Center serves a wide variety of people – local and expat – so I always love to see the things they put next to each other. This is a section I call “food helpers;” they are not food, but you add them to something – meat, rice, something that really IS food:
There is no lack of condiments. There is only the lack of the one particular condiment you need on the day that you need it!
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My manager told me that we don’t know that KUwait is expensive until we do a currency exchange… I never thought of the price of food in Kuwait until I moved back from college and had to do the house shopping. I dont think its that bad though.
I love sultan center, I go on weekend mornings and walk down every single aisle….slooowly.
So true that about the condiments 😛 WHen u want something its missing.
Pesto is amazing … especially when its home made.
I suggest you check Lulu.
wow at price of eggs!
the prices in Kuwait are touching the skies..even the caribou cafe have raised their prices!
Chirp, me too. I love looking in the aisles. I also love the Co-op, and find the most amazing things there, like Virginity Soap! And Skunk told me about another one, the Mira, and oh, what fun! Things you don’t find in the other markets!
Purg, I used to live near a huge LuLu in Qatar, and it is an amazing place to shop. They always had really wonderful fresh bread and a great prepared-food place and deli, too.
Pearls, and the eggs you are looking at are the 6 packs and 12 packs! Thank God the 30 packs are only 1KD.
Amu, it is world wide. I think something just spiraled. It has to do with costs of transportation, the drought in Australia, and lack of rice in India. And in Kuwait, all this stuff is imported, but the eggs – the eggs are Kuwaiti!
WOW – I buy the big plate of eggs of 1KD and a bit…..
And thanks, now I’m hungry….
man its cheaper to get urself 2 chickens and hve them lay eggs for u!
Nicole, I do too, even though I hate washing those eggs!
eshda3wa – you know, I really like that idea. We have neighbors with chickens, and I love the sound of their voices. The truth is, I am a little bit afraid of them, though, and I think I would be too soft-hearted to take their eggs away from them!
I love shopping at TSC after work… its quiet nice and I can find a parking easily…
I am hungry! LOL
I love Sultan center… I love to go there and look at the foods they have… especially the Jello.. the Cereals… the coffee creamers… I love it… 🙂
Ansam – what a great time to shop! I like it when I can wander and read the labels and don’t have to worry about all the other people around. Once, at the Sultan in Salmiyya, I got SHOVED! Can you believe it?
Hamitaf – The grocery stores here bring out the primitive huntress in me. I usually shop alone, and every now and then, I find something they’ve never had before, or not for a long time – something obscure, like clam juice, or Bengal Hot Chutney, or Vanilla Caramel coffee milk and I want to whoop for joy, and dance, and grab someone and say “LOOK! LOOK! They have _________! ! ! ! “
not caribou caribou caribou …(echoes)
Pearls . . . say what? ? ? I think it was funny, and it went right over my head.
Hehehehe that’s why I loved shopping in Iran. I kept converting everything to KD, and go oh look how cheap it is 😀
Of course, everything is VERY expensive if your income is in Toman/Rial (Iranian currency)
When I came here, Mirror Polisher, a Kuwaiti friend told me the secret: just pretend the prices in KD are dollars. Buy what you need and don’t think about it. Ho ho ho ho ho. So you “dine” at Chili’s for example, and hold your costs down to 12KD – Whoops! $48. I try to shop in the vegetable and fish markets and the co-ops fof the most part, but there are times I would kill for refined sugar, for example, fine enough to make meringues with without having sugar grit in your mouth or fudge. I do pretty well on vegetables, and fish in season. And I understand food prices are going up just about everywhere.