So we've been in Cusco for almost a month now. We have a pretty good idea of
how much things cost here and for groceries, which we do a lot, we go to a
place that call Orion or locally actually known as
Orion, and there are several Orion stores here in Cusco. Whether you've been
here for a few days in a hostel or here for a week two weeks or a month or more
you can always go to Orion you can find things like snacks, Coca-cola pitch it's
that kind of thing bread all the groceries that you really
need probably not with the selection that you'd get in a place like in the US
but there's everything in there and you can get beer and alcohol this up there
too so we'll take you in there now and we're gonna show you some of the prices
of the most common ones all right let's go conversion rate is different types of
times but generally speaking 3 so less equals to 1 US dollars just to make
sure that you get the right amount of dollars
definitely check your conversion and for example 900 mL or almost 1L
of milk cost about 4 soles and at breakfast stuff all these yogurts
cost about 2.10 soles and that's a lot of varieties here. At most Orion they
have bread ready-made you can get bread anywhere from half a soles to
anything up to 2.5 soles for something maybe cheesy but it's really really
cheap we often come in and we order chiabatta bread that we make egg sandwiches
in the morning the regular sandwich for lunch and
ciabatta is about 0.5 soles each. The only part about it is that they don't
last very long to get the kind of you know right away if you want cheese at a
real or basically anywhere in Cusco you're gonna be out of luck there's not
a big supply of cheese here but they do have things like the regular cheese
slices like you get for crafts in the US and you can get about eight slices for
about five solos one of the things that you won't find in Cusco at least at the
Audion is a great huge selection of vegetables they have the basics that
you'll probably will want anyway but you're not going to find this huge
selection that you'll find in American or Canadian grocery stores except
potatoes potatoes potatoes everywhere so if you want any special type of potato
you can probably find it here as you can see here there's so many roots best
ability to choose from potatoes yucca and also very purple corn and it's
roughly about 250 so less per kilogram carrots to Solon's tomatoes 3 Soler's
onions 270 soulless ginger 580 solarites garlic 9/10 solar's bell peppers 550
solet's lines 390 so what's one of the biggest surprises for me here was the
price of passion fruit which here is called good an idea is 7.4 so less per
kilogram so in other words it's about a $2 for two and a half pounds I know that
I have paid over $2 for one passion fruit in the US
so if that was just great to see grapes seven soulless bananas three soulless
huey 670 soulless apples starting to 492 1790 solet's five large tasty Tomatoes
dollars and 87 cents right spinach here is completely different than what we
have in the United States the leaves is kind of bigger and it actually lasts
slightly longer than the states so just grab whatever you need and then just put
in this plastic bag and then we get a half completed and now let's have this
way
about 15 cents if you're a person that likes eggs you have a lot of choice here
we use you buy these ones this is 15 eggs and it goes for about six point two
so let's finish you get them cheaper if you go and buy the big race of eggs and
you can buy the butter kilogram which is what locals do is eat a lot of eggs
everybody likes cereal and Orion has a few of the cereals that you probably
recognize for example you can get like this big of cornflakes for about 13 so
let's Special K which actually now comes with a bowl as a promo for about 80 and
soleus and of course you recognize some of these guys from Tony the Tiger Tony
the Tiger some Tony the Tiger is called the Sarita's here you carry things zoo
characters which means everything I said really it's true pretty much a slightly
more expensive but this big 11 some ice which is they're great and they're great
another one is a Peruvian brand scoria we've seen it everywhere it's actually
about three so less cheaper running about eight so less here you want a coke
or drill speaking of coffee if you don't have a coffee machine you don't have
regular ground beans come over here this is a brand that we found it's called
altameyer ultima o is what you'll find in restaurants that have instant coffee
on your table for breakfast in the morning
we've tasted it and we really like it we usually buy this big one it is about
twenty four Solars min will last you about a week or so we drink a lot of
coffee it's way better than some of the American brands like maximal house the
other ones not only that but the American brands like Maxwell House are
about 40 percent more expensive they're looking for creamer Laura half-and-half
in the US you won't ever find it in Peru however one thing that we actually find
that somewhat tolerable is is Gloria condensed milk this guy for example 170
grams for 160 soleus and the normal size you can get in the stasis about 380 so
let's podium also has a great selection of different types milk like soy milks
almond milks that kind of thing you should have a problem finding that
you're either a little bit more expensive just like it is everywhere
else but they do have a pretty good selection so there's a lot of different
teas here and then my favorite is called a paella Cusco seems to be a Crisco
products 25 bags front 180 all the way to 480 and as so many
different flavors in our favorite is the moon deity definitely try this one
William sadly for all our Canadian and British friends they don't have PG tipps
Tetley or red rose tea if you stay in Cusco for a while and
stay in the department like we did you will need some basic cooking supply
vegetable oil 360 so less sunflower oil 850 so less olive oil from 1672 34.5 so
less vinegar 280 sold this pretty much is for a hot sauce it's a little
disappointment sorry Tabasco mayonnaise 550 solace
ketchup for 90 so let's mustard 130 so less flour 582 630 so less salt 120
solace Morton Salt 760 so much when we first got here we were buying some of
these bags what I call factory breads and it just dried out really fast but
just to go through them you can get bread anywhere from 13:30 all the way
down to 6 and for solos four loaves of bread but we think it's better to
actually buy it right from the bakery and of course for those of you who are
getting all this bread you might want some cold cuts and we have stuff like
ham here it's about 0.35 kilos for for solos 10 cents that's a lot of hand that
can make a lot of salmon bacon it's about 30 so less per kilogram if you're
cooking at home and really really crazy for hot dogs for example and we get a
lot of different options here net runs about 3 to 6 so let's eat for 12 of
course when you're talking to me it's a little bit different because me this
comes in ologist four cuts chicken breast is about 14 so less per kilogram
all the way down to things like chicken thighs which are about 11 so less per
kilogram so it's quite a bit cheaper than what you'd find in the US and
probably a little bit of pressure as well the one thing you'll notice a big
difference here is that you can every part of the chicken right down to
the feet the feet are 720 per kilogram beef is sort of the same as chicken 15
SOLAS per kilogram all the way up to 40 so lowest per kilogram depending on the
country we haven't found a lot of beef burgers let alone veggie burgers but one
thing that we actually found is this chicken burger from Rico and it runs
about eight so less and this actually tastes pretty good a huge selection of
fish here but white fish like tilapia go for about 12 so less per kilogram and
there is another one called pescado Corral Ju Arielle one of the cheapest
meals that you can possibly make on the road course is pasta you can buy a
package of spaghetti sauce which is about 390 grams for about three SOLAS
high you find takes two of these and a full package of pasta which is about 140
and that will make you a basic pasta of course you can go back to the vegetables
but all the vegetables you want it some of the meat and make yourself a nice
pasta dinner for fairly cheap budget traveler or students that traveling
you'll be familiar with this and ramen noodles here actually really really
cheap 110 solace and the other one is 120 so less
you can get ten cents cheaper if you like it price is a huge part of the diet
here in Peru for one kilogram of rice 370 all the way to 440 and next to the
rice you can find quinoa which is another important Peruvian cuisine you
can find anything for water kilograms for seven to nine so less now we're
going to the junk food section and of course you can find lace but there are
tips for example things like this it costs 450 per bag this flavor is a
little bit different than what you used to and this one is a bit picante it
sounds really really good I've never had it before so there are many many many
options here or Pringles in different flavor than what we used to and that
cost the same 790 solace honey mustard actually is pretty good we had it before
Nature Valley twelve bars for about twelve SOLAS each chocolate wafers for
about four thirteen SOS chocolate chip cookies six cookies for six owners
everybody loves Oreos six packs of four for two solo which is
really super cheap that's even a lot cheaper than home did you say those
eminence somewhere these are those little fun packs of M&M I have no idea
how many's in here it's about 8:30 soulless and as you can see it's Alto in
Asuka and Alto in Graz cicadas saturated fat and sugar and junk food yeah anyway
as you can see junk food is just as cheap here as it is at home maybe even
cheaper Nutella very high in sugar very high in saturated fat very high in palm
oil and very high in price 26 so less this is my biggest biggest
disappointment peanut butter is so expensive here it's about 20 so let's
for a little tiny jar like this for those of you who are super sophisticated
in Ferdie your chocolate out of a jar a tub of Betty Crocker rich and creamy
cake frosting will cost you about 13 so less coca leaves themselves under fads
are pretty good coca leaves chewing coca leaves and drinking coca tea for
altitude sickness pretty good but one of things I think is bad here is all this
candy that you can find still a lot of people like it I actually like to candy
themselves but I'm not sure how good the upper altitude sickness by a bag like
this which has about 24 candies in it you can do that for about seven solos
just a regular sized soft roll-up costs 230 so less one liter coca cola is 4:30
p.m. let's talk about this sufferer of it
this is Coca Cola sinasu Gotham which is saying this - Coke Zero sugar in the
United States when I first came to prove I said I'm gonna swear off drinking coke
altogether Coke Zero I got here I had one and I was hooked because it is way
better here it actually tastes just like coca-cola so come here you gotta try
this stuff it's really good don't make fun and my favorite is the Inca Cola
it's actually owned by the it costs the same like regular coca-cola
products ether Cola is good but actually oral something is kind of the rip-off
version of icky Cola is about half the price it's only tea so less compared to
430 and it face exactly the same and if you prefer something of reduce in the
morning for breakfast and being from 392 for 30 ladies this is a subject we know
almost nothing well absolutely nothing about tampons always seems like a brand
I know 452 584 8 of them I feel look like that over here we have things like
Kotex which are a little cheaper at 380 if you run a toothpaste a brand name
like Colgate 150 mil will cost you 780 so let's a brand like close up half that
price and of course you have all your soaps here as well which for a few bars
will cost you about 8 to 10 solely for shampoos the big brands like Pantene and
Head & Shoulders will run you anywhere from 1390 all the way up to 28 for a big
bottle probably won't need something like that because it's kind of big and
you won't use it for that long last but not least we're going to talk
about alcohol in Peru there are a few local brands are not really necessary
local brands but brands that you can find pretty much everywhere one of them
is Kenya because Kenya comes in three varieties it comes in a black or
negative gold nail and it comes in a wheat beer
they run roughly 23 to 25 or 26 so less for a six-pack of course not everybody's
gonna like couse Kenya and for those of you who are used to American me or not
not necessarily American beers but things like corona Stella Artois
Budweiser they have all that here - a six-pack of Corona is gonna cost you
about 28 so less a six-pack of Budweiser there's 25 and the six-pack of Stella
Artois is 28 one of the things that I have found fairly disappointing in Peru
is a lack of quality craft beer or at least it's a little bit difficult to
find did you have some craft beer here in the frigerator it's a little bit
expensive from a porter to a golden brown ale to an IPA it's gonna cost you
about 11 to 12 so less for one 330 ml box keep in mind that in a restaurant
one of these small 330 ml bottles of couse kenya will cost you about eight so
less so 6 424 is not too bad of course just like at home it's impossible to
price out wine because everybody has their own taste everybody has their own
for those flavors into like it's like anywhere you can get a bottle of wine
here for 100 SOLAS all the way down to your 14 one thing that I know very
little about because I don't drink hard liquor very often is the price this is
gonna take you through a few of the brands that I recognize here a bottle of
wild turkey bourbon is going to be about a hundred and three so let's take our
age in which I actually do like is 77 SOLAS for 750 mil for those of you who
like Tennessee whiskey bottle of Jack Daniels for Vanya 107 solace I know very
little about pisco but we did go to a tasting it's also something that Peru is
very famous for and it looks like here 750 milliliter bottles pisco is gonna
run you about 31 or 32 solos which isn't bad even cheaper if you go for a cheaper
brand 22 solos and if you get here today you get a free sprite I can't find any
the normal brands vodka like Grey Goose absolute but we have found a sitter
which actually looks quite expensive for 750 ml bottle
it's almost 150 solo so that's actually quite expensive water to an a half later
Sun Wis which is actually made by coca-cola without gas is 360 so less it
is a regular one leader if you just need on the go to 40 sous les
one thing that they don't have here is the plastic bags and grocery bags so you
have to carry your own bags in this case we've got routes and this is definitely
much environmental friendly well that concludes our fake shopping at Gurion
it's not really fix your bed we actually we actually do buy isms we always find
this kind of vlog helpful so hopefully this gonna be helpful for you yep so if
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for watching okay we're on our way home now but since we're walking by a place
anyway these places are called pili Kittitas and it's a place where you can
go get a haircut we did that the other day and it was 10
so lazy
we know people love that mic that was really bad it's just still October but
somehow they're selling Christmas red it's not bad
nervous Michael yeah