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"They don't really have vegetables in Polish cuisine". This statement is sooooo untrue.

They don't really have vegetables in Polish cuisine haha they do. Most of the traditional, home cooked dinners that you get at an average Polish household consist of some protein (mostly meat), potatoes and a salad (surówka or sałatka). Moreover, Poles love soups and a lot of vegetables go into those, too. So yeah, I kind of disagree :D

Żabka is emergency shop - many people in Poland this shop a shop of the last need. You go there just because you forgot something and any other shop is closed. In Biedronka you have put loose stuff on scale, but in lidl scales are build into the cash registers, even those self-service. Cereals in Europe generally are less sweety than in USA cause of legal regulations that banned certain ingredients.

Just a heads up - the bread in all these supermarkets is made from frozen dough and uses preservatives. It's not good. If you want to try some real, fresh, tasty Polish bread, go to a bakery (Grzybki, Galeria Wypieków, etc.). The difference is substantial. There's nothing better than a fresh, warm slice of bread.

"City is relatively small, it only takes you 20 minutes really to get anywhere you want in the city" followed by "Auchan (...) is so far away from where I live" I chuckled.

Manifesting for Poland this year❤🙏

Love the lady bug store. Great selection and fresh baked bread.

Czytam te wpisy i nie mogę przestać się śmiać. Przecież te filmy oglądają Polacy. Jest tu w ogóle ktoś kto nie jest Polakiem? 😂

Did you say we don't have many vegetables in polish cuisine?

Great movie, and the sun is finally shining. If you want high quality bread you have to buy it from a bakery. Vegetables are best at a classic market. Did you manage to get to know Krakow better? The churches and the old town are wonderful.

Nice content❤love it!

You are on a bicycle I'm so proud!

Nice series, seeing my own country from foreigner perspective is always interesting

Could you do a shopping? Wardrobe/trying on clothes vid? Be interesting to see their clothes vs Colombia vs US

Yeah, there is fantastic bread in Poland. But not the one in supermarkets, which is being made of deep frozen dough on a mass scale. You need to look for more traditional bakery to be able to taste traditional products. Also in case of meat you can definitely find something of better quality, but it will be much more expensive.

Like in every european country, in restaurants and shops likevthst you will.not find dishes which are real everyday dinner/ lunch. In Poland almosr every dinner contains a raw vegetable surowka or boiled vegetable jarzynka. You can buy both bit usually not togerher with the dish but in a separate box or frozen. For raw the most popular woul be: cucumbervwith cream or yogurt, carrot, betroot wirh onion, white or red cabbage, leak, or polish pickles ( not with vinegar but madevrather like kimchi). Foir hot/ boiler vegetable addition this is colifower, broccoli, carrot, beetroot ,yellow beans. Also for sandwiches made at home there is almost always some vegetable used ( tomato, polish pickle )

Good to see you’re enjoying Cracow. It’s a very relaxing and optimistic place to live. Btw, you visit the same supermarkets I do (I live in this area). Central Europe is awesome. I spent 5 years in Prague (Czechia), 2 years in Regensburg (Germany) and now it’s my 5th year in Cracow.

Prince Polo is also a Polish brand

20 minutes by bike - only in old center, center of Cracow. Other places outisde center "Śródmieście" you would ride 1 hour by bike and still not reach the end

Honestly, I wouldn't dare to eat bread which could last for longer than few days because it would mena It was packed with chemistry up to the roof, that could be really harmful. This is the product that you buy only fresh in Poland because this is the only proper way how the bread should be eaten. You even would not find in Biedronka or bakery bread that wasn't made the same day.

one tip, don't buy whole chicken in biedronka, it often is poorly sealed due to its shape and spoils even before reaching your house or even cart, biedronka leaves it out like it's no problem. I'm talking from my own experience.

I buy almost all needed products (especially vegetables and fruits) on the bazaar. The quality is much better than in supermarkets. I buy bread in little bakeries and meat in local, trusty (and tested) places. So basically, I try not to buy food in the supermarkets. Maybe it's cheaper there but the quality is lower. Unfortunately, the supermatkets are taking over the market and the local businesses are being closed all the time. I try to support the latter ones but it seems to be futile...

As your average Polish person, W for getting Salted caramel prince polo. Also W for liking beet salad!

W Polsce przeciętne miesięczne wydatki na zakupy spożywcze w 2024 r. wynoszą około od 500 do 1000 zł dla jednej osoby.

Sooo, I'm looking at the fruit/vegetable picture on the self-checkout screen...those checkout thingies have built-in scales :P.

If you're lactose intolerant try goat chees and milk. Bread is better in proper bakeries than in Biedronka. We have lots of vegetables in the Polish cuisine. You probably haven't tasted many home made meals yet. ;)

Herbal and fruit teas are considered medicine in Poland. We drink them to treat sleeplessness, cold, digestive problems etc.

There are 3 reason anyone goes to zabka: 1. Its the nearest thing/emergency 2. You want to eat something (hotdog etc) and optionally also shop (optionally, could be just coming in just for the dog) 3. Main reason: they, unlike most shop, are open on sundays (due to a legal loophole, as most shop have to be closed on sundays unless the person working is just the owner) So yeah its just an emergency shop, lol

If you like tea, try specialty shops like Five o'clock (there's one in Galeria Krakowska and one in the M1 mall, maybe there are some other locations, too). You'll get a great selection of leafed teas from different regions, much better stuff than in supermarkets.

I don't buy food in the supermarkets anymore, only necessary stuff, i usually go to place where local farmers sell their products (vegetables, fruits, meat and even dairy products), is so much better than products in the supermarket and often cheaper/same price, only bread are more expensive but they are much heavier than from store.

That "beet salad" is mostly sold in glass jars 😉

Aldis has been my go to here in the US. Great prices

You also dont have to weigh vegetables they will do it for you at the register

These banana are still eatable XD just bc theyre darker colour doesn’t mean they expired

Wes, since you are lactose intolerant, older cheeses have less lactose, fresh cheese like mozzarella has more lactose. Also lactase enzyme pills work really well.

This is first time for me to see a youtube video made in the area I was living for a few years and these are the supermarkets that I've been doing my groceries daily. Hahaha!

IF you want good bread go to bakery. Supermarket ones are only acceptable.Even brand bakeries like „buczek” or „aviteks” in Kraków have much better bread

What do you mean we don't have vegetables in our cuisine? What do you think all the slavs you like are made of :D? All the most popular national polish dishes are made predominantly with vegetables. Pierogi, bigos, barszcz, gołąbki etc. And it's very rare for polish people to eat any kind of meat without a slav or some kind of cabbage salad. It's part of the culture. Polish people are pretty much cabbage addicts :P.

Is Auchen the only one that has a fish counter? The trouble is Lidl and Biedronka - I found they don't have much fish selection, Carefour has salmon but quite expensive!

For me, as a Polish person, thats sooo interesting how foreign people see my country. My bf from Belgium, when he visited me, was really confused about Żabka store xd He liked Biedronka also but Auchan was huge for him. Have a nice day!

I love the look the woman gives you at 1:05 where you go to the shop, touch stuff, don't buy anything and leave.

Fun fact: Carrefour&Auchan are french stores

Buy unprocessed products in local shops, they are of much better quality (usually). In Poland we also have local markets or market halls, where you will find all local products in one place. Something you won't find in the supermarket is, among others, home-made sauerkraut or low-salt cucumbers.

For beet salad go to Biedronka. 😉 There’s a market chain Stokrotka where one can usually find more Asian food then elswhere.

We literally have vegetables in every dish 😂

1:55 Holly shit there is a Gaunter 'O Dim at your right

Check for beet salad in canned/jarred(?) sections ;)

400 zl ( 100$ ) a week for food is too much for average person in Poland 400 Zl is what I use for whole month and no I'm not starving rather getting 3000 - 4000 kcal diet. Lowest wage is aroung 3200 zl in Poland , you spend about 1500 for studio (20m2 , living alone , bathroom toilet etc, ) + bills so about 2k total each month , then it's about 400 for food if you cook yourself , if you eat out 3 times a month thats 500 then. You're left with 700 zl on lowest salary possible each month. You still have "free" healthcare on top of it, however stuff like Dentist appointment might cost alot , Root canal is like 1k. Living standards on lowest wage possible are way better in Poland than in US , on top of it there is no need for unions or other shit like that , by Law you will have at least 40 hours a week guaranteed income when you get hired for lowest wage. They cannot just throw you out on the street or cut your hours in half so you starve unlike US. And we were talking about the lowest wage possible , you can quite easily get way more , for example if you get hired in Lidl , you get about 4000 zl after year of work there. So then you're left with 1500 zl leftover each month. As for vegetables , you do not need to eat "a lot of vegetables " , you should eat nutritional dense food. For example go buy brocoli , 5zl per brocoli. You should also eat pickles , you should "zakisic ogóra " in season in jars or buckets and then have whole year worth of good vegetables.

Just a correction, Góralki is actually a slovak brand and the original name is Horalky

Like other people mentioned, i do not recommend buying bread in these supermarkets. Better go to bakeries or try quality shops like FRAC, if you have one near you.

the garlick brean is very good

If you wanna buy really really fresh meat or fish come to Makro or Sellgros. These are market where restaurants and shops make their shopping and usually you need a special retail client card but you can get this also for a private use just ask at the customer service desk before starting shoppig. Anyway they have the widest selection of products (these makrets can be very huge) of all different cusines. You maight be able to find all "fancy" products like duck, rabbit, boar meat. When I want to make sushi I use fresh salmon or tuna only from them cause they really always have the most fresh products. Problam may be that this markets are usually on the far suburbs of the city. You wont find them in the center.

Self-checkout counters have built-in scales, so you don't need to weigh items somewhere else. Just place, for example, the carrots on the counter and select from the menu what you've bought.

it is better use not plastic bag but buy something that is use multiple times/ years - you can buy that in diffrents shops - just ask,

real those cookies are sooooooooo OP

There's no way you can drive everywhere in Krakow in 20 minutes. You can't do it in my town and it's 10 times smaller 😂

Zabka is as abundant as Starbucks in NY

You can see vegetable stands on every corner and still say we don't have veg in our cuisines? BTW. This is so funny when you are saying how good the bread is IN BIEDRONAK! A shop with worst bread :D

I miss visiting Poland, tbh Im scared of taking a flight over there since Russia had several times cancelled out the GPS system over Östersjön several times now. I highly recommend Gdansk & Sopot🏖️. Great video😊

Don't they have something like Costco in Poland where you can buy in bulk? I'm pretty sure that would save you a lot more than going to grocery stores.

vegetables are bough at trade markets ^^ from supermarkets are last resort poor quality ones or the "exotic food" local food, local farmers

i also tasted bread in france, and compared to poland. compared to poland the french bread is like a rock

Does anyone know what he does for a living? How he’s able to move to all these countries

actually you have no getting back cos the scale is on the place

Lidl and Biedronka are the cheapest, and they have good products, of their own brands. If you like sweets, Lidl has good dopes of sweets from common brands (Mars/Kraft/Ferrero etc.) for a half price.

Zabka is so popular because it's kind of a ponzi scheme.

@WheresWes you can freeze bred in freezer. I usually buy the same bread you pointed - "fitness" is the best one. Just cut in half and take a peace out 20-30 minutes before using. Half is ok for 2 meals so one in the morning and remaining for supper. Never buy already minded meat (unless they mince it when you are freshly) otherwise you never know whats inside. Another tip. dont buy meat in biedronka. Yes its cheap there but their meat is full of chemistry. Wow, you spend a lot for groceries. For me + my gf we spend 200-250pln per week in total.

I'm a student here in poland and i can comfortably live off 200 zł for two weeks

That’s be $100+ in the US

It's a shame that our prices went up by a lot, almost everything costs way more than they used to

This bread that you buy from discount markets is processed before (prebaked and frozen and baked again in the shop), that's why it is cheap and it is not so good for you, believe me. When it's fresh, it's crunchy and tasty, but one day later it's dry and uneatable. Real polish bread needs the sourdough to make it and would cost about 10-15 zlotys per loaf, but it can last for about a week and still be quite good. It will be still quite humid. All this ready to eat food in these markets should be considered as a junkfood. If you want to stay healthy just avoid. Of course it can be tasty, but you should consider it as an last on option to choose, just in case emergency, last available food etc. If you want a good quality bread, just go to the local bakery, there is still plenty of them, and they offer a big variety.

beets with apples, look in a jar

I live 50 meters from this market.

Supermarkets in Spain or France are on another level it terms of selection of foods.

Handsome Content😘

my man knows his chocolate bars golden Prince Polo has no substitute

OMG

i don't know how it is in Krakow with Asian food but in Warsaw There is a lot of Asian restaurants. it might stem from the fact that krakow is a lot more of a tourist city but still i think there should be some. usually they are also tasty and quite cheap but it's true that it cost a lot more money to eat something in a restaurant it went form 24-34 zł for a meal to what you said around 35-50 zł in a span of 5 years it's kinda crazy if you ask me

do you have problem with unrefridgerated eggs? Some Americans do not trust them. To be honest, I do not really trust them and prefer to buy them in shops where there they put them in the fridge.

fresh baked bread

Tactical comment deployed. Cheers mate!

in poland they sell a drink that is aparently banned in europe. its called mountain dew

I beg to disagree with "not many vegetables in Polish cuisine". When you eat out a traditional home-style Polish dish, you get: meat, potatoes and load of fresh or cooked vegetables: raw salad ("surówka"), cabbage made in all sorts of ways, cucumber salad, green salad mix, beetroots. I always miss that when travelling. Even in "oriental" bars we always get dish + rice + marinated cabbage salad (which I am fan of :)

07:18 Say what?

Bro carrefour sells meat just go to the right, they have steaks for 13 zł

Small correction Góralki is a Slovak brand, the original name is Horalky 😁 but still great Video

You should go to Lewiatan - Żabka is not that good XD Things are definitely more expensive especially ever since the war in Ukraine started. Regarding food: you should definitely try pierogi. As well, we have local grocery stores pretty much at each corner - they are just like the Delis in NYC. But for real - instead of Biedronka go to Lidl and especially Lewiatan - both are cheaper. As well - get yourself a frequent customer card for each store - this way you’ll get discounts which can actually save you a great deal of money Regarding meat: the best is in Mogilany - you can take the bus from Borek Fałęcki - 275 or 245, and go there Regarding veggies - there are actually quite a lot of them in Polish cuisine, but you need to look at the recipes, and not necessarily in the restaurants

Damn you took Princepolo XXl słony karmel my favorite

couldn't agree more on Biscoff, I didn't even know they sell them in Poland, I tried them when I was in London a couple of weeks ago and my friend told me that I can buy them in Poland. It is a shame that you live far away from Auchan, great shop , I have one 6 minutes away.

1:00, it’s a beer not alcohol 😂

WOW the Zabka have sure "evolved" since I worked in Poland 12 years ago. At my Zabka, you'd see a line up of older guys waiting for it to open so that they could buy a small bottle of vodka or whatever they were drinking. It seemed kind of shabby and I only went there when I absolutely HAD to. Good videos and nice viewpoints of what Poland is really like. I agree with you. K*rwa dobrze!

6:52 I dont recomend eating the meat that is arleady prepared its mostly meat that is bad and they just prepare it

I'm just testing a new AI app by asking it to search for hard data when I see something on YT that seems to be untrue. So I asked AI to find info on the yearly per capita fresh vegetable consumption for a few countries. The data is from the calendar or fiscal year 2022: • China: 104.8 kg (231 pounds) • Poland: 104 kg (229 pounds • Japan: 88.1 kg (194.2 pounds) • USA: 62.3 kg (137.43 pounds). • UK: 67.1 kg (148 pounds) • Vietnam: 22.8 kg (50.3 pounds) • UK: 67.1 kg (148 pounds) :)

krakow is relatively small, yeah sure...

Góralki is a Czech brand, originally Horalky. Nevertheless they are good!

It's a French supermarket

Dont buy in zabkas, they are costy

Brother, if you want to try good bread, don't buy it in the supermarket, find a bakery, it's worth it

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