La haute cuisine

So as you can imagine on my glamorous student budget, I am really getting a taste of the food that makes Paris so famous. Or I mean getting a taste of the discounted discount brand of the cheapest supermarket in the city! I've been making out pretty well so far, been here three weeks and have spent just about 100 euros so far on groceries (and that includes all my toiletries and cleaning stuff when I first arrived). I've fallen victim to these hamburger packs -- 8 hamburgers for 4,50 euros and typically potatoes and vegetables. Every night I like to calculate my dinner in my head and it's usually under two euros, sometimes even under one ;) I'm doing pretty well. And I figured from the beginning I am only trying all the Carrefour Discount products to see if they're nice because if they're nice enough then I'm not paying three times the price for the name brand stuff. Well let's just hope that what I'm eating just has nutrition to it but according to the nutrition facts they seem to! Pretty unbelievable! Here's a photo of a typical dinner of mine ...

Oh whoa! Adding pictures is so easy! Okay well I'll make sure to do that from now on! And okay the cookies and chips and chocolate in the background have nothing to do with my classy meal, but a salad, hamburger, mashed potatoes, asparagus...and wine! So okay add the wine this meal was probably 3euros. So it CAN be done!

And other than dinners I also eat very cheaply. I usually have cereal or oatmeal and a fruit in the morning. sometimes toast and eggs if I have the time and need the energy. And for lunch I usually eat salami and cheese sandwiches and an apple. So everything I buy is 1) the Carrefour Discount brand and 2) lasts at least a week or so. Now as I know it's possible to eat well pretty cheaply I just need to branch out hopefully in the same price range because I don't want to be sick of all the great cheap food within a month...




PS. On the subject of eating here, I just wanted to confirm that the stereotypes of the French and their baguettes, wine, and cheese are 100% true. I am really becoming French I hardly never leave the house in the evenings to meet up with friends without a bottle of wine and a demi-baguette in my purse (perfect sized purse for everything). You see people ALL the time walking down the street with fresh baguettes and a lot of the time just people sitting eating plain baguette. I think I'm learning what heaven is like.