Shadowing Practice: I Spent $100 At A Canadian Grocery Store... Here's What I Got - Learn English Speaking with Video
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I'm not quite sure what to expect when it comes to my first big grocery haul back in Canada,
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guys, after living abroad for the last two years.
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I've heard from my dad how much prices have gone up on a whole,
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but to be fair, I think that's unfortunately the case in most places in the world.
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Sofia, Bulgaria, where I currently live, being one of them.
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So it's going to be interesting to see how prices have changed.
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I think when I was last living here, I was averaging maybe six, seven hundred Canadian dollars a month, something like that.
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But then again, it all depends what you buy, right?
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It all depends what kind of groceries you are getting.
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So in today's video, I'm going to be taking you to Superstore,
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which overall I would say is one of the more budget friendly grocery stores in Canada
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that has a lot of selection
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and overall I'd say it's my top place to go to so let's go take a look how things have changed
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so the first thing that i'm going to get is actually a roast chicken
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and i feel like 10.99 is still a very reasonable price like i know some people really love costco
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because you can get the roast chickens you know for a lot less there but 10.99 10.99 is not bad
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i will say that it's always the cut fruit or vegetables
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that get absolutely crazily priced like even though this looks like a big platter i would not say
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that this is that much fruit and for 25 like that's crazy
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as far as the worst price offenders go in canadian groceries i would actually say
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that it's the produce section i have mentioned in many past videos
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that i think the produce that we get in canada unfortunately isn't the best quality
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and it's very very expensive and the other thing to keep in mind is
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that these prices are per pound right like in europe everything is in kilos
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which is 2.2 times a pound
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but generally the prices will still be you know even less
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per kilo than we have here per pound i would say
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that berries are some of the worst offenders uh when it comes to high prices in Canada, but to be honest, like,
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it's not that bad here, I would say.
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Like, five dollars is a generally normal price for what raspberries would cost, but of course they are in season,
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and then over here, it looks like they have strawberries and, like, a whole bunch of them for only four dollars,
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so to be honest, that's not bad.
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when i am feeling lazy one of my favorite things to get is these salad kits
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and usually you know they are quite expensive at like seven dollars for not
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that much salad but look today they have them on sale for only four dollars
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when do they expire actually not for a while so that is a very good deal.
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so now as far as bread goes this is something
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that i regret to inform you
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that canada does not have the best bread quality in my opinion like in the regular grocery stores it has
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so many preservatives in it because it literally lasts weeks and it's kind of soft and mushy a lot of times, but it is cheap.
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Like it is generally cheap if you get that kind of stuff, but if you are getting better quality bread, like even just remotely better,
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it's basically double the price.
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And if you went to an actual bakery that had freshly made sourdough or any other kind of artisanal bread, double that price basically.
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okay i am actually shocked at the price of this ground
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beef like ground beef guys i know it's you know quite a bit of it
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but still like almost 30 for 1.3 kilos my god it
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when it comes to butter or margarine
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or whatever this has definitely got more expensive i'm seeing like
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8.99 for the big tubs five for the small ones like i remember they used to be three
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and then if you want actual real butter it's basically on sale for six dollars
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and then the more fancy kinds are like eight dollars and up
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so definitely expensive one
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of the other staples in my diet is cottage cheese because you know it's like high
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in protein and and generally has you know good nutrition
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but i'm so confused of why they have
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so few brands they literally have just the no name
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or this nordica kind and i mean it's 849 for this one
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and it's 549 for this guy so i guess i'll get this one but still so
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and here we are in one of the most expensive sections of the grocery store
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you guys 40 dollars like i know this says three liters, but still.
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To be fair, it was also very expensive in Bulgaria where this size of olive oil would regularly be $13.
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Here I guess, you know, it's a savings of $4 for basically better quality that is, you know, cold pressed, extra virgin from Greece.
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so yeah olive oil is liquid gold
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I'm sorry. so
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okay
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so as far as frozen food goes i will say the
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pc blue menu is actually decent first of all it's fairly budget-friendly priced at like four five dollars a meal
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and I feel like the quality is also quite good.
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I especially like the chicken korma.
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Butter chicken is also good.
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The lasagna is amazing so not bad for frozen food.
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all right three very large bags of groceries let me show
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you guys what i got i do have to say
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that i was not wowed by the produce selection
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that they had at superstore today
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so i'm going to be getting some extra produce at some smaller local stores in my area
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because I think the quality is better but I did get the four dollar strawberries, bananas, I got some organic baby carrots,
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celery which is also organic, I got a restaurante pizza that was on sale,
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I got the two for nine dollar frozen meals you know just to have when I don't feel like cooking.
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Can of black beans, some tzatziki sauce for the carrots and celery,
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walnuts I think were like ten dollars, some microwave popcorn, pumpkin seeds,
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um oh yeah this lettuce mix that was actually for a really good price at four dollars
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the roast chicken which also I think is quite a deal at 10.99 actually the crazy part is
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that I think the chicken that are not cooked that are more
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or less this size are almost more expensive I thought I
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remember them being like that's crazy how is a cooked chicken uh less expensive than a raw chicken.
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For some fun treats I ended up getting these kind of Asian snacks.
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These were pretty cheap.
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I think they were like two dollars each.
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I got some maple syrup which if you're getting the real stuff this can actually be quite expensive.
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I got some Greek yogurt for breakfast bowls.
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Also some cottage cheese for protein pancakes that I like to make.
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I got some spreadable butter and then lastly I also just got a packet of granulated sugar since we were out.
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So this is everything that I got
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and the price the price to be honest it's not good it's obviously not good I wish things were less expensive
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but it's also not absolutely insane.
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Comment down below if you expected it to be higher or lower.
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It came to 108 more or less 109 Canadian dollars.
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So that is quite a bit but I do feel like I did buy quite a few things, especially since I have a whole chicken,
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I have some frozen food, I have, you know, these big tubs for breakfast.
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I did get some fruit, some vegetables.
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These are obviously expensive.
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This is expensive.
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So do I think that these prices should be lower?
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Absolutely.
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I think, you know, if you have the average paying job in Canada,
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which I believe is around 60,000 Canadian dollars,
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you know, per person and considering how high the rent or to buy a place is nowadays,
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you know, higher grocery prices are just one extra thing to worry about.
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But on the other hand, I almost was expecting it to be worse.
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From some of the other videos that I've seen online of Canadians showing grocery prices, it's far more insane than what I saw today,
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but that's why I think it really depends where you go.
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Grocery stores like Metro or Loblaws, those tend to be higher than places like Superstore or Freshco,
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and it all depends what you want to get.
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If you're not looking for sales and
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if you just absolutely need to have a certain brand of course it's going to be a lot higher
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but I do find that
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if you go to you know the more budget-friendly sort of grocery stores
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if you look at the different sales they have going on every week try
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and meal prep so you use everything up you can you can make things more budget-friendly
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but should you have to do that
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you know that's that's a question for every person I feel
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like shelter food water medical care like those are all basic necessities for every human being
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and you know governments should be trying their best to make them as affordable as possible
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and making it a priority so yeah
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that is my grocery haul for the day I would love
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to hear from you guys in the comments whether you are Canadian or somewhere else in the world.
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Let me know how these prices compare to what you would usually spend in a week or a month.
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But yeah, I hope you guys found this video helpful.
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Let me know your thoughts in the comments.
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And as always, keep being your own kind of beautiful.
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Bye guys.
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Shadowing es una técnica de aprendizaje de idiomas respaldada por la ciencia, desarrollada originalmente para la formación de intérpretes profesionales y popularizada por el políglota Dr. Alexander Arguelles. El método es simple pero poderoso: escuchas audio en inglés nativo y lo repites en voz alta de inmediato, como una sombra que sigue al hablante con solo 1-2 segundos de retraso. A diferencia de la escucha pasiva o los ejercicios de gramática, el shadowing obliga a tu cerebro y músculos de la boca a procesar y reproducir simultáneamente patrones de habla reales. Las investigaciones muestran que mejora significativamente la precisión de la pronunciación, la entonación, el ritmo, el habla conectada, la comprensión auditiva y la fluidez al hablar, convirtiéndola en una de las metodologías más efectivas para la preparación del IELTS Speaking y la comunicación en inglés en el mundo real.