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Anonymous
I'm taking courses abroad in London next semester and need to know how much things cost. For the most part, my living and all my food is covered by a meal plan, but I need to know how much snacks and stuff cost. Like a bottle of coke or a snickers bar or a meal at a fast food place or something. Anyone know?
>> Anonymous
London will not be cheap im afraid, no way.

First off a coke bottle will be over £1.00 a snickers would be over 50p, the fast food places i suppose arent too bad, like mcdonalds would be a good price, because they themselves can afford to sell their putrid "meat" for that price. Believe it or not, it will be cheaper and more beneficial in the long run to stick to wholesome food over there, like pasta, rice, noodles, just cheap stuff, you know? you will NEED to learn to cook considering thats the student way.
>> Anonymous
Baked Beans, Tinned Chili, Freeze Dried pasta packs. You will need a lot of these. Go buy frozen meat from Aldi/Lidl or Iceland too. Much cheaper than fresh stuff.
>> Anonymous
http://www.tesco.com/todayattesco/pricecheck.shtml
>> Anonymous
Temporary Londonfag here from America- Shit here is generally as expensive as a big American city, but it's twice as expensive due to the exchange rate.

Example- I bought a .5L pepsi today from an indidan guy in an off license for 99p. I paid 8.75 for a sit down dinner near Brick Lane, and I paid about 3.50 for a grande mocha from Starbucks. McD's is a bit more expensive, think around 5 dollars for a meal, although the cheeseburgers are 89p. If you want "snacks," your best bets are to buy them from supermarkets, Tesco being the cheapest but also the lowest in quality. Marks and Spencer has AMAZING prepared food, but it's on the pricey side. If you're looking to picnic in Hyde Park or summat, splurge and go with Marks and Sparks for a nice day out. Other than that, stick with Tesco, or Sainsburys, which is kind of the middle of the road (They have good sandwhiches, esp. the baguette ones in the fridge)

As with any place, you can find great food for cheap (I know a great baguette shop off of Victoria that makes 1.50 sandwhiches) but you're going to have to hunt for them.

Have fun!
>> Anonymous
Expect about the same numerical valuees for everything as in the US, only in pounds.
Yeah, that means everything is 2x more expensive.
>> Anonymous
Bitches don't know about my LIBOR
>> Anonymous
>>41321

But your average salary is like half ours numerically, that sucks
>> Anonymous
>>41266

hah I've been to a Tesco when I went to Ireland, it's practically a Walmart clone