2024 Author: Jasmine Walkman | [email protected]. Last modified: 2023-12-16 08:29
This year, the traditional table for Christmas Eve will cost us more than usual. The highest prices are dried fruits and nuts, according to an inspection every day.
Raising prices around the biggest holidays in the calendar is traditional for our markets, but this year the most affected are the products that should be on our table for December 24.
Dried fruit compotes will be golden this year, consumers complain. Packages of 300 grams are already sold at BGN 5 in the capital's markets.
This year's poor fruit harvest has affected their values upwards. Strawberries are almost twice as expensive. Dried prunes, apples, apricots, cherries and raisins have also become more expensive.
The mix of raw nuts on the Women's Market reaches BGN 20, and only a few weeks ago it cost no more than BGN 16. The gradual rise in the prices of nuts has been observed since the beginning of Christmas Lent, when fasting people necessarily buy more nuts than usual.
The obligatory beans for the Christmas Eve table are also with higher prices. A kilo of beans from a producer costs about 5 levs, and Smilyan beans in retail markets are between 10 and 12 levs.
Imported Chinese and Indian beans are cheaper, but they take longer to cook, which swells electricity bills.
Sauerkraut, which is used to make sauerkraut for the night before Christmas, is also more expensive. In the retail outlets its price reaches BGN 5 per kilogram.
And the pumpkin for the obligatory pumpkin on Christmas Eve has higher pre-Christmas prices. White pumpkins are offered for 70 stotinki per kilogram, and violins - for 1 lev.
Unlike more expensive foods, pre-holiday alcohol will be on sale.
Since St. Nicholas Day, the bottle of brandy has fallen below BGN 10, and quality brands are currently available for about BGN 8. You can buy a good bottle of white or red wine for about 7 levs, and beer is even cheaper, as 2-liter bottles are available for about 2 levs.
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