TOP FIVE: Food shopping for students in Oslo
The top five tips every student needs to know when it comes to food shopping. From apps to cheaper supermarkets, you’ll need these tricks up your sleeve to stretch your cash to the limit.
Just arrived in Oslo and realized the food prices are astronomical? Is he price of bread nearly quadruple what you are used to? Take out menus that you were so reliant on previously now look like a bill that your budget just won’t stretch to?
Not to worry, listed below are the top five student budget friendly tips to ensure you do not starve. Tried and tested by yours truly.
1. Grønlands Torg Frukt & Grønt. This gem of a supermarket offers an incredible selection of varied fruits and vegetables, tea, spices and family sized cupboard essentials at ridiculously cheap prices. Though it is not much to look at, stepping off of the tube at Grønland one is assaulted by the copious amounts of customers holding blue bags crammed full of veggies. I’ll take quality products over visual merchandising any day, and it’s even open on Sunday!
2. TooGoodToGo. This app is revolutionizing food waste in big cities. Before you ask, no, it does not mean you eat people’s leftovers. Instead of restaurants, cafes, and supermarkets throwing away their delicious unsold food they will pop it on the app. You can purchase their goodies at a discounted rate, collect it in person and do something good for the environment in the meantime.
3. Trumf. This loyalty bonus scheme links directly to your Norwegian bank account. Simply sign up via their website, and every time you shop at participating supermarkets, your Trumf account will be credited with cash.
4. Æ is REMA 1000’s free app. It gives you a percentage off of fresh fruit and vegetables and the top ten products you buy the most in their stores. Easy peasy!
5. Ikea. Known internationally for its modern and cheap flat pack furniture, the Scandinavian brand also offers a wide selection of cupboard and freezer food. Take the free bus that departs almost hourly from Fred Olsens gate 5 to Ikea Furuset, Monday to Saturday.
