How much is to celebrate NEW YEAR 2025 in Russia?

[@Tejiknasten]

Thanks for a very interesting video. We eat almost the same things here in Sweden at our New Year (at Christmas we eat pork, pickled herring and rice pudding). As 10 rubles currently is worth 1 Swedish Krona (kr) right now, it's easy to compare the prices. So I stopped at Globus Swedish counterpart, ICA Maxi, to look our Swedish prices up, for comparison to your prices. In total, Butter, Red caviar and Salmon are cheaper in Sweden. Cucumber, Tomatoes, Tangerines and Olives costs about the same in my store as in yours. Everything else is more expensive here. Our salaries are quite a bit higher in Sweden than in Russia, though, especially among older people and students. Here are the Swedish prizes in SEK (kr), add a "0" to get the price in ruble, and add a decimal to get the price in dollars. Crab, prawn and cooked vegatables salad) 129 kr/kg Beef jelly/Aladåb 99 kr/kg Salmon smoked 239 kr/kg Sausage 21 kr per pack, 63 kr Cheese 34 kr per pack Tartaletter (buisquits to fill) 20kr Butter, 500 gram, 45 kr/pack Red caviar, 90 gram 39 kr/pack, 117 kr/3 cans Salmon, 189 kr/kg Other fish, 189 kr/kg Chicken whole, good, 79 kr/kg Cicken, whole, cheap (filled with water), 49 kr/kg Potatoes, 9 kr/kg Cucumbers, 54 kr/kg Tomatoes, cherry, 38 kr/kg Tangerines, Spain, 39 kr/kg Tangerines, Morocco, 29 kr/kg Grapes, Italy, 29 kr/kg Apples, red, Italy, 25 kr/kg Bananas, Costa Rica, 19 kr/kg Bread, sötlev, (lev), 25 kr/bag Bread, baugette (small) 10kr Bread, baugette (long) 15 kr Cake (big 8-12 pieces), 220 kr Black tea, big pack, 49 kr Olives, green, spanish, 16 kr/can Olives black, spanish, 16 kr/can Mineral water, Slovenia, 19 kr/bottle Juice 1 lit, 18 kr/pack Thanks again for a great youtube channel. Greetings from Borås, Sweden 🎉

[@loradisporto7535]

Wonderful video merry Christmas and happy new year from your friend in the United States of America. Pray for peace everyone

[@TomCharles-kx4qg]

Thank you Valeria I greatly enjoy your content and look forward to each new video I am in South Carolina USA and would love to meet you and your husband someday

[@leonafaryna7617]

Thank you for this Globas shopping trip for the holiday feast! I really think Alex would look good in the reindeer with sunglasses shirt as compensation for not getting any sweets. 🍬🍫🍙🍪🍩🍰 Our dinner is far from what you have other than olives and cheese. We have lots of sliced ham sausage, pickles, prawns and hot pastry appetizers. There is usually basted ham with pineapple slices and brown sugar glaze, turkey with stuffing and gravy with cranberry sauce on the side, and often a beef roast infused inside with garlic cloves. There is always corn niblets, carrots and peas, mashed potatoes with butter and sour cream, pickled beets, pickled baby onions, and dinner rolls. My nephew also serves us very fine red and white wines for us to toast to all our loved ones who have passed and whom we miss terribly 🍷❤‍🩹💔❤‍🩹 And always tiny cabbage rolls and pirogi and I bring my wild rice/broccoli/cheese casserole and barley cooked In chicken broth and carrot and onion diced fine. About 18 years ago, the first time I brought it no one liked them except my Mom. Now, I am required to bring them, and I just finished ordering my groceries online to get ready for the 25th. The desserts are shortbread, gingerbread, one or two pies, butter tarts, Krusty with icing sugar (my personal favourite), and loads of other stuff. It’s really too much and crazy 🤪 We all have to bring portable hot plates and an extra counter convection oven to fit everything in to keep warm. Then we each have containers filled to take home to eat for the next week! But I really do look forward to the family being together. We have had no snow, lots of rain, and it has been between 6-9C the last week where we live at sea level. Very rarely we have snow at this time, and if we do, the traffic slows to a standstill and it melts pretty quickly. Not a lot of people know how to drive in it, It was very different when I was a child. We had 4 very distinct seasons and could ice skate outdoors on city lakes and for miles through the huge water canals surrounding the cranberry fields 15 minutes drive away. Not anymore. The city has 3 ski mountains to the north side for skiing and they’re close enough to see them topped with snow from our windows. So you could literally work your day job, change clothes and go night skiing, or go out on a boat and enjoy seeing the snow and Christmas lights from below! So sorry for rambling. I guess I was feeling very nostalgic tonight. I do hope that this finds you and your family healthy and happy. I hope soon we will all be able to communicate more openly and enjoy the season with peace and joy all together 🌟 May you and Alex feel bliss this wonderful time of the year. 🙋🏼‍♀🇨🇦🌲 Sending warmest wishes and HAPPY HOLIDAYS ❣🥳🎄🍫🍷 🎄🍷🥳🌟🍰🍫😉🧣🐶🐱Grizzly⛷🎁🎉🪩📯💌💚💝🌠🎿⛸🍾🧃🍪🧁❤🪆

[@beverlyphillips8572]

Globus is larger than any grocery store near me, I would get lost in there and buy everything....so many tasty offerings and the prepared foods looked delicious!

[@swatty7iron]

I love that Alex fully understands everything you say but always responds in Russian. 😆

[@stroganoff2917]

Wow Russian stores are abundant and cheaper and especially very good fish. Thank you very much.

[@jankirschke7425]

I do love your food videos. It’s fun to see the different variety of food that you eat. Even though you said you cook simple meals, I wouldn’t mind seeing g a video of you cooking!

[@victorshipley1707]

Such A Nice Store !!!! Thank You For Sharing !!!!!!

[@Brimoeris1]

Excellent 😊😊 thank you

[@patticallihan8515]

Valeria and Alex I loved this episode going shopping with you both for your Christmas celebration food. Writing the prices down as you bought them. I totally agree with you Valeria bananas have gone up in price but everything we are buying at the store has tripled in the past few years. The containers get smaller and we pay more in USA . I thought your prices were very good. Your salad prices are lower. It was fascinating to go along with you both I really did enjoy it. Thank you for your time Valerie & Alex. Take care driving home. Merry Christmas.Have a lovely Evening with Sheffield keep warm take care Good night🩷😴💤 🐕‍🦺🐈🐢🎄⛄️❄️xxx

[@PatriciaBride]

Wonderful ❣️ Merry Christmas 🎄

[@rodoragray2044]

Merry Christmas and Happy New Year ❤

[@eevee_themeanie5883]

Happy New Year and tell Mr. Handsome Mr. Sheffield Hi 😊

[@LindaDiD]

Wonderful video! I love that store...so much variety and so clean! 🎄

[@jimtaylor1576]

All the best to both Alex and Val. From Jim in Australia. MERRY XMAS.

[@jessicapabon2105]

Thank you Valeria and Alex for such a wonderful video. Enjoyed it very much. I think the amount that y'all calculated for your New Year celebration with your family is absolutely doable. I mean in reality you only celebrate these holidays once a year so with saving up a little bit here in a little bit there it's definitely doable. Prices here in the United States are ridiculously expensive and if we were to try and purchase what you purchased over here it would be ridiculous expensive . I'm saying more and more videos on apartments and costs of living and groceries over there in Russia and the more I watch them the more I'm realizing that living in Russia is very doable and it looks like such a beautiful place

[@tabuhurt1593]

Hi Val. I watched all the ads $$👍🏽👍🏽!

[@sandiemable]

This was very interesting; I love seeing how others celebrate the holidays. It looks like you and Alex will have quite a feast!🤗❄🎄☃

[@suzannehebert2405]

Bonjour , j’habite au Canada . Je parle français et anglais . J’adore vos vidéos . J’apprends des choses très intéressantes sur votre pays . Merci de partager tous ces beaux moments avec nous .

[@lisaannsaikal8801]

Oliver salad looks interesting. I'll have to find a recipe and try it. My parents loved the " beef jelly" commonly known as "headcheese" in the U.S. I'm not a fan, lol. Thanks for sharing your New Year's food choices with us. ❤️

[@evaristoceara7149]

Thank you!

[@mkp0109]

Thanks for the great video. Wish I could join your New Years celebration lol😂 Alex and I like the same chocolate and cream cake. Yum! Enjoy!!

[@elizacroghan4302]

Thank you for taking us on your trip to the store. The breads and cakes look so good. Merry Christmas and Happy New Year 💕 from USA.

[@meredithlynn]

Thank you Valorie for showing us your super market shopping for new year’s dinner. Your quality of food is very good and prices look affordable. Hope you have a blessed Christmas and New Years❤🎄🎊

[@marygranath9164]

Some of my favorite episodes are your shopping trips, especially to Globus 😊 Thank you! Happy New Year 🥂

[@sharonbartoszak9159]

The tinned caviar had security tags on, just the same in the UK. We have many types of food tagged to stop shoplifters. The wine from Spain was very expensive. Thankyou Valeria and Alex for showing us ❤

[@donnathompson4067]

I enjoy touring your grocery store. It looks very clean and nicely decorated. Thank you

[@melodicewingm2292]

Thank you for the wonderful vlog!

[@TubaBuddha]

Thanks!

[@differentrussia.]

Thank you ❤️ 😊 💓

[@sallylambert7552]

Merry Christmas for you Valeria and Alex and your family friends. Happy New Year prayers for peace health joy and success. Spasibo for sharing Russian culture with us. Paka.

[@thudson4407]

I was very glad to see the rubles value come back up!! I love to watch you two shop and compare the prices to where I live.

[@Ultra-Violet]

It's at 105 😂

[@sarahgorsline1340]

beautiful market yumm!! happy new year

[@jolene54]

Very hungry making vlog! That Globus is a wonderful store. I wish we in the US would have a store like that with such variety.

[@ArturoHernandez-jj8os]

Las serpientes de peluche de la tienda son geniales.🤩🐉🐉😍🙏🗺🤍 Saludos Cordiales Desde El Puerto De Tampico, Tamaulipas, México.

[@y3rbat3ra]

Wishing y'all a very merry Christmas and a happy and healthy 2025!

[@CheFollett]

Amazing lady, Thank You

[@amyrouse5096]

Merry Christmas and a happy new year. God bless

[@cindyperez1085]

Enjoyed this episode very much. Thank you.

[@vince_chicago_luvs_u-zh9pz]

I love the music at the start of the video. It makes me feel very nostalgic and melancholic in a good way :). Thank you so much for sharing .

[@matthewcunningham8691]

Great video many thanks 🙂

[@sallylambert7552]

Spasibo Valeria! Very fun shopping with you and Alex. You will have a delicious celebration for New Years. Happy 2025 New Year! Peace health and success in the coming year for you and your family.

[@rn87mom94]

Happy holidays to you!

[@heikkijaakkoremes8690]

Merry Christmas

[@irmavalkeapaa5928]

Kiitti paljon,Iloista ja lämmintä Joulun odotusta,teille Alex ja Valeria.🌲🌲🎅🏽🎅🏽

[@markstringer4227]

A Very Merry Christmas to you both and your families

[@SteveMikre44]

I always enjoy trips to Globus with Alex and Valeria. Everything always looks delicious. I'm hungry just watching the video...🥮🥧😋

[@khecke]

Hello Valeria and Alex, wishing you a Merry Christmas and Happy and Healthy Year 2025 to you and your entire family. Greetings from Northwest Arkansas.

[@sizzzlechest]

Now I'm hungry, maybe I'll go to the Slavic market this weekend.

[@MHYT7]

Me too. 😋

[@KimClark61]

Merry Christmas and Happy New Year!

[@ann3856]

I'm hungry! Salmon is my favourite. We hardly eat caviar. It was not around when I grew up. Buy me that BIG chocolate 😂 Enjoy your shopping. I think the tinned goods and the wine? When you go again it may be sold out. Enjoy, enjoy! 🎄

[@gunnandersen7412]

Great video. Prices are good. We all need dinner. That is common. Porridge for instance. Merry Christmas celebration New Years Eve.

[@Verhoerzimmer]

Thank you so much :) Enjoying watching you. I do Olivier always by my self with chicken 😊

[@Roy_Gaber]

Very nice, it looks like you will enjoy the holiday. Thank you for the video.

[@deebee4817]

Great video! Very interesting. Thank you.

[@meridithkish2076]

I hope your holidays are wonderful ❤❤❤

[@annam4313]

Thank you.

[@RobinW]

Hi, Valeria & Alex. I swear, if Alex had sunglasses and a red and white scarf, he would look just like the reindeer on that t-shirt 🦌(just kidding Alex). I hope you guys have wonderful holidays. Say hi to Sheffield🐕‍🦺, and kitty, and turtle🐢.

[@rn87mom94]

For 5 adults I will spend about $175 for Christmas dinner. We will have a tenderloin roast and some crab cakes, and of course the trimmings like mashed potatoes and vegetables.

[@JenniOlsen-t1r]

Where I live I raise chicken, ducks, turkeys and rabbits to eat. Many people raise animals to preserve for winter. Do Russian people ever raise meat or eggs at their dacha for use during the winter? You can preserve eggs for winter too. When I see dachas I have only seen vegetables for preserving and wonder if anyone grows meat. Thank you for a nice video.

[@junglesuperstar9270]

You need remember that dachas are for relaxations. Technically there are laws what you can do or not go on dachas . Surely raising a cow or having tons of chickens are not allowed

[@JenniOlsen-t1r]

Thanks for the information. You wouldn’t have to have a ton of chickens to put a few in the freezer but maybe culturally the dacha is not generally common to do that.

[@uk_steve]

Счастливого Рождества из Великобритании Take care ❤

[@evpalfy2464]

Thank you that was very interesting.

[@horseplop9]

Val and alex and alex jr are the best. Ty

[@anthonyshowers7486]

Excellent video,

[@carolynsilvers9999]

I enjoyed your shopping. I also do not eat meat, only some fish weekly.

[@sierragrey7910]

Everything looks delicious! So much food and so many selections. I think I need to move to Russia.

[@Ultra-Violet]

I see nothing there you can't get anywhere else?

[@Steven-om7ie]

I would like to try all the food

[@daidana1]

Watching your videos, I think definitelly Christmas gatherings are expensive everywhere. My family always share the money. I'm the one that usually order the food and we split he cost between 3 houses, us, my nephew and my sister. Sometimes, we coordinate as well, what each is going to bring, depending on the occasion. The best part is share everything happily. Merry Christmas!

[@hippy9309]

Merry Christmas my beautiful friend!!!!

[@almadeckard8360]

A gift of a crazy recipe Billion-dollar mashed potatoes are the item. 4 russet or creamy, 5 Yukon gold, 1 cup shredded white cheddar, herb de Provence, chicken schmaltz, Irish butter, cream cheese or whipped ricotta cheese, small handful fresh parsley, 1 shallot minced, small handful fresh chives, 4 smashed garlic minced, dash of onion powder, cracked black pepper, salt to taste, Sweet paprika, Crispy chicken skin, Thin bacon bits, pinch of white pepper for heat.

[@bettyhilyer1684]

Much like our larger stores in the states..Costco, Sam's Club!! Even the larger chains!! prices varies..some are about the same!!

[@JamieW-o7b]

For me, Greek olives and olive oil always come first. I can taste the sea and smell the sunshine!!

[@cynthiakeyes7197]

I love going to Globus ❤❤❤kisses to Sheffy Kitty and new dog 🐕 😍 ❤

[@HurricaneWeasel]

Butter has become very expensive. Cool idea with the list. 😊👍

[@laurabraun4691]

Impressive Alex 😊

[@annatheinnotz4901]

In the southern US we have something similar to the beef and chicken jelly... it's called hogshead of cheese ( even though it has no cheese). It's made from a jelly made from boiling the head of a pig.

[@GinaShiel]

I am reading a book by a Russian author ,when she was little about 1905 at Christmas her family had duck,roast potatoes and sauerkraut .... mind her father was a governor under the Tsar!!!

[@davidbatista1183]

25:45 is that a chocolate bar??? 😳 I just fell in love with Russia 🍫❤❤🥰

[@charlesmair26]

Very interesting, prices are excellent.

[@ninapross3337]

Your tomato salads are my favorite. If i could I'd live on the tomato salad big round loaf of bread and butter. Rip a hunk of bread butter dip heaven mmmm

[@gloriaandrejcik9787]

How do you think your prices this year compare to last year's holiday meal?

[@lindaSee89]

Do people there eat on New Year’s Day, sauerkraut, or red cabbage with pork of some sort for good luck? Or a pot of black eyed peas?

[@differentrussia.]

No, we don't have such a tradition 😊

[@dwaynedegale236]

Hi beautiful GOOGOOSHA 🌹,I want a seat right next to you wonder video,love Russian people merry Christmas 🌲 to you and yours 🎉 🇹🇹♥️🇷🇺💪🙏🌹👑 it's beautiful over there

[@lindahutcheon6538]

wow! in Canada all that would double in price!

[@Ultra-Violet]

🤦🏻‍♀️

[@myviews9369]

🎉❤

[@YaelSharon3410]

Very interesting video. Overall the prices of food are much lower in Russia, but one must factor in the average salary of a worker, so in reality the prices are a bit higher in Russia for the food! What you bought would cost around 250$ Canadian without alcohol. The average pensioner gets around 950$ per month, so that's a huge amount to spend on food. The alcohol would cost about an extra 50$. Thank you for this video.

[@lindaSee89]

Your whole raw chickens are cheap there. Ours run 6-8 dollars depending on on the size.

[@Ultra-Violet]

In reality they are no cheaper, if anything they are more expensive.

[@toddhunter5693]

great choices and cheap.

[@tamarabeck6350]

Do large stores offer carts with a basket in the front that adults with mobility issues can sit and drive through the store?

[@diannedutton6127]

I enjoyed shopping very much. Your food is much cheaper.

[@Ultra-Violet]

No it's not

[@bonasperry8747]

Everything very expensive comparing with us in massachusetts $2 dollars for an apple 😅

[@Ultra-Violet]

Omg do you really not understand economics 😅

[@koilamaoh4238]

@@Ultra-Violet I don't think westerners don't.. For russians, That potato is like 10$ a potato.. I sense they are evolving back to the communist era sooner or later but with lot of food on the selves and won't able to afford any. Considering their wages are low. Mainly their rich are the only ones will be able to afford. Food cards are already starting .. its only a matter of time.

[@junglesuperstar9270]

@@koilamaoh4238Americans have food cards😂

[@lindaSee89]

Do you cook your salmon or eat it raw? I personally cook mine.

[@dolphintouchmichellepsychi6217]

Wow, chicken is so much cheaper than here. About $17.50 for a large family chicken...

[@Ultra-Violet]

Wages! Yawn 🥱

[@will2dmax1]

No egg nog LOL

[@DebraGayleBERGESON]

Thank you Valeria. I find when you and Alex shop together you are both so cute. In the US, where we live, food is higher in cost than Russia. I wanted to ask you if the food manufacturers are required to list the ingredients in their products they sell? Our country requires it but during the Plandemic they changed the requirement so anything can be used in your food and the companies aren’t required to list on their product all ingredients. The stores in Russia are huge, clean, well stocked with product to sell. Thank you for taking us shopping with you; so enjoyable to watch your videos on Russian culture.

[@junglesuperstar9270]

A list of ingredients is a must

[@junglesuperstar9270]

A list of ingredients is a must

[@diannanewton1540]

Will your son be with you?❤🎉😊

[@ohravenous1]

If you ever lose Alex in the store go immediately to the sweets department you will find him there 😅

[@jeanbeaunoyer2638]

Décrissez du champ des compétences du Québec! Vive le Québec libre!

[@sonofeloah]

Wait!!! Where are Alex's cinnamon buns?!?!

[@johnallen3423]

Any pork sausages ?

[@differentrussia.]

Maybe some people eat, but not popular here