I forgot to add calories count to the video: breakfast + lunch + dinner = about 1700 calories, not counting the cup of coffee that Lisa treated me. I think I counted it correct, it's a bit less than I typically have in 1 day. Like, comment, and tell me what you'd like to see from Russia next!
...that was a cool video, it's impressive what you can buy to eat for $2 both in Russia and the US, if you shop basic food and generics. He really had bought much more calories and food weight then he needed for the three meals - save about 50 cents a day for 5 days and then buy some real meat! Stir fry with rice should have met the budget too!
I LOVE the system of having to create a label with the weight and price of the potatoes! I was a grocery store cashier (in the US) and here it's the cashier's job to type in the produce code into the cash register to determine the price. It can be difficult if you don't have all your produce memorized. For example, sometimes I didn't know what kind of pepper a person had so I had to ask. Looking it up on the register was so time consuming. The Russian method makes so much more sense!
In Europe we've been using that system of creating a label for ages. Not in Britain though, at least in the supermarkets I shop in. I always use self checkout tills and need to manually select the product from a menu, then place it on the till to weigh it, which determines the price.
@sherry hodges No offence, but they got this labelling system from western Europe, where it's been used for at least 30 years as far as I can recall. It's hardly a Russian innovation.
@sherry hodges My point is that Western European companies brought it to Russia, so it's them who were "ahead". Also, not sure it's a case of being ahead or behind; maybe it's just a cultural thing. British supermarkets don't use this system either.
I most definitely appreciate the effort that you have made to make this video for us followers who enjoy learning about everyday life in Russia 🇷🇺. Again thank for for bring us a no BS look at the average lifestyle in your beautiful country. Much love friend ❤
I love the way you edit your videos and how much effort you put into them! also love how unbothered you are by crowded places when youre filming and talking to the camera in public, my social anxiety could never 😂 greetings from germany !!
I love these videos. I feel in love with Russia when I was a child. I studied nursing for income but I also took every Russian class I could at university . History, language, culture courses. I study the language every day as-well. Dream is to buy an apartment in Saint Petersburg as vacation home and these videos allows me to learn more on daily life!
i love these grocery vids, whenever i visit a new place i always want to check out the grocery store first, feels like anthropology :) great video Niki!
Usually an Americano here Silicon Valley can be around $2.50. I invested in an espresso machine, Breville Bambino, at home and it has payed for itself at this point. I highly recommend people to do so if they can. Plus I can get coffee by the ounce rather than pound bags.
Some people did this challenge, but they lived in big cities, and would go to open houses for houses for sale to get free snacks, art galleries to get snacks and drinks free, free coffee at work, free ketchup from restaurants to make tomato soup, all kinds of things. Several would wait until near closing time for restaurants and ask them for food they were throwing away.
A tip for any pasta! Reserve some of the cooking water as it contains starches that the make the texture and flavor of the sauce richer and more enjoyable overall! :)
I like your apartment, especially the wall covering with the trees. I would use that in my house if I could find it here. So beautiful. Great video. Cute girl, too.
Secret on noodles of any type; shared with you from my mom who went to Heaven 4 years ago. Boil the noodles. When they get limp pull out a single noodle and throw it against cabinet door. When it sticks you are done. It looks like you did well! Enjoy. You ate well for a little money!
I love watching these type of challenges. It allows you to be creative and to show us meals consumed in Russia we might not have seen without the challenge.
You’re so optimistic person Niki👍👍👍Stay strong and keep on going with your videos. You is not only smart how to survive during this crisis! But you are really intelligent and inspired me and other people from every corners in the whole world for sure. Cheer up 💪🤞
Genuinely really enjoyed this video and so did my 2 year old ha we'd love to see some more like this! It's around £3 in the UK for a regular sized Americano 🙂
A true russian in every way a fighter . I really like your videos both the recent ones and the ones like this . Best wishes . Appreciate going out in rough weather
You did great with that budget!! Man, that "why are you filming me?" was scary, the contrast of her tone with your kind, gentle voice was pretty hard LOL Also, that coffee spoon is so cute! Just a thought but, maybe you could have merch including items like that =)
This "why are you filming here" is something I hear more often in Russia than any other place I've filmed something. Btw that's a nice idea about such merch! Sometimes I send something like that to my highest tier Patreons, but it'd be nice to have slavic style merch too!
@@amesavis it took me off guard LOL I understand her, she saw a camera and got defensive, but still... That broke the lovely calm atmosphere of the video 😆
Background of your kitchen is so beautiful. It seems you are taking your breakfast in open nature. If you use fother when taking coffee specifically in cold it will give you wonderful experience. Your kitchen is so modern and beautiful.
US $2 is €1.90 here in Ireland. That is roughly a price of a takeway cup of tea. Nothing is cheap here in Ireland. From $2 or €1.90, I can get two litres of milk and get 20 cents leftover. At present, I am growing foods in containers at home. I have potatoes growing in an old paint bucket with compost. When you see your potatoes sprouting, save them for the bucket instead of throwing them out. I am also growing onions, celeries, carrots, garden peas, lettuce, etc.
Fruit rather than candy and making use of sales and coupons might have stretched that $2 a bit more especially since mashed fruit can take place of jelly or jam. Not sure if Russia has store cards but we do in the US and got cereal and peanut butter for free on occasion using store coupons.
Hi Niki in Mexico for 2 dllrs you can go to the market, not supermarket and have a meal for 3 days including pork meat, something called chicharron which is the pork skin, is super tasty and super huge a few tomatoes and cactus that is exactly 2 dllrs, the difference is that you can feed a whole family or 3 probably 4 days for a single person or you can buy veggies for soup which is only 5 cents per kilo for a huge soup of a big variety of veggies. So far I`ve seen the prices are almost the same there and here but the difference is that here the market is even cheaper, and the fruits are almost a gift here.
I am watching this again after watching your 7/25/2022 video where you repeated the $2 challenge and could not do it again due to inflation after SMO. Your lady friend is beautiful! You’re blessed.
your videos are so infformative yet entretaining, i really like the editing and the effort you put on then, good job and thanks for the amazing content :D
It would be cheaper to go to the renok, I used to buy from lenta when I moved to Russia coz I couldn’t speak Russian, but when my language skills improved the renok was an awesome place to go grocery shopping , you can bargain with the uzbeki sellers and it’s great fun
Thanks for sharing. I will be happy to keep watching your videos. You should know that we do not have ill will toward Russian people, but rather your leaders.
Such a good video in some ways a bit similar to my country a lot of things have gone up in price we have an annual budget things usually go up or down in price from Ireland by the way
Hey, great video! It's really fun watching your content, it's like going into the daily life of a friend lol. Here in the Philippines, a starbucks or other big company / artisan coffee costs about $2.99-3.99 but a single packet of coffee (for a single cup) can cost about $0.20.
Your videos are so cool; I love learning about all the different things in Russia! If you get “fancy” coffee in the US, like stuff from Starbucks, it’s close to $6!
Potato dumplings are called pierogies in Slovak. One fist sized garlic bulb cost $1.00 here. Coffee cost 65 cents. I made haluskies tonight (stuffed cabbage with pork & beef). ps Tell Lisa she has a cute nose.
17:28 I tried this candy at my school! It was for a "candy around the world" type thing. I do agree that it is a bit too sweet for me but it was nice to try something from a different country! 🙂
In California, a plain coffee at McDonalds is around $1.50 and at Starbucks, a coffee drink can be anywhere from $2 to $6. But the average salary in California is $63,000/yr or $5200/month so it is not bad.
Hi Niki....This is one of my favorite videos of yours! Do you think you could do a show on the "staples" in a Russian food pantry? It's so fun to see. I also would like to have a tour of your apartment (which seems nicely decorated) and tips on how you live in such a compact space. and Hi LISA!
I started watching you today. Impressive videos. I live in New York & everything here is relatively very expensive (compared to other states). Your English is great. Looking forward to your next vlog. In the meantime, I will watch your earlier videos.
Here in Hong Kong, US$2 can buy 3 oranges, or one canned tuna. A small pack of ground coffe costs about US$11 in average. A can of Campbell's soup around US$1.5.
i would like to see more of him and his gf doing things in Russia or Istanbul, wherever they are, I like seeing them try things and showing normal things
Add the dimension of using your freezer. When I bake chicken for 9 hours, my cat wakes me at 3 AM. What survives the cat and human feast is wrapped in a bread bag and thrown in the freezer. 1 or 2 pieces get tempered ( thawed ) at a time and boiled back hot. You totally forgot butter. Conclusion, on two bucks, you can eat like a king...czar. American meals are more like stoking a locomotive than a cooking show.
This would be a very interesting series to continue, perhaps once a week. I feel bad for average Russians. I've already seen another TH-camr's grocery video and prices are on average +30% with some produce up 150%(!!). Stock up on any good sales you see now.
From April 4, all food in Germany is increased by 50%. Do not talk nonsense)))) Russia is full of local producers. And the place of the departed will be taken by new brands from Asia. But in the West there will soon be hyper inflation and famine.
cheapest bread sold in italy increase his price by 40% since 1 year ago, from 1.04 to 1.48€/kg, "artisan" bread is betwen 4-7€/kg chease and meat 20ish % more beer around 10% fun fact, you can buy wine for almost half the price of gasoline
Korovka is good, and you did it pretty well with the budget:)! just the cashier's attitude is rude, no hello no nothing. Costa coffee in UK is about £3/300RUB, or smth cheaper like Caffe Nero is about £2/200RUB, McDonalds sells coffee for about £1/£1.5 - 100/150RUB
Cashiers greet people and behave much nicer at more expensive stores, and at cheap places you're more likely to see cold politeness or even rudeness. That's a bit weird to me though
Coffee here could be anywhere from less than $1 at a cheap diner to over $10 at a nice cafe (relatively plain coffee). Fancy coffee drinks at fancy cafes are maybe $5-20. I am in the USA, midwest, urban area.
I really enjoyed watching this. Thank you for sharing. You did great! It would be impossible to by that much for $2 in the USA. Here you'd be able to buy a loaf of bread non-name brand and maybe 1/2 dozen eggs.
love your videos. I just subscribes.I'm learning Russian and for some reason this is a very easy language for me to learn. Maybe because I really love it. I like seeing how life is in Russia too. Thank you
Costa Coffee - Americano £2.69 the Latte was £3.65! But I don't often get coffee out. I buy sachet coffee sachets for camping- I go camping quite often. At home I drink Tea mostly - Yorkshire or herbal. I have a coffee machine and prefer Italian coffee.
Barilla is the cheapest brand here in Italy and everybody knows the grain is imported from Russia and Ukaine, so I'm sure that russian brand it's the same quality! Thank you for the video, greetings from Italy!
Both the spaghetti and that potato dish looked really good, so I'm going to try your recipe for the spaghetti maybe the day after tomorrow. btw epic time lapse at twenty-twenty :)
не везде есть фильтрованая вода, не везде есть в этом необходимость. например под питером некоторые поселки снабжаются водой из ладожского водохранилища, вода там очень чистая и не нуждается в фильтрации.(подходит даже для аквариумов и терариумов с амфибиями для которых чистота воды критична) Все зависит только от конкретного места где человек живет. Во многих местах водопроводная вода достаточно хорошего качества чтобы готовить на ней.
coffe in Norway cost about 3-3,5 dolars but I have an year refills to my own cup on gas station for something like 25. the price has now risen to 35 per year. I spend an average of around $ 5 on food per person per day, which is a very small amount here. and we eat healthy: porridge, rice, beans, lentils, frozen vegetables, canned tomatoes, apples are the basis plus products wich are one sales. I would probably cook something for $ 2, although it's difficult because it's very expensive here
I love your videos! ❤️❤️❤️ I am Russian living in USA 🤍💙❤ And I'm SUPER impressed with you English! Я Английский не знал так хорошо как ты несколько лет, проживая в Америке. Пожалуйста скажи как ты его выучил, практически безупречно?!! Thank you for your unique content!!! 💙💛
Hi Niki - just working my way through your videos. Started watching after finding you while looking for perspectives from Russians on their thoughts of what is going on in Ukraine. In any case interesting videos and keep it up. The strangest part of this one for me was that you opened you can with a knife prying it open. I've never not known a can opener. Seems your TH-cam revenue is likely going up from the $2 / day albeit might be hard to get your funds it sounds like. Good luck and keep the videos coming.
Just got to see your comment, hi Darren. My youtube revenue is going up from $2/day indeed, and as time shows, it's not that complicated to receive it from TH-cam even nowadays. I suppose I was lucky about that
I really like your white stovetop! You did really well with your meal planning and food purchases. The can of beef didn't look too bad. One step up from dog food, and pet food is tasted by actual people in the food factories, so it can't be too disgusting. Not being restricted to $2 a day, I would pay a bit more for a better can of beef, but keep the potatoes, onion and carrots. That cheese looked very tasty. I wonder whether something like it is available in England? My local Polish food shop may have cheese like that. I buy East European food there frequently.
In the USA to eat on $2/day, I would be able to have one can of Beans (if found at a competitive sale price) and a days portion of a box of white rice purchased for the week. Dry beans would feed more people of course. I could not consider most of the foods in the video. This a huge haul for $2.
Given those prices and the fact that many Russians grow their food, enjoy free medicine and education, majority own their own lodgings you can totally enjoy your living even with low to modest income.
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I forgot to add calories count to the video: breakfast + lunch + dinner = about 1700 calories, not counting the cup of coffee that Lisa treated me. I think I counted it correct, it's a bit less than I typically have in 1 day.
Like, comment, and tell me what you'd like to see from Russia next!
I would like to see the farmers markets, I want to compare it to my local lithuania
-Aurelijus
Hey Aurelijus, is that what it sounds like, a market with real farmers products? I'd be quite hard to find one around my place, I think
@@NikiProshin The central farmers market here also counts as a bazaar, I think a bazaar might be easier to find then
@nikiproshin I want to become a patron for 50 a month how
@Niki Proshin
This kid is precious. What a pleasant personality. Will be following.
...that was a cool video, it's impressive what you can buy to eat for $2 both in Russia and the US, if you shop basic food and generics. He really had bought much more calories and food weight then he needed for the three meals - save about 50 cents a day for 5 days and then buy some real meat! Stir fry with rice should have met the budget too!
I LOVE the system of having to create a label with the weight and price of the potatoes! I was a grocery store cashier (in the US) and here it's the cashier's job to type in the produce code into the cash register to determine the price. It can be difficult if you don't have all your produce memorized. For example, sometimes I didn't know what kind of pepper a person had so I had to ask. Looking it up on the register was so time consuming. The Russian method makes so much more sense!
We have the same system here in France and i agree it's super convenient.
Its Like that in Most european countries
In Europe we've been using that system of creating a label for ages. Not in Britain though, at least in the supermarkets I shop in. I always use self checkout tills and need to manually select the product from a menu, then place it on the till to weigh it, which determines the price.
@sherry hodges No offence, but they got this labelling system from western Europe, where it's been used for at least 30 years as far as I can recall. It's hardly a Russian innovation.
@sherry hodges My point is that Western European companies brought it to Russia, so it's them who were "ahead". Also, not sure it's a case of being ahead or behind; maybe it's just a cultural thing. British supermarkets don't use this system either.
I most definitely appreciate the effort that you have made to make this video for us followers who enjoy learning about everyday life in Russia 🇷🇺. Again thank for for bring us a no BS look at the average lifestyle in your beautiful country. Much love friend ❤
Thanks, Jamie!
Fun and friendly video. But life on tight budget isn’t at all funny.
Great effort. Thanks.
I love the way you edit your videos and how much effort you put into them! also love how unbothered you are by crowded places when youre filming and talking to the camera in public, my social anxiety could never 😂 greetings from germany !!
Greetings from Russia! I do feel anxious sometimes filming in public btw. The less people the more anxious it feels :D
I love these videos. I feel in love with Russia when I was a child. I studied nursing for income but I also took every Russian class I could at university . History, language, culture courses. I study the language every day as-well. Dream is to buy an apartment in Saint Petersburg as vacation home and these videos allows me to learn more on daily life!
That's such a nice dream! Saint Petersburg is a great place for having a vacation, as well as areas around this city
Oh man. It’s really sad that your dream seems to be now over or postponed to the next years. Hope you’re not too disappointed ☹️
Do you still love Russia so much and dream of living there? 😉
@@d-meth I hope she does! Because I never loved Russia before as much as I do now. Victory to Russia 🇷🇺
@@adrianamora6706 you feel like invading other countries is great?
I love the trees in your kitchen!
I like finding some weird flowers :)
i love these grocery vids, whenever i visit a new place i always want to check out the grocery store first, feels like anthropology :) great video Niki!
Usually an Americano here Silicon Valley can be around $2.50. I invested in an espresso machine, Breville Bambino, at home and it has payed for itself at this point. I highly recommend people to do so if they can. Plus I can get coffee by the ounce rather than pound bags.
Some people did this challenge, but they lived in big cities, and would go to open houses for houses for sale to get free snacks, art galleries to get snacks and drinks free, free coffee at work, free ketchup from restaurants to make tomato soup, all kinds of things. Several would wait until near closing time for restaurants and ask them for food they were throwing away.
So they were not doing the challenge
Thank you, Niki for taking us with you to show us how to survive for $2 a day in Russia. Love and thanks from Canada 🥰💖
A tip for any pasta! Reserve some of the cooking water as it contains starches that the make the texture and flavor of the sauce richer and more enjoyable overall! :)
Why nobody told me about this before!
@@NikiProshin also makes the sauce itself stick better to the noodle. Plus never wash th pasta.
I like your apartment, especially the wall covering with the trees. I would use that in my house if I could find it here. So beautiful. Great video. Cute girl, too.
Secret on noodles of any type; shared with you from my mom who went to Heaven 4 years ago. Boil the noodles. When they get limp pull out a single noodle and throw it against cabinet door. When it sticks you are done. It looks like you did well! Enjoy. You ate well for a little money!
I love watching these type of challenges. It allows you to be creative and to show us meals consumed in Russia we might not have seen without the challenge.
You’re so optimistic person Niki👍👍👍Stay strong and keep on going with your videos. You is not only smart how to survive during this crisis! But you are really intelligent and inspired me and other people from every corners in the whole world for sure. Cheer up 💪🤞
Genuinely really enjoyed this video and so did my 2 year old ha we'd love to see some more like this! It's around £3 in the UK for a regular sized Americano 🙂
Glad you enjoyed it! Btw 3 pounds is much above average but not something unreal in Russia for a cup of coffee
Thank you for all the great content, Niki! This was interesting as always.))
Thank you for being here!
Hi! local coffee here in rural India is 35 roubles! 🌟Thanks for your upbeat videos. A great tonic in dark times. Stay safe.
Niki, these long vids are much better then the short vids on Tiktok.
Love it. I really enjoyed your video.
A true russian in every way a fighter . I really like your videos both the recent ones and the ones like this . Best wishes . Appreciate going out in rough weather
Coffee here is super dependent on which state you buy it in but it will cost you anywhere from $4-8AUD so a maximum of 420ish rubles.
You did great with that budget!!
Man, that "why are you filming me?" was scary, the contrast of her tone with your kind, gentle voice was pretty hard LOL
Also, that coffee spoon is so cute! Just a thought but, maybe you could have merch including items like that =)
This "why are you filming here" is something I hear more often in Russia than any other place I've filmed something. Btw that's a nice idea about such merch! Sometimes I send something like that to my highest tier Patreons, but it'd be nice to have slavic style merch too!
I know she was so scary
@@amesavis it took me off guard LOL
I understand her, she saw a camera and got defensive, but still... That broke the lovely calm atmosphere of the video 😆
Background of your kitchen is so beautiful. It seems you are taking your breakfast in open nature.
If you use fother when taking coffee specifically in cold it will give you wonderful experience.
Your kitchen is so modern and beautiful.
man I really enjoy the content that you make, I feel myself living the true experience, which good luck, your fan from morocco ❤
Thank you, and greetings from Russia!
Love your channel. Keep up the work!
I will! Thanks for being here :)
US $2 is €1.90 here in Ireland. That is roughly a price of a takeway cup of tea.
Nothing is cheap here in Ireland.
From $2 or €1.90, I can get two litres of milk and get 20 cents leftover.
At present, I am growing foods in containers at home. I have potatoes growing in an old paint bucket with compost. When you see your potatoes sprouting, save them for the bucket instead of throwing them out. I am also growing onions, celeries, carrots, garden peas, lettuce, etc.
Fruit rather than candy and making use of sales and coupons might have stretched that $2 a bit more especially since mashed fruit can take place of jelly or jam. Not sure if Russia has store cards but we do in the US and got cereal and peanut butter for free on occasion using store coupons.
Thanks for another nice video! :)
Hi Niki in Mexico for 2 dllrs you can go to the market, not supermarket and have a meal for 3 days including pork meat, something called chicharron which is the pork skin, is super tasty and super huge a few tomatoes and cactus that is exactly 2 dllrs, the difference is that you can feed a whole family or 3 probably 4 days for a single person or you can buy veggies for soup which is only 5 cents per kilo for a huge soup of a big variety of veggies. So far I`ve seen the prices are almost the same there and here but the difference is that here the market is even cheaper, and the fruits are almost a gift here.
I am watching this again after watching your 7/25/2022 video where you repeated the $2 challenge and could not do it again due to inflation after SMO. Your lady friend is beautiful! You’re blessed.
I found this video very entertaining, good to know if I visit Russia on a budget food won't be a issue 🤣
Love these videos!! Keep up the good work
Thanks Alex!
your videos are so infformative yet entretaining, i really like the editing and the effort you put on then, good job and thanks for the amazing content :D
Thanks :) glad you like my videos! When I see such words, I feel like the time and effort I spend for making these videos isn't useless!
It would be cheaper to go to the renok, I used to buy from lenta when I moved to Russia coz I couldn’t speak Russian, but when my language skills improved the renok was an awesome place to go grocery shopping , you can bargain with the uzbeki sellers and it’s great fun
Niki ... get a can opener! Thanx for showing how to eat on the cheap in St Pete.
The big knife does it well!
@@NikiProshin but you look dangerous and scary holding it, wouldn't want to run into you on random street
In the US you'd be lucky to buy a can of beans and a package of pasta, on sale.
You could get a large cup of cheap coffee for $1.50 in NYC
Thanks for sharing. I will be happy to keep watching your videos. You should know that we do not have ill will toward Russian people, but rather your leaders.
Privet from Latvia! It seems like if i want to feel rich, i must go to Russia
if you want to feel extra rich, go to a Russian countryside
I love that candy in Russia is called конфета. It reminds me of confetti.
Such a good video in some ways a bit similar to my country a lot of things have gone up in price we have an annual budget things usually go up or down in price from Ireland by the way
Hey, great video! It's really fun watching your content, it's like going into the daily life of a friend lol. Here in the Philippines, a starbucks or other big company / artisan coffee costs about $2.99-3.99 but a single packet of coffee (for a single cup) can cost about $0.20.
That's the vibe I wanna have, like watching your Russian friend's life here :)
Your videos are so cool; I love learning about all the different things in Russia! If you get “fancy” coffee in the US, like stuff from Starbucks, it’s close to $6!
You did great!
Love the mountain trees in your kitchen. Saw them recently as a shower curtain.
Potato dumplings are called pierogies in Slovak.
One fist sized garlic bulb cost $1.00 here.
Coffee cost 65 cents.
I made haluskies tonight (stuffed cabbage with pork & beef).
ps Tell Lisa she has a cute nose.
Interesting to know. Pierogies in Russian is a little different thing, it means Pie here, and Pierozhki are little pies!
ps. told her :)
@@NikiProshin I had my 1st Russian job interview today. Part 2 will be the end of the week.
17:28
I tried this candy at my school! It was for a "candy around the world" type thing. I do agree that it is a bit too sweet for me but it was nice to try something from a different country! 🙂
Wow, that's such a cool concept, candy around the world! I didn't have anything like this at school but I'd love to
That was my childhood candy as well, my taste buds changed and it just tastes like a sugar block now lol
Coffee of that quality - packing etc included is 300 Rs/Rub same currency value.
Coming to Kazan this December for studies 👀
Welcome to Russia! Kazan is a nice place to visit, it's also very authentic. You'll like it there
In California, a plain coffee at McDonalds is around $1.50 and at Starbucks, a coffee drink can be anywhere from $2 to $6. But the average salary in California is $63,000/yr or $5200/month so it is not bad.
A coffee to take away in Belgium is between 2,5 - 3,5 euro. Would love to visit Russia one day!
Hi Niki....This is one of my favorite videos of yours! Do you think you could do a show on the "staples" in a Russian food pantry? It's so fun to see.
I also would like to have a tour of your apartment (which seems nicely decorated) and tips on how you live in such a compact space.
and Hi LISA!
I started watching you today. Impressive videos. I live in New York & everything here is relatively very expensive (compared to other states). Your English is great. Looking forward to your next vlog. In the meantime, I will watch your earlier videos.
This was somehow fascinating to watch. Might be fun to try the $2-a-day challenge here in Tucson!
Been marathoning your videos at work all day, love the content but love your energy all the more.
Looking forward to future content!
Thank you!
It’s interesting how cheaply you can eat. Glad to see you got a couple of sweet treats. Loving 🥰 your channel. Peace from 🇬🇧
Dude make videos like this…Students like me find it useful 😃
Here in Hong Kong, US$2 can buy 3 oranges, or one canned tuna. A small pack of ground coffe costs about US$11 in average. A can of Campbell's soup around US$1.5.
You are Amazing for guiding us how to be money saver, Mr. Niki 🙏🏽 🙇🏻♀️You are a good human. Your cooking definitely have made me hungry 😋😋
i would like to see more of him and his gf doing things in Russia or Istanbul, wherever they are, I like seeing them try things and showing normal things
interesting video niki!! and I like how you and lisa have matching strand of green hair haha
You have a new subscriber from Ireland 🇮🇪❤️❤️
☘☘👍👍
Kiva video. Terveisiä Suomesta 🇫🇮
Add the dimension of using your freezer. When I bake chicken for 9 hours, my cat wakes me at 3 AM. What survives the cat and human feast is wrapped in a bread bag and thrown in the freezer. 1 or 2 pieces get tempered ( thawed ) at a time and boiled back hot. You totally forgot butter. Conclusion, on two bucks, you can eat like a king...czar. American meals are more like stoking a locomotive than a cooking show.
This would be a very interesting series to continue, perhaps once a week. I feel bad for average Russians. I've already seen another TH-camr's grocery video and prices are on average +30% with some produce up 150%(!!). Stock up on any good sales you see now.
Eastern europe is so sad
From April 4, all food in Germany is increased by 50%. Do not talk nonsense)))) Russia is full of local producers. And the place of the departed will be taken by new brands from Asia. But in the West there will soon be hyper inflation and famine.
I feel more bad for the dead in the Ukraine
cheapest bread sold in italy increase his price by 40% since 1 year ago, from 1.04 to 1.48€/kg, "artisan" bread is betwen 4-7€/kg
chease and meat 20ish % more
beer around 10%
fun fact, you can buy wine for almost half the price of gasoline
I am going to do this video soon again!
This was a cool premise, Niki :) canned meat seems scary but you made it look palatable, so nice job :D
That canned meat is something that exceeded my expectations by being not as scary as it looked :D
Korovka is good, and you did it pretty well with the budget:)! just the cashier's attitude is rude, no hello no nothing. Costa coffee in UK is about £3/300RUB, or smth cheaper like Caffe Nero is about £2/200RUB, McDonalds sells coffee for about £1/£1.5 - 100/150RUB
Cashiers greet people and behave much nicer at more expensive stores, and at cheap places you're more likely to see cold politeness or even rudeness. That's a bit weird to me though
Coffee here could be anywhere from less than $1 at a cheap diner to over $10 at a nice cafe (relatively plain coffee). Fancy coffee drinks at fancy cafes are maybe $5-20. I am in the USA, midwest, urban area.
Really nice video Niki :)) I like it a lot
I really enjoyed watching this. Thank you for sharing. You did great! It would be impossible to by that much for $2 in the USA. Here you'd be able to buy a loaf of bread non-name brand and maybe 1/2 dozen eggs.
And?
Either or, at dollar tree not in a normal store
@@d-meth at the dollar store all you can get is a bag or two of junk food for that, not much
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Exactly what I mean, you can't actually buy food for $2 in the US.
Unless it's pasta and sauce at a dollar tree
love your videos. I just subscribes.I'm learning Russian and for some reason this is a very easy language for me to learn. Maybe because I really love it. I like seeing how life is in Russia too. Thank you
Costa Coffee - Americano £2.69 the Latte was £3.65! But I don't often get coffee out. I buy sachet coffee sachets for camping- I go camping quite often. At home I drink Tea mostly - Yorkshire or herbal. I have a coffee machine and prefer Italian coffee.
I recently started to buy coffee sachets too, sometimes I drink that instead of using a Turkish pot
Barilla is the cheapest brand here in Italy and everybody knows the grain is imported from Russia and Ukaine, so I'm sure that russian brand it's the same quality! Thank you for the video, greetings from Italy!
They are good, but not the best. We have local brands with same or better quality.
Here coffee costs like 357.20 rubles and awesome video by the way
That's quite expensive for Russia! Where're you from? And thank you!
this was so fun to watch! with love from new zealand ❤
greetings from Russia!
Both the spaghetti and that potato dish looked really good, so I'm going to try your recipe for the spaghetti maybe the day after tomorrow. btw epic time lapse at twenty-twenty :)
Not as epic as yours :D
не везде есть фильтрованая вода, не везде есть в этом необходимость. например под питером некоторые поселки снабжаются водой из ладожского водохранилища, вода там очень чистая и не нуждается в фильтрации.(подходит даже для аквариумов и терариумов с амфибиями для которых чистота воды критична) Все зависит только от конкретного места где человек живет. Во многих местах водопроводная вода достаточно хорошего качества чтобы готовить на ней.
That '365 days' brand feeding the poor.
EPIC!
coffee in UK is approx 3 to 4 US Dollars. Depending if we go to Starbucks or a small independent cafe
The most entertaining shopping narration ever :)
So impressed 🎉🎉I love the tree in kitchen ❤❤
I'm incredibly impressed with what you did here!!!!
I have to say you did very good for just 2 dollars I'm impressed there's no way I could get a quarter of what you got here in the US
Instead of eggs, use real mayonnaise as it is eggs and oil only, it makes great biscuits, blini, pancakes, use 1 tablespoon for 1 egg.
OMG Turkish coffee to breakfast..this is luxury
I just found your channel..I am very impressed with your shopping skills..I love the toast bread..beautiful.
THE CANDY KAROVKA IS MADE OF FUDGE ,IN ENGLISH. GREAT WORK AND USEFULL EVERYDAY LIFE IN THE MEAN COUNTRY😊😊
$2/day is about to become an optimistic reality.
That would be easy nowadays, that's like 1000 rubles, but by the time I press send it's more like 1500 rubles, oh now 2000.
A cup of coffee in small cities in France is around 2-3$ can be double in big cities like paris..😊
Coffee at Dunkin for a large plain decaf is 3.99, McDonald's coffee is 1. any size plain coffee.
coffe in Norway cost about 3-3,5 dolars but I have an year refills to my own cup on gas station for something like 25. the price has now risen to 35 per year. I spend an average of around $ 5 on food per person per day, which is a very small amount here. and we eat healthy: porridge, rice, beans, lentils, frozen vegetables, canned tomatoes, apples are the basis plus products wich are one sales. I would probably cook something for $ 2, although it's difficult because it's very expensive here
I really like your vegetables system. When I was in Russia. I didn't understand it. 😅 But you made it easier to understand.
Hi Niki your poor
Man’s stew looked good.
I love your videos! ❤️❤️❤️
I am Russian living in USA 🤍💙❤
And I'm SUPER impressed with you English!
Я Английский не знал так хорошо как ты несколько лет, проживая в Америке.
Пожалуйста скажи как ты его выучил, практически безупречно?!!
Thank you for your unique content!!!
💙💛
It would be great to see more videos on dishes you cook! It's very different.
Hi Niki - just working my way through your videos. Started watching after finding you while looking for perspectives from Russians on their thoughts of what is going on in Ukraine. In any case interesting videos and keep it up. The strangest part of this one for me was that you opened you can with a knife prying it open. I've never not known a can opener. Seems your TH-cam revenue is likely going up from the $2 / day albeit might be hard to get your funds it sounds like. Good luck and keep the videos coming.
Just got to see your comment, hi Darren. My youtube revenue is going up from $2/day indeed, and as time shows, it's not that complicated to receive it from TH-cam even nowadays. I suppose I was lucky about that
I really like your white stovetop! You did really well with your meal planning and food purchases. The can of beef didn't look too bad. One step up from dog food, and pet food is tasted by actual people in the food factories, so it can't be too disgusting. Not being restricted to $2 a day, I would pay a bit more for a better can of beef, but keep the potatoes, onion and carrots. That cheese looked very tasty. I wonder whether something like it is available in England? My local Polish food shop may have cheese like that. I buy East European food there frequently.
In the USA to eat on $2/day, I would be able to have one can of Beans (if found at a competitive sale price) and a days portion of a box of white rice purchased for the week. Dry beans would feed more people of course. I could not consider most of the foods in the video. This a huge haul for $2.
Coffee is 6. Pounds in UK very expensive. Very small jar. Price is raising very quickly.
Great video.
Butterbrot, that's what we call it too!
Nice Video, may we be greatful for all we have and live in peace.
Given those prices and the fact that many Russians grow their food, enjoy free medicine and education, majority own their own lodgings you can totally enjoy your living even with low to modest income.
The overall cost of life in Russia is WAY cheaper than in the West.