How to make the best of grocery shopping in Denmark
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 9 ก.พ. 2025
- Here is what we learned after 4 years about shopping in Denmark!
Living in Denmark is expensive in comparison to the majority of the countries in Europe. The rent is higher, transportation with other services is also quite pricey, and on top of that, you still need to eat. Buying your groceries in a Supermarket is the obvious choice, but which one to choose? Is the nearest option always the best one? Let us give you a couple of tips regarding this topic.
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Supermarkets
When it comes to shopping for basic groceries, all you need to remember is that LIDL with Rema 100 are the cheapest supermarkets. Netto, Bilka, and Super Brugsen are the most expensive options. This was found by the Danish webpage Detailfolk.dk, which create a study, where they shopped 30 basic everyday items and compared their prices. LIDL and Rema also allow you to save even more on the bakery products, by discounting them in the last 30 mins of their opening hours. The same applies to the salads.
Too Good to Go
Another great way how to get a lot of food for low prices is by using the Too Good To Go app. Their vision is to reduce the food waste, and so they allow you to purchase products from the local stores, which would have been thrown out. You can usually purchase pasty, vegetables or fruits.
Bakeries, butcheries, etc…
Even though everybody is doing their groceries in supermarkets, you can still find a great number of bakeries, butcheries or other specific shops all around the Horsens. The prices are usually higher in comparison to the supermarkets, but you can be sure that everything they sell is the highest quality product from the local suppliers.
Pick from the ground
Last, but not least is another great way how to get a lot of food for dirt cheap. And it is picking it on your own form the dirt. Around the city, you can find a farm, which allows you to pick everything by yourself. You can usually get your hands on a lot of potatoes, strawberries or some other veggies. Afterwards, you can just pay with cash or mobile pay. It is tough work, but the results are worth it.
These would be all the essentials you need to know. We hope you liked the video and that you learned something new from it. If we helped you to save some money or just showed you new alternatives, feel free to give us a like, comment or share us.
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I'm about to go do an internship in Denmark and came across this video! Super helpful
we have too good to go in the netherlands as well! i love it. so much food for so little money.
I remember going to Denmark when I was younger, the cultural difference was BIG (I'm from Germany, neighbor country)
What were the differences?
3:27 same
It is a great place to live indeed haha
Which city is that?
Good work! Please make a video of how to buy a car in Denmark and how to register it. And also what are the costs associated with having a car here. Good luck :)
Thank you, we are working on that series soon :) hopefully by the end of the year. In the meantime, check out our website: student-survival.com where we made an article about importing a car to Denmark, maybe you will find it useful :)
@@StudentSurvivalGuide I'm having a huge problem. I'M about to move to Denmark around this december.
All i know is that i need a car to go to shopping etc.
As i know i can use a car in Denmark with a foreign license plate for like 1 months or, if i live outside of Denmark for more than 185 days a year i can also keep my car's license plate and i don't have to pay tax for Denmark either.
At the moment i don't own a car but i'm thinking about buying one in my country (Hungary).
If i move to Denmark i must register my car in less than 30 days but to manage this i must have a danish bank account, but to have a bank account i must have a CPR number, but to have a CPR number i must have a proof of address.
The company which i'm gonna work for will help me to find a property to rent, but they will sign the contract with the owner and not me (probably).
So for that reason i won't be able to have a proof of address because i won't be the one, who pay the bills etc.
My question is what can i do at this situation?
No proof of address -> No cpr number
No cpr number -> No bank account
No bank account -> No car insurance
No car insurance -> No car
Btw if i bring a car to Denmark (used car) do i have to pay those insane taxes like 120-180%?
What if i buy a used car in?
Any ideas?
Can i have any car insurance without proof of address or local bank account?
@@JustLazloOfficial Hi, if you don't have a CPR yet, you are technically not a resident and therefore you should not have troubles driving your own car :) it only changes once you become a resident. Then you have to register it as we talked about in the video. I don't think you can get an insurance without CPR because these things are linked with each other but again, you don't have to worry about that because without CPR you are in theory just a tourist in Denmark :) (Michael)
@@StudentSurvivalGuide Thanks for the advice. In the end i was decided to not drive a car until i don't have CPR so i don't have to pay 180% tax just to change my license plate :-)
So i rather buy a car in Denmark instead of...
@@JustLazloOfficial That is a good idea, I did the same :) If you want to start looking for a car, check out bilbasen.dk or dba.dk . Good luck!
I would love to know- whether a master's student from outside Europe (e.g. South Asia) can start a street-food business after finishing the master's degree study.
lived in dk my whole life, and always will think netto is cheap, so is rema1000. comparing prices of goods in netto with bilka seems so wrong.
in denmark the price usually depends on how long it took to make the food or how the quality of it is, so seven eleven food is kinda expensive because it’s American but not that expensive due to the quality
You actually thinks that food are flown in to the Danish 7/elevens from the US?
Is fotex counts as cheap or expensive supermarket?
In general it's towards the more expensive side of specturm
Netto refuse cash.
This happened outside Copenhagen daytime
Is this true for other supermarkets? Can/do they refuse cash payment based on ..
They can’t refuse cash payments between 6-22
I've never seen a Danish person paying electronic the last week. Well maybe one highschool student paid with a phone. This is a 99% cash country. Even the smallest shithole (1000 residents) has 3 banks with an ATM. Probably you have København, and you have Denmark. A world apart.
We come to Denmark quite often, love the country, but the supermarkets have horrible food. Diary section is the worst. Why do Danish have to do these things with milk from a cow: 1) they remove all the fat where possible. 2) they inject vanilla or worse, 5 flavours of fruit into it, 3) they put it in weird packaging. Simple challenge: get regular 3% fat yoghurt. Impossible. No supermarket has it. Then bread: everything at the bakery seems to be focussed on Fika. All tastes sweet. Nowhere a decent whole weat bread. The only thing that feels anything healthy is rugbrod, but you need to train your taste for that. Fruits and vegies are also crap quality, especially when you know Danmark is a powerhouse in agriculture. All is wrapped in plastic, and looks like it had been on a boat for 4 weeks. We haven't been able to find good farm shops either, where you can get a selection of local produce. We also see many danes, mostly men, having excessive weight. Can it be that the crap in the supermarket has anything to do with it?
The 10 dkr. parfume smells good btw ;)
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