Food Shopping 101

Okay, from the beginning -
 1) Grocery stores in Denmark don't supply you with bags so you need to either keep a bag in your purse or put one or many on the belt (they are usually under it) or (usually at Nettos) ask for how many bags you need when you get to the register.

2) Put your purchases on the counter they ring it through and then they say something . . . Look at the register because they are telling you how much it is.

3) The last question is really quick and even now that I've taken 3 months of Danish classes, I still don't understand - they are asking you if you want your receipt :) Just say Ja Tak and smile!

Tips:

Most loose vegetable need to be weighed before you bring them to the register - so look around for a scale and then find the picture of what you have in your bag. Put your stuff on the scale and push the button, LOL. It's fun after a while. But speak English, they will understand you. In fact, every week I try to find one new product that I can't translate and I ask someone what it is.

But be careful, Danish people are fantastic and very nice except for when they are on a bike or in the grocery store. You can get hip checked by a little old lady if you are between her and the grocery line and don't forget that when they open a new line it's everyone for themselves. These are not line waiters!

Yes, the prices are high but look carefully. There are about three brands available of everything, except flour and milk, and one is always significantly cheaper. I don't know why and I don't know why everyone doesn't buy the cheaper one, but I do, and it's usually just the same.

Can't find something ask me.

Where do I shop

Well, mostly at Super Brugsen because it is across the street but it also fairly good prices with sales-tilbud rotating through their meat regularly. If I'm feeling motivated to get on the Metro I will go to Føtex for snacks, meat sales, and to wander the aisles. They always have chips for 11-13DKK where they are 40DKK everywhere else and their cookies are 10-12 DKK when everybody else is 18DKK. I will also wander around Netto, they have the cool "crap" aisles where you can find anything and everything on sale. If you are looking for some small electronics like hot pots, crockpots, hair trimmers, you will eventually find it there for much much less. There is also an electronics store in Amager (pronounce Amar) Center that has really crazy cheap prices! It is the one off by itself on the Metro END entrance by the Apotek but I can't remember the name. It is worth a trip because the prices are that good. I got a vacuum for 200 DKK.

Bilka is also good but the only one I have found is down the Metro in Ørestad, which is one more zone for me, and it's just a pain to get to. You will find that if you do not have a car you will quickly become very conscious of whether something, or someone for that matter, is zone worthy. Ladies, do you remember the "sponge-worthy" Seinfeld, yep it's like that. You'll See :)