Forgot the prices of things in brazil

A year or so ago I sent my brother in law a photo of a single pineapple in a Co-op grocery store that was $5.........in a Horti Fruti store by my place you could've bought 5 pineapples for the same amount in Reais as one in Canada.

@Gasparzinho 777 cost of living is way to high in canada for sure.

    I am an archeologist by trade but worked in a butcher shop in canada for a number of months as I missed the season. I went to the butcher shop here in sao paulo for some chicken breasts as I find them fresher at the butchers. What would cost 15 dollars in canada here cost me 2 dollars...cad.
19.90 per kg for boneless skinless breasts
   

    -@Canforbra

I love Canada but many things are definitely more expensive to produce than in Brazil.  Poultry would need to be raised in a heated area in Canada vs outside in Brazil.   

However, there are things that Brazil has not yet mastered - like growing cranberries.  I think that the cranberries from Delta, BC are the best in the world.

I totally expect that, on average, food purchased in Brazil would be fresher and cheaper than in Canada.  In fact, I am counting on this for my retirement....

@Pablo888 the trick in canada for meat is to go to a good butcher.

They tend to be local meat, just make sure they are hormone and antibiotic free.

The meat will be a bit more expensive but well worth it taste wise and health wise.

    I am an archeologist by trade but worked in a butcher shop in canada for a number of months as I missed the season. I went to the butcher shop here in sao paulo for some chicken breasts as I find them fresher at the butchers. What would cost 15 dollars in canada here cost me 2 dollars...cad.
19.90 per kg for boneless skinless breasts
   

    -@Canforbra

You are forgetting the fact you can't find decent quality cuts at that rate in Brazil.  The good stuff gets exported to the fat rich folks up north. 

There's a reason why one of the 4-5 meat conglomerates in the USA is the all time hated Brazilain  JCB Foods.  And that is only for the cheap stuff to be sold in North America.   

You won't get Nebraska Beef, or grass fed meat  on that dollar.

Your poultry is cheap out here, thanks for places in South ( Concordia,SC ) that have supply contracts with big chain retailers out here.  Lots of places in the Chicken game out here, but Santa Catarina is the one that pumps at industrial scale.

By the way, your Brazilian neighborhood butcher or your farm market stand, they source differently.  And your chicken breast  at the Chain Supermarket Gondola Freezer is  grain fed ( Soybeans mostly ).   Want the quality stuff, then you will pay more.

@sprealestatebroker I know all about quality meat you can taste it and tell by the look.

I worked at a butcher shop in canada. Everything was locally sourced and hormone/antibiotic free. Because it was locally sourced we did run out of meat from time to time. We just told people the days when would various meat would arrive. Lamb, beef, chicken, pig.

I never buy meat from box stores in canada.....fresh never frozen as they say at Wendy's haha

You are forgetting the fact you can't find decent quality cuts at that rate in Brazil.  The good stuff gets exported to the fat rich folks up north. 

There's a reason why one of the 4-5 meat conglomerates in the USA is the all time hated Brazilain  JCB Foods.  And that is only for the cheap stuff to be sold in North America.   

You won't get Nebraska Beef, or grass fed meat  on that dollar.


    -@sprealestatebroker

I was under the impression most beef sold in Brazil is effectively grass fed.  Is that right or no? I understand some portion of the cattle here is finished in confinement, like in the US, but I had though it was a minority and mostly intended for export.

@BRBC An American friend told me that I was eating grass fed beef in Brazil. The flavor and price of filet mignon were distinctly different.

Alan

• All cows eat grasses, do they not? Or is there a species I am not aware of that eats, for example, fish?

• Is it not more a matter of how they are looked after, allowed to roam, etc?

    All cows eat grasses, do they not? Or is there a species I am not aware of that eats, for example, fish?
Is it not more a matter of how they are looked after, allowed to roam, etc?
   

    -@Peter Itamaraca

No, not all cows eat grass, that's why grass fed beef is a thing.  In the US, 'conventionally' raised cattle are pastured, but in the last 6 months or so before slaughter, they are confined and fed grains.  This makes them very fat and tender.  Grass fed is grenerlly considered healthier.  Most beef in Brazil (as I understand) is pasture raised (eating grass), because there is a lot of land and it is cheaper. At least that is my understanding and I asked to confirm.

https://amazingcreator.com/beef/grain-fed-beef-vs-grass-fed-beef