Buy Heilos brand herbs and spices (teas too!) from your local natural foods or health food stores to save money on herbs and spices! Large canisters of Heilos brand herbs and spices are much, much cheaper than buying similar items in more traditional grocery stores and supermarkets. They are also organic!
My tips on saving money for food in Norway is go to the small turkish/middle eastern international shops. Their produce is fresher and cheaper and their spices as well. I find my favorite Mexican brand items there for my cooking, its not much but its a taste from home. A good example on the price difference is one my sil just found out. She asked me where she can find cheap dates, I told her the international shops. At Rema1000 they cost 200kr for a kilo….at the little shop she went to 15kr for a kilo! I buy spices out the @$$ from those shops.
Thanks for the tip! I agree-the international shops offer some great STEALS in the produce section and with international food items like soy sauce, ginger, salsas, dried beans, etc.
Where can you get these? Do all health food shops have them?
Another tip is that herbs and spices are available in large cheap bags in Asian supermarkets, but they’re often such large packs that it’s too much to use up quickly in a normal small household!
I buy my Heilos herbs and teas at one of the natural foods stores in Stavanger. Heilos brand products are available at nearly all of the natural and/or organic food stores in Norway.
Although their web site is currently under construction, check out the Helios web site for more information on their product line http://www.helios.no/?CatId=1447.
The Asian or “ethnic” grocery stores also offer the spices in bags (usually 100 grams) which are a great deal too but aren’t normally organic or biodynamic like the Heilos ones.
Maybe I need to move to Norway. 😛 My natural food store doesn’t have anything like this and neither do the supermarkets. This is an AWESOME find. I think I’ll go off to Amsterdam one day to search for similar products
Thanks for the compliment! What are you tips for saving money in the kitchen in Norway?
All i can say that it is one of best blog for saving for the people living in Norway!