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Hungarian Grocery Shopping: A Survival Guide

by Anikó Woods | Mar 17, 2025 | Culture & Everyday Life, Expat Life & Personal Stories

Moving to Hungary is one thing. But Hungarian grocery shopping? That’s a different kind of adventure. You think you know how supermarkets work until you find yourself staring at a wall of dairy products, trying to figure out which one is actual milk and which one is...

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I’m Anikó Woods, a Canadian-Hungarian who’s been knee-deep in life here since 2017 - bureaucracy, culture, and everything in between.

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