Do It Yourself Budget Meal in Europe | Indoor Picnic in our Apartment in Budapest, Hungary

Join us for a do it yourself budget meal in Europe as we head to the Spar grocery store in Budapest, Hungary to load up on local groceries including Hungarian wine, cheese, deli meats, produce and chocolates for an indoor picnic in our apartment in Budapest.
One of the ways we save money while traveling in Europe is staying at AirBNB apartment rentals where we have a full kitchen and an opportunity to buy cheap local groceries which we can cook and prepare at home to save money on restaurant meals. Honestly, reducing restaurant meals allows you to save money almost more than anything else while traveling in Europe.
I think you'll find that our platter looked rather appealing with its variety of ingredients and to top it off with a glass of local Egri Bikaver red wine and some chocolate with coconut really made our day.
Do you like to prepare meals at home? What do you think is a good idea in terms of a cheap and delicious meal you can eat at your apartment while on the road?
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Do it yourself budget meal in Europe | Indoor Picnic in our apartment in Budapest, Hungary travel food video transcript:
Well good afternoon. Today we are trying something a little different. So often times we eat out. We love going to restaurants. Yeah. And trying new food.
But we figured we should probably showcase more of like a budget friendly meal for travelers in Europe.
Yeah, so to be perfectly honest most of the time we are preparing our own meals in our AirBNB. Yes. And that is how we save money. That is basically what allows us to stay on the road. We have budget meals, we eat locally. We have like local deli meats and cheeses especially if we're in Europe.
We got to the markets and get fresh produce. Stuff like that. So we're just going to maybe take you on a little tour to the grocery store. Yes. And then back into the kitchen and then on to our couch as we have basically. It is basically an indoor picnic. Indoor picnic. Haha.
Let's go shopping.
Also, this is our apartment. We still need to make an apartment tour. But for now let's focus on grocery shopping.
Our supermarket of choice was closed. We were so excited to show you guys but it is in a really cool building too. It really is.
So you're missing out. We're missing out. On to the next Spar.
This is our backup Spar. It is much smaller and the vegetable selection isn't quite as impressive. But in we go. Spar.
Look at all the cheese. All the cheese. You know you're in Europe when there is cheese. Wonderful cheese selection.
There is plenty of salami here in Hungary. Yeah, if you like meat and cheese you will not go hungry in this country. Believe me.
And so I'm going to start off with some wine. I'll show you the stuff that I bought.
Um, this stuff is pretty good. It is the Egri Bikaver.
We have sliced cheese, blue cheese, cucumber slices, tomato slices.
We have stuffed olives.
And this was a special one that we haven't tried yet. So I think this is it is a stuffed pepper.
I think with ricotta cheese and apples.
So that is a wrap for our indoor picnic. I think we're both pretty stuffed.
Yeah. That was pretty good. It looks like a small light meal but honestly it is pretty filling. Especially when you tack on dessert.
Yeah, with the wine and dessert that ended up being definitely a meal. Definitely a meal more than a snack and yeah that was awesome. Yeah. It was just nice to be able to eat at home and to have nice variety of food like that.
o there is a lot of ways you can be creative to save money while you're in Europe. And definitely the biggest budget tip we have is to have quite a few of your meals at home because yes whenever you go to a restaurant you always pay a lot of money.
This is part of our Travel in Hungary video series showcasing Hungarian food, Hungarian culture and Hungarian cuisine.
This is part of our Travel in Europe video series showcasing European food, European culture and European cuisine.
Music in this video courtesy of Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com)
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