We found one of the these just off Dam Square, really huge, next to the tram route we get home. Then we found another one beside the apartment where we're staying. We also pass several on any transport route we take.
1) they have giant giant tubs of lovely potato salad for €1.65......€1.65!
2) they have English breakfast tea, proper English breakfast tea for 29cents for about 20 tea bags
3) 10 sweet brioche rolls for €1.79
4) lots of meat, vegetables, ham, cheeses and a wide variety of bread
They look quite nice and, for me, they fall somewhere in between Tesco and Marks and Spencer.
You could spend a lot of money here.....saying that they don't have nearly as many 'ready meal' options as any of our supermarkets. You can also get away with spending very little, as they have an 'Own Brand Albert Heijn Range'......the packaging is Red and White (that's where the potato salad comes from)
Note: quite admirably, but very annoyingly, plastic bags are not issued as standard to shoppers in Holland in the same way as in the UK. You have to bring your own bags OR pay 20 cents for a large, thicker handled plastic bag; which includes a free dirty look.
For some reason we have only been capable on ONE occasion of managing to anticipate the possibility that we MIGHT need to go to the shop on the way home and subsequently carried them with us.
(We go to the shop every day on the way home)
Hence, we now have a collection of about 30 Albert Heijn plastic bags.
These posts really make me want to go to Amsterdam!!
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