Price Watch

Hi Everyone,

Welcome to Chef Jay’s Monthly Food Price Watch. This page is dedicated to helping every Juan out there prepare great dishes by providing up-to-date prices of different ingredients regularly. We would often stumble across a great, mouth-watering recipe while visiting our favorite food websites and the knee-jerk reaction would be to get all the necessary ingredients to start cooking right away, only to find out at the grocery that the ingredients cost way more than what we’re willing to pay. With my monthly price watch, we would have a very good guess on how much each meal would potentially cost by looking at the current prices of some basic ingredients.

Now, I’m only going to be monitoring food prices mainly from SM Hypermarket, the main reason is that SM is everywhere and the stores are accessible for everyone around the Philippines. It’s also a good way to make sure that prices remain consistent across different locations (since I'm blogging for the Philippines here), especially because food prices in wet markets all over the country can be drastically different depending on where you are from. I may expand to other stores such as Rustan's or S&R for more high-end ingredients in the future especially for some difficult-to-find ingredients.

If you have any special ingredients that you would like me to start including in the list let me know and I’ll consider adding it to the page.

Prices as of: August 2, 2015

Currency: Philippine Peso

Vegetables

Brand	Ingredient	Price	Measure
NVU	Ampalaya	65	/kg
NVU	Baguio Beans	66	/kg
NVU	Bell Pepper (Green)	213	/kg
NVU	Broccoli	186	/kg
NVU	Cabbage	92	/kg
NVU	Carrots	84	/kg
NVU	Cauliflower	238	/kg
NVU	Celery	130	/kg
NVU	Chili Libyo	208	/kg
NVU	Cucumber	40	/kg
NVU	Eggplant	54	/kg
NVU	Garlic	102	/kg
NVU	Ginger	220	/kg
NVU	Kangkong	35	/kg
NVU	Lemongrass	100	/kg
NVU	Okra	36	/kg
NVU	Onion	45	/kg
NVU	Pechay	63	/kg
NVU	Potato	48	/kg
NVU	Sayote	57	/kg
Global	Spring Onion	280	/kg
NVU	Squash	28	/kg
NVU	String Beans	64	/kg
NVU	Tomatoes	50	/kg
NVU	White Onion	198	/kg

Fruits

Brand	Ingredient	Price	Measure
Dizon	Banana	68	/kg
Dizon	Banana(Saba)	46	/kg
NVU	Calamansi	57	/kg
Dizon	Fuji Apple	156	/kg
Dizon	Lemon	269	/kg
Dizon	Mango	147	/kg
Dizon	Melon	47	/kg
Dizon	Orange Valencia	154	/kg
Dizon	Pomelo	189	/kg
Dizon	Seedless Grapes (Crimson)	302	/kg
Dizon	Watermelon	33	/kg

Meat

Brand	Ingredient	Price	Measure
SM Bonus	Ground Pork	182	/kg
SM Bonus	Pork Belly	230	/kg
SM Bonus	Pork Chops	195	/kg

Poultry

Brand	Food Item	Price	Unit of Measure
SM Bonus	Chicken Whole	120	/kg
SM Bonus	Eggs	73	1 dozen
SM Bonus	Salted Eggs	52	4 pcs

Dairy

Brand	Ingredient	Price	Measure
Nestle	All Purpose Cream	44.5	/250ml
Anchor	Butter	105	/227g
Carnation	Canned Milk (Condensed)	49.5	/300ml
Carnation	Canned Milk (Evaporated)	33.5	/600ml
Nestle	Fresh Milk	84.5	/L
Alaska	Powdered Milk	212	/700g
Anchor	Powdered Milk	206.5	/655g
Bear Brand	Powdered Milk	219.5	/700g

Condiments

Brand	Ingredient	Price	Measure
Lorins	Fish Sauce (Patis)	48	/L
SM Bonus	Pepper (Ground)	48.5	/60g
SM Bonus	Pepper (Whole)	48.5	/50g
SM Bonus	Salt (Iodized)	24	/kg
SM Bonus	Salt (Rock)	18	/kg
Silver Swan	Soy Sauce	34	/L
SM Bonus	Sugar (White)	54.25	/kg
SM Bonus	Sugar (Brown)	48.25	/kg
Prime Organics	Sugar (Muscovado)	119	/kg
Silver Swan	White Vinegar	29.5	/L

Other Items

Brand	Ingredient	Price	Measure
SM	Lechon Liempo	165	per piece
Quaker Oats	Oatmeal (Instant)	114.5	/800g
Quaker Oats	Oatmeal (Quick Cook)	114.5	/800g
Vita Rice	Rice (Brown)	308	/5kg
Vita Rice	Rice (Denorado)	302	/5kg
Vita Rice	Rice (Sinandomeng)	292	/5kg
SM	Roast Beef	240	per piece
SM	Roasted Chicken (Classic)	145	per piece
SM	Roasted Chicken (Jumbo)	190	per piece
Baguio oil	Vegetable Oil (tipid pack)	117	/L

For additional information on prices of certain Philippine goods, you may want to check here. 

*PS: I will only be canvassing prices of food items. Please do not ask me to start monitoring prices of everything in SM.

Cheers,
Chef Jay