A lot of people who are thinking about making the move to Mexico are curious about grocery and food prices.

So I thought I would grab a pen and paper (and my video camera) and make a detailed list of the prices in two of the major grocery stores in Mazatlan.

By keeping an eye out for sales and shopping in smaller, native stores and in the “Mercados” you can do a lot better on prices. And also keep in mind: Prices do fluctuate like they do everywhere else.

Here are some of the prices of common grocery items:

Coca Cola – 3 liter -$1.52
Water – 5 gallon – $1.50
Tecate Beer – 6/355 ml bottles for $4.30
Kaluha – 980 ml – $9.90
Sprite – 2 liter -$1.00
Jose Q tequila – 950 ml – $21.
Cottonell TT – 12 rolls $4.36
Cheaper TT – 12 roll $2.39
Bleach l – $1.95
Paper towels – 3/$2.40
Tuna – 6 oz – .55
Kraft Mayo – 850 gram – $3.05 (which is
over ¾ of a kilogram – which is about 2 pounds.)
Kraft Italian dressing – 16 ounce – $2.50
Pasta spaghetti – 7 ounce – .69 cents
Eggo waffles – 10 – $2.98
Frozen corn – 500 gram – $1.75
Cooking oil – 1 l – $1.80
Rice – 1 k – .63
Tomato pure` – 800 g – $1.19
Salt – 1 k -.46
Chicken broth, powdered – 45 g – 3.83
Pam cooking spray – 141 gram – $2.89
Corn Pops – 620 gram – $3.89
Special K – 510 g – $3.15
Cheerios – 425 g – $3.00
Jello – 100 g – (large box) .49
Salt crackers – 528 g – $1.60
Ritz (name brand) 900 g – $2.80
Baking soda – 227 g – .65
Smuckers grape jelly – 510 g – $2.58
Cheaper brand of grape jelly – 1 k –
1,000 grams – $1.89(the one I’ll buy)
Peanut butter – 340 g – $2.64
Sugar 2 k – $2.95
Instant coffee – 200 g (7.5 oz) – $3.60
O.J. drink – 3.785 L – $2.30
Potato chips – 350 g – $3.30
Doritos – 300 g – $1.60
Apples – 1 k – $1.29
Sour cream – 460 g – $1.09
Cream – 980 ml – $3.89
Butter – 200 g- $1.92
1 gal milk – 3.78 L – $3.86
Donut or muffin – .31 each (really have gone
up in price)
filled donut – .45
bread – 6 inch – .09
French bread baguette –
24 inch – .50 and 16 inch – .25
Bacon – 340 g – $3.65
Cheese
Gouda – 1 k – 5.69
Cream Cheese – 250 g – $1.24