Carrefour it

(can you tell I'm a fan of Things Organized Neatly?)

There's a few grocery store chains around Torino - Meta, Pam, LiDL, Carrefour, and a couple others. I go toCarrefour (which is actually a french chain...just one of the many snippets of french influence Torino has)
because it's the closest and cheapest.

I'm usually able to keep my grocery trips to under 30 Euro each, including trips to the Open Market (that'll be for a future post). Grocery shopping wasn't as expensive as I thought it would be...as long as you get the store brand for as many items as you can (which tastes fine, works well), there's a ton of stuff you can get for less than a euro. The Carrefour and Carrefour Discount brands are super cheap compared to the other brands. Making sure to look at the price per kg, not just the listed price, helps out as well.

Overall, pretty successful shopping trip - I got everything I needed (yes, I NEED paprika pringles...you can't find them in the US and I am obsessed with them) for about 20 euro. The only thing I messed up on was that I bought chicken, thinking that it was on sale for 1.50 euro, but it turned out to be full price at 3.99 euro. That's almost 1/5 of my whole grocery purchases! Damn you, pollo party.