According to the results of the third observation week, the cost of a New Year’s table for Astana city family has not changed, and it has increased by 0.2% again for an Almaty city family, as well as at the end of the second week.
The cost of the New Year’s table as of December 26, 2022
Almaty | Astana |
40 778 tenge (▲ 0.2%) | 39 418 tenge |
Following the results of the week under review, the cost of cooking Greek salad and manti has risen by 2.8% in Almaty. The increase in the cost of Greek salad was caused by the increase in prices for cucumbers (+23.6%), tomatoes (+1.8%) and olives (+1.1%). The main ingredient for cooking the main dish – ground beef – rose in price by 3.3%, onions by 3.9% and flour by 1.2%. A more significant increase was smoothed out due to potatoes continuing to become cheaper (-6.6%).
It was the decrease in potato prices that influenced the preservation of the cost of cooking Russian salad and the reduction in the cost of dressing herring (-0.5%).
Beverages and desserts for the New Year’s table became cheaper by 0.6%, and fruit basket – by 0.2%.