For each New Year's feast, a good hostess prepares in advance, carefully choosing the menu and products. This year, for obvious reasons, is special, but this does not mean that the holiday is canceled. "

Vegetables are getting cheaper, meat is getting more expensive There is good news. According to experts, this year the New Year's table will become cheaper compared to last year.. And, first of all, due to the fact that today there are an abundance of inexpensive vegetables on the shelves - the main components of salads and side dishes. However, economists see alarming symptoms in the cheapening.

" For example, the borscht group has fallen in price compared to last year, and all because people have become poorer. In December, the prices for vegetables will also not change seriously - unless they will rise by a penny, "

The situation is about the same with meat - it did not rise much in price over the year. And, according to the National Association of Meat and Meat Producers " Pork and lamb remained at the same price as at the beginning of the year, prices for veal, beef and sausages increased.

A further increase in prices closer to the New Year is possible, assures " The reason is the increased demand, which was not at all during the year..

" Prices for meat products are already sky-high, for sausages, in particular, " Today, on average, beef is sold at 150-200 hryvnia per kg, pork - within 150 hryvnia per kg. And closer to the holiday, if there is demand, price tags can add at least 10%.

Fish is not caught Fish and seafood, according to Oleg Pendzin, should not change significantly in price by the New Year. Unless, of course, the dollar rate changes sharply. "

But there will be problems with red caviar - an invariable attribute of the New Year's table.. In the two largest world regions of red caviar fishing - in Russia and Alaska - a significant decrease in the salmon catch is recorded, which is why the delicacy is already becoming more expensive in wholesale. If last year they asked for about UAH 900 per kilogram, now, according to the head of the fisheries news agency Alexander Savelyev, wholesale prices for pink salmon caviar reach 1.4 thousand. hryvnias. Last year, an average jar of caviar cost UAH 250. This year, experts say, the jars will simply become smaller.

" Then there were jars of 50 grams. I do not exclude that the most popular this year will be jars of 50 grams. People will not give up caviar altogether, but they will buy it much less.. Statistics will show that people bought much less by weight, "

What will not be a shortage is in herring, which is taken for a traditional "

Without cheap tangerines Imported fruits can bring an unpleasant surprise, says the head of the Ukrainian Fruit and Vegetable Association Fedor Rybalko to Vesti. But only if the dollar jumps. " If it grows, so will prices.. Last year the rate was 23-24 UAH, and now - 28.5 UAH. Therefore, we do not have cheap tangerines, apples, bananas and so on, "

" This applies to expensive imported goods - exotic fruits, ham, salami.

Everything will be domestic, which is cheaper. And alcohol is no longer snapped up in stores. Ukrainians are switching to alcohol of their own production - to moonshine, liqueurs. And traditional domestic champagne, as it cost within UAH 100 last year, will still cost this year, "

Alexey Doroshenko predicts that many will not have breaking tables this year.. " If earlier they had eaten food prepared for the New Year on January 4–5, this year the banquet will obviously be more modest, "