What is Bread?
Bread is a staple food prepared from a dough of flour and water, usually by baking. Throughout recorded history and around the world, it has been an important part of many cultures’ diets.
Price of Bread in Uganda
Uganda is one of the immediate neighboring countries to Kenya, which shares most of the things including natural resources, especially lake Victoria, and has promptly maintained intact diplomatic relations with Kenya over a very long period of time, through free tariffs, business activities, and peaceful resolution of conflicts.
However, when it comes to their economic status, there is a distinctive difference between the two countries. Basically circumnavigating the exchange rate and the price of goods.
According to the exchange rate between the two countries, we realize that one Kenyan shilling is equivalent to thirty-one and forty-one cents Uganda shillings (31.41).
Therefore on the latest update on the regulated price of goods in Uganda, five hundred grams (500g) of bread in Uganda cost Ugandan shillings five thousand (Sh.5000), when converted into Kenyan currency, will be equivalent to Kenyan shillings one hundred and fifty seven and five cents (Ksh.157.05).
While in Kenya the price of five hundred grams of bread cost, Ksh.50 (fifty shillings) and this is relatively cheap compared to the price of bread in Uganda.
How many shillings is a loaf of bread in Uganda?
Summary of cost of living in Uganda
| Food | ||
|---|---|---|
| Basic lunchtime menu (including a drink) in the business district | 22,978 Shilling | |
| Combo meal in fast food restaurants (big mac meal or similar) | 27,887 Shilling | |
| 500 gr (1 lb.) of boneless chicken breast | 14,423 Shilling | |
| 1 liter (1 qt.) of whole-fat milk | 2,145 Shilling | |
| 12 eggs, large | 7,859 Shilling | |
| 1 kg (2 lb.) of tomatoes | 4,626 Shilling | |
| 500 gr (16 oz.) of local cheese | 11,302 Shilling | |
| 1 kg (2 lb.) of apples | 17,203 Shilling | |
| 1 kg (2 lb.) of potatoes | 5,071 Shilling | |
| 0.5 l (16 oz) domestic beer in the supermarket | 4,692 Shilling | |
| 1 bottle of red table wine, good quality | 40,000 Shilling | |
| 2 liters of coca-cola | 4,561 Shilling | |
| Bread for 2 people for 1 day | 2,254 Shilling |