Eating cheaply and well is generally incompatible in Sweden, at least in the restaurant. The best way is to recharge your batteries during breakfast and lunch, which can be bought for reasonable money.

Breakfast (frukost) in the majority of youth hotels and restaurants is almost always a Swedish table, where each takes according to his needs, including Swedish coffee. Usually this gluttony costs about 50 krones in a youth hostel and is provided free in hotels.

If you like a good meal between 7.00 and 9.30 in the morning, it’s your choice. Even in the most modest buffet you will find juice, milk, and dishes from cereals, bread, jam, boiled eggs, salami, tea and Swedish coffee.

More luxurious menu includes herring, oatmeal, yogurt, pate and fruits.

You can also find yogurt (filmjolk), which is similar to milk, but more dense, sour and is designed for food with grain products.

Swedish coffee is always good and often offered for free after the first cup, or at least at a deep discount. Tea is less delicious - as a rule, weak Lipton - but it costs the same as coffee, that is about 15 krones.

Choice of snacks and non-severe foods is more varied. You can buy a hot dog, burger, pizza, chicken, chips, ice cream, Coca-Cola and ketchup. These tents and stalls are on every street in every town and village. Great burger and chips will cost you 55 krones. Local Clockburger is cheaper than McDonald’s, in both can buy the cheapest Swedish coffee in town.

You will be pleased to visit a pastry shop (konditori), where you can enjoy delicious pastries and cakes. They are not too cheap (Swedish coffee and cake will cost you in 35-50 kr). Often the second and subsequent cups of Swedish coffee are free. In the confectionery you can buy smorgasar - open sandwiches with a high pile of various tasty things.

Of course, you can afford yourself eating in a restaurant (restaurang), but remember that lunch is always a third cheaper than dinner. Most restaurants offer something like “dagens ratt” - a dish of the day for 50-70 krones, a great way to appreciate real Swedish cuisine.

Lunch is served since Monday till Friday from 11 am to 2 at night. This is usually the main dish (one meat and fish dish), with bread (fried bread) and salad, sometimes a soft drink or light beer and regular Swedish coffee. Some Swedish dishes such as “pytt i panna” and “kottbullar”are a standard part of menu.

Generally, in big cities you will be served pizza, simple Chinese dishes and meat or fish salads. If you are traveling with children, look out for the word “barnmatsedal” - a children’s menu.

Restaurants in hotels are more expensive, but you can have fun there, especially in those that provide “smorgasbord” at lunch time. As during breakfast, you can put an unlimited number of servings of herring, hot and cold dishes, eggs, fried and boiled potatoes, salads, cheese, desserts and fruits for only 150-250 krones.

According to local customs, you should begin a meal with Aquavita, continue with beer, and finish with Swedish coffee, although this will increase the bill, unless it is “all inclusive” lunch, which is usually served on Sundays.

If you do not want to eat lunch from a set of dishes offered by the restaurant, keep in mind that exclusive reservation will cost accordingly: you will have to pay at least 400 krones per person for a three-course lunch. By this you will need to add 40-50 krones for beer and 150 krones for the cheapest bottle of wine. Food in Swedish restaurants is usually prepared by Swedish canons, but recently there is a tendency to mix national cuisine with international one.

Sweden also have many pizzerias and Chinese restaurants familiar to crowds, their prices for dinner do not go beyond the limits of decency. In a pizzeria you can buy a big, maybe not so authentic pizza for about $ 50 krones, usually with free cole slaw and bread. Price, as a rule, does not depend on whether it is lunch or dinner. You can come across the offices of Pizza Hut network offices, but they are more expensive.

Chinese restaurants will offer you a range of lunch dishes for 50 krones and 80-100 krones for dinner.

Being a vegetarian in Sweden is not too difficult because of dominance of “Smorgasbord,” which include a variety of salads, cheeses, eggs and soups. The cities offer salad and sandwich bars. In the end, you can always buy food without meat in a local pizzeria. Many local restaurants will offer a vegetarian dish of the day. Ask.

In most restaurants lunch is served close to 11 o’clock, dinner - 6 o’clock.