The key facts
- Replacing tea with coffee adds roughly 467–670 rubles a month to breakfasts across Russian regions
- In Moscow the increase is about 532 rubles, in Tyva about 544, and in Tyumen Region up to 670 rubles
- The bulk of the breakfast cost comes from eggs, bread, milk and butter, not the drink
How much does your morning coffee cost
The habit of drinking natural coffee instead of tea increases the monthly cost of home breakfasts by roughly 467–670 rubles. This is the result of calculations by Life.ru's Breakfast Index, based on Rosstat prices across Russian regions. For comparison, the same breakfast of two eggs, milk, butter and wheat bread was used — only the drink changed: two grams of black loose-leaf tea were replaced with ten grams of natural coffee.
Regional differences
In Moscow, choosing coffee instead of tea every day adds about 532 rubles to the monthly cost of breakfasts, in Tyva — about 544 rubles, and in Tyumen Region the increase can reach roughly 670 rubles. At the same time, as Life.ru's calculations show, a significant share of the regional difference comes not from drinks but from basic products: eggs, bread, milk and butter.
The scale of small expenses
Pyotr Shcherbachenko, an associate professor at the Financial University under the Government of the Russian Federation, told Life.ru that a difference of about 17–18 rubles per breakfast looks small on its own, but with daily purchases it adds up over a month to an amount comparable, for example, to a mobile phone bill or an online cinema subscription. Detailed data on the cost of an identical breakfast in different parts of the country are presented in the Life.ru study.
