amrit9037: How about some raw materials for pasta/pizza?
I usually buy pasta at the supermarket, while for pizza I prefer to buy it in a pizzeria (because here they usually use a wood oven that is the best oven for pizza). If you want a pizza from a pizzeria you pay 5€ for a margherita that is the base pizza here (tomato and mozzarella)... I know that in many place in europe the base pizza don't use mozzarella, but only some sort of cheese, and also margherita is not the base pizza.
for pasta there is a difference between dry and fresh pasta, fresh pasta is 3-4€ for 400 g, while dry pasta is much cheaper (1-2€ for 1 Kg).
Also for fresh pasta I talk about raw pasta not flavored... because precooked pasta sucks (really, it sucks a lot).
Of course if you are able to do pasta and pizza with flour and others raw materials you can save a lot of money... I can do that (because my mother is really good at cook) but I don't have much time.
Fruits and vegetables are cheaper than in the rest of europe but there is a lot of difference between north and south of italy... the only thing to remember is to buy fruits and vegetables from market where you can find farmers.
Anyway for what I know food is cheap here (you just have to avoid eat in a restaurant every day) ... but gasoline for example is not (1 L is 1.5 €). The taxes here are the 22%, quite high. for this reason even really cheap thing like milk are sold for an high price...
1 L of milk if you buy raw milk from a farmers is 0.4 cent... but at the supermarket is 1-1.5€.