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My slava
Costs, shopping list and what to do before the slava
Hosts: [FAMILY]
Slava date: [SLAVA DATE]
The budget
Item Qty Price Total
Food per guest (starters, sarma, roast or fish, salads) [QTY] RSD [AMOUNT] RSD [AMOUNT]
Drinks per guest [QTY] RSD [AMOUNT] RSD [AMOUNT]
Slava bread, žito, candle, wine and incense 1 RSD [AMOUNT] RSD [AMOUNT]
Cakes and tortes 1 RSD [AMOUNT] RSD [AMOUNT]
Refreshments: coffee, juices, slatko 1 RSD [AMOUNT] RSD [AMOUNT]
Priest: blessing of the water (offering) 1 RSD [AMOUNT] RSD [AMOUNT]
Tablecloths, napkins, tableware 1 RSD [AMOUNT] RSD [AMOUNT]
Contingency 1 RSD [AMOUNT] RSD [AMOUNT]
Total RSD [TOTAL]
Put aside each week: RSD [AMOUNT] — [NUMBER] deposits from [FIRST DATE] to [LAST DATE].
Slava shopping list
Item Quantity Bought
Non-Lenten table
Roast pork or lamb [ ] kg ☐
Sour cabbage for sarma (heads) [ ] pcs ☐
Minced meat for sarma [ ] kg ☐
Rice [ ] kg ☐
Smoked meat and bacon [ ] kg ☐
Prosciutto and kulen for starters [ ] kg ☐
Cheese and kajmak [ ] kg ☐
Eggs [ ] pcs ☐
Potatoes [ ] kg ☐
Mayonnaise for Russian salad (jars) [ ] pcs ☐
Bread and pogača [ ] pcs ☐
Lenten table (if the slava falls in a fast)
Fish (carp, trout, hake) [ ] kg ☐
Sour cabbage for Lenten sarma (heads) [ ] pcs ☐
Rice [ ] kg ☐
Beans for prebranac [ ] kg ☐
Ajvar (jars) [ ] pcs ☐
Olives [ ] kg ☐
Lenten mayonnaise for Russian salad (jars) [ ] pcs ☐
Potatoes [ ] kg ☐
Bread and Lenten pogača [ ] pcs ☐
Drinks
Wine [ ] btl ☐
Rakija [ ] btl ☐
Soft drinks [ ] l ☐
Mineral water [ ] l ☐
Coffee [ ] g ☐
Slava bread and žito
Wheat for žito [ ] kg ☐
Walnuts [ ] kg ☐
Sugar [ ] kg ☐
Flour for the slava bread [ ] kg ☐
Yeast [ ] pcs ☐
Slava candle [ ] pcs ☐
Red wine for the slava bread [ ] btl ☐
Incense [ ] pk ☐
Common slavas until Đurđevdan 2027
Slava Date Table
St Petka 27/10/2026 · Tuesday non-Lenten
St Luke 31/10/2026 · Saturday non-Lenten
St Demetrius (Mitrovdan) 08/11/2026 · Sunday non-Lenten
St George’s minor feast (Đurđic) 16/11/2026 · Monday non-Lenten
St Michael the Archangel (Aranđelovdan) 21/11/2026 · Saturday non-Lenten
St Nicholas (Nikoljdan) 19/12/2026 · Saturday Lenten
St Stephen 09/01/2027 · Saturday non-Lenten
St John the Baptist (Jovanjdan) 20/01/2027 · Wednesday Lenten
St Sava (school feast) 27/01/2027 · Wednesday Lenten
St Tryphon 14/02/2027 · Sunday non-Lenten
St George (Đurđevdan) 06/05/2027 · Thursday non-Lenten
The week before the slava
What When Done
Ask the priest to bless the water (osvećenje vodice) a week before ☐
Buy the slava candle, incense and wine a week before ☐
Cook the žito the day before ☐
Bake the slava bread or order it the day before ☐
Prepare sarma and the roast (or fish for a Lenten slava) 1–2 days before ☐
Your amounts: the examples are not average prices. Weekly deposits from 21 October 2026, rounded to the dinar; the last one is adjusted.