The Comfort Zone. Favourite food, drinks, where to buy, and recipes.
Jan 18th 2010, 10:49 am
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ooohhh!! We have the wii fit and mario cart and a few other games. Must admit I haven't used it for ages!! 
Watching other people hula hoop is priceless!! DH is strangly attractive when he hulahoops 
The kids like to play cooking mama, which has to be the most annoying game on the planet!! I too enjoy walking as much as I can to be honest and also go to Yoga once a week too but that's about it on the exercise front. If I don't enjoy stuff then I don't stick to it.
Back on the thread, I saw Dorset Cereals in the Coop here last week!! This is Oh's fave muesli and he normally brings back loads from the UK. It's €4 a box though but better than the €8.50 we found it for in a shop in Torino a couple of years ago. We took our lives in our hands too as it was in a really rough area of the City and there we were wandering about trying to get the kids to shut up speaking in loud English and making us look even more like tourists!!
Watching other people hula hoop is priceless!! DH is strangly attractive when he hulahoops The kids like to play cooking mama, which has to be the most annoying game on the planet!! I too enjoy walking as much as I can to be honest and also go to Yoga once a week too but that's about it on the exercise front. If I don't enjoy stuff then I don't stick to it. Back on the thread, I saw Dorset Cereals in the Coop here last week!! This is Oh's fave muesli and he normally brings back loads from the UK. It's €4 a box though but better than the €8.50 we found it for in a shop in Torino a couple of years ago. We took our lives in our hands too as it was in a really rough area of the City and there we were wandering about trying to get the kids to shut up speaking in loud English and making us look even more like tourists!!
I am enjoying reading this thread. I usually read more than post though
I have three boys now(youngest being 8 months) and this time the baby weight is shifting faster.
Could be something to do with the fact that I haven't got maltesers,pringles and M&S choccy rolls to sabotage me!
I don't snack here either and hubby and his family don't seem to.Strange at first but I do feel better.
Well done Indie
Jan 18th 2010, 11:06 am
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Jan 18th 2010, 4:21 pm
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Jan 18th 2010, 4:40 pm
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Let me know what you think! My OH loved the programme but it was all too American for me, which is interesting considering I only like the US tv progs!!
Lorna - I really like Cooking Mama! Especially the third one. I'm pretty good at it which helps!! Lol!
Lorna - I really like Cooking Mama! Especially the third one. I'm pretty good at it which helps!! Lol!
Jan 18th 2010, 4:42 pm
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Jan 24th 2010, 6:56 pm
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TestaRossa - Ages ago you wrote that a shop in Florence sells Cadburys chocolate (British Shop?). Do you know if it still does cos I'm getting desperate 
Hubby has said I cannot go to the UK just to buy chocolate, which, secondo me, is obviously quite unfair, so now I'm checking out the rest of Italy 
Hubby has said I cannot go to the UK just to buy chocolate, which, secondo me, is obviously quite unfair, so now I'm checking out the rest of Italy Here in Barga (45 minute drive north of Lucca), due to the large number of Scottish Italians here, we have a bakery owned by a Scottish Italian guy who sells Cadbury's chocolate (cream eggs will be coming soon), biscuits, soups, beans, curry sauces, porridge oats, ribena, jelly, salad cream etc. etc.
He's open every day until 7.30 pm except Sunday and not Monday afternoons.
Maybe he could send you some stuff or you could come to Barga for your fix!
Failing that I'm happy to see what he has and send it on to you.
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Jan 24th 2010, 7:03 pm
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lindaf - you have two choices. Florence has the Olde English Shop, which normally has Cadbury's or you can try and get to Chamonix, which might be closer or the same distance and all the supermarkets there had it, along with Ribena, cheddar cheese, proper bacon and sausages(this was in Super U). It took us 5 hours to drive there from Florence and 30-40mins of that was sitting waiting to get through the tunnel!!
Our local bakery in Barga (north of Lucca) stocks British cheeses, bacon, guiness, cider, biccies, chocolate etc. etc. This is nearer to you than Chamonix
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Jan 24th 2010, 7:35 pm
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Jan 24th 2010, 7:39 pm
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Oh you just pipped me at the post Indie I was just about to write that I can feel a trip coming on !!! Well at least its closer than London and I dont have to get on a plane (yes I know I'm a wimp )
It is a bit far away but its nice to know and a journey there equipped with lots of freezer bags could be good ! (I think I'd go to Delhi for a bit of cheddar)
I was just about to write that I can feel a trip coming on !!! Well at least its closer than London and I dont have to get on a plane (yes I know I'm a wimp )It is a bit far away but its nice to know and a journey there equipped with lots of freezer bags could be good ! (I think I'd go to Delhi for a bit of cheddar
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Jan 24th 2010, 7:48 pm
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Oh you just pipped me at the post Indie I was just about to write that I can feel a trip coming on !!! Well at least its closer than London and I dont have to get on a plane (yes I know I'm a wimp )
It is a bit far away but its nice to know and a journey there equipped with lots of freezer bags could be good ! (I think I'd go to Delhi for a bit of cheddar)
I was just about to write that I can feel a trip coming on !!! Well at least its closer than London and I dont have to get on a plane (yes I know I'm a wimp )It is a bit far away but its nice to know and a journey there equipped with lots of freezer bags could be good ! (I think I'd go to Delhi for a bit of cheddar
) They did have stilton there though!!
Jan 24th 2010, 7:57 pm
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Yes I heard that too but at 35 euros a kilo they can keep it
I paid (I think) 2.49 for a piece at LIDL that was about half a kilo!
(they give snow for us in Piemonte tonight - hope it doesnt happen - I hate snow !)
I paid (I think) 2.49 for a piece at LIDL that was about half a kilo!
(they give snow for us in Piemonte tonight - hope it doesnt happen - I hate snow !)
Jan 24th 2010, 9:06 pm
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Jan 25th 2010, 9:31 am
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Where in Venaria can I get stilton? I do prefer stilton to Gorgo I'm afraid!!