Here in Perth Hellmann's, Birds custard powder and Branston available in most Australian supermarkets as well as the specialist UK shops, so someone who lives in your area might know which branches stock UK products.

Try making a curry yourself, some recipes on BBC, or get yourself a few Indian cookbooks. I'd never cooked an Indian curry before I lived here - there's no need when you live in the UK. There's also those curry pastes if you don't want to get into roasting and grinding spices.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/food/recipes/se...%5D=&x=14&y=14
http://www.bbcgoodfood.com/search.do...m=&filterItem=

Missing proper crusty bread, especially the french bread sold in Sainsburys. Bacon, ham and sausages are much better in the UK, especially Saxbys and Walls. Cadburys chocolate doesn't taste the same here, and whats with the vinegar? The tomatoes here can't beat the English summer ones, and I agree about the sandwiches. In the UK you can readily buy good basic ones in supermarkets like cheese and onion, ham and tomato, egg cress and mayo all on proper crusty bread.Obviously miss the fish that can only be obtained from cold seas like mackerel and cod.
Saying that the shellfish here is far superior, and fruit and veg other than tomatoes are of great quality.
I'm not whinging, but adapting...

It's funny really to be all the way over here and missing certain foods. Don;t miss them really just the odd occasion when you think mmmmm I could really fancy some..."curry" etc.

Whilst some supermarkets and local shops stock other nationality foods (at hiked up prices), which is good so can get a decent Bisto Gravy woohooo
We do however miss Sharwoods ready to eat poppadums, can't make the ones in the packets, they turn out rubbish.
Also miss Roast Beef Monster Munch , a good Orange Squash (unless someone can point me in the right direction), and proper smoked streaky bacon, the bacon just isn't the same

But have to say we are living a very different life now so happily go along with things being different - would we change our lifestyle now? NO WAY we love it here

Cockles and Whelks. mmm, though maybe these only taste good while standing at the whelk bar in Hastings old town.
They sell Hellmans mayo in Woolies in Melbourne at least.
I was missing decent marmalade, but Aldi came to the rescue with their one.

I'm with you on the orange squash. I always use to buy high juice (not the sugar free stuff...yuk) & can't find anything I like here. I won't buy squash with sweetners in so that limits the choice a bit but the kids seems quite happy with Golden Cirlce & I'm drinking a lot more water instead.

Alison x

G'day Peter and welcome to the forum.

I have been in southern hemipshere 9 years now, 6 in NZ and 3 in OZ.
In NZ, I missed everything as I found the choice in NZ was very very poor.
Since moving to OZ...I'm happy again!
Have found lots of English stuff in the supermarkets, cheese...even British Tetleys T bags now..lol
Also here in Canberra, we have a couple of fabulous fruit/veg/meat markets which sell a lot of European stuff.
We also have Aldi...yeh for Aldi!
Now I miss nothing at all about UK, not even the foods...ok, I lie... a decent curry still hasnt been found here!!
Overall...99.9% happy then..

We have a shop here in Canberra that stocks UK sweets and drinks including D & B..

Cockles is on the hubbys' wish list..lol although yesterday he was happy, he found Twiglets and Baskin Robbins (the ice cream) hard boiled sweets..

If you are in the Westgarth area of Melbourne I can recommend the Curry Cafe restaurant. Its probably the best I have come across.

Twiglets, my family send them over and I eat them after the kids have gone to bed, so I dont have to share. Bad parent!

LOL

My hubby hid his 2 packs of twiglets in the bedroom..lol, he ate a packet last night and took the other to work this morning.
We found them in Woollies in the asian section?
Never seen them before, we have a woolies here near home about a 2 min drive, but yesterday we went to another shopping centre about 10 mins away, and shopped there...hubby was happy!
Guess which Woolies we will be shopping at in future?

PS we found some good curry's here but none has ever matched the curry;s in Manchester..lol oh to die for.
Oh yeh, Woolies also sell british cumberland sausages now too, not a sausage fan as such but these are so very tasty...yum

You can buy Rose's marmalade in Coles. My grandfather always had it on his toast (old school Pom; emigrated to Australia after WWII).
He was also a Bovril fan, so I know you can get that here too.

Cockles in vinegar avaiable from safety bay Store...

I tried a little glass jar of cockles a few months ago. They were from the Netherlands, though, and were absolutely foul. I only ate a few then threw the rest away.