I dream of Tesco as some well know...

I sleep walk from isle to isle buying magazines, gifts, clothes, medicines, Tesco burbon creams aahhhh they're the best. I end up with 2 trolley loads but always wake up before I have to pay
The all under one roof. No draggin kids from car to car. Having a cuppa and a JAM dougnut before I start cor i'm off to now so I can dream some more.

Sounds a daft question but what is the typical aussie dinner then?

Just so I know what to expect when I get over there and I can prime the kids LOL

lace x

Snags

You got me there fraser!

Thanks, any particular recommendations and are they better or equal value than supermarkets?

Ta

To be honest I haven't been to one. My missus works in IGA

Whats IGA?

Yes but you have to go to the butchers (or yes indeed the farmers market) for those as the sausages are crap here, in Bi-Lo at least (slightly better in Woolies).

But then you get home and you forgot the sausages as you had to go to the post office to pick up your mail, the newsagents for your magazine, the garage for your petrol and the bottle shop for your booze.

And when you want to go back it's after 12:30 on Saturday and everywhere is closed. Aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaah!

Woody I had the same dream except mine is a nightmare and I'm not asleep!

Independant Grocers of Australia. It's a supermarket franchise, kinda like Nisa in the UK. They're all over Oz, though I believe they use a different name in WA.

A supermarket, all be it a small one.

They're not all small. We have a few Supa IGAs around here

Tell me about it! I thought food was supposed to be cheap here and it seems to be rising astronomically. When we arrived nearly a year ago the weekly shop for 2 of us was between $120-$140 depending on weather it was a bog roll and dog food week or not. NOW a year latter that same shopping bill is a minimum of $220 and sometimes as high as $280 thats some jump and now I'm having to cut out some items like the half ton of chocolate.

And I'm afraid regardless of all the Australian supermarkets are great posts you hear its a big pile of twaddle. The UK ones are so superior there on another planet. My single biggest gripe is the Australian "one in front" policy which means 1 hour in front!!! My local woolworths, Big W and coles all have 12 or more checkouts with a maximum of 3 ever manned, Sometimes it takes me longer to get out of the shop than it did to do the shopping!

I stand corrected

Snags are sausages but the only snag is they taste like shite. I've not had a good tasting sausage since I got here. Maybe they don't add sawdust over here.

Very brave of you to post this!!!! Some people on here can't understand where you are coming from. I for one, do. I've been here 7 months and it still frustrates the hell out of me not being able to do all my shopping under one roof and being limited regarding the opening time. And don't even get me started on the facilities. There's no such thing as toilets/baby changing facilities, decent trollies etc in our local supermarket. In my opinion doing the supermarket shop here just doesn't compare to when I was in UK.
Jo