vicky o

Larissa, the next sale is usually the last Saturday in July. The December sale is 27th. But hopefully, I won't be around for that one!!!

tiredwithtwins

pumpkins 89c a kg!!!!!!!
wow!!! they are about £2 a kg here.....scrawny little buggers they are too!!!!!

ah....I first met and fell in love with pumpkin in australia.....never managed to relive that devine taste of pumpkin soup here in the uk!!!

ho hum....

sue

HiddenPaw

Well it's better than the Safeway next door for starters!
Leo's has a great selection of deli foods as well as all your usual basket items.

The cheese counter is fantastic - the guy on the cheese counter is also the buyer. I've never met anyone who know so much about cheese!!! (this compared to the girl on the Sainsbury cheese counter - when I was pregnant, I asked if the feta was pasteurised - she asked me what pasteurised meant......!!)

Also, olives, olives olives....lots of varieties, stuffed, marinated, etc etc

Great selection of fresh pasta sauces and pestos.

And gourmet selections of jam, chutney, honey, etc etc; fancy pastas.

I could never let the hubby shop on his own as he'd spend a fortune and come back with things I deemed rather useless (like a bottle of vanilla syrup.....he himself didn't even know what he would use it for, it just looked nice!)

MarkMyWords

We have a not-so-small plastic flagon of genuine (it claims) maple syrup that we bought in Maine a few years ago. It's unopened so I reckon it's coming to Oz where it can gather even more dust!

HiddenPaw

Vicky, have to agree, Pumpkin Patch has the cutest selection of kiddies clothes that I have ever seen. (Also a nice selection of maternity wear)
Before we left Melbourne we bought some baby clothes, convinced we were having a boy....well we had a little girl so now have lots of clothes that she can't wear! (Have to keep em for next time!) The price tickets are dual UK/Oz tickets and altho they are a NZ company, the prices work out cheaper in the UK. I just had a look at a couple of items - tshirt is priced as 6 pounds or $19 AUD; jacket is 9 pounds or $25 AUD.

MarkMyWords

Tsk! What sort of clothes are there that a little girl can't wear? (Although I can imagine the opposite problem... not many little boys running round in pink skirts!)

vicky o

From experience, little girls aren't usually happy with blue dungarees with pictures of trains and cars on them!!

MarkMyWords

Well they should be encouraged to be! (Just a brief hijack rant here... society is run by men for men and the rot starts when we're very young: we are taught gender-specific aspirations as early as possible, something I think we should try to avoid. Ok, rant over, back to prices now please!)

anya4oz

Those look like good prices.

As an additional question- can you get combined insect repellent/sunscreen cream in Oz? I've been able to buy this in the UK (Boots) and SFO (Safeway) and it works well - however, maybe in Oz you need a more industrial-strength product to deal with the local insect life!

Anya.

anya4oz

Wow - Leo's sounds terrific. I do fear that it will become my Aussie equivalent of 'Waitrose', though......

Anya.

MrsDagboy

Regarding sunscreens - Larissa, we buy the non-brand name stuff (the one we use is called Persona I think) by the 1L pump pack (we have about 4 of them, 1 in the boat, 1 in the car, 2 at home), its excellent, does exactly the same job, just doesnt smell as fancy as the brand names. The sunshirts you can buy almost anywhere, all the chain stores like Kmart, Best & Less, Big W have them, I usually try to buy at end of season for next year (or 2 or 3, the ones the little Dagboys have now have lasted them 2 summers so far). I cant remember exact price, but I think I paid around $10 each for them (but greatly reduced, you would pay more at full price).

Anya, yes, you can buy the combined repellent/sunscreen, only problem with it is that it has to be applied alot more often. Cant remeber if its because of the repellent or sunscreen component.

Grayling

I remember last time I was in Australia that even the kids on beaches were covered in sunsuits from head to toe but that most of the parents were sunbathing regardless.
Felt sorry for the kids but it is obviously sensible.

G

ABCDiamond

We don't seem to notice many biting insects during the day, when the sunscreen is needed. They mainly seem to come out at dusk.

Not sure about other area's.

Ceri

You can buy Tiger (and anchor the Singapore beers) in a lot of the larger bottle shops. You can also get Singa beer if you look ( Thai beer) ( I know for a fact they sold it in deadcliffe - the kippa ring bottle shop outside the shopping centre) , I've never seen it in the pubs though. Can't remember the exact price.. but it tends to be alot more expensive than the other beers.
Stella is sold in most bottle shops in the fridge sections, and I recently went to one pub where it was on tap.. a new promotion... had a pint - yuck. .. it tastes terrible to me now ( I used to drink Stella many years ago back in the UK) .. it tastes terrible to me now, my taste buds must have changed over the years.

The only thing I miss "drink wise" is a decent pint of Ale and bitter.

I prefer VB to a lot of these Brit largers.. and thank christ for Kilkenny .. ( but that tends to be dear here.. around $60 to $70 for a slab.. depending on "specials") Kilkenny is also on tap in a lot of pubs ( but that is brewed here in Aus, unlike the cans which are imported - there is a a diff in taste, well I can taste the difference anyway).

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shopping list:
Nescafe coffee (300g) - $9.98
Reflex paper A4 - $5.83
Kettle crisps (200g) - $3.33 ( and very nice they are too)

Peter

UK foods in Dallas

Prices in US$ obviously.