Food help
Mar 31st 2011 | 12:57 am
#17
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Re: Food help
Baked Beans taste like shit in can here, I made beans on toast go to eat and its horrible,so where can I get good cheap Baked Beans
Bread, any decent bread ? back home I ate Tesco Value, but here everything is horrible,
Dominos is horrible here but I loved it in the UK,
Lucozade where can get this at cheap price, I use drink tons of it,
Irun Bru,
chicago town pizza where can I get something like this
Twiglets where can I get them,
Bread, any decent bread ? back home I ate Tesco Value, but here everything is horrible,
Dominos is horrible here but I loved it in the UK,
Lucozade where can get this at cheap price, I use drink tons of it,
Irun Bru,
chicago town pizza where can I get something like this
Twiglets where can I get them,
Mar 31st 2011 | 1:04 am
#19
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Re: Food help
It's just that beans is a regular subject on here and there are several types available. Clarks brand is usually considered acceptable by Heinz lovers.
What I don't understand are the ones with pork fat in them. The first time I saw "pork" on the tins I thought "goodie, beans with little sausages mixed in."
Did I get a surprise
Mar 31st 2011 | 1:05 am
#20
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Mar 31st 2011 | 1:11 am
#21
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Re: Food help
The Brit shops I know are both in the east end I'm afraid. They're both on the small side but pack a lot into them - including all the things you've mentioned.
The first is called Chocolate Box at Donlands and O'Connor.
Despite the name they carry a whole load of non-perishable items - including beans, biscuits, soups, branston, Walkers crisps tea bags etc. They even have a small selection of M&S stuff.
http://www.thechocolatebox.ca/store/
The other is really in the middle of nowhere - well Scarborough - but is worth a visit: Mrs Bridge's British Bakery at Eglinton Square Shopping Centre, on the corner of Victoria Park Road and Eglinton
http://www.bestbritishfoods.com/
http://www.eglintonsquare.ca/
They sell most of the stuff the Chocolate Box does but also do some baked goods and meat - mostly with a very strong Scottish bias - including Scottish white bread, Scottish beef pies, sausages, pasties, a few cheeses etc. and lots of cakes and sweet things.
You won't get Asda prices, but you will find what you're looking for. Chocolate Box is cheaper and often better stocked.
Those are the ones I go to anyway.
The first is called Chocolate Box at Donlands and O'Connor.
Despite the name they carry a whole load of non-perishable items - including beans, biscuits, soups, branston, Walkers crisps tea bags etc. They even have a small selection of M&S stuff.
http://www.thechocolatebox.ca/store/
The other is really in the middle of nowhere - well Scarborough - but is worth a visit: Mrs Bridge's British Bakery at Eglinton Square Shopping Centre, on the corner of Victoria Park Road and Eglinton
http://www.bestbritishfoods.com/
http://www.eglintonsquare.ca/
They sell most of the stuff the Chocolate Box does but also do some baked goods and meat - mostly with a very strong Scottish bias - including Scottish white bread, Scottish beef pies, sausages, pasties, a few cheeses etc. and lots of cakes and sweet things.
You won't get Asda prices, but you will find what you're looking for. Chocolate Box is cheaper and often better stocked.
Those are the ones I go to anyway.
Mar 31st 2011 | 1:14 am
#22
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Re: Food help
Interesting. I remember years ago (circa 1989) my wife found a Brit food store in Toronto near Yonge/Bloor. Later we found out it had been closed down due to the fact that the food it was selling was not labelled in both English and French. Have the food labelling laws changed? Or are these foods now being labelled in both languages?
Mar 31st 2011 | 5:00 am
#23
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Re: Food help
If you are still in the UK and have small children with a Heinz Beans craving I recommend you change brands before you leave the UK and give them Asda etc own brand. The Heinz Beans here are weird and very sweet but my very fussy 8 year old eats them no problem.
As for bread we don't buy sliced bread it's got too much sugar in. I knock up some soda bread when I have time or we just eat bagels. Superstore's baked on the premises ready sliced bread isn't bad mind.
Like others have said, the key is to stop trying to find "English" food that you are used to and try something different. Sometimes we do come across something like Heinz Salad Creme and buy it at $4.99
just because it's nice in an egg sandwich, but we certainly don't go out looking for it.
We'll be having perogies for dinner tonight for the first time.............hopefully kids will eat them, if not they can always share a packet of Kraft Dinner, lol.
As for bread we don't buy sliced bread it's got too much sugar in. I knock up some soda bread when I have time or we just eat bagels. Superstore's baked on the premises ready sliced bread isn't bad mind.
Like others have said, the key is to stop trying to find "English" food that you are used to and try something different. Sometimes we do come across something like Heinz Salad Creme and buy it at $4.99
just because it's nice in an egg sandwich, but we certainly don't go out looking for it. We'll be having perogies for dinner tonight for the first time.............hopefully kids will eat them, if not they can always share a packet of Kraft Dinner, lol.
Mar 31st 2011 | 7:04 am
#24
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Re: Food help
Don't buy sliced bagged bread from a grocery store, period.
Go to a bakery. Buy a loaf of their bread. End of story.
Go to a bakery. Buy a loaf of their bread. End of story.
Mar 31st 2011 | 7:19 am
#25
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Re: Food help
heinz make baked beans in Canada..some one meantioned the deep browned beans but they make original baked beans too..just its in a green tin..taste almost identical to british baked beans.
they just cant do sausages or bacon..i tell a lie the safeway cheap sausages taste alot like greasy spoon sausages you know the ones you used to get for school dinners? which i like.
they just cant do sausages or bacon..i tell a lie the safeway cheap sausages taste alot like greasy spoon sausages you know the ones you used to get for school dinners? which i like.
Mar 31st 2011 | 8:06 am
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Re: Food help
Mar 31st 2011 | 8:32 am
#29
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Re: Food help
12 grain toast, marmite and avocado. 
Mar 31st 2011 | 8:57 am
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