Stock up before leaving UK
#121
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Joined: Feb 2007
Location: Okotoks, Alberta
Posts: 526
Re: Stock up before leaving UK
I have found in Sobeys a really nice range of "Imported from England" biscuits - Compliments Sensations Milk Chocolate Shortcake Biscuits. They are the round wheel shaped ones you get in biscuit selection tins at Christmas.
They aren't particularly cheap but I hide them on the top shelf of the cupboard out of sight of less choosy offspring who are quite happy to eat any kind of cookie and aren't bothered about whether the chocolate is made in Canada, USA, England, Outer Mongolia.....
I just help myself to one whenever I feel the need for nice chocolate!! Not quite Thorntons Continental, but they will certainly do!
They aren't particularly cheap but I hide them on the top shelf of the cupboard out of sight of less choosy offspring who are quite happy to eat any kind of cookie and aren't bothered about whether the chocolate is made in Canada, USA, England, Outer Mongolia.....
I just help myself to one whenever I feel the need for nice chocolate!! Not quite Thorntons Continental, but they will certainly do!
#122
Forum Regular
Joined: Feb 2008
Location: Liverpool - UK
Posts: 31
Re: Stock up before leaving UK
Sounds like you all take an extra suit case back home to Canada with you after a visit back to the UK
Maybe you should set up a district club and just order the stuff in, but then again I dont know what the shipping costs are, it would probably not be worth it....
Al
Maybe you should set up a district club and just order the stuff in, but then again I dont know what the shipping costs are, it would probably not be worth it....
Al
#123
Re: Stock up before leaving UK
Wish there was an anonymous posting option on here but nevermind...
One for the girls - I'd recommend bringing over "Diflucan" (or any of the generic fluconazole equivalents) if it's something you find that you occasionally need, as it's prescription only over here
One for the girls - I'd recommend bringing over "Diflucan" (or any of the generic fluconazole equivalents) if it's something you find that you occasionally need, as it's prescription only over here
#124
Re: Stock up before leaving UK
How do I know this - my best mate who is Canadian suffers from bad yeast problems and she had sooooo much trouble getting it perscribed.
Gaynor
#125
Re: Stock up before leaving UK
When I look at the prices on the shelves and see that the identical version is two thirds or less, I don't feel such a saddo after all.
#126
Re: Stock up before leaving UK
I have a variety of kids stuff in the cupboard, but they don't like the grape and cherry flavours avail here, etc and would rather be ill than suffer something so disagreeable! Holding their nose and putting them in an armlock isn't hugely successful either. Calpol it is, then.
#127
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Joined: Jul 2004
Location: Mississauga, Ontario
Posts: 228
Re: Stock up before leaving UK
When I came over in 2000 I brought my own wine opener (seriously, I thought Canadians didn't drink wine). Plus, I thought Canadians only shopped at those Eastern Bloc looking Costco outlets, so I bought a whole bunch of M&S / C&A clothes.
#128
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Joined: Jan 2008
Posts: 129
Re: Stock up before leaving UK
What about Heinz Salad Cream
#130
Re: Stock up before leaving UK
Squash
Natrel deodorant in Xores smell
mini Lillets
Ainsley Harriot "chocolate heaven" bars
My mum's Yorkshire puds
Sweetex sweeteners
Salad Cream
Crisps in interesting flavours
Crispy Duck
And yes, all the choccies and sweeties that cost a fortune now to buy from brit shops
Natrel deodorant in Xores smell
mini Lillets
Ainsley Harriot "chocolate heaven" bars
My mum's Yorkshire puds
Sweetex sweeteners
Salad Cream
Crisps in interesting flavours
Crispy Duck
And yes, all the choccies and sweeties that cost a fortune now to buy from brit shops
#131
Pretty Fly For A Whiteguy
Joined: Feb 2008
Location: Barrie, Ontario(formerly Penperlleni, Cymru)
Posts: 570
Re: Stock up before leaving UK
Has anyone mentioned before that the reason Cadburys chocolate tastes different here is because it has bees wax in it.
Because of the heat apparently.
Because of the heat apparently.
#132
Re: Stock up before leaving UK
The Creme Eggs sold over here in the US at Christmas as Holiday Ornament Eggs are imported from the UK but the Easter ones sold in most places are made here by Hersheys...and are sadly different I'm afraid! But I did find UK made Easter ones in Aldi in one of those boxes of 4.