The Comfort Zone. Favourite food, drinks, where to buy, and recipes.
Sep 17th 2010, 1:42 pm
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Re: The Comfort Zone. Favourite food, drinks, where to buy, and recipes.
Talking of breakfast, I'm frantically trying to sort out all the trivial things before moving over shortly, bank accounts, insurances etc. but my main concern is what am I now going to eat for breakfast! You see I've seen the cost of my fav. muesli, and other equivalents, and the prices are shocking! So what am I going to eat instead?
Sep 17th 2010, 2:59 pm
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Re: The Comfort Zone. Favourite food, drinks, where to buy, and recipes.
Talking of breakfast, I'm frantically trying to sort out all the trivial things before moving over shortly, bank accounts, insurances etc. but my main concern is what am I now going to eat for breakfast! You see I've seen the cost of my fav. muesli, and other equivalents, and the prices are shocking! So what am I going to eat instead?
Sep 18th 2010, 2:14 pm
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Re: The Comfort Zone. Favourite food, drinks, where to buy, and recipes.
Nope, no Esselunga down south I'm afraid! Mainly Tuscany and Lombardy with a few in other Northern areas.
They are doing a bogof at the moment, I got two packets of Jordans on it! You can also get Quaker oats up here, again no idea in the south. I would say that as far south as Tuscany and then in Rome you can get a fair few of your recognisable brands but down south you'll have to take luck of the draw...
They are doing a bogof at the moment, I got two packets of Jordans on it! You can also get Quaker oats up here, again no idea in the south. I would say that as far south as Tuscany and then in Rome you can get a fair few of your recognisable brands but down south you'll have to take luck of the draw...
Sep 18th 2010, 2:57 pm
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Re: The Comfort Zone. Favourite food, drinks, where to buy, and recipes.
Nope, no Esselunga down south I'm afraid! Mainly Tuscany and Lombardy with a few in other Northern areas.
They are doing a bogof at the moment, I got two packets of Jordans on it! You can also get Quaker oats up here, again no idea in the south. I would say that as far south as Tuscany and then in Rome you can get a fair few of your recognisable brands but down south you'll have to take luck of the draw...
They are doing a bogof at the moment, I got two packets of Jordans on it! You can also get Quaker oats up here, again no idea in the south. I would say that as far south as Tuscany and then in Rome you can get a fair few of your recognisable brands but down south you'll have to take luck of the draw...
Sep 18th 2010, 5:47 pm
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Re: The Comfort Zone. Favourite food, drinks, where to buy, and recipes.
Talking of breakfast, I'm frantically trying to sort out all the trivial things before moving over shortly, bank accounts, insurances etc. but my main concern is what am I now going to eat for breakfast! You see I've seen the cost of my fav. muesli, and other equivalents, and the prices are shocking! So what am I going to eat instead?
Sep 19th 2010, 8:58 am
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Re: The Comfort Zone. Favourite food, drinks, where to buy, and recipes.
Lots to get used to, rest of my life to do it in - sounds good to me!
Sep 20th 2010, 9:52 am
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Re: The Comfort Zone. Favourite food, drinks, where to buy, and recipes.
Nope, no Esselunga down south I'm afraid! Mainly Tuscany and Lombardy with a few in other Northern areas.
They are doing a bogof at the moment, I got two packets of Jordans on it! You can also get Quaker oats up here, again no idea in the south. I would say that as far south as Tuscany and then in Rome you can get a fair few of your recognisable brands but down south you'll have to take luck of the draw...
They are doing a bogof at the moment, I got two packets of Jordans on it! You can also get Quaker oats up here, again no idea in the south. I would say that as far south as Tuscany and then in Rome you can get a fair few of your recognisable brands but down south you'll have to take luck of the draw...
Different areas must have different offers.
Sep 20th 2010, 11:03 am
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Re: The Comfort Zone. Favourite food, drinks, where to buy, and recipes.
If you go to their main website you can do a search by store for the different offers - it's how I knew what to look for when I got there! Even within Florence the offers can vary from store to store - mine is one of the smallest so it doesn't get as many electrical or homeware offers. You'll probably get regional products on offer too. There was a great offer by the producers of Parma ham here last week though. If you bought 150g from the deli counter you got another 50g free! Well worth it! 
Sep 20th 2010, 12:13 pm
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Re: The Comfort Zone. Favourite food, drinks, where to buy, and recipes.
Has anyone seen "Uncle Ben's long grain rice" in any supermarkets ?? I've been told that they've stopped sending it to southern Italian supermarkets because it costs triple the price of normal "gallo" rice.
Sep 20th 2010, 2:09 pm
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Sep 20th 2010, 5:27 pm
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Re: The Comfort Zone. Favourite food, drinks, where to buy, and recipes.
If you go to their main website you can do a search by store for the different offers - it's how I knew what to look for when I got there! Even within Florence the offers can vary from store to store - mine is one of the smallest so it doesn't get as many electrical or homeware offers. You'll probably get regional products on offer too. There was a great offer by the producers of Parma ham here last week though. If you bought 150g from the deli counter you got another 50g free! Well worth it!
Sep 20th 2010, 8:09 pm
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It is massively expensive! I get the supermarkets own brand Thai rice - panorama and Esselunga do it - and it costs the same as risotto rice but is long grain and tastes nice too!
Sep 21st 2010, 6:22 pm
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googled Esselunga (confirmed, it doesn't exist down south). they sell the rice and at a decent price considering what I was paying here. since OH and son are moaning about my risottos not being to their liking, it looks like we'll be coming up north for a long weekend next month ...
In the meantime I'm trying out a couple of basmati rices
In the meantime I'm trying out a couple of basmati rices