Robski

Ahh, so long as i know they do exsist i shall continue the great chicken hunt...

Will report back any progress

iaink

You could ask dbd for one of his?

mkmurrays

We get whole chickens in Kelowna - but not cheap - and they offer frying and roasting options - what's the difference(don't say one you fry, one you roast)! How do you breed chickens one of which is best for frying (how do you fry a whole chicken?) and one that is ideal as a roaster??

I'd like to find Galaxy chocolate......hmnnnn, having a Homer Simpson moment. Galaxy. Hmn....

ladymoose

Hi Robski - re the chicken. You'll occasionally find a roasting chicken in Safeway or CostCo etc but mostly its chicken pieces. More often you'll find 2 or more tiny little chickens sold together and marked as frying chickens. Not a lot of meat on them!

The way around it is to find a local farm supplied / organic type store or go to the farmers direct. We do this now and are getting fabulous chickens. If you have a local Hutterite colony near you - talk to them too - they raise chickens and sell them locally - there is usually a waiting list though - so get on it asap.

Also, the slaughtering of decent chickens is seasonal - and I believe (chicken owners please step in here!) - that this time of year a lot of the old layers are sold off cheap (so chicken prices come down a bit in the shops) but they are not good birds to roast. I'm not sure what is optimal chicken buying time - but our supplier did their slaughtering mid summer - we have 8 whole birds in the freezer now!

ladymoose

PS - Also check out the frozen section in the supermarket - often you'll find them there instead of in the fresh section.

Steve_P

Perhaps in order to save you and us the pain of accidental amputation if you are going to be buying this bacon on a regular basis you should consider a meat slicer $119.99 at London Drugs.

Calgary Colemans

Maybe an odd one, but I'm missing smoked fish...like smoked mackrel and haddock....also hot smoked salmon (the stuff I found was like rubber) We like kedgeree and fish pies made with the above.

Steve_P

Iced tea buns, decent scones, Chorley cakes, currant buns, petit fours.

I don't 'ave a sweet toof 'onest.

emmabell

We are not there yet, but one year when my OH was over he bought back a smoker with him. We addapted it to our power and we often smoke (hot) salmon, sausages, anything going actually, and we use the empty box on top to cold smoke cheese......had loads of friends bidding for our smoker when we leave. Why not try it.

Edna Bucket

~ Cress and mustard

~ nice tart Bramley cooking apples

~ Paxo stuffing ( well actually you can get it but you have to cook it in a saucepan. I tried baking it in the oven and it turned into a house brick)!

~ Rowntree's jelly

~ Adnams Broadside

~ Spicy beanburgers (used to get from Tesco)

~ Sandpaper on a roll (just by the length you want. Far superior to the silly stuff in Canada)

Biiiiink

I think I saw this, called broccoli sprout. Is that the same stuff? I certainly haven't been able to find seeds, wanted to grow them on kitchen roll with my kid too

Madmac

Morton's rolls. The nice chewy ones with the burnt top (or as my Mum says "Well fired.").

DOBBIE

Twiglets
Mini Cheddars
Salt and vinegar Hola Hoops
European tour golf on the tv.

Thankfully - up to date Coronation street and NO Eastenders

Calgary Colemans - I saw smoked haddock in Canadian Superstore at the weekend - not frozen and it looked ok.....

Cheers

Dobbie

Edna Bucket

I've had frozen kippers and frozen herring recently and they were reasonably good.

Atlantic Xpat

Sob.