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I can make the bread so thats ok, croissants i can get at Costco. best ever mmmm

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I get my butter in the US, cheapo unsalted shop brand stuff :eek: In addition to American/Canadian I think I've seen Irish, Lurpak and French in supermarkets, that's all. Dairy is an expensive disappointment for me here.

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Can you get Organic easily we didn't see a lot of it in the shops, mind you i wasn't really cooking that much when we were there, too busy choosing OHs home cinema chairs etc ;)

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I used to buy steralised for my coffee and semi skimmed for everything else in the UK.
It seems to be alot fattier the milk here, i actually get fat/grease floating in my coffee now :eek: And like a scum round the inside of the mug, when i've drank my coffee ??? Dont know why it happens it just does :blink:

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There's a spreadable butter available here. It's butter with a little bit of vegetable oil added to it. I find that the taste is close to the taste of butter. But it's more expensive than butter.

Another option is to keep a dish of butter at room temperature, as I do. Well at least it works in winter. In summer room temperature actually is too warm, and the butter melts.
x

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Thats the same as here sometimes it ends up liquid, what do you use for baking ?

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I don't know, I expect so. That's another minor gripe about supermarkets here - I don't routinely buy organic, but I like to see the full range of stuff on the shelves as sometimes it might be my preferred purchase. But pretty much all the organic stuff (apart from a few cereals, kid's biscuits, rice etc) is in its own section and not duplicated through the store. This includes dairy which is in its own separate chiller. So you have to remember that actually the organic sundried tomatoes or whatever that you saw in the organic aisle at the start of your shop are better value that the ones you're looking at on the shelf, and go back for them. It's a pain :eek:

How I'd love to reorganise supermarket shelves here, what a saddo, eh?! :thumbsup:

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I hear ya! I had a real difficulty finding things when I moved here because they aren't in what I consider to be a logical order (read: aren't laid out the same way as UK supermarkets!). It still bugs me that veggie products are located next to their 'meat' counterparts rather than altogether (so veggie lasagna is with meat lasagna, veggie burgers with meat burgers etc - means that, as a veggie, I have to go through all the meat aisles to find veggie products).

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Just a thought - has anyone asked why? I'm a dedicated carnivore personally, but I could understand why it wouldn't be pleasant for a veggie to do this....perhaps if you asked there might be a reason, it might be they just hadn't thought about it that way....

Just thinking out loud...ignore me if its already been done?

Dawn

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We didn't really look that much as i said for Organic, i didn't notice any when we were looking so i was probably looking in the wrong area then,

You would think like Tesco here ( theres used to be seperate ) that they would sell a lot more if they give people the choice side by side and its not always more expensive ? I made a list yesterday just to see how much i actually buy thats Organic it is actually quite a lot :blink:

Bread, flour, Meat, Veg but that i buy the Organic box and add anything else i want from there organic range including most our fruit, butter, Milk,

Cheese, Greek yogurt, Honey, weetabix and other cereals ie oats for granola
tomatoe sauce, tinned tomatoes,rice, sugar if i can't get organic i get unbleached natural golden,

wraps, pasta fresh, and lots more

eggs are free range because you can't have free range organic
as far as i know ?

I like to have the choice, i think the things that worry me mostly are meat and dairy produce.

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Morrisons sell free range organic, though they are expensive £3.49 a dozen

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I'm guessing (because I haven't asked but may well now....) that it seems logical to them. It's the same as the rest of the shelves - I can see a logic behind some of the stuff they put together it's just not the logic I'm used to. I'm sure Canadians say that about our stores in the UK....

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My local Tescos does put the veggie stuff separate - all the veggie frozen stuff is in one section of the freezers, next to frozen veg, whilst the freh veggie stuff - ie prtend sausages, tofu etc is next to the yoghurts!!

Ihate it when they change it round tho - it makes me more determined not to buy any thing extra as thats what they are trying to get you to do!!

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I've just seen the Marmite commercial with Paddington Bear - it did make me laugh! (you Canadian residents without UK TV can't see it ;) ). And Marmite's now squeezy! What an innovation!