What food item do you wish you had taken with you to the USA?
Dec 5th 2013, 4:13 pm
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Dec 5th 2013, 4:18 pm
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Threads like this make me feel like I'm in chokey.
Dec 5th 2013, 4:29 pm
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Forgive my ignorance but what do you use golden syrup for?
Things I bring back - Imperial leather shower gel, poppadoms, teabags, 2lb of stilton, Walkers cheese and onion crisps and a battenburg cake. This trip, leave tonight to London, I'll also bring Christmas goodies.
As for bread, bring the yeast!
Things I bring back - Imperial leather shower gel, poppadoms, teabags, 2lb of stilton, Walkers cheese and onion crisps and a battenburg cake. This trip, leave tonight to London, I'll also bring Christmas goodies.
As for bread, bring the yeast!
Lx
Dec 5th 2013, 4:53 pm
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Re: What food item do you wish you had taken with you to the USA?
You are.
Me, I've been up before the parole board and I've got parole in England for three months, January to March. Long enough that I don't have to try to catch up on eating all in a couple of days ..
Me, I've been up before the parole board and I've got parole in England for three months, January to March. Long enough that I don't have to try to catch up on eating all in a couple of days ..
Dec 5th 2013, 4:54 pm
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Dec 5th 2013, 5:07 pm
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Bacon, sausages, gravy (although I now have found a store selling bisto), pataks entire stock of vindaloo paste, donner kebabs, chip shop curry, orange squash, sausage rolls, Lloyd Grossman tomato & chilli pasta sauce, aunt Bessie's home style roast potatoes, aunt Bessie's Yorkshire pudding batters......
Dec 5th 2013, 5:15 pm
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Dec 5th 2013, 5:22 pm
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Dec 5th 2013, 5:31 pm
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Dec 5th 2013, 7:02 pm
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Not food, but I'd bring tons of Lemsip.
Dec 5th 2013, 7:13 pm
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Forgive my ignorance but what do you use golden syrup for?
Things I bring back - Imperial leather shower gel, poppadoms, teabags, 2lb of stilton, Walkers cheese and onion crisps and a battenburg cake. This trip, leave tonight to London, I'll also bring Christmas goodies.
As for bread, bring the yeast!
Things I bring back - Imperial leather shower gel, poppadoms, teabags, 2lb of stilton, Walkers cheese and onion crisps and a battenburg cake. This trip, leave tonight to London, I'll also bring Christmas goodies.
As for bread, bring the yeast!
Dec 5th 2013, 7:26 pm
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Re: What food item do you wish you had taken with you to the USA?
-Cheese- Solid cheese (hard or semi-soft, that does not contain meat); butter, butter oil, and cultured milk products such as yogurt and sour cream are not restricted. Feta cheese, Brie, Camembert, cheese in brine, Mozzarella and Buffalo Mozzarella are permissible (USDA Animal Product Manual, Table 3-14-6). Cheese in liquid (such as cottage cheese or ricotta cheese) and cheese that pours like heavy cream are not admissible from countries affected by foot-and-mouth disease (FMD). Cheese containing meat is not admissible depending on the country of origin.
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Dec 5th 2013, 7:41 pm
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Its also hard to avoid HFCS its in absolutely everything. I try hard to make sure the stuff we eat is free from both GE/GM food and HFCS but its difficult. Trader Joes is great.
Chicken breasts here are HUGE the size of a turkey breast in the UK so you can only imagine what has been in the feed and added to them
There is a big difference in how my kids have developed physically, my eldest was 5 when we arrived here and wasn't exposed to the hormones that are also in the food from as early age as my youngest. I put it down to the milk cheese and fresh chicken and steaks. There is three and a half years age difference between them and the youngest who is now 12 is more developed, the same height and has bigger feet than my nearly 16 yr old.
Dec 5th 2013, 7:55 pm
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If I were to move back to the US right now, Quavers would be on the top of my list.
Dec 5th 2013, 7:56 pm
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There is a big difference in how my kids have developed physically, my eldest was 5 when we arrived here and wasn't exposed to the hormones that are also in the food from as early age as my youngest. I put it down to the milk cheese and fresh chicken and steaks. There is three and a half years age difference between them and the youngest who is now 12 is more developed, the same height and has bigger feet than my nearly 16 yr old.
His younger brother is, like me, short stuff; we take after our little immigrant mom and dad who were each five and a half feet tall. All I'm saying is that we all grew up in the US, but we didn't all become overgrown monsters. Not sure about my nephew, though.