Not been to France for years - what's good in French supermarkets?

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Indulge me - I am off to France soon with the DCs and LOVE a foreign supermarket. Am idly planning and looking forward but I need some specifics. Do they still do those peanut flavoured wotsit things? Obvs cheese and wine... what else is good?

enabledlurker thanks for the tip about Auchan. I've been buying at Pharmacie Monge but will try Auchan first.

ParisProperty could you share the name of the Rose? making my list now and the wine section is always kind of overwhelming

Oh my goodness, we go at the end of the month and I'm so excited now just for the bloody supermarket shop

Can anyone tell me, does le petit Marseillais contain "salicylates"?

Mini saucisson in bags from monoprix. Best. Food. Ever.

Cotes de provence.
It is pale and dry.
I dont like sweet rose.

motherofdragons some Petit Marseillais contain benzyl salicylate yes

You can buy Apericubes on Ocado now (alongside your Picard).

We're just back from France and we loved:
Petit Marseillais soap
Peanut wotsits
Comte
HappyLife Haribo (such a great name)
Caramel yoghurts from Carrefour
Tomatoes
Melons
Haricots verts cooked in walnut oil and garlic
merguez
Everything in the expensive chemist

We didn't love:
Orangina Haribo (just not a nice flavour)
the ghost crisps in ketchup flavour (disapponting tbh)

I am plotting my retour to France just reading this.

Oooh! Anglaise1
I picked grapes in St Nicolas de Bourgueil. I also brought a few bottles back.

I keep saying I will go on a diet. But now I want fig jam.
I am looking a slice of peach and pistachio tart right now. I dont know how French people are not all huge tbh.
Maybe they just pace themselves because they can get this stuff all the time. We all have to eat and drink a year's worth in a couple of weeks because we know we can't get it back home.

Parisproperty my favourite rose.

Omg and I forgot to say honey!!! Beautiful perfumy honey!!

ParisProperty thanks, I'll try it. Is it the one with the rose shaped bottom? I agree, I think French people do pace themselves. Even I do now after multiple trips. Only went to Amorino once in a month rather than every day on earlier trips :-)
The other thing that I absolutely have to have is a Belgian beer I haven't found elsewhere: La Chouffe cerise. Mmmmm

ParisProperty a lot of French people in the provinces are huge now, but it is due more to fast food and snacks (the crisp shelf in supermarkets is about 10 times the size it was when I moved here in 2002) and not the more expensive patisserie, which still tend to be more for special occasions and Sundays
The peanut wotsits are called Curlies.

a lot of French people in the provinces are huge now
I noticed this. I'm on holiday in France now and have really noticed a change. I lived in France as a teen and always thought of French women as mostly slim with the odd more rounded middle aged woman (hence that diet book based on French women I guess) but it's definitely not the case right now.

Another vote for Le Petite Marseillais shower gels, handwashes etc
full sugar sirop (lime & mint),
remoulade,
carrot salad

We particularly like:

White chocolate & cherry jaffa cakes/Auchan own
Maille olive oil
Fruit macarons, in a box, near yogurts & desserts
Tinned petit pois
Mini french toasts
Maille Dijon mustard, big jars
Maille balsamic dressing
Sprits biscuits
Lindt chocolate, all varieties

Nivea frothy foaming face wash (no longer available in the UK!)

Have a great trip!

@Anglaise1 that's disappointing - I have allergies so was hoping it would be my answer.

Loving this thread. Went to the Intermarché close to where we're camping today. Bought many items suggested on here to take home!

Here are my suggestions;

BN - sandwich chocolate biscuits - can be got from Ocado

Tomates Farcies (stuffed tomatoes)
Bouche à la reine (small puff pastry chicken pies)
Champignons à la grecque (mushrooms in a spicy tomato sauce

Here's my list

Lillet
Eau de vie
Pineau {depends where you are staying)
Suze
Any local liqueurs, will vary depending on your location, chestnut in the Limoges area for instance.
Cartons of sea salt
Tins or jars of pate.

(I've been to the La Chouffe brewery, you might like Orval beer Justsaynonow.)

I love French supermarkets so much.

Logs of goat cheese with the straw coming out the end
The blackcurrant flavour mustard is great.
Also Fleur du sel as PP have said.
Pots of apple purée with different fruit flavours mixed in
Palmier biscuits - those puff pastry curls with loads of sugar on

the Petit Olivier range is brilliant- the hand washes are all real proper strong floral or herbal scents and very low use of additives etc very nice. I am allergic to SLS so I use these (soap based) and they don’t make my hands crack.

Lots of Petit Marseillaise scents are SLS- free for bath bubbles, just check the ingredients- some are, some aren’t.

Nice non-sting suncream from La Roche Posay

Mon Dieu, I love this thread. Salivating at the idea of pistachio custard pots.

I'm also mildly amused at the (unlikely) possibility of a parallel thread on French Mamansnet, with a load of French women going, 'oui, lea supermarchés d'Angleterre sont incroyables! Il faut acheter les chips delicieux - ils s'appelles 'Pom Bears'. Et ausssi, j'adore le breaded ham et le coleslaw'.

les supermarchés. Damnez-vous, autocorrect.

Rain

OP not sure when you are Travelling but 15th August is a public holiday and ALL shops will be closed.

Everything.

rain love this!! Les pom bears, bouf, make aussi les skips, les quavers, tous les chips sont incroyables. Et bien sur Le gout sel et vinaigre.
Les biscuits dodgers de confiture
Et Le salad de thon, mais, pâtes et mayonnaise