What do expacts take home from the uk?

[Justanotheruser01]

I live in the uk and always have done (hopefully not always will!) But one thing that gets my geek interest at airports is wondering what's in people's suitcases!
What do you buy when you come home to the uk that you cant get at home abroad? And what country do you live in (if you like)?

I used to take Bisto, chocolate buttons (for kids), baby food, paracetamol (really expensive in USA), Christmas pudding. Can't remember much more, been a while. Now I live in the U.K. I order a few American things online and brought back a years supply of melatonin.

Chocolate, pot noodles and prawn coctail crisps.

When I went to Japan, and visited a friend who was in Vietnam, her requests were tampons, tea bags and some Cadbury chocolate bars.

Cheap dispersable high dose vitamin c/zinc
English language books (can get but so much more variety there)
Dried sage

We live in Germany.

Calpol
Bisto
Tea bags
Chicken tonight or supermarket equivalent sauces
Occasionally bacon and sausages - but mostly we just eat them there.
Crisps
Sweets
Malt loaf
Marmite
Lemsip
Cheap 1p paracetamol and ibuprofen
Squash

Yorkshire teabags
Heinz salad cream
Bovril
Lime juice
Oxo cubes
Bisto gravy granules
Chocolate
TCP
Pound shop boxes of paracetamol and ibuprofen and plasters

La Roche Posey stuff when it's 3 for 2 in Boots

Soap and glory, same ^

Australia

Tetleys Tea
M&S chocolate buckets (cornflakes etc)
M&S knickers
Toffee Crisps
Snickers
Yorkie Bars
Heinz Soup
Recipe Mixes
Hula Hoops
Scampi Fries
Aussie Hair Shampoo (yes they really don't sell it here!)
Kids clothes
Ready Brek
Shreddies
Krisprolls
Primark clothes
Childrens Books
Running shoes

Eastern Europe here. Teabags, marmite, Branson pickle, Colmans mustard, Daddies sauce, spices for curry, contact lens solution.

I bring the car over from Belgium, so tea bags, peanut butter, bacon, rolled pork shoulder, smoked haddock, sausages, curry sauces from my butcher, bramleys, purple sprouting broccoli, Lurpak, crumpets, creamed horseradish, joints of beef, a ham at Christmas, cheddar, red Leicester, double Gloucester, rice (cheaper in Tesco), loose spices from the whole food shop, blocks of creamed coconut, magazines, Daily Telegraphs, Sunday Times, clothes, shoes, M&S or Tu knickers, shampoo, shower gel, Boots face serum. Berocca tablets, Vanish.

If I'm over, it's cheaper to stock up on some things than pay the prices at the British store here, and some things you just can't get here.

Yorkshire tea! To be completely honest I usually have a bag or 2 in my handbag wherever I go - sounds pretty sad but it's my vice! If you offered me a bottle of £400 champagne I'd get my tea bags out instead 🤣

Calpol! Lots of it
Birthday cards
Clothes and shoes for kids also in a few sizes up
Toddler snacks and fruit pouches
Pajamas
Percy pigs
Live in UAE

Aussie Hair Shampoo (yes they really don't sell it here!)

Whaaat? You've completely ruined that shampoo for me now, @kettleonplease.

In ye olden days we'd take back a pile of videos that my mum had recorded of British TV, along with a pile of books. Now in the digital age that's not necessary, and we can get most books via Amazon (but would still go in any second-hand bookshop we come across).

Twinings Earl Grey in industrial quantities. I can get them here in Germany, but soooo expensive.

No. 7?products for me, especially the foundation.

Soap and Glory products for DD, esp the Very Pink perfume. When I wanted some for her birthday I had to get it from an Evay reseller and it was hugely expensive. We're going to Blighty in a few weeks so I'll just get a few then.

Pickled onions and Branston pickle.

That's it really. The one other thing I miss about the UK can't be brought back in a suitcase: fish and chips.

Things I can't get in Italy...
Nappy Sacks
DH excema stuff...you can't buy medication in the supermarket there, e45 is €20 in the chemist!
Baby snacks - fruit wriggles etc. You can only get rusks in Italy.

On the plus side I'm getting my dad to bring me home kids paracetamol drops you can hide in juice/milk. No more calpol battles for me!

Not really an expat but my house guest has gone back to Australia. She studied here for a few years and came back for a bit this summer. She took back lots of tea, chocolate, Scottish whiskey and m&s underwear. She came over with one huge empty suitcase and it was full with all of that when she left.

Pampers... half the cost of here
Calpol .... only on Drs prescription here
Walkers crisps
Source shower gel
Lime cordial
Cotton knickers

We've just got back to Qatar and my suitcase had:

Loads of baby clothes for the new baby (all tiny, and newborn sorted)
Muslin cloths
Blankets
Size 0 nappies
Sudocrem
Metanium
Gripe water
Infacol
Big teeth toothpaste for my 6 year old
Hair gel for my husband
Pasta bake sauce
Rice pudding
Ella's kitchen fruit pouches
Oaty bars
Allllllll kinds of chocolate
Crumpets
PJS for the kids
Pants for us all
School shoes
New trainers for the kids
School socks (black and white)
Car seat base
New pram
Calpol
Loads of playmobil

I wanted to do all my Christmas shopping but with a new baby coming and my husband reigning me in he said no. And I can't believe we forgot to buy teabags!!

When I lived in Saudi Arabia brussels sprouts were top of the list to bring back.

The only things I know of that SIL insists on taking back to the States with her are Sainsburys Red Label tea bags and Christmas pudding.

For my expat family in the USA - chocolate, Yorkshire gold teabags and imperial leather soap.

Back in the UK now but took back to SE Asia -
Clarkes school shoes
Advent calendars
Radox shower gel
Bisto powder
Bodyform
Wool
Soluble paracetamol
Calpol
Lemsip
M and S underwear
Oxo cubes
Yorkshire tea

I visit a small and somewhat isolated place in Europe twice a year. The people who live there often ask me to bring things over. I've taken, two chip activated cat feeding trays, cat collars, fixodent
for false teeth, Yorkshire teabags, salted liquorice, incense sticks, energy bars and small first aid kits. The last two were to help the asylum seekers were frequently being dumped by the people traffickers nearby.

Clothing mainly. Cheaper, more fashionable and better quality in the UK.

Vimto and Ribena.

Do they still make double deckers?