Best food from America?

[Rosalisa]

Hoping MN can help me out here. DP is coming to the UK next week and wants to bring me some things.

Which treats and savoury things have you enjoyed the most or can you get most things here now?

(Actually I can't, I'm in the Highlands. It's a tiny Tesco)

Grape jelly? Kraft Macaroni and Cheese?
My mind has gone blank 😶

Thanks in advance.

dreichuplands if you don't want to use it and you have a local food bank they will take it. Local churches sometimes run food banks or they partner with a parish in a poor area to stock a food bank. It's worth calling around if you have several cans of it and you don't want to see it go to waste.

math I had exactly the same thought yesterday when a postal food drive paper sack dropped through my door.
I feel a bit guilty passing food with such a high level of salt on to others with limited food choices.
The dc's school does regular link ups with our local food pantry as well so I could always do that ( the bulk buy of Annie's Mac and cheese went that way)

melatonin tablets are useful and cannot be bought here

Yes, you can buy them online (from websites such as iherb.com) and have them delivered to the UK for no extra cost. And it's perfectly legal. You just can't buy melatonin over the counter in the U.K.

Trader Joe’s “everything but the bagel seasoning”

You’re welcome.

—if you want to send me some too that’s fine—

Limited food choices often come with limited means of preparing food, so a can of tomato sauce is a good choice as you just have to open it and heat it up/reduce it a bit. It can go on pasta with a little seasoning added, provide the sauce for spag bol, or extend a can of chili.

Strikeout fail!

Thank you so much. Fabulous ideas 😍
This has been really interesting (and has cemented my notion to move there asap)

Crest whitestrips for teeth
Hydrocortisone cream ( you can get 2% OTC in the US as opposed to 1% here
Tylenol
Advil
Melatonin

Can't think of any food - the soft caramel M&Ms maybe?

I used to like buying the bottles of pre-made Starbucks Frappuccino (especially Vanilla flavour) when I visited the US. Obviously gets a bit heavy if you buy a few though and I decided I'd rather swap the weight for nice wine that I can't get in the UK.

This isn't food I know but......
I also used to stock up on Benadryl as the formulation seems to be different to the U.K. version and it works really well as sleeping aid for me. Except now I've discovered I can get it off Ebay so no need to bring it back with me.

While scouring CVS/Walgreens, I discovered a love for Glide Deep Clean dental floss. I usually bring a huge stash back home with me. Slightly weird I know. I also buy bags of Colgate Wisp Max Fresh. They're little one-use travel toothbrushes that don't need water (Zac Efron used one on Graham Norton's show last Fri if anyone saw that). Really handy for travelling, especially on long flights. I also stock up on Secret solid stick deodorant. Amazing stuff! Way better than anything I've bought in the UK.

I used to bring back amazing bagels from a bakery in Brooklyn. Stick them in a ziplock bag and they stay pretty fresh. I like Newman's Own jars of salsa. Definitely much nicer than salsa jars we get in the UK and on a par with fresh salsa.

I have also been known to bring back ready-made quesadillas (from Wholefoods in Miami). They're a-maz-ing! I could quite happily live forever in South Beach's Wholefoods. I wish we got the same deli food in the UK branches.

As for poutine (which someone mentioned upthread), I get my fix from La Poutinerie on London's Brick Lane on Sundays so no need for contemplating smuggling cheese curds through customs. All authentic, made and sold by Canadians. Just don't think about the calories!

Peanut butter crackers.
Pretzels bites stuffed with peanut butter or fake cheese.
Cheese in a can, not for any taste or nutritional value but because it exists.

Chlorpheniramine maleate (found in Alka Seltzer cold remedy and as name brand - 'Allerchlor', etc. as well as own brand antihistamine, eg. ChlorTabs in Walmart, Walfinate in Walgreens) stops sneezing fast and is also mildly soporific.

Bailey's coffee creamer. It's non-alcoholic so you can have Bailey's coffee and still drive!

Actually, it might be refrigerated...I can't remember

Milk Duds!
Plus lots of what everyone else has said.
There's a lot I miss from when I lived in the US!

Bailey's coffee creamer does need a fridge. I used to have it all the time when I first moved here, Im going to have to get some now that I've been reminded!

Alka Seltzer cold remedy. It knocks a cold out on day one

Is this true?! I've just had a cold and had some of this in the cupboard that I totally forgot about. Dd was using it to make a "lava lamp" in school so I've never actually taken it. Makes me almost want my cold back to try it.

Chlorpheniramine maleate (found in Alka Seltzer cold remedy and as name brand - 'Allerchlor', etc. as well as own brand antihistamine, eg. ChlorTabs in Walmart, Walfinate in Walgreens) stops sneezing fast and is also mildly soporific.

It's sold here under the piriton brand and also own brand? Boots own brand online is 10p/tablet, Walgreens own brand on their website is 14cents + tax, so cheaper in the UK. I guess you might need to actually talk to the pharmacist though, but it's certainly not prescription only.

Trollies, fruit rollups, tootsie rolls, gushers, Reeces (also available in the UK but £££) milk duds, fruit loops cereal! Jerky as well but not sure if you can bring it into the UK.

We always get asked to bring lots of maple syrup but we make our own.

Craft mac and cheese is rancid.

They are about 3 cents/tablet in Walmart if you buy a two pack with 100 in each for $5.92 total.

That is Walmart's ChlorTabs - their own brand.

So a lot cheaper.

www.walmart.com/ip/2-Pack-Equate-ChlorTabs-Chlorpheniramine-Antihistamine-Tablets-4-mg-100-Ct/519540090

-HOT TAMALESSSSSS (the candy)
-Beef jerky, they do so many types over there
-the gold Hershey bar - involves pretzels!
-stuff from Trader Joes eg Everything But The Bagel seasoning, snack stuff, whatever looks good

Someone mentioned upthread that everything suggested up to that point was available at ASDA.

PLEASE tell me you meant to include Cheez-its and I will be your friend forever.

I once bought in CVS a Clorox bleach “pen”, which was magic on little stains. Have never seen it here.

Pecan rolls. Pecan nuts round a marshmallow centre. Yummy. The only thing aside from Red lobster that I miss
I Good and Plenty and Jolly Ranchers but we have a sweet shop that sells those here.