Anything worth buying & bringing home from Australia?

[Imsixtyandiknowit]

Going out to visit a friend soon...... is there anything brilliant I should get? Or is everything the same as the UK?

Sadly, just about. You can get Tim tams here(glorified penguins anyway). We didn't bring much back, the only two things I wished id bought more of was the Cancer Council bb cream(dd liked it more than eborian) and a mentholated magnesium spray(excellent after walking and preventing cramps) but I bet i could find here if I tried. Uggs(from the Ugg shop) are made in china(you can get aussie made but ££).

Nothing really but I’m still jealous. Maybe melatonin?

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We lived in Australia for a couple of years when I was a teenager 50 years ago. At that time the articles of choice were Ugg boots, but of course you can get them everywhere now. They weren't anything like as expensive, comparatively, as they are now. I bought mine in the local smallish supermarket!

Ugg boots are about half price or a third off if you can get an online order delivered in time to an address whilst you're there. Just be careful on sizing. We've brought back slippers, mini boots and clog style ones all at a brilliant price. Enjoy!

Oh and we found Elf makeup in KMart much cheaper than the UK too which my teenager loved.

Big jars of Vegemite. All you can get here is the 200g ones and they only last us a month 😋

Suncream, e.g. Bondi Sands. Large bottles, good quality and much cheaper than here.
Bonds underwear

If you are obsessed with the Recipe Tin Eats website (and you should be, most of Australia is but so is most of the US and UK) you can stock up on the Maesri tins of Thai curry pastes, super cheap at Woollies. The red curry paste and the Massaman are incomparably good!!

Kid's clothes from Target and Big W are great. No better than H&M really but your child will be the only one with the Target stuff so they're not wearing the same stuff as every other child, and MOST IMPORTANTLY nobody can steal your child's cardies/hoodies from nursery and claim they thought it was theirs! 😂

Sunscreen and dark chocolate Tim Tams, which are a hundred times better than Penguins!

My Aussie friend takes Day/Night Nurse tablets home for her mum.

My friend went a couple of years ago and bought loads of clothes in KMart and Best and Less

You can get dark chocolate and every other timtams in any UK supermarket, why would you drag them back from Australia?

Uniqlo same price as here but in Aussie dollars so half the cost. MECCA make up and sun screen is fab. Chemist Warehouse dirt cheap for basics OTC meds. Le Specs sunglasses are stylish, durable and reasonably priced.

The freezeable yogurt pods and haigs chocolate. The chocolate caramels are lovely

Also can buy melatonin from any chemist if you are over 55

Surely they mean what they said which was 'dark chocolate tim tams', not dark chocolate AND ALSO tim tams? I've only ever seen regular, milk chocolate and caramel tim tams for sale in the UK, never the specialty flavours. Where have you seen flavours other than those in the UK?

Paw paw cream is a good alrounder ointment for insect bites, minor scratches/burns and dry skin

Allens lollies (sweets) especially snakes alive , jaffas (chocolate balls with a red coating and an orange flavour, similar to a chocolate orange), minties (mint flavoured, chewy sweets), cheekies (chocolate flavoured jelly babies) an pinepples. Eucalyptus boiled sweets are also something different and various alternatives are great if you have a cold/blocked nose.

Eucalyptus and also tea tree oil are also great as antiseptic, minor scrapes/cuts/bites and removing sticky labels from things

Most suggestions above can be bought from a supermarket such as coles or woolworths or the medical things from chemist warehouse.

@7238SM you can get dark chocolate Tim Tams from Waitrose along with caramel ones and extra chocolaty (sp) ones. I’m a fan of the dark chocolate as they’re not as sweet as the normal ones.

A wallaby and a boomerang please

Came to say this. But make sure you put them in your hold luggage. I'm still bitter about the one that got taken off me at Sydney airport and it was 15 years ago!

Being a bit of a Uniqlo fangirl who shops in both countries I was a bit at your comment so just did a quick price comparison on a staple item - Cashmere blend heat tech top:

AUD39.90
GBP19.90

If you read again. What I said was that you can get dark chocolate and every other timtam, as in dark chocolate, milk chocolate, caramel, white chocolate, double chocolate timtams in the UK. I have seen all of these in Tesco Morrisons, Asda, Sainsbury, my local corner shop and local petrol station.

If anyone likes Cadbury's chocolate without the palm oil, Oz is where to buy it, made in Tasmania.
A friend always asks for Bond's knickers when I go to the UK.

Sadly, shopping is getting to be much of muchness wherever you go.

You can buy lovely items made from banksia cones, though I'm not sure, being wood, they can be brought back into the UK.

Second bonds' underwear and pawpaw ointment. Burger rings and cheezels (aussie crisps). Caramello koalas, furry friends, snakes alive- all the chocolate and confectionery!