What can you not live without that you can only find in the UK !

[tiredpom]

Inspiration needed everyone, I have lived overseas for 8 years. Parents are coming to visit again in a few weeks and normally I have a huge list of things for them to bring ..... but this year, maybe it's the years away from home I am losing a bit of nostalgia for UK centric goodies. So far I have Liz Earl cleanser, soap and glory body wash (can get it here but it's expensive), cheese and onion/ prawn cocktail walkers, robinsons juice and diet Irn bru. If you lived abroad what would you crave/miss/couldn't live without ???

@bummypicklemummy well that's another thing you've reminded me that I miss about the Uk now being in NZ. Bloody Amazon!

My dad lives in Canada and can get most things through the British shops they have but they are expensive so I tend to either send him or take;
Chocolate
Tea
Spam
HP sauce
Rice pudding

He really misses a British chip shop and pub!

NZ doesn't have amazon?! Not sure if that's good or bad!

I was going to say bisto and marmite, but I don’t miss it that much. I think I have pretty much assimilated into my new culture.

We had friends who moved to Italy, we used to take them Fray Bentos pies and teabags.

Lived abroad a lot . It boiled down to not getting a good cup of tea (no pun intended). Only last year did my us cousin succeed in making me a drinkable cuppa and she has been coming to the uk since the 60s. She got hold of Yorkshire Decaf somehow and the water and milk was miraculously ok. She's moved recently although I don't think me having a nice cup of tea was the principal driver on that.

We used to get these sent to us/brought over in people's suitcases with them (We have 3 dcs, I'm not just a weirdo who lives on sweets and crisps by the way!!)

Percy Pigs
Bisto gravy
Books (stupidly expensive in NZ)
M & S Ceylon teabags (always used to get cut open by MAAF if sent by post though, so I had dirty great yellow inspection stickers over the boxes :-) )
Hula Hoops
Cadbury's buttons (the Cadbury's in NZ tastes odd)
Two in one shampoo and conditioner
Clothes for the children
Frank's Hot Sauce
Antihistmamine tablets and syrup
Scampi Fries

Marks & Spencer’s closed in The Hague in October and now I’m down to my last Salad Cream and packet of sausages. The plus side is, I eat less crap because the sweet treats in the Netherlands aren’t to my taste (they put bloody cinnamon in everything).

It always surprises me that people in the States say they can't get tea. Even our little island store sells Yorkshire, pj tips and all the twinnings. (And Coleman's, Worcestershire sauce, all the biscuits.)

Wish they sold chicken crisps though.

Ooh, ooh and germolene. We always stocked up on germolene.

lived in Australia for 2 years and missed Vimto & Jeff's cakes

jaffa *

I live in Australia and regularly crave a bag of Walker's Cheese and Onion. Or Wotsits. :( The crisps here are shit.

Cornflakes aren't "right" either.

Vimto
Cheese and onion crisps
Alberto Balsam Tea Tree Tingle shampoo

A paper copy of The Times

Calpol too

It's so cheap

Cadburys mini rolls too

They are pretty good

Vimto diluting juice
Can you get Baileys abroad?

@Ski4130 my aunt was gutted when we told her germolene had changed, she always used to stock up.
Along with decaf earl grey, boots low sugar chocolate and twiglets.

Other family in Australia preferred underwear and hula hoops.

You can get Baileys.

M&S chocolate chip shortbread and Littles swiss chocolate instant coffee

I lived in China for several years and I used to get a friend to send me heinz beans, jesmona black bullets, hp sauce and marmite every so often! I used to eat one tin of the beans straight away bean by bean with chopsticks out of the tin cold

Bisto
Paxo
Ham stock cubes
Marmite
Crumpets
Pan loaf
Black pudding
Haggis
Cumberland sausages (which is ludicrous as I live in land of the sausage)
Back bacon
Mitchum deo
Crappy mags
Minty chocolate
Gluten free stuff for my partner's kids (they are coeliac and the range is better)
Greetings cards
Huge packages of Sudafed and ibuprofen
Yorkshire tea, but I get the massive catering packs from amazon

And I don't always buy all of these (but mostly ha ha).

elQuinto, I read your post as Curly Wirly-flavoured hot chocolate sachets' but I don't THINK that's how you meant it... or did you? Does such a thing exist?

I always think other countries can't do chocolate like the UK, either the cheap stuff or 'proper' stuff (was in Portugal recently and even fancy chocolate bars were a bit weird). Crisps, too; there's nothing as nice as Kettle or Popchips, or Walkers. And I'd have to ask for the loose-leaf tea I like [ponce].

Sliced white bread.

My Dsis, in the Gulf, always wants Tums indigestion tablets, and English tea.