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 ???

As a vegetarian living in Canada, it’s quorn for me.

Surprisingly marmite is widely available.

@tiredpom, thank you!! Guess what I'm gonna be doing this long weekend....

M&S food

@LustyBusty !! Are you in oz too ? (You'll be very popular with your pommy mates ! The jelly part is tricky ..... we've not got it 100% right yet, but it's the best one we've had here ! Good luck ... send me a pic 😃

I love the idea that US supermarkets have 'ethnic' aisles with UK food in them ... I love to wander down the ethinic aisle in our Asda, my latest find are Polish (? Baltic anyway) onion-flavoured crisps.

democracy

Fenugreek, and oatcakes. Bakewell tart. Punjana tea, I know it's Irish, but you get it in Scotland too and I love it. Swizzles sweeties, decent cider, minty aero, square crisps, Tunnocks' caramel logs. Co-codamol (slowly going prescription only across Europe and therefore possibly not legal to import though!), Calpol, germoline and lidocaine throat spray. Paracetamol, aspirin and ibuprofen if you're anywhere that still has a protected pharmacy market (Switzerland, 20 fucking francs for 24 paracetamol, I am looking at you).

@tiredpom yes I am. forecasting a heatwave here tho so perhaps baking is not the best activity!

I missed pickled onion monster munch!

I lived overseas for a few years I missed

Decent tea bags
Marmite
British biscuits (digestives, ginger snaps, hob nobs)
Irn bru
Toasted teacakes
Malt loaf
Fruit pastilles
Sweet pickle
Cough syrup (unbelievably hard to get a good one outside uk in my experience)

I can't get Night Nurse where I live, I always buy some at Manchester airport and ask visitors to bring a bottle with them! Ditto Ainsley Harriot mulligatawny cup a soups

Brown sauce and bakewell puddings. Not together though, that would be odd

Can you get Christmas stuffing, ie sage and onion etc variety abroad? And more importantly do you even like stuffing and want it?

Someone who used to live in the UK & then moved abroad, used to ask for christmas stuffing to be brought back from the UK when i was a child. I used to think it was very unusual but maybe not.
Maybe it was not available then, but it is now... Just an idea.

Cheesecakes! I'd need them shipped over I think!

I used to bring back pounds of caramel shortbread, but then found only I was eating maybe I hid it too well it so stopped. Always Cadbury Flakes for DS, and now large supplies of Superdrug Naturally Radiant range. Oh, and rhubarb gin.

Wish I could bring a stock of macaroni pies and vegetable pasties. Now that I would ditch DH's clothes for!

You can paxo here - but I have had to get my mum to post it when we lived in another part of the world !

Am i missing any amazing toiletries ranges (from boots or super drug?)
might get some molton brown (very over priced here) or white company (can't get it)

Kraft cheesy pasta
Cans of vimto
Square sausage

I live in the US and I really miss plain black cotton (bikini style) underwear multipacks from M&S, Tesco, George etc. So reasonably priced for actual cotton. Can’t find anything here that isn’t over $50, polyester, horrific patterns or huge granny pants style.

@SilverOnToast fruit of the loom briefs are ok. Or Marks' actually deliver here.

Good to know! Thanks bummypicklemummy!

I've been living overseas for 9 years and I don't miss anything from the UK except my family.

The chocolate in NZ is better than Cadbury's, the tea is fine, the Marmite is identical (as long as you realise it's called OurMate), the crisps and snacks are fab (can't get Grain Waves in the UK, I had to bring a whole load over with me last time I visited), the wine is cheap and fab - there's absolutely nothing I would want someone to bring me if they visited. Just themselves.

Oh and while you can't technically get Amazon in NZ, @NakedAvenger74 - you can get yourself a YouShop UK address. Amazon will deliver to it and then NZPost will bring it to your NZ address for you, cost per kilo and not that expensive compared to international couriers. Takes a week to ten days, or has so far. They do a US address as well, we've bought so much stuff from CafePress, amazon.co.uk and amazon.com. Great for online shopping at Christmas!

Decaf tea
Low salt Stock cubes
Stuffing mix
Crumbly cheese
Marzipan

I can absolutely live without these but I have not seen Mr Kipling chocolate slices or angel slices anywhere where I've lived for 15+ years. They only have their mini pies here which I hate. Also can't get Smith's Chipsticks, Space Raiders, prawn cocktail Pringles and Chewits.

I can get my favourite pickled onion Monster Munch and prawn cocktail Walkers 3-5x the cost locally. We used to only be able to buy the Australian version of Cadbury's, which is gross but recently, we've been able to snag British-made ones for decent prices.

I'm going back to the UK in March after 3 years away and can't wait to gorge myself with snacks from the pound shop.

I just ordered E45 and Atora from Amazon