For those of you who live overseas now...what would you like to receive in a 'care' package from the UK?!

[DANCESwithHughJackman]

So far I've got
small jar of marmite
Big bar of cadbury's dairymilk (friend lives in the US)

That's it! Any ideas welcome

Big yes to dairy Milk and Marmite.
Ribena
Orange marmalade
Good tea
Heinz baked beans with veggie sausages (if they still make them)
Oh yes, Shreddies. And Ready Brek (porridge from normal oats is very wholesome but somehow Not The Same)
A couple of packets of Bachelors pasta 'n' sauce
Magazines, definitely
There are a lot of other things I'd like, but they're all perishable - Tesco Finest cheesecake, potato waffles, vegetable sausages, Leicester cheese

Christmas-related:
Crackers
Selection box
Mince pies (with vegetarian mincemeat)

Oh, and some decent underwear and a nice pair of pyjamas from M&S.

WOW! Thank you all! Will definitely be adding...

mince pies
PG Tips
lemsips
Copy of the Times or Telegraph

I can't do sausages etc because they will take too long to get there
Please any of you poor chocolate deprived people let me know I'm happy to add a couple of extra bars to my shopping and ship them over to you...christmas spirit 'n all that. I couldn't live without cadburys

I use a great site called britsuperstore, they have a lot of this stuff, plenty of Christmas goodies, and my orders have arrived in the US within a week. They will also forward orders from the M&S website. I get bio-tex from them, too, can't live without it.

But the shipping always comes to as much as the order if not more...

Yorkie bars, prawn cocktail crisps, agree also with the cadbury's bars, penquin bars or and other UK biscuits because they are not the same over here.

Sainsbury's Red Label tea bags.

When in England we raid the nearest Sainsbo's and clear the shelves!

Do get some funny looks at airport check-in!!

Suet if they like cooking suet puddings.
Golden syrup, baked beans if not too heavy.

paracetamol, cough medicine, strepsils, Sudocreme

branston pickle

am watching this thread! just sent a small box to our landlords in Africa with some goodies from Scotland.

my friend in dubai demands those pink percy pig sweets from M&S

The colour supplements from some Sunday papers.

John Lewis. The big multi-floored one in Cribbs Causeway.

Sigh....

But failing that, a big bag of Revels and pretty much anything child-related from The White Company.

lol Califrau! Reminds me we once sent 24 packs of Walkers Cheese & Onion crisps to a work colleague who had recently emigrated to Australia!

my dad in US was devastated to find it seems to be impossible to make yorkshire pudding there - maybe something to do with the flour...anyhow I have to send those little bags of "yorkshire pudding batter mix" seemingly to make his life bearable. His other things are teabags, Alpen, Cadburys Fruit & Nut and Aniseed balls. Apart from the Teabags I don't recall him ever having/wanting these things when he lived in the UK.....

Oooh, dilbertina , tell me more about those bags of yorkshire pud mix. Never heard of them and I'm having withdrawl symptoms here in Germany. Also must be the flour as mine don't work and I've bought all the types of flour on offer. I could get my sis to send me some from UK.

not true about the yorkshires....dh makes excellent yorkshire pudding in the usa!!!! but it is possible that there is a difference in the type of flours available and what they are called. Dh uses All Purpose flour in usa. But I do have to add that he also uses extra virgin olive oil instead of beef fat. Maybe that combines nicely with the American Flour!

Also, Dh goes back and forth from London to Los Angeles almost once a month and usually travels with a half empty suitcase. I'm sure if you got a box to him in London (or LA) he'd be happy to tranport things across the pond for you.

He regularly brings PG Tips (for me) and Earl Gray (for him) and clothes from Primark for the kids. And boxer shorts for ds from asda.

marmite
cadburys
gravy
custard
magazines
real tea
decaf tea
BACON!

Christmas pud and instant custard

SofiaAmes sounds like your DH is king of yorkshire puds!

Admylin - all the supermarkets seem to do own-brand batter mixes in cooking/baking section bit, cheap as chips but since mostly just flour guess they should be! Does seem to be fairly foolproof (my dad is fairly culinarily challenged and even he manages with them!)