British Expats reared in GB, come wallow in unrequited food porn love with me, I'll go first

[suzywong]

these are making my pulse race faster

your turn

Thanks. SuperU within walking distance of my office, will check it out.
I have found something called 'cheddar fermier' by Wykes Farm at Leclerc which is pale yellow and crumbly (rather than plasticky and orange iyswim). I can't really tell the difference when I use it in recipes but it's not the same on the cheeseboard.

Me too, 20p!! Lancashire cheese
Our supermarket has just reopened with quite a large cheese section (real Brie, Feta, turkish goats cheese etc, all in tiny portions and v.expensive) and 500g of real English red cheddar for about 5.70 UK pounds...is this outrageously expensive for Cheddar?
Actually last weekend, I was pining for a Saturday lunch from my childhood, of various pies (meat and potato, cheese and onion etc. pork pies etc.)
And right this minutes, I want some Quavers...

My Mother brought over our Christmas cake 2 weeks ago.

I CANNOT belive she forgot to bring Wensleydale .

I really want m and s cheesecake

and I wish now I was a bad cook because I bake lots of the food now that I used to cheat on!

Crumpets
Potato cakes
Sainsbury´s Chicken Tikka Biryani (drool)
Extra thick double cream
Carrot cake
Fresh cream cakes
Real bread
Walkers Sensations
Mushy peas

oh CRUMPETS - YES

Admylin - yorkshire puddings, I use the green flour(glatt I think) from Hofers/Aldis and I have discovered something like lard to put in the tins - it's in a yellow packet and says something about schnitzel on the packet, can't remember exactly - I can get it in Spar and Adeg - don't know if you have those?

what on earth on you on about, Kerrymum?

I am not a sausage Tsarina, I do not make The Rules

Suzy the Waitrose products are available in a few Cold Storage and Marketplace stores. The basement of Tanglin Mall (Marketplace)has lots as does Jelita Cold Storage on Holland Road. As well as Waitrose frozen puddings they have Waitrose squashes, biscuits and jams. Plus there are Green and Black's choc bars at Jelita CS-yummy.

The joy of living just outside Brussels is the British shop which stocks almost everything you could need, including Rodda's clotted cream, but I still bring my bacon over from Devon; the Irish butcher near the EU for great sausages and Norfolk Bronze turkeys at Christmas, and my local deli who sells Shropshire Blue cheese, Stilton and decent strong Cheddar.

I would however kill for a Caesar salad, which seems to be unobtainable, and a root beer.

Oatcakes...

Am taking DS to see his grandparents, thanks to new direct Ryanair flight to Edinburgh, next week and will be stocking up.

proper bread, I want a ciabatta, french stick, turkish bread etc to taste like they look and are labelled as opposed to tasting exactly the same as squidgy white bread. You would have thought I'd learnt my lesson after 5 years but no every now and then I go ooooh ciabatta - does anybody fancy squidgy white for lunch. Cheese too, tasty cheddar left in the fridge for a long time is closer to parmesan than the stuff labelled parmesan.

We do however have 2 english shops and a friend was very excited at the arrival of minstrals - and nice they were too even if one cost the same as a packet at home

Does anyone buy from an "expat" website?
or shop at English shops, if so what do you buy and it is worth the extra cost?

(thinking setting something up myself as there are so many Brits around here - thanks for input.)

I do not mind the extra cost as long as its not too huge but it is the postage that kills it. £20 for 5 kilos. Almost worth taking excess luggage on the plane and paying less in a supermarket.
I have clubbed together with friends and done a couple of parcels over generally round Christmas. ( Ordered in October !!)

I made a pie the other night. A proper pie with big chunks of turkey breast cooked in gravy with onions and carrots and fresh parsley. All enclosed in proper melting shortcrust pastry made simply with flour and butter and no sugar.

Served with buttery mashed potatoes, green beans, peas and gravy.

Something you just can't buy in the shops in Bermuda.