trastu Posted July 23, 2009 Share Posted July 23, 2009 Hi everyoneJust received an email from someone wanting to set up an online one-stop-shop where a wide range of products and services provided by UK retailers and wholesalers who are willing to offer a subsidised or even free delivery to France can be accessed by everyone.To see the benefits of this and complete a short survey that will be used in persuading UK retailers to venture into the Franch market please go to www.goodyjar.co.uk Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jay Posted July 23, 2009 Share Posted July 23, 2009 http://www.goodyjar.co.uk/Trouble is when you have been here a while the UK food just doesn't taste as good as you remember it. About the only stuff we would buy is Coffee Mate and tea bags. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
nectarine Posted July 23, 2009 Share Posted July 23, 2009 About the only products I really miss are ginger beer and Ginger Nuts, which my local Auchan is now stocking at a ridiculous price. All our visitors are instructed to bring out Ginger Nut biccies when they come, but cans of ginger beer are just too bulky and difficult to bring unless by car! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
gosub Posted July 24, 2009 Share Posted July 24, 2009 If you are around Bordeaux anytime, go into the asian supermarket, you can buy your ginger beer there.[B]http://www.eurasie-bordeaux.com/index.php?pg=panyathip Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Théière Posted July 24, 2009 Share Posted July 24, 2009 Why not brew your own ginger beer?and make your ginger nuts? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jazzer Posted July 24, 2009 Share Posted July 24, 2009 Carrefour at angoulins were last week selling off short dated ginger nuts and dark chocolate McVities digestives at 50 centimes a packet. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
suein56 Posted July 24, 2009 Share Posted July 24, 2009 [quote user="Jazzer"]Carrefour at angoulins were last week selling off short dated ginger nuts and dark chocolate McVities digestives at 50 centimes a packet.[/quote]I really miss very few UK products but oh what bliss that would have been. I adore McVities chocolate digestives; now those I do miss. Sigh.[:(]Perhaps a request of the next visitors from the UK is in order.Sue Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jazzer Posted July 24, 2009 Share Posted July 24, 2009 It has been bliss!!!!! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jonzjob Posted July 25, 2009 Share Posted July 25, 2009 Well I've just had a choclate almond croissant and I have a millefeiulle for later and those knock spots off of anything that I could get in England. I even like the tea! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Théière Posted July 26, 2009 Share Posted July 26, 2009 get your mixing bowl out suein56http://bakingforbritain.blogspot.com/2008/04/digestive-biscuits.html Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
valB Posted July 26, 2009 Share Posted July 26, 2009 Or you can buy McVities digestives in the French section of supermarkets now for 1 euro 40c. seems expensive but a little treat now and again. The French were buying them, check out the advert on UTube it is hilarious. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
suein56 Posted July 26, 2009 Share Posted July 26, 2009 [quote user="valB"]Or you can buy McVities digestives in the French section of supermarkets now for 1 euro 40c. [/quote]That might just depend where you live. We live in a tourist area but definitely no sign of them at all; perhaps that is because at least 85% of the tourists are French. [quote user="valB"]The French were buying them, check out the advert on UTube it is hilarious.[/quote]Love the advert; would just love to get hold of some McVities, with, or even without, chocolate, but nothing available as yet. [:(]Sue Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ruonglue Posted September 8, 2009 Share Posted September 8, 2009 Just bought some Mc vities digestives and chocolate digestives from the French biscuit part of intermarche. They are still selling the english version on the "Anglais" shelf for about three times the price.Only complaint is that the chocolate seems different,perhaps what were used to can't be classed as chocolate in France? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AnOther Posted September 8, 2009 Share Posted September 8, 2009 Not interested in choccy digestives unless plain chocolate [;-)] Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Clair Posted September 8, 2009 Share Posted September 8, 2009 [quote user="AnOther"]Not interested in choccy digestives unless plain chocolate [;-)][/quote]Hear Hear! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Fi Posted September 8, 2009 Share Posted September 8, 2009 Flakes, prawn cocktail crisps (sorry filth I know), Hula Hoops, and baking powder in a tub with the directions of 4 tsp per 8oz flour. Did 4 tsp of Alsa levure chimique and had to shot blast the oven [:)]Fi Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Alan Zoff Posted September 8, 2009 Share Posted September 8, 2009 Move to France and miss English produce. Hmmm. There are other things I might miss but, with the exception of decent tea, supermarket food is not one of them.Perhaps other regions of France are different. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Fi Posted September 8, 2009 Share Posted September 8, 2009 Oh yes, and Plymouth Gin (can't beat it - yum)[:D] Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
PaulT Posted September 9, 2009 Share Posted September 9, 2009 Think we have decided that when we move to France full time the only thing we will miss is an Indian restaurant - oh and Maynards Wine Gums. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mr Coeur de Lion Posted September 9, 2009 Share Posted September 9, 2009 Having not been back to the UK properly for 10 years, there's very little I miss from over there. What I do miss, I can buy from the local supermarket, that's only Branstone pickle, marmite and Bisto gravy. Yeah, it is pricier, but if I'm only buying the stuff once or twice a month, it's no train smash. The rest I can live without quite happily (and have done so for 10 years).I certainly don't miss the beer. Had a can the other week, Boddintons or something. Forgotten how flat tasting the beer is. No wonder it sells poorly overseas! It was cold though. [;-)]R. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
LisaJ Posted September 9, 2009 Share Posted September 9, 2009 I still buy man-sized tissues and Barkeeper's Friend in the UK. Not really interested in a company that doesn't list Waitrose in its supermarkets. regardsL[:)] Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gastines Posted September 9, 2009 Share Posted September 9, 2009 Just returned from a short trip to UK and car was loaded with boxes ,on offer at Sainsbury's, of my morning cereal. Why are cereals so dear over here? Of course our buys included a large quantity of tea-bags and a few tins of baked beans at £1 for 4.Regards. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tibbs Posted September 23, 2009 Share Posted September 23, 2009 Sue56, Super U in Ploermel 56 are selling the McVities choc digestives on the normal shelves too. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bigears Posted September 27, 2009 Share Posted September 27, 2009 The issue for me is how expensive france has become in the last 10 years. Just come back from germany/austria and found basic food stuffs cheaper than france. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
suein56 Posted September 27, 2009 Share Posted September 27, 2009 [quote user="tibbs"]Sue56, Super U in Ploermel 56 are selling the McVities choc digestives on the normal shelves too.[/quote]Tibbs; thanks for that - I'll go and have a look next time I shop there. Fingers crossed.Sue Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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