What food to bring on Self Catering Holiday France

Enterprise_1701C

Have you checked that they provide bed linen?

powershopper

food to take abroad.......
tea bags
baked beans
corn flakes

pippo

I'd take cereal, tea bags and baked beans and anything you really can't live without, and your seasonings/sauces and children's must haves!
I do freeze a few packs of bacon & take in cool box.

We have gone for a lot of years and take less and less - usually start the holiday with a trip to a hypermarket and stock up for the stay - I even have a loyalty card for one of them! Use cheap supermarkets like Shoppi & Champion and of course Lidl.
Remember very few shops open on Sundays or bank Holidays

Washing powder is generally cheaper in France, although the exchange rates are so bad for us just now.

Beware of outdoor markets - there are some bargains, but often cheaper in the supermarkets.
I sometimes look up prices using links from the daytripper .net site - it's about daytrips (lol) but has links to hypermarket sites.

Have a good holiday
Pip
x

Fountaine

I never did find Slimline Tonics and I agree about the sliced bread. I love French crusty bread but my teeth don't ! They have something called Bimbo which is everlasting not simply Longlife and tastes like sweet cake, foul !

Oh yes and I never go anywhere without a supply of good quality toilet paper. I'm a quilted Aloe Vera girl myself !

janet6267

Tea Bags
Tomato sauce
Bacon
Cheese unless you like french cheese!
Baked beans.
Cereal

Lived there for a while and these were all requested each time we had a visit from England, it is also a great idea to get some matches and a candle.

toots68

dried pasta and jars of sauce,

peanut butter,

sugar,

multipacks of crisps,

crackers to have with french cheese,

hot chocolate for those possible chilly evenings outside,

if you are taking fajita mix some packets of wraps usually have a long shelf life and the 'discovery' make of all things mexican are half price in tesco until the 31st

Sweets and emergency bars of chocolate, think they are expensive in france

How about packets of meringue nests, buy cream and fruit there

oh you have got me thinking now, I love planning things, have a great holiday xx

OwtForNowt

Tins of Sainsburys soup are 3 for £1 in Sainsburys. Whack afew tins in abig pot, add abit of water to make it go abit further and buy some nice bread over there.

barbie_babe

Long life milk if you are getting there late or on a sunday.

mandragora_2

Butter always seems expensive to me; bacon is impossible to find - the rest I'd buy there - half the fun is the shopping!

poppet

Over the years i have really notice how expensive it is to buy everyday groceries in france compared to uk prices, so much so that one year we spent nearly all our holiday spending money on food, it just didnt seem to go very far at all.
So now we always take our own, we take pretty much everything as we totally self catering, maybe having one meal out while we are there. yes it takes up room in the car, but we have a big car with lots of room and a roof box, and a trailer of we need it :rotfl: We take a couple of big plastic storage boxes with long lasting stuff and a big coolbox containing the stuff which needs to be kept cool - the cool box also comes in handy for day trips out and packed lunches.

Things worth taking:
you dont have to take full bottles of each, some things can be decanted into containers if you only need a little bit.

tea bags
coffee
hot chocolate
sugar
orange squash
cans of drink
jam crisps
biscuits
cereal
kids sweets
freezer pops
crisps
ketchup/brown sauce
cooking oil (decant a bit into an empty container)
baked beans

apples

meat


1 xkitchen roll
loo roll (we use 4 a week)
black bin bags ( 1 per day plus 1 for dirty laundry)
cling film (for wrapping a packed lunch for a trip out)
washing up liquid (squirt a bit into a empty container)
washing up cloth/brush
kitchen cleaner spray