Living abroad tips and hints for money savers

Merrywidow

Ah!!!! it brings back memories - life for ex-pats is great now with all the English produce available. Even saw Bisto grandules in the US. Me? I crave the Dutch raw herring, their coffee, sate sauce etc. When my Dutch brother in law leaves me after a visit he is laden down with corn flakes, Steak and Kidney pies, English tea and so forth - my Polish sister in Law supplies me with Polish ingredients and recipes - and now I can find them in Tesco - its a crazy world. Its great we are all helping Asea - guess our age and experience should be bottled!

droopsnout

I noticed on the UK display in our Intermarche this afternoon:

Baked beans
Baked beans with sausage
Yorkshire Tea
Oxo cubes
Hobnobs
Chocolate Digestive biscuits
Tate & Lyle's Syrup (sometimes there's treacle as well)
Heinz salad cream
Crunchies
Crumble Topping
Hayward's Sweet Piccalilli
Hayward's Pickled Onions
Carr's Water Biscuits
Jacob's Cream Crackers

And lots more I've forgotten.

It IS indeed a crazy world.

LesD

It's a shame really, but in our little corner of Spain (Murcia) there is a QuickSave (sic) with most every British item you could want. Think the first store was in Benidorm (of course!).

They actually have some surprisingly good quality British cuts of beef and lamb (chilled not frozen) and their frozen naan breads are delicious.

donny-gal

Well here in the ex pat belt of Torrevieja/Oriheula Costa all the supermarkets carry most British basics, a little pricey sometimes, and now an Iceland has opened so even more choice. The family of a neighbour just came down to see her from France where they live, and went home stocked up with sauces, beans, pork pie, bramley apple pies, etc.

As we travel out here by car now, we usually have beans and coffee in the boot.

DG

Edinburghlass_2

droopsnout wrote: »

My local Intermarche sells Yorkshire Tea!!!

I'll send you some, if you like!

Edit: I do wish this Board would allow e-acutes. Instead, I get an exclamation mark every time! As in Intermarch!.

Sadly due to users circumventing the swear filter I think e-acute was listed. I'll see if the techie boys can take it off.

droopsnout

Oh, ta!! That would be good.

ç Ç â ê î ô û à è ù ! - Yep, of the French accented characters, it's just the e-acute that doesn't work.

Must say you've got me curious as to how an e-acute is in English cusses!

seven-day-weekend

I think she means that the e-acute is used instead of the ordinary e in English cusses to bypass the swear filter!

Can we have the Spanish n with a squiggle on top that is pronounced ny as in maNYana?

droopsnout

Oh, I see! Well, that could be done with any of the vowels, and many consonants that have accented versions in various languages.

Ñ and ñ appear OK. (ALT 165 and 164).

seven-day-weekend

Doesn't work for me- I get nothing.

donny-gal

Me neither

Maybe it is a laptap thing. It works in Word.