 Poster: A snowHead
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| holidayloverxx wrote: |
| @biddpyat, I've got 3 jars in.my cupboard..just take a jar or a freezer bag full |
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@holidayloverxx, slow cookers are brilliant. Dump some browned beef, onions, mushrooms and a bottle of wine in the before setting off and when you return you have a beautiful aroma and lovely stew ready. 15 minutes work in the morning while everyone else is faffing about.
Yes I have a slow cooker, sharp knive and a sharpening stone in the apartment already but if you are driving to a rented apartment I suggest taking them.
I have smuggled into France brussel sprouts and parsnips in the past for Christmas dinner. They can sometimes be hard to find in French supermarkets.
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Brussel sprouts can definitely stay at home.
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| biddpyat wrote: |
| I still don't quite get why English people insist on bringing their English food with them, |
You know, back in the day, even Everest expedition brought along pressed shirts! It’s probably a culture or tradition thing.
The English doesn’t have a monopoly on that idiosyncrasy either. 
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But pressed shirts were difficult to find around Everest base camp, whereas wholesome food / ingredients can be bought in almost every ski resort.
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There are very few things I feel the need to take with me. Yorkshire Tea bags for the hubster maybe? If anything it's a picnic for the first day and the food for the dogs. Of course you can buy dog food, but not always the brand your dog likes and for us, we need a round trip to the pet shop when we really would rather be skiing. I've sometimes brought a spice paste for a curry or two, as the ingredients can be hard to find. First night dinner is bought en- route when we stop for fuel, as there's a supermarket next door, along with the essentials for breakfast next morning.
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First night dinner for us is usually a sprint to the take away pizzaria which doesn't close until 10:00 pm otherwise it is the emergency stock. A 5 AM departure usually gets us to Le Arcs about 9:00 pm depending on how the tunnel goes and of course the M25.
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I would agree bringing first night dinner (and 1st breakfast) can really smooth out the start of the week. Especially when the timing is tight. But beyond that? There’re supermarkets, even if not the most well stocked ones.
I just can’t fathom planning a whole week’s menu ahead of time, let alone pre-making every meal. Never mind carting it across the channel, up into the mountains. Speaking of up into the mountains, does the OP’s wife know baking at altitude takes different amount of time?
| garyyb wrote: |
My wife goes pretty hard core... like breaking bad. I'm taking frozen lasagne, oven ready bread dough |
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@Hells Bells, I can see the point of the dog food. Nothing worse than a dog after a tin of different food. 
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| RobinS wrote: |
@Nadenoodlee, Canned Confit of Duck is delicious  |
given the botulism maybe avoid the canned food at the moment
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| davidof wrote: |
| RobinS wrote: |
| @Nadenoodlee, Canned Confit of Duck is delicious |
given the botulism maybe avoid the canned food at the moment |
But that was from some sardines that were home 'canned' by the restaurant that served them later to customers. Canned food from large scale canned food manufacturers are, one would suspect, likely to have much more rigorous processes.
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| abc wrote: |
| biddpyat wrote: |
| I still don't quite get why English people insist on bringing their English food with them, |
You know, back in the day, even Everest expedition brought along pressed shirts! It’s probably a culture or tradition thing.
The English doesn’t have a monopoly on that idiosyncrasy either. |
Oh I know that, actually I have a group of those old clay pots, that says suitable for safari . Perhaps I shouldn't have actually said English, but people, out from stuff that has a unique flavour and you can't live a week without it, or that it's just not worth buying in another country,
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@biddpyat, I presume many English Victorian explorers wouldn't have gone on expeditions without a pot or two of Gentleman's Relish!
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You know it makes sense.
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| biddpyat wrote: |
| I still don't quite get why English people insist on bringing their English food with them |
| biddpyat wrote: |
| I take kenco instant coffee to Austria |
Surely from just these 2 posts you can see that each person is very much different an entitled to take their own choice and nothing is actually wrong in this situation!  We all do holidays differently and that is pretty ok really!
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Otherwise you'll just go on seeing the one name:
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| Nadenoodlee wrote: |
Perhaps the poster doesn’t want to spend their time cooking after skiing and doesn't want to eat out all the time. Makes perfect sense to me.
French ‘ready’ food is shite, canned tartiflette anyone? |
Yeah, too complicated to get in to but a combination of allergies and early week logistics, with young children. Plus we have a big enough car so why not. I expect we'll still buy 75% of what's consumed.
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Poster: A snowHead
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In years gone by when we had small children and we used to fly, I would pack mini boxes of cereal, tea bags and a small jar of coffee, so there was always something for an emergency breakfast, and even some dried packet soups, just in case of travel delays and arriving in a ski resort late at night. Do I even remember dried orange juice powder? If we stopped for a comfort break at a services, one of us would try and find some milk if local shops were going to be closed and pick up sugar sachets if we had a coffee in the airport.
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Obviously A snowHead isn't a real person
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| biddpyat wrote: |
| I still don't quite get why English people insist on bringing their English food with them |
French culture tends to be that you should cook everything from scratch, or buy it fresh from the deli. Their microwave ready meals are generally rubbish compared to the UK and much smaller portions.
And certain things just aren't available - if you like a weekly Indian curry (or Chinese other than sweet & sour), you're going to struggle to find any kind of choice for ready made sauces, pappadoms, naan breads or even pilau rice. Carrefour stock Tandoori and Tikka Masala and that's your lot. The "British" sections in places like Meribel have more choice but they're much more expensive than the UK so you might as well bring your favourites with you.
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I hate to imagine what would happen if such a person had to go without their weekly curry.
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| Legend. wrote: |
| biddpyat wrote: |
| I still don't quite get why English people insist on bringing their English food with them |
| biddpyat wrote: |
| I take kenco instant coffee to Austria |
Surely from just these 2 posts you can see that each person is very much different an entitled to take their own choice and nothing is actually wrong in this situation! We all do holidays differently and that is pretty ok really! |
yes I do admit ill bring a small ziplock of instant coffee, but as I said in another post I understand small things that may just not be worth getting in the resort and leaving after you, the coffee, is because I have several cups before I go out in the morning, hubby uses the coffee machines, too strong for me. I get the tea coffee, maybe curry paste , etc small stuff. But the European supermarkets have a great selection and its not hard to find most of what your looking for.
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| JayRo wrote: |
| I hate to imagine what would happen if such a person had to go without their weekly curry. |
If you're a seasonnaire, there will inevitably come a point when you get an irresistible craving...
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I am a pretty cosmopolitan sort of person, I enjoy shopping for food locally (more than at home, as I like to sell out local delicacies) and yet I never travel ANYWHERE without Marmite.
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I lived in Germany for four years when getting a decent curry was almost impossible. The deprivation just made the trip to Drummond St on my visits back every 18 months or so even more fragrant.
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I know some people who originated from NE and now lived down in Buckinghamshire, who used to get a curry from a Newcastle Indian takeaway to freeze and bring to the EoSB. they were flying too. Imagine if it had leaked in the case.
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We take loadsa stuff when we go - yes they sell stuff in french supermarkets but it’s so expensive! we stay for several weeks sometimes 2 months at a time, and the cost of these things add up a lot - a box of cereal is like €4,
(And really tiny and really sugary) we’d go through it in 2 days, a box of shredded wheat/bran flakes (bigger and much less added sugar) from Aldi is like £1, so obviously we take quite a lot with us. Tinned tomato, spices, noodles, crisps, bread for toast, bagels, wraps, oat milk etc i’ve even taken butternut squash because it’s £1 in the shop here, it’s €4.99 out there. I’ve never been searched and am actually considering taking the cold box with some salmon in it… we have quite a healthy diet so this idea of eating mountains of pastries, pate, cheese, and confit duck (while nice for a rare treat) gives me a literal tummy ache.
We have a freezer, not just ice box in a fridge, so straight in the freezer it goes. We save hundreds of euros this way compared to not taking anything and buying everything out there.
Likewise i bring some stuff home that they do better out there - lime squash being my fav, i bring back like 10 bottles of the stuff. Uk stuff has a much sweeter taste, the french stuff (U citron vert) has that lovely bitter balance it is impossible to find here.
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The prime reason for taking stuff with you if driving and you have the space is to stop shopping eating into your skiing/ travel/ chilling time. That and the high prices/ low selection in on hill supermarkets.
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 €4 is cheap for a box of cereal, but then I'm in Ireland where they even tax the air we breathe.
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| Dave of the Marmottes wrote: |
| The prime reason for taking stuff with you if driving and you have the space is to stop shopping eating into your skiing/ travel/ chilling time. That and the high prices/ low selection in on hill supermarkets. |
I shop in the evenings when I have come from the mountain.
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You know it makes sense.
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| biddpyat wrote: |
| €4 is cheap for a box of cereal, but then I'm in Ireland where they even tax the air we breathe. |
*makes note to take cereal to Ireland*
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Otherwise you'll just go on seeing the one name:
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| biddpyat wrote: |
| I shop in the evenings when I have come from the mountain. |
Which is fine provided a) you're not knackered, b) it's not an uphill walk both ways, c) the rest of the population doesn't have the same idea at the same time and d) you're prepared to elbow old ladies aside to grab the last tub of raspberry ripple ( c @spyderjon).
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| Extremophile wrote: |
| biddpyat wrote: |
| €4 is cheap for a box of cereal, but then I'm in Ireland where they even tax the air we breathe. |
*makes note to take cereal to Ireland* |
There is a laughing out loud gif on Twitter that would suit this, I think of all the places you visit, IRELAND is the place to bring your food too, everything is mad expensive.
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I've never had any problem getting in 
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Well, the person's real but it's just a made up name, see?
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| Dave of the Marmottes wrote: |
| biddpyat wrote: |
| I shop in the evenings when I have come from the mountain. |
Which is fine provided a) you're not knackered, b) it's not an uphill walk both ways, c) the rest of the population doesn't have the same idea at the same time and d) you're prepared to elbow old ladies aside to grab the last tub of raspberry ripple ( c @spyderjon). |
usually am knackered, but I walk after skiing to loosen up tight muscles, so a walk to the supermarket is not a problem, as for elbowing the old ladies, I am the old lady.( well lady is a bit of an exaggeration)
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@Extremophile, Are you comparing like for like in the prices. Lidl or Aldi in the UK verus lidl or Aldi in France?
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| johnE wrote: |
| @Extremophile, Are you comparing like for like in the prices. Lidl or Aldi in the UK verus lidl or Aldi in France? |
Well… yes and no, in the UK my Aldi and other supermarket are right next to each other, where as in France the supermarket is at one end of town and Lidl is as the other end of town so it’s a bit if a mission to go between the two. Plus, not everything i take from the UK is from Aldi, so unless i write an exhaustive list of what i buy from which shop and then spend the day comparing each product to that on the shelf of either shop in France - which isnt going to happen - it’s not possible to know the exact price difference.
I buy and in the UK and take with me the stuff we use most that i know for sure is cheaper in the uk or nicer than in France. Having been making this journey for many years i have a good knowledge of what we eat and what to take. Noodles for stir fry are taken from the UK, there are noodles in france but they are not good noodles and do not stir fry well, so taking noodles does not come down to price. Same with horseradish, french horseradish is awful. French tinned tomato is much more acidic and watery than uk tinned tomato so i take that, and it’s cheaper to boot. You get the idea. Obviously a guess at the exchange rate where applicable.
i know one time i had to take loads of other stuff out for the apartment from the uk, there wasnt much room for food… we spent an absolute fortune in superU, more than i’ve ever spent when we took stuff - we shopped one time and it cost nearly €400, usually we’re less than €200 for 10+ days, so that is the difference it makes.
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French and UK Aldi are not the same company anyway.
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| Extremophile wrote: |
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we have quite a healthy diet |
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@Extremophile, Yes, I know what you mean. I always spend much more in the SuperU than I plan. A stoll past the fish counter always ends up with more st jaques, oysters and fish than I plan and I haven't seen rabbit on sale in the UK for years, and I just know my wife would love that fruit flan oh! thats a nice bottle of wine. So it goes.
I have to confess if I stuck to my usual UK shop it would be a lot less but then I'm on holiday and such nice food isn't as easily come by in the UK so I indulge myeself and family.
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| abc wrote: |
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we have quite a healthy diet |
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are you suggesting canned tomatoes are unhealthy? Think again. Just because a product is canned, that doesn't make it unhealthy. Personally, I always buy Italian tinned tomatoes, expensive but very good.
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