Trouble to find ingredients?

[Moon]

I have this problem every time I go to Finland! We did find a little shop in Helsinki that sells US and British food and condiments, which has made it easier, but it's REALLY expensive, like eye-popping, ridiculously expensive. So now I plan ahead, and ask him for anything I'm not sure they have, translate it into Finnish, and if he doesn't know, I bug him until he goes to the store and checks If he's never heard of it, and doesn't see it, I bring it with me. Unfortunately, we have some interesting fruits and veggies here that I can't find when I go over, and those I can't bring with me, so he's outta luck until the next time he comes here.

[.:*Shaunna*:.]

I miss Vegemite with a passion when I'm over in the US LOL I am yet to find someone who isn't Australian that likes it... Also struggle to find good quality mayonnaise and also fresh herbs that I use when making salads

[Tooki]

I miss Vegemite with a passion when I'm over in the US LOL I am yet to find someone who isn't Australian that likes it... Also struggle to find good quality mayonnaise and also fresh herbs that I use when making salads

My girlfriend didn't mind Vegemite . I figure that a lot of Irish people won't mind it because it tastes so similarly to Guinness.

I miss Vegemite/Weet Bix/Tim Tams/Lamingtons when I'm in Tallinn. At least you can get pavlovas there!

I also miss the range and availability of meat when I'm in Estonia. On the other hand, the milk tastes much better there and the alcohol is a lot cheaper.

[Alsfia]

I miss Vegemite with a passion when I'm over in the US LOL I am yet to find someone who isn't Australian that likes it... Also struggle to find good quality mayonnaise and also fresh herbs that I use when making salads

Count my family on my mum's side to the Vegemite crowd... (Exchange students brought some and still do if/when they visit)

I just thought of something... Is it at all possible to get hornsalt (ammonium bicarbonate) in the UK? I haven't really started searching for it and could probably replace it, plus I don't need it until February next year. Another thing I failed to find is ground bitterornge shell.... Does any of these sound familiar to any of you?

[TwoThree]

We did find a little shop in Helsinki that sells US and British food and condiments, which has made it easier, but it's REALLY expensive, like eye-popping, ridiculously expensive.

Ohhh!! Do you mean Behnford's? I ALWAYS pop over at least once every trip to buy peanut butter and hot sauce to take home with me.

[Dezface]

I miss Vegemite with a passion when I'm over in the US LOL I am yet to find someone who isn't Australian that likes it... Also struggle to find good quality mayonnaise and also fresh herbs that I use when making salads

Count me on the 'I hate Vegemite' train! My SO sent me some when we were long distance and I almost threw up. Sorry vegemite lovers :P

On the mayo: you could make your own

[Dziubka]

When I'm in Denmark, I have a hard time finding the ingredients I want for Japanese/Asian food. We have an Asian shop, but there's a lot of things they don't have - especially things that spoil easy, like fresh tofu. I also miss things like konyaku, chikuwa and other very Japanese stuff.

When I'm in Japan it's the other way around. They don't have the prober low fat milk I want, they don't have rye bread (and other European bread), they don't have bacon that actually tastes like bacon, they don't have the types of meat that goes with Danish cooking.
I seem to be loosing no matter where I go.

That! Except not Japan. But yeah.
I've yet to find chick peas and salt and vinegar crisps in Poland. And sweets are so crazy expensive I feel twice bad about buying them.

[Tooki]

I've yet to findsalt and vinegar crisps in Poland. And sweets are so crazy expensive I feel twice bad about buying them.

WHAT? You can get crisps for next to nothing in Estonia and they are in the bloody Eurozone!

[kteire]

I miss a number of ingredients that I just can't find in the UK. #1 is cheese curds - I just can't make proper poutine without them! Halloumi works as an ok substitute, but it's too salty and creamy. I intend to eat about a metric tonne of those when I'm in Canada in the summer... I also massively miss dill pickles. You can get gherkins here, but not big, fat, juicy kosher dills. I think I'll have to try to make my own...

Generally the UK has most things I want to cook with, but often the trouble is trying to figure out what it's called here, haha.

[kiara_silver]

I can relate to this, when I was in the UK, I found they have no mexican food! No corn tortillas no can of tomato sauce no menudo no enchilada sauce... even the flour tortillas were different. And no Monterey jack cheese! I had a mini melt down over not having my cheese to make lasagna. I missed a lot at first but towards the end I think I was converted lol Now im back in the US and I miss foods I can only get there. Bratwurst, a specific chinese restaurant, kebabs, and there bread and bacons different, I want a crusty roll with bacon for breakfast.... there are lots of differences.

[Moon]

Ohhh!! Do you mean Behnford's? I ALWAYS pop over at least once every trip to buy peanut butter and hot sauce to take home with me.

Yep I can never remember the name.

[80anthea]

I can relate to this, when I was in the UK, I found they have no mexican food! No corn tortillas no can of tomato sauce no menudo no enchilada sauce... even the flour tortillas were different. And no Monterey jack cheese! I had a mini melt down over not having my cheese to make lasagna. I missed a lot at first but towards the end I think I was converted lol Now im back in the US and I miss foods I can only get there. Bratwurst, a specific chinese restaurant, kebabs, and there bread and bacons different, I want a crusty roll with bacon for breakfast.... there are lots of differences.

British bacon is far superior