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Subject Topic: what food to take with u
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13/8/2011 at 10:52pm
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for my first camping trip to France (10 nights) I took enough food to last without buying anything - but I did venture in to the supermarkets are they are excellent, and stock everything and more than you can imagine, especially in fruit and veg - I was wondering what half of everything was as I'd never seen some of the the tomato varieties before! At an enormous Carre Four I counted 54 checkouts... FIFTYFOUR !!! I think the only thing I was puzzled by was their low quantity of "fresh milk" we are use to finding in large quantities in UK supermarkets, but I've learnt to use powdered milk from ALDI.


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14/8/2011 at 9:11am
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We took tea bags, squash, bacon, sausages, Heinz beans & ketchup, cereal, ham, and a few kids bits for snacks like yoghurts etc. and plenty of cadburys chocolate - basically enough to get through the first night and breakfast the next day.

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14/8/2011 at 4:09pm
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Just returned from 2wks in the Dordogne, Heinz beans/ketchup/take as much fresh meat as you can fit in fridge as its more expensive and the steaks arent that good. They sell steak Haches in France either frozen or fresh and these are lovely cooked on the BBQ, take plenty of sausages as theirs arent nice. I wouldnt bother with cooked meats as the Ham over there is gorgeous much tastier than ours, we loved the french baguette with Ham/Cheese and Pate. I took two packs of Lurpak spreadable as the butter is expensive I also took a tub of Clover but weve got a large fridge freezer in van. Cereals, crackers, crisps, biscuits. We loved going round the Supermarkets and they sell a wide range of stuff, especially Yoghurts etc for the kids and they are similar price to here, we spent 85euros on first wk and 76 on 2nd but that inc lots of wine! We didnt find it that much more expensive than here and they sell a great selection of fish and meats, salmon steaks were 4 euros for 2 large ones and tasted great on the bbq. I also took a packet of fish fingers for the kids as these were about 5euros a pack!! ideal for a quick tea.  I hope you have a fab time, we loved France and will be returning next year, it is def worth that bit more money to go as the weather is much better than here. Au reviour!



14/8/2011 at 4:13pm
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Indeed, it is enviably simple for a lot of folks. Unfortunately, we have a son who has Type 1 diabetes. The choice of 'no added sugar' or 'sans sucre' soft drinks is woefully disappointing in France. Sirops are obviously a no-no. We always take a couple of the very large bottles of Robinsons Special R squashes with us (all the better for being more concentrated recently and therefore and lower volume).

Once in France, we rarely find any low sugar fizzy drinks - usually just diet Coke. At a Hyper U two days ago, the only other low calorie drink was grapefruit flavour and even sugar-free lemonade is rare. For some reason, the French seem to completely overlook the need for low calorie/diet/sugar free drinks - although they have a fantastic choice of sugar-free chewing gum!! Au contraire!!!!



Our local Super U does have a variety of sugar free fizzy drinks, orange, lemonade, grapefruit. There are sugar free syrups too. I know it is difficult for people with dietary considerations who do have to be careful what they consume, but it is the rest I wonder about I wasn't having a go, I was just curious.

I have noticed that most French kids are given tap water to drink most of the time and so I doubt the Supermarkets sell as many fizzy drinks as we are used to seeing bought. They drink more fruit juices and flavoured waters too. I haven't seen a French adult drink fizzy drinks here, not like where we used to live. Everyone drank them. No wonder they were all so big.


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