Buying English style food in and around Almerimar
January 19th, 2008 - Chris MarshallIn this article Jacqui shares with us some of her food fetishes. Well OK she doesn’t got that far but she does give some food for thought ……
Having moved over here some time ago we have settled in to more of a Spanish diet rather than an English one. However, there are some English foods we still enjoy so here is our brief guide to what we buy where in and around Almerimar.
This article was inspired by the wonderful bacon butties we made this morning.
Our most regular purchase of an English style food is fresh pasturised milk. We have not got into the habit of buying the cartons of sterilised milk as we don´t like the taste on our cereals and in our hot drinks. Mercadona sells 1 litre cartons of semi-skimmed milk that it very close to what we had in England.
For cereals we tend to buy muesli and cornflakes in Lidl and Spanish versions of something like Special K and Bran Fibre in Mercadona. We are also very partial to Weetabix which you can get in both Mercadona and Copo.
Our real treat is an occasional bacon sandwich with Lea & Perrins or HP Brown Sauce. The only place we have found something similar to back bacon is in Mercadona. The sauces we think we get from Copo but we don’t buy them that often so we are not certain.
We like jacket potatoes but buying potatoes in supermarkets is a bit hit and miss as you have to buy 3 or 5 kilo packets with a mixture of sizes of potato. However, you can buy potatoes loose in the fruit and veg shop next door to Mercadona or you can go to the regular Wednesday morning market in El Ejido, which I know Sands has written about before.
There are a few items that we get brought over here for us by visitors. These include PG Tips tea bags, Marmite for myself (John doesn’t like it) and water biscuits.
If you have any queries about where you can find particular foods or recommendations about where to shop then please comment here.
Good to see the Bacon Sandwiches and HP Sauce Combination, but what other combinations float your boat? Personally I am a fan of:
Pork Pie and English Mustard
