Paphos People

Are you missing any products from the U.K.

Then this web site may be helpful:

http://www.britishexpatsupplies.com/index.htm

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Molly

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Molly good site but geeees look at the delivery charges. Marj

A tad steep, Marj. I think I will wait until kind people arrive with supplies of my coffee.

The shipping costs on one item are high - £27.00 for a jar of coffee. But I wonder whether, if a group of you bought in bulk, it would work out much cheaper. My friend owns a shop and brings stuff in from the UK and I know that she says shipping costs are high, so maybe it still wouldn't be worth while.

Verity.

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I would think £27 for a jar of coffee a bit more than a tad expensive.

Know what you mean I love Keejays Chinese Curry Paste (all natural) and have e-mailed them to see if they ship here (a supplier already here) but unfortunately they don't, and where they would willingly send me a box of 12 the cost is extortionate.

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I didn't even look at the prices Marj, cos I dont miss anything that much........

I have a lot of family and friends come over to visit and they are always asking what to bring me and my reply is always the same 'I dont need nothing'

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Molly wrote:



I hope that will be me when we eventually get over there Molly.
I don't want to miss anything, except maybe family, but not too much!

Pam (It's been sunny again here today!)

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I'm sure it will be Pam, you can get almost anything here, except I have to wait for my hugs and kisses from my grandchildren to arrive in person.

p.s. Been sunny here as well.

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I hope when i come out i can adjust to any food changes i dont think theres enything that i must have. May feel different when i dont have it.Hugs and kisses worth waiting for Molly,
Tricia

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They certainly are Tricia and only four weeks from today..........yep I'm counting.

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Tricia, the food is much better quality out here as it is generally fresher. So don't worry about adjusting.

You can also pick up a lot of UK foods in the supermarkets if you feel the need

I can live without my Dow Egberts Continental Gold but when friends and family come over I am always grateful if they have brought me a jar as it is a little treat. I prefer percolated coffee, but it is too much of a faff to percolate it just for me each day.

Verity.

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Not taken to the local coffee then?;) FWIW cyprus coffee added to a cafetiere works very well if you don't like the mud in your cup and is as quick to make as instant. Try the Laikou with the gold label. Clue: you don't have to drink it as strong as the traditional Cyprus coffee if you prefer something a little milder.

There only three products I miss from the UK (four if you count Butlers Irish Coffee Chocs) and I can live with out them all:

1. PG Instant Tea (this is great for picnicking and works better than putting tea in a flask. Take hot water instead.)
2. Colmans Garden Mint. You can very occasionally buy this here, but most supermarkets only stock that manufacturer's mint sauce, which is a poor shadow of the alternative. Neither is a substitute for fresh garden grown mint (which grows rather too well here) but it is handy to have in when the fresh stuff is not at its best (like now).
3. Mamade thin sliced orange marmalade. It is very hard to find marmalade worth eating here. This stuff is superb and makes around 6 jars from a single tin. The only alternative is to make your own, but life's too short for slicing orange peel.

These are the only products I ever ask visitors to occasionally bring.

Hi KG. Hope you and Mrs. KG are feeling better now.#

I do drink Cyprus coffee. I drink it sketo (sp?). I can't be bothered with boiling the stuff up, though. Didn't know you could put it in a cafetierre, so thanks for that.

I am basically a lazy coffee drinker. Add coffee to mug, add hot water out of water machine. Hey presto!

My breakfast has consisted of GF toasted bread with marmalade since I was tentatively diagnosed. I am using Duerr's fine cut marmalade as it is the nicest I can find out here.

Verity.

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Verity
We are a little better thanks, but a walk to the village centre to collect some mail this morning was just about too much. I can't remember the last time I had a major cold, much less that we both had one at the same time. Hopefully it will have gone by weekend.

I used to live quite near the Duerr's factory in Manchester, and am familiar with that variety of marmalade. Unfortunately it is more sugar than fruit. I like my marmalade to be memorably orangey If I can't be bothered to make my own (and I usually can't) then Mamade is better than most and much less trouble to make. I still have a couple of tins in stock which will last until the girls come over later in the year Don't ever think of buying Mamade lemon marmalade which is horrible.

Incidentally, if you are making Cyprus coffee, don't let it 'boil' as that ruins the flavour. Remove from the heat when the bubbles start to appear under the 'crust'. I don't even bother with one of those tiny pans

It appears that if you have a gluten issue I am never going to be able to persuade you to enjoy Cyprus bread

Well KG, I will have to have a "gluten challenge" at some point apparently. So I may try that bread after all.

The bakery at Geroskipou bakes remarkably tasty GF bread. So much so that one of the nurses at Akrotiri who is wheat intolerant didn't believe it was GF.

Maybe I could get you onto eating that one, KG.

Verity.

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Verity

I am a convert to the GF bread from the Yeroskippou bakery - it is absolutely delicious! Can't imagine eating any other bread now (except maybe the wraps occasionally). I have been singing its praises to a friend who has IBS - not sure if it would be suitable though, but I think he's going to try it.

Jean

Jean,

Sam suffers from very bad IBS, so if it works for your friend I would be interested to find out.

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Hi Tina,

I'm a IBS sufferer & I've found its worse if I eat too much greasy/oily food, like mix grills or greasy chips, so I've kept off that sort of food & I've not had an episode for quite a while now, touch wood

I may try it, but my favourite is a bread called Athenitiko (excuse the spelling - I'll check next time I'm in the store) which is a type of village bread, which I am told is made from a recipe from the Nicosia area, that uses a particular variety of white bread flour.

It is heavy, very filling, toasts well and goes straight to your boots, so you don't need much of it to make an impression on the waistband.

I buy it at Carrefour (it's the bottom item on the list of common bread types, of which they produce several, that is pinned to the bread racks) where I have it sliced and then drop it straight in the freezer as soon as I get home. It thaws quickly or you can toast it from frozen .... which reminds me I've not had breakfast this morning, so I'm off to the kitchen to make toast

We tried to do a deal with this supplier to get orders consolidated through our depot but they went cold on the idea. best option is for you guys to source and we will send out under one name to minimise documentation costs. We supply the shipping for the sweet shops out there and this works well.

Peter

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Can you redirect their shipment to me please I'll be yer bestest mate

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I'll need to shorten the queue

I was shocked this year as I've also suffered and still am suffering from a major cold as are most of the folk I know.

Like yourself I can't remember the last time I had the sniffles let alone a full blown nasty like I have now.

The missus is suffering more as it's gone to her chest and is plagued by heavy bouts of coughing ~ I took her to the doctors last week and she now has a course of antibiotics ~ the doctor noticing that I was also full of a cold advised me to ask for the same antibiotics from the chemist as I was obviously suffering too.

He wasn't best pleased when I told him that antibiotics will not cure colds.

Bill

Bill hope you and wife get over it soon, Never mind it will soon be long sunny days.I have heard that the first year your body is adjusting, dont know how true it is.
Tricia

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Thanks Tricia

I don't know how it's going to adjust now as I returned to the UK yesterday ~ although after the bout of rain this morning it's now quite a sunny day ~~ but ccccold

Bill

Bill yes sunny but cold wind here in fife. Hope its not too long before your back in sunny paphos.
Tricia

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[quote="bill] I took her to the doctors last week and she now has a course of antibiotics ~ the doctor noticing that I was also full of a cold advised me to ask for the same antibiotics from the chemist as I was obviously suffering too.

He wasn't best pleased when I told him that antibiotics will not cure colds.Bill[/quote]I didn't feel like going to the doctors for sympathy and useless antibiotics for £20 or the Euro equivalent, so we stayed indoors! I guess we are on the mend, but last weekend was miserable and we both still have headaches, dizziness and problems focussing our eyes

KG you big rufty-tufty you

I have better things to spend £20 on

I have noticed that when reading posts about colds in cyprus they seem to persist also lots chest infections.Is it dut to aircon or change of climate ?

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I can't say that I've had a major cold here before - but lots of people appear to have had a nasty one this year. I was even talking to my contact at CPC in the UK, whose mother lives at Avdimou and she (the mother) had had a shot of it too! Nor is it confined to the ex-pat community.

The aircon has not been on since September, but Spring seems to have come a little early this year, as you can probably tell by the heady smell of fruit tree blossom around at the moment. Maybe that, in combination with the virus, is irritating the lungs and prolonging the discomfort?

KG

I have also been struck down with it twice - once in November, the second time started on Boxing Day, and being asthmatic I really suffered with the cough part. I don't have a gas fire, and haven't used the aircon for heating, but what I thought the difference was this year, was that I hadn't had the flu jab. For about the last 12 years in the UK I always had the flu jab, being classed as "at risk" - maybe that wasn't the cause after all - just a very nasty bug going the rounds.

I hope you and Mrs KG are feeling better now - I really do think just seeing the sun makes you feel so much beter.

Jean

I only got over a cold about a month ago.. now I have another one coming .. not often I get colds ..

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I've had one spait of Man-Flu since I've been here but no colds as such, I've just had a constant runny nose for months, ever since the winter started

Must be something to do with that freezer box I live in I think