Food stuff

Here are a few more recommendations for what to buy when you live here.  We do most of our shopping at Tesco Lotus as we find it's well priced.  For a good selection of foreign goods, Tops Supermarket is the place to go.  Of course Bangkok is the place to go for really hard to get stuff and Mr John and I are considering a trip there in early December to stock up for Christmas.

 Anyway, being a girl, I'm very particular about toilet paper much to Mr John's consternation boys just don't get it and after trying various brands and types, this is my recommendation.  It's imbued with a fragrance so your bathroom smells pretty too - bonus.

The one thing you'll really need here is bug spray, if only for the ants that appear out of nowhere!  This is my preferred as it doesn't have that chemical smell and the house smells of flowers once you've used it.  Seems a bit of a floral theme going on here.  It also deals with a number of different pests and I guess that's the main thing to look for when you're buying.

As you know, we love to go for coffee and cake but that can be quite expensive.  When we're feeling a bit poor, we compensate by having a cup of Starbucks instant coffee at home along with one of these lovelies.  They come in six to a box and cost about 30 baht.  Our friend Wicus put us on to these.

Of course, sometimes you just need potato chips / crisps and we've found the Lay brand to be good.  You need to be careful of the flavours as there as some really weird ones, along with the obligatory seaweed.  You just can't go past some good Australian Cheezels though either original or BBQ!





Not that we'll be buying anything for the next few days as we've booked our holiday to Koh Mak.  It's an island off Koh Chang and is only 16 square kilometres in size.  We can't wait as we've heard there's good snorkelling too, so our kit has gone in the bag.  Look out next week for my review of Koh Mak.  Have a good weekend everyone.