Where can I get American food in London and the UK

I used to work on the base... miss all the food! I miss the Kraft Parmasean Cheese the most!! I wish they sold it here! I am thinking about getting a civillian job on the base just to feed my Kraft Parmasean Cheese needs!

Isn't that just grated Parmesan? Why would you miss that so much? We do have Parmesan cheese!

I know what she is talking about I always bring that back with me. I think it is little piece of home here in the UK for me.      To me it is no different when a person from the UK living in the States having something they grew up with sent to the States but thats just my 2 cents to each there own.

Isn't that just grated Parmesan? Why would you miss that so much? We do have Parmesan cheese!

It tastes different than just regular grated Parmesan. It is has a fake taste to me, but I do buy it when we're trying to save money. It's one of those things where you either love it or hate it.

I wondered into my local hoity-toity preppie store and picked up a box of EnviroKidz Organic Gorilla Munch Cereal. Turns out, it tastes EXACTLY like Capn Crunch.

As I haven't noticed the Cap'n in stores before, thought I'd mention it.

It tastes different than just regular grated Parmesan. It is has a fake taste to me, but I do buy it when we're trying to save money. It's one of those things where you either love it or hate it.

I'm in the hate camp on that one - I agree it tastes fake. And I'm skeptical about a cheese that stays in a can unrefridgerated for an indefinite period of time. Sounds a bit like a "cheese like product". 

But I have actually noticed they have something similar here - on the shelf in the Italian section of supermarkets. I shook the can and it sounded like it was the same... texture?

I wondered into my local hoity-toity preppie store and picked up a box of EnviroKidz Organic Gorilla Munch Cereal. Turns out, it tastes EXACTLY like Capn Crunch.

As I haven't noticed the Cap'n in stores before, thought I'd mention it.

May have to try that. 

I'm in the hate camp on that one - I agree it tastes fake. And I'm skeptical about a cheese that stays in a can unrefridgerated for an indefinite period of time. Sounds a bit like a "cheese like product". 

But I have actually noticed they have something similar here - on the shelf in the Italian section of supermarkets. I shook the can and it sounded like it was the same... texture?

I noticed on the Kraft web-site though that it is, supposedly, real parmesan.

Ingredients: PARMESAN CHEESE (PASTEURIZED PART-SKIM MILK, SALT, LESS THAN 2% OF ENZYMES, CHEESE CULTURE, CELLULOSE POWDER TO PREVENT CAKING, POTASSIUM SORBATE TO PROTECT FLAVOR), AGED 6 MONTHS.

In the EU, you can't call something that isn't true Parmesan cheese parmesan but as far as I am aware, this does not apply to the US. So that ingredients list is actually pretty useless I guess.

I wondered into my local hoity-toity preppie store and picked up a box of EnviroKidz Organic Gorilla Munch Cereal. Turns out, it tastes EXACTLY like Capn Crunch.

As I haven't noticed the Cap'n in stores before, thought I'd mention it.

I bought this stuff recently.  It was on sale in the dreaded Tesco.  I was in a post night shift fog, saw 'organic' on the box and bought it without reading the ingredients. It does taste like Cap'n Crunch.  My kids loved it ( I did too ), but once I found out how sweet it was, told them it was a special dessert cereal!   

Yeah, unfortunatly raw cane sugar is still sugar.

I'm embarassed to admit I ate the whole box by myself yesterday, just munching and munching. So this stuff is not entering my house again in a hurry: it's like crack!

Okay, so.

I've just read back through all 22 pages of this thread, and all I've learned is that I'm pretty sure that several of the places listed don't exist anymore.  Can anyone point me towards a London-area shop that might sell Cheerios?  The proper ones in the yellow box.    I'll be down in a couple of weeks and want to pick some up.  Aside from Selfridges and CyberCandy, I'm not sure where to look - and neither of those have carried them any of the times I've been in.

Thanks!!

"Proper" Cheerios are being marketed as Oat Cheerios in a beige-y coloured box.  I just bought some at Sainsbury's two nights ago.

And, really, just because it's a version that is sold in the States does not make it "proper".  Just different.

For what it's worth, I tried those beige coloured box, Oat Cheerios when they first came out, and I didn't really like them. They have a sugary coating (not quite as coated as honey-nut, but not plain either) which I didn't like.

I don't like sugary cereals, but if you do, you might like these. Cheerios are my all-time favorite cereal, so I would be very happy to find the plain, yellow box style ones.

I'm pretty sure I've seen imported Cheerios at that Rosslyn Deli in Hampstead. I'm also pretty sure they were £7 or something silly. I love them, but not quite that much! 

Agreed, the ones they sell here are not the same as the yellow box ones. To me, those are the 'proper' ones!

Meg, this site has them (though they don't have a pic so I'm not 100% certain it's the yellow box).

I just ordered some other things from them and they are a pretty good place to order from.

http://www.americansweets.co.uk/american-cereal-79-c.asp

Well, I preferred the multi-grain ones in the US anyway, and those are what's sold here.

There are so many cereals to pick from, I just don't see being so hung up on one that would cost £5+ a box...

Sometimes ya just gotta have what you are familiar with. That's why this whole thread exists!!

Sometimes ya just gotta have what you are familiar with. That's why this whole thread exists!!

I whole heartedly agree with you!!      I'm not all that keen about paying crazy prices for stuff I crave from back home in the States but now & then I think it is ok to splurge it helps me with my homesickness that I still get occasionally