Coffee Creamer

So I'm sitting here enjoying my coffee and it made me remember that when I came over to see FI for Easter, I couldn't find liquid coffee creamer. Now granted, we only looked at Tesco cause FI is a Tesco snob.  I tried some of the powdered kind, but I didn't like it. I am such a weenie when it comes to my coffee. I want my hazelnut flavoured coffee (Will I even be able to find that?) with my Splenda & sugar-free International Delight hazelnut creamer. LOL Am I totally out of luck?

I suppose I can trade in my weenie coffee for the man & country I love, if I have to. hehe

So I'm sitting here enjoying my coffee and it made me remember that when I came over to see FI for Easter, I couldn't find liquid coffee creamer. Now granted, we only looked at Tesco cause FI is a Tesco snob. 

What's a Tesco snob? 

Sadly no.  There is no liquid creamer like that here.

Tescos sells little pots of coffee creamer, like this : http://www.ocado.com/webshop/product/Compliment-LongLife-Mini-Pots-of-Coffee-Whitener/14047011?parentContainer=SEARCHcoffee%20whitner

probably not as nice as what you're used to

I'm not going to be able to help but only to commiserate, as I'm in the same boat. I'm the same kind of "fakey" coffee-soul as you. In the US I liked my hazelnut flavored ground coffee coupled with my hazelnut flavored liquid creamer. It was how I liked it, even though I know serious coffee lovers and purists think of this as sacrilege; one time I asked on here, and everyone flocked in to tell me that that creamer was additive laden crap that I shouldn't be consuming. Well I know that, lol! But if it's my worse vice then I'm doing pretty good and I don't care.

I have found neither the flavored creamer nor flavored coffee readily available here -- readily meaning I can't pick it up at Tescos or Sainsburys. You can find the flavored coffee online. But creamer, I've given up and simply use the powdered Coffeemate. But it's not the same, and in over a year of being here I still can't make myself a cup of coffee that duplicates what I enjoyed making for myself in the US. You will probably not find anything in the UK exactly like the creamer you and I used.

What's a Tesco snob? 

There are no refrigerated flavoured creamers here like in the states.

Tell fiance he needs to hit better supermarkets. If he wants to be a supermarket snob, you need to go to Waitrose. Or better yet, try Harrods.  

I always used real cream in the UK.    Yummy!

I always use a spoonful of condensed milk in my coffee...oh.my.god. Heaven. Creamer is nothing but chemicals...use the real stuff!!! 

I always use a spoonful of condensed milk in my coffee...oh.my.god. Heaven. Creamer is nothing but chemicals...use the real stuff!!! 

Yep, this is what I got when I once posted this same question long ago, here.

An awful lot of what we consume is chemicals, unless we are faithful vegans who shop strictly organic and never even sneak a chocolate bar.

As stated, there are many worse vices to have....

Leave us creamer-junkies alone! 

I brought two boxes of the individual little pots of vanilla and hazelnut creamer back with me. Between DH and I, it lasted less than a month. 

You can find hazelnut flavored coffee though. Whittards sells it along with other flavored coffee.

If you sweeten your coffee then the flavoured syrups are widely available (as in you can get them in Tesco*.)  It's not quite the same thing but coffee+hazel nut syrup+plain coffee whitener might be close?

*The Tesco where I shop has a limit array but he chain coffee shops (Stabucks, Café Nero etc.) all sell them.

If you sweeten your coffee then the flavoured syrups are widely available (as in you can get them in Tesco*.)  It's not quite the same thing but coffee+hazel nut syrup+plain coffee whitener might be close?

*The Tesco where I shop has a limit array but he chain coffee shops (Stabucks, Café Nero etc.) all sell them.

I'm glad you posted this because I was thinking about flavored syrups, remembering that I saw those in the US, but I had no idea if they were available in the UK; thanks for the suggestion as I might try those.

Ohhh Good idea PR!

Midnight Blue, I'm with you. Give me my chemical laden goodness anytime. LOL In all seriousness though, I think my body may go into shock when it goes from all the additives & preservatives in the US to UK products, which seem to have less of these, in general.

Tesco snob - he thinks that Tesco is just the bomb diggity. LOL His mum & sister make fun of him because he's all about Tesco. LOL

Thanks for all the advice. Maybe I will bring a few bags/can of my flavored coffee with me anyway... (adding it to the ever growing list LOL)

Tesco snob - he thinks that Tesco is just the bomb diggity. LOL His mum & sister make fun of him because he's all about Tesco. LOL

Got it! 

StephanieLea, I won't even repeat his reply when I gave him your suggestion, other than this, "I only purchase coffee from Harrods and at £200 per kg, I don't get it very often." The rest isn't fit to repeat. LOL Bless him!