Been to the food shop in Ikea lately?

I popped into the food shop/snack bar bit of Ikea today for the first time in over a year.

WOW!  It has grown!
I went in to buy a bag of meatballs, but they had normal meatballs, chicken meatballs, and meatball 'ready meals' that included mashed potato.  They had tons of other stuff in their freezers, including butterscotch cookies (maybe next time!) and cinnamon rolls.

The shelves were filled with various chocolate bars and cookies and sauces and jams and crackers/crispbreads and juices and beer and cider and... I'm sure I never saw half of what they had on offer.  The food shop was at least 3 times bigger than it used to be (this is the Glasgow store...ymmv).

On the way out, i thought I might get one of their strangely nice hot dogs, but then i saw they had warm cinnamon rolls, so i got a couple of those instead and they were gorgeous!

It's worth a visit if you've not been for awhile.

but they had normal meatballs, chicken meatballs, and meatball 'ready meals' that included mashed potato. 

No horse? 

I wonder if that's the same here. I haven't been to IKEA in awhile and this might be a good reason to go! Thanks for the tip!

I suppose they had to make it bigger just to get the horse in!

Did they have Marabou chocolate in stock? I'd not been in an IKEA for quite some time, and last year I went in. Was surprised (and slightly disappointed) not to find any Marabou in stock. I developed a taste for it when I briefly lived in Sweden years ago, and would occasionally indulge in a bar when I saw it at IKEA.

Did they have Marabou chocolate in stock? I'd not been in an IKEA for quite some time, and last year I went in. Was surprised (and slightly disappointed) not to find any Marabou in stock. I developed a taste for it when I briefly lived in Sweden years ago, and would occasionally indulge in a bar when I saw it at IKEA.

Oh sorry... I saw they had various different chocolate bars, but I didn't notice any of the names.

Oh sorry... I saw they had various different chocolate bars, but I didn't notice any of the names.

No worries, it was a long shot to ask! I guess I'll just have to go and check it out myself (and leave the cards at home for the rest of the shopping experience there...so easy to get carried away!)

I go there to get Daim (Skor in Canada) chocolate bars and dill flavoured crisps. The Swedish version of dill crisps is slightly different to what you get in Canada, but it suffices.

We stock up on the coffee beans which are strangely nice for the price. 

I go there to get Daim (Skor in Canada) chocolate bars and dill flavoured crisps. The Swedish version of dill crisps is slightly different to what you get in Canada, but it suffices.

Can get Daim (or as they used to be called, Dime) bars anywhere! Morrisons often have a 4 pack for £1. One of my favourites.

Ikea replaced their Marabou offerings with some sort of strange imitation chocolate under their own label that is, frankly, weird.  I live with a Swede and we go to Ikea here in the US to pick up certain sweets if he wants them, cheaper krispbrod (although Big Lots tends to be a better source), and that absolutely disgusting fish paste he likes to squirt on to things.  We have noticed that their own brand selection is getting larger, with the quality decreasing (but that is here in the US), and they have increased the food mart area here too.  Actually we bought a Christmas ham there last year and it was a fantastic ham.  Pricey, but worth it.

Ironically you go to the world's largest Ikea (Kungens Kurva outside Stockholm) and their food selection is all....Mexican food.   

Ikea replaced their Marabou offerings with some sort of strange imitation chocolate under their own label that is, frankly, weird.  I live with a Swede and we go to Ikea here in the US to pick up certain sweets if he wants them, cheaper krispbrod (although Big Lots tends to be a better source), and that absolutely disgusting fish paste he likes to squirt on to things.  We have noticed that their own brand selection is getting larger, with the quality decreasing (but that is here in the US), and they have increased the food mart area here too.  Actually we bought a Christmas ham there last year and it was a fantastic ham.  Pricey, but worth it.

Ironically you go to the world's largest Ikea (Kungens Kurva outside Stockholm) and their food selection is all....Mexican food.   

Heh, you've made me laugh. That awful fish paste in a tube. I dated a Swede, and he was always all about the "caviar" in a tube!

A big boo, however, on the chocolate. I've occasionally found Marabou on Ocado, so I guess I need to fill any cravings from there!

I was so overwhelmed by the cinnamon rolls that I forgot to tell you guys about the bottle recycling machine... I didn't really study it too closely, but they seem to have a machine that takes your bottles (and cans?) and gives you money for them... kinda like returning bottles to the shop when we were kiddies to get the 10 cent deposit back.  I'll look at it again next time I'm in to make sure I've seen this correctly!