Take two ex public service employees (1 Teacher & 1 midwife) from the old country, add a shortage of tea bags, stir in a spoonful of Marmite, and season with Madras Curry Paste, and what do you get?
Maybe a stomach ache, but definitely a problem a lot of us out here have faced, where do we get all our essentials that sat in the kitchen cupboard back in dear old Blighty?
If you’re anything like Chris and Ian Yeldham of Otos, you tell all your visitors to bring a ready supply of these goodies with them, but what then?
We’ve all found at least one shop that has a good stock of what we want, but for a lot of us we can’t travel far enough, regularly enough to keep up with what we use, and so Ex-Pat Heaven came into being.
Ex-pat Heaven is a company based in Derby in the East Midlands, but available to all of us on the Costa Blanca through the wonders of modern technology, the telephone, a much maligned instrument, now used mostly for texting impenetrable messages, “luk’n 4wd 2 c’n u l8r”, you can still however use your phone to bring the joys of English food direct to your door, with no charge for delivery, but how, I hope I hear you ask?
Just ring 962358301, and speak to either Chris or Ian, and you’ll be on your way to your own personal food parcel, winging it’s way to you courtesy of those good old boys back in England.
Now we’re out here, we all eat as the vast majority of our food those things we find in the big, or little, Spanish Supermercados, Carrefour, Caprabo, Mercadona, Mas y Mas, plus those crafty German brothers have slipped Lidl, and Aldi in under the radar, the biggest problem with all of these is the range of English foods in small sizes they all stock.
However all those basics that were staples in your cooking, as well as those items you feel are more than just necessary, they’re positively irreplaceable, Tetley Tea Bags, Branston Pickle, Sarsons Vinegar, Birds Custard and so many more , you can order by ringing 962358301, and getting them to send you one of their full colour free catalogues, or if you have the power of the internet at your fingertips, you can go to www.ex-patheaven.com, and order direct, you’ll be surprised how simple it is.
There’s also an extensive range of baby foods, too numerous to mention, plus the added bonus of being able to specify certain types of food that aren’t as yet in the catalogue.
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