Thanks for some great information. I have lived in U.K for the last 10 yrs so its obvious to look for some of the things we get here. Believe I spent about 60 mins in Co-op in Baar looking for various (including these) items.

Sliced bread & Beans - one of the breakfast items
Rice - I'm of indian origin, so eating rice 2-3 days a week is norm (there is only 1 kg bag in co-op)
Wheat Flour - Again for home baking and chapati

Thanks MarieZug for information on Baby wash, my son is just 1 yr old and I prefer to use the same things we use here

Again thanks for very much for all the helpful information

Sliced bread you can't miss, but there are a few types of flour. In Aldi I was confused by the vitamin flour, then there is rice flour and corn flour. As for the milk, green top milk is un-pasturised. I don't know where you can get that here, unless you go direct to the farmer.

Believe me there is no sliced bread in co-op in baar
Milk - Green cap milk is semi-skimmed pasturised milk (widely used variety in UK)

ah well maybe if OP had said 'unpasturised milk (green top)' then she may have been answered less flippantly

Bread seriously can not miss but if OP is looking for proper white sliced bread like Hovis in the UK then she is going to struggle as we all know (however Coop has a good substitute at the moment)

So try a different supermarket. They do have other supermarkets, one presumes?


= Milch Drink... look next to the Vollmilch cartons in the fridge.

This thread is getting ever more surreal...

semi skimmed is light blue Milch Drink over here

They must have sold out as Coop DEFINITELY sell white sliced bread i bought some the other day

Then green top = light blue top here Full-milk = dark-blue top

Maybe the OP was looking for sliced bread as in the UK, rather than the microscopically small stuff you get here? I'd definitely recommend he got the taste for the better bread, though, even if he has to slice it himself to get it into the toaster.

Methinks some of us have forgotten how bewildering it is to uproot and move to a country in which the people speak different languages from yours. I remember the first few times I went to a supermarket, I stood in front of the cheese shelf for 10 minutes and for the life of me, I couldn't decide which cheese I should put in my basket. Do you remember slowly, painstakingly reading all the labels of the milk packaging? Even my German other half mistook Milch Drink for something quite artificially vile.

After a while I was slightly dizzy from examining the array of 'alien' products. It was like Stendahl's Syndrome but over milk, cheese, sugar and flour, I tell ya.

well it seems so, but as we all know sliced bread is available in all supermarkets here - whether we like it or not is a different matter - but i again i refer the OP to this thread and my recommendation

I suspect that this might be the least painful answer (for all of us)...

ye great, but here they are more likely to charge 50-60 CHF per hr

did you come on EF and give a shopping list of items you couldn't find I was the same but trial and error - you have to find local equivalents

My shopping list would have been

Why can't i find:

Robinson's Squash
Shreddies
Salt and Vinegar Walkers
Pork Pies
Scotch Eggs
Fish and chips
cheddar cheese (found it eventually )
Salad cream
golden syrup
brown sugar
self raising flour

the list could go on.......

I still remember it well: I took a dictionary with me everywhere I went; I didn't go shopping with preconceived expectations of what I'd find; I made mistakes; if a shop didn't sell what I was looking for, I went to a different shop; if I couldn't find a shop that sold something I wanted, I ate something else.

I really don't see how it can be difficult to find bread, flour and milk in a civilised western European country, even if one takes the language barrier into account.

No I just walked up to the milk or cheese, grabbed one that had a pretty wrapper, bought it and if it wasn't what I wanted or tasted like cr@p I didn't buy it again.

Any chance that you might thank those users who have already given you ideas of where to find what you're looking for, or are we just going to get a string of snippy comments?

MarieZug, for example, has given you some excellent information. You might want to acknowledge that.



EDIT: Please ignore this post. I am an idiot. An idiot with a larder full of flour, rice, milk and baked beans, mind. But still an idiot.

One more post then she can thank and groan with the best of 'em.

See post 21

And I normally charge way more than CHF 50-60 per hour

BTW, doesn't the OP need 10 posts before he sees the "thanks" button?

for god sake people please post a useful reply to this gentlemen/lady

ive been here two years now and for the life of me cant find any bread or milk -as a result i am constantly hungry and/or thirsty. please assist the OP.