Bringing in packaged food from UK

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Anyone have had any recent experience of bringing in packaged food from UK into France ?

I am going to UK and am planning to bring in some ready meals and frozen cooked food from Tesco/Sainsbury while returning. Will come back by Eurostar. Will it be allowed or will be asked to get rid off it ?

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Eurostar or Eurotunnel? If Eurostar then yes it may well be take off you if more than can be reasonably eaten on the train.

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Have a look at the Eurostar website, you need to be very careful.

Be warned that even if the luggage scanner doesn’t pick things up, the sniffer dogs can.

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While you’re back, Bruce, did you manage to find chillies locally to where you live in France? Your thread about that is inconclusive.

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I’m surprised you feel you need to these days as all the French supermarkets have so much in the way of prepared meals - fresh and frozen.

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Haha you still remember that. I haven’t ventured out to buy any chilies yet. I normally buy them from the Sri Lankan grocery stores near Gare du Nord when I return from London. I visit London quite frequently so that is what I have been normally doing till now. Seems I will have to venture out to St Junien which is near me to hunt some chilies or go to Limoges, where the nearest Grand Frais is.

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I did try some fare from the French superstores but they don’t have much variety, atleast in 87 where I live, and are super bland for my taste.

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Ah, but do they have le hotpot Lancashire, le steak pudding aux rognons, ou le balti anglais?

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heard from my physio that a Grand Frais is to open in St. Junien… sometime this summer.

just before Big Mat as you come from the 141

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