Well now I do know I wont mention it again.
No just the very bad sugars.
never made flapjacks… mind you, Golden Syrup can’t be found in my pantry… did bring some maple syrup back from Canada… as a souvenir… but we never actually ate any of it and it finally got chucked away… ah well… taught me a lesson about not buying stuff just for the sake of it… 
Because I’d left it until the very last minute, also I’ve only ever seen sultanas and yellow ones here, not mixed peel or anything, nor suet.
Do you have a Biocoop nearby? Our organic shops have all sorts of dried fruits. This year I used dried figs (we all love figgy pudding 
), raisins, sultanas, cranberries and apricots plus preserved orange and lemon peel.
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Suet you have to get from a butcher, but I use butter instead.
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That’s what I use, like you I go to Biocoop or le marché de Léopold, and I do use suet.
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Yes lots of options, as @vero said the 2 nearest to me / us! I’ll get organised earlier next year, I doubt very much I could have done anything as good as our pudding was starting from scratch on Christmas eve 
. I posted as it was great as a quick, easy, cheap, last minute pudding.
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I’m shocked Stella, doesn’t it have similar properties as honey then? I read somewhere that that can last for hundreds of years, even Captain Scott’s tins survived at least 100 and was reckoned not to be poisonous. Or is that a myth?
no idea re the myth… but when I found the 30-year old tin in my pantry… I wasn’t prepared to risk tasting its contents…
we enjoy honey (in moderation) from a local source… acacia is a firm favourite 
Yes, I buy from just down the lane, cheaper than the supermarket too, but mainly because ‘local noses from local flowers’. 
The idea is that we are subjected to the same pollen that the bees are collecting from.
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