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[fighton]

Any of you pack any food when making the trip? If so, what did you bring? I'm thinking about taking some light snacks to help me get through the first week or two, but am not exactly sure what to take. I'm open to suggestions!

[madoka]

Well, if it's light snacks, then I wouldn't bother because Korean convenience stores are going to have most of the popular brands aplenty. Now, if there is something more obscure you like, then you should bring those. But then no one here knows your tastes, so they wouldn't be able to help you. Are there some particular brands you were thinking of bringing?

[browneyedgirl]

No, but you should bring extra personal hygiene products you won't be able to buy if you're going to a smaller town.

[the ireland]

for mwe it was brown sauce and aromat!!

[blackjack]

[fighton]

madoka, I was thinking like Planters peanuts, BBQ almonds (yum! I don't think they'll have that), granola bars...stuff like that. I obviously won't be packing full meals.

browneyedgirl, personal hygiene products are on the top of my list, especially since that's all I read about the first time I came on this board. I'm bringing a few sticks of deodorant, name brand toothpaste, etc. That stuff won't take up too much space so I'll definitely bring it, plus I don't want to risk not finding a decent brand. I know the toothpaste scare was in China, but still!

the ireland, brown sauce = steak sauce? if so, that's a good one as well, although I have a feeling I should be able to find that. Never used aromat, but I'll probably consider bringing other seasonings.

blackjack,

[sarbonn]

If I would have known enough at the time, I would have looked for some of those hydration packets for juices (you add the material to water and it creates juices) but have almost zero calories. Finding decent diet drink stuff here has been a chore. My sister sent me a whole bunch of KoolAid and Crystal Light hydration packets that allow me to just empty them into 2 liter bottles, and then I have an entire bottle of juice for a period of time. I have found some ice tea and stuff like that here, but mostly the Kool Aid stuff I find is sugar based and really fattening.

They have all sorts of nuts here. At least in Seoul. I kind of wish I could find a steady supply of tomato soup, but it's sometimes off an on. I don't like making it myself, and I love Campbells, but it isn't always easy to find. Other days, a store might be swimming in it.

I'd suggest finding a staple of food you like when you get here and just stocking up on it as much as possible. Some things are readily available all the time; others, you have to lucky to find, and others get discontinued the second time you look for it. That happened to me with Macaroni and Cheese at Costco. I would have suggested getting a Costco membership, but their prices are really going through the roof right now, and they continue to discontinue more and more western things, to the point where it's almost like shopping in a Korean supermarket now. Not completely, but bad enough to where I get more and more disappointed each time I go there.

[blackjack]

[blackjack]

and herbal teas, panadol, cold medicine, vitamins (not vit c) they are expensive here don't forget patience and a sense of humor

[Oreovictim]

[drakered]

Are we allowed to bring over seeds? Does that violate any law? If not, I'm bringing basil and corriander seeds for the next contract.[/quote]

[blackjack]

Well you are not allowed to bring them in but that goes for most food products. I brought a bunch of basil and coriander seeds in no trouble. When was the last time you have ever seen someone searched

[fighton]

[Xuanzang]

They discontinue cheap, effective Western products and dont replace them or bring in a more expensive option.

[nomad-ish]

i was really disappointed in costco, and haven't been back since.