{"id":4090,"date":"2011-09-01T17:23:27","date_gmt":"2011-09-01T17:23:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/swedish\/?p=4090"},"modified":"2011-09-01T17:23:27","modified_gmt":"2011-09-01T17:23:27","slug":"how-to-buy-swedish-food-abroad","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/swedish\/how-to-buy-swedish-food-abroad\/","title":{"rendered":"How to buy Swedish food abroad"},"content":{"rendered":"

As a Swede living abroad, the monthly trip to IKEA is big treat. Not so much for the flat packs and the tea candles, but more so for the mouth watering food department. Lingonberry jam, pickled herring, kn\u00e4ckebr\u00f6d, Daim cake… Well, you probably all know what it’s like. Or, what it WAS like, I should say. Because over the past years, IKEA have slowly but steadily changed the stock from familiar Swedish meatballs-sausages-cookies-herring-bread-coffee-brands to IKEA’s own brand IKEA Food. Pretty much all food you buy in IKEA nowadays are IKEA Food labelled or will be in the near future, and this makes the expat in me quite sad. A bit pathetic, I know. But there was something quite fulfilling about seeing the familiar brands of meatballs-sausagge-cookies-herring-bread-coffee on our kitchen shelves. Not to mention, the quality of it the ‘proper’ stuff.\u00a0 It’s of course rather obvious why IKEA is doing this and understandable as well, I suppose. But it doesn’t change the fact that I still want my Leksand’s Kn\u00e4ckebr\u00f6d and my P\u00e5gen’s H\u00f6n\u00f6kaka.<\/p>\n

One\u00a0good thing being a Swede living in the UK is Totally Swedish<\/a>. It’s a Swedish shop based in London which has become so popular it is now a chain (read more here!). <\/a>The deliver all over the UK for a reasonable price and it’s like Christmas Eve all over when the delivery guys knock on the door. I have a few friends in USA who use Sweden’s Best<\/a>\u00a0 for their Swedish food fix and someone once recommended Sverige Online<\/a> for deliveries worldwide.<\/p>\n

Where do you people turn when you need a dose of Sweden? And what are your absolute favourites that you would happily pay loads for in your local supermarket?<\/p>\n

My top 5 Swedish foods\u00a0are the following tasty five:<\/p>\n

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*Almond Cake made from the chocolate brand Daim. Cake heaven.
\n*Falukorv, my favourite\u00a0a sausage that you must and should eat with…
\n*…Snabbmakaroner, the pasta of all pastas – and they are ready in only three minutes!
\n*H\u00f6n\u00f6kaka, a sweet bread from the west coast of Sweden.
\n*Leksands kn\u00e4ckebr\u00f6d, read Katjas post about this deliscios type of bread here<\/a>!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"\"\"

As a Swede living abroad, the monthly trip to IKEA is big treat. Not so much for the flat packs and the tea candles, but more so for the mouth watering food department. Lingonberry jam, pickled herring, kn\u00e4ckebr\u00f6d, Daim cake… Well, you probably all know what it’s like. Or, what it WAS like, I should…<\/p>\n

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