New Chilled Range is Here!

If you live abroad one of the things you probably enjoy the most is getting to experience the food and drink on offer in a new country. However, no matter how good the cuisine is there will always be a few items that you miss from home, and for British expats there tends to be one product in particular they miss the most.......bacon.

Before you moved away from home you probably never realised how much you'd miss it, but it's impossible to make a decent fry up or bacon sandwich with anything other than proper British bacon.

This is why we've been working very hard to launch our new chilled range, as its items like bacon, along with British sausages and cheese that are missed just as much, if not more, than ambient items like Heinz Beans and Branston Pickle.

Our chilled range was launched last Friday (15th March) and currently includes a variety of cheese, bacon, sausages, yogurts, butter, pies, pasties, Quorn and snacks from top brands you'd find in the UK.

So whether you crave a British fry up on a Saturday morning or a Ginsters Pork Pie in your packed lunch, we're here to help!

Due to restricted delivery times we can currently only offer our chilled range to France, Germany, Republic of Ireland, UK, Monaco, Belgium, Luxembourg and The Netherlands. However, we are running further testing and hope to be able to extend this list of countries in the near future.

If you can think of any products that should be in our chilled range and aren’t, just let us know and we'll do our best to source the item for you!

Great Novelty Treats for Easter!

Easter, as we've said before, is the second most popular holiday in the UK, and being one of the few times in the year you're expected to eat chocolate it's easy to see why!

Every year top brands such as; Nestle, Mars and Cadbury battle it out to not only produce the best Easter egg range, but also to create a new novelty Easter treat.

For Mars this product is their Malteaster Bunny - a small individually wrapped chocolate bunny with a crunchy and creamy honeycomb filling. Undeniably delicious and if you're already a Malteasers fan you're sure to want to eat a whole bag of these!

To rival this Cadbury have also had their design team working hard and have come up a great novelty Easter product - Cadbury Egg n Spoon. This consists of four chocolate eggs filled with a divine fluffy chocolate mousse, which comes in a branded purple egg box.

Nestle have also launched their Aero Lamb, again a small individually wrapped treat, but this time in the shape of a lamb and filled with a traditional mint Aero filling.

So this year we really are spoilt for choice when it comes to picking our indulgent treat(s) for Easter, but for us the stand out product of the year has to be the Cadbury Egg n Spoon. Not only is it completely unique to anything else on the market, but being made of Cadbury chocolate it's sure to taste amazing!

We have plenty more novelty treats, cakes and eggs of all sizes within our Easter category, including Smarties Chicken, Milkybar Cow and Thorntons Bramble Model. So whether it’s for you, your partner or the kids you will definitely find something to help make this Easter a good one!

If you have an opinion on what you think is the best Easter product this year, leave a comment and let us know!

Cereal - A Quick and Simple Breakfast

Every country tends to have a typical breakfast food they are most famous for; in France and Germany it's a continental style breakfast, whereas in America it's pancakes and maple syrup.

In the UK we're well known for enjoying a fry up, but actually, due to time retraints, it's more likely that the majority of us enjoy a bowl of cereal first thing in the morning.

Because of this continous demand for cereal the choice available is extremely extensive, so no matter what your taste or dietary needs there is a cereal designed to meet your requirements!

At BCS we have done our best to get as many types of cereal as possible into our breakfast selection, and so have split our range into 6 different categories: Hot Cereals, Traditional Cereals, Better For You, Cereal Snack, Childrens Cereal and Crunchy Cereal.

Below are our top 10 most popular products from these categories;

1. Nestle Shreddies
2. Shredded Wheat
3. Weetabix
4. Crunchy Nut Cornflakes
5. Special K
6. All Bran
7. Cheerios
8. Alpen - Reduced Sugar
9. Rice Krispies
10. Coco Pops

So, with such a range to choose from it's no wonder so many of us choose a quick and easy breakfast like this to start our day. Of course, at the weekend you can't go wrong with a good classic British fry up!