Self-catering in the Caribbean? Do you....?

Question

tend to buy the basic food stuffs in your own country and take it out with you for your arrival - e.g cereal, tea, coffee, sugar, etc.. or do you buy everything from the food store when you get there? I ask as I have never been self catering before in any country and thought I'd take basic food stuffs and buy other stuff when I got there. Reason: some of the stuff like decent cereal can be expensive in the Caribbean..

Answer 1

just take yourself with favourite teabags, and a few packets of your favourite crisps, then enjoy your new findings.

its always nice to go back to your room for a nice cuppa tea, and a bag of cheese an onion.

Answer 2

Are you travelling via the US? If so, they are funny about taking any foodstuff through the country, so check what you can and can't check. The best thing to do would be to contact the carribbean island's embassy and ask them. Usually, if you are going to an island that is quite americanised, they have american food as well as the island food available. The best thing to do? Ditch all your 'normal' stuff you eat here and really sample the local cuisine over there. Have a coconut and banana fruit salad for breakfast! Much more fun than your normal weetabix in the morning, and you will feel like you have really been away!

Answer 3

You can get most things, maybe not the named brands, for instance in jamaica they have a lot of liptons tea......so take your own pgtips. If you are allergic to washing powder, take your own (if you can) as the ones there are very course i found on clothes. Take some pegs and a bit of string also, to hang out your clothes that you have washed.

Answer 4

if your going to barbados there is very good supermarkets like ours. they arnt that expensive like all places some things cheap some things a little more expensive, but you dont go on holiday to be penny pinching and you dont want to be packing that lot.