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Sending a food parcel
My son is living in Japan at the moment and I'd like to send him a few food items which are unobtainable or extremely expensive there. (home -made cake and tea bags would be included ). Weight and customs restrictions are obviously the main considerations. Has anyone got any suggestions, based on their own experience maybe?
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For more on marking an answer as the "Best Answer", please visit our FAQ.When my cousin was overseas with the army I know my aunt sent him boxes from this site www.boxhappy.com the sweets apparently always went down very well.
I know you want to make your own box rather than buy one but the site might give you a few ideas about the sort of things that can be posted well.
I don't know anything about customs restrictions in Japan though...
Postage soon mounts up, don' forget. But myMam sends OXO cubes if I run short and no-one is coming over (to France). Oh! and packets of loose leaf tea - I like Chritstmas tea for example.
What I ask for is marmite (you can get it over here but only in piddly little jars), decent horseradish sauce, Stones Ginger Wine, all sorts of spices (mixed spice, mace, mustard seed - I make lots of chutneys), Sandwich Spread, Branston Pickle, stem ginger...
Hope this will give you some ideas Emily Ball. The last thing I asked for was a block of creamed coconut - that is impossible to find over here, or I haven't managed to anyway.