Hello all,
The below are ideas on foodstuffs that you may bring in to Canada based on MY experience. Feel free to add more or ignore some or all the suggestions on the list. Thought some of us might be interested. Dont' forget that I said we bagged the below items in smaller quantities using thick transparent nylons and labelled them with their names.
Food Items we brought
Dry fish (stock fish, cat fish and agbodo
)
Powdered (ground) cray fish
Big red prawn (big ede pupa)
Locust beans (pete and woro)
Gari (ijebu and for eba)
White cassava flour (elubo funfun)
Yam flour (elubo dudu)
Poundo Yam (olaola - the best)
Beans (we did not bring this but found it expensive here o but we still bought here cos I cannot do without it! :-[)
Powered Beans for Akara and Moinmoin
Dry suya pepper (ata suya)
Dry cameroun pepper (very peppery with nice aroma)
Ground melon seed (egusi)
Ground mango seeds (Apon)
Maggi (Knorr - avoid the chicken type if you can)
Dried bitter leaf (ewuro)
Plaintain flour
Yam (IF you can afford the weight - we could not but we paid $100 for 12 tiny pieces here. It may still be a better idea if you buy here -
my suggestion)
Non-food items which are unnecessarily expensive here:
Bedsheets
Bathroom slippers
Small kitchen platics
Kitchen soup spoons
Good Cuttlery set
Needle and thread
Scissors
Chinos trousers (low quality expensive ones plenty here!). I bought about 7 new pairs from Nigeria. But there are enough quality and cheap jeans here.
Good quality belt (arguable but I think they are cheaper in Nigeria)
Good quality wristwatch (arguable but I think they are cheaper in Nigeria)
Wristwatch battery (supper expensive! I think $5 here)
Weaveons (don't try to buy in Canada o!) Bring lots!
More ideas coming....
