Foods

Two questions/requests in one, hooray.

Before I start: I live in the UK, so I won't be able to get ahold of any US brands, and would need a store based in the UK as such. And I like to eat as cleanly as possible! :]

1.Does anyone know of either a good store or a good ONLINE store that sells in bulk? We like to buy in larger amounts for long-life goods in my house but it's been harder to find places to buy big from lately. :] This is important especially because I have to eat a LOT more than usual now. ><

2. I've recently had to cut dairy out of my diet and was wondering if anyone could recommend, again, either a good brand/retailer of dairy-free goods or a good online site that sells them? I know we have Holland and Barrett, but beyond that... >>;

Thank you in advance :D

You could try one of the big cash and carry retailers such as Costco.  They specialise in army catering-size packs of everything.    I find that really big branches of the regular supermarkets these days stock a 'free from' range of goods.  Tesco Extra stores (the size that sells TV's etc) have quite a big selection of gluten-free and dairy alternatives.

Ah, I didn't think of Costco. I don't know if there's one nearby, though. Hm. As for the huge branches of supermarkets: the nearest ones are about 30 minutes-40 minutes drive away. Bugger. xD
Edit: Score, there's one in a neighbouring town.

I've also been discouraged by a lot of the supermarket free-from ranges as they're generally all packed with ingredients I can't pronounce/e-numbers and the like. I know it's not quite my place to be fussy, but I remember one thing in Morrisons having about 40 ingredients listed on the back. Ehh...

Unfortunately that's the inevitable downside if you want a lookalike food rather than the Real McCoy.   A pint of milk contains one ingredient... milk.  A pint of soya milk or almond milk contains lots of dodgy ingredients to make it look and taste like milk.   Margarine and butter do something similar.  You're probably better off just avoiding milk and milk-like replacements all together and building your meals around all the other things you can eat. 

If you're buying large amounts of things and don't want to drive 30 mins couldn't you sign up for the online delivery service?  I use Tesco quite a lot and if you Google 'Tesco voucher codes'... you can often find a money-off code that gets you free delivery or £5 off a £50 shop.

Ah! That's a good idea. Sneaky, too >>; Shall mention it when the matter next comes up. And, yeah. I suppose that will always be an issue ;| Unless I start looking at particularly expensive or obscure foods. Oh well! Thank you :]

Have you tried Amazon.com?  I know that in the US you can buy groceries in bulk and if you subscribe you can get a discount.  And if you spend a certain amount you can get free shipping.  Not sure if they do that in the UK.

They also carry some different soy/rice/almond milks.  They have the powdered kind which I haven't tried.  And a few brands of the aseptic packaged kind.