If you do your grocery shopping online at coop@home and would like to do it in English, you can help persuade their Marketing Department to add an English version. See the email sent by Caroline:

Hi everyone,

as you know both Migros and Coop do food home delivery BUT only Migros has the site in English. Many of us also want Coop home delivery but need the English translation to be able to proceed with an order.

I have contacted Coop and they have advised me that if they get enough requests for an additional English translation to their site they will seriously consider adding it.

Please can you help by e mailing them to the address below your support for an English translation and also forward on to as many people as possible

Thanks
Caroline

This is what coop@home wrote to her before:

Dear Caroline

Unfortunately, the coop@home Website is not available in English.
If the demand for a site on the English language increases, we will activate it.
Your Request will of course be transmitted to the marketing department.
Support for adding English to the website for home delivery shopping should be sent to coopathome(AT)coop.ch

So, what are you waiting for? Write them an email!

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My baby loves Farley’s rusks but I couldn’t find it here in Lausanne. My colleague organized a barbecue and swore that there was nothing like Bull’s Eye BBQ sauce to make it a perfect one. And, you? The pregnancy makes you crave for some Cadburys despite all those Swiss chocolate around? No worries, these things are now available in Switzerland. Checkout The American Food Avenue for American foods and The Britshop for the British ones.

Do you know other shops (on- or offline)? Please drop a comment!

Update: Another online shop for British food that I just discovered today - My Expat Shop.

*Photograph courtesy of qmnonic, used under Creative Common license

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About a month before I knew that I was pregnant, I met one of the founders of LeShop.ch. He told us that while most women think that online grocery shopping is a great idea, not many really do it. At that time, I agreed and silently thought that I would always prefer buying my groceries by myself at the store.

Oh, boy, how I was so wrong. About 2 months after that meeting, I found a CHF30 LeShop voucher in my “Mama suitcase”. By then the first trimester fatigue had kicked in, and I was soooo happy to be able to do the grocery online, especially with the CHF30 discount. And somehow during the pregnancy I kept getting those kind of vouchers that I was finally hooked to LeShop. It was just so convenient to have all those heavy bottles of sparkling water, soft drinks, beer and juice delivered to our door (especially since we don’t have a car), and to be able to select the items to buy anytime day and night.

I also have tried Coop@Home and found that both LeShop and Coop@Home have a similar system, except for the delivery. With LeShop it’s always between 5-8PM, while with Coop@Home it’s possible to reserve a slot for delivery during the day or evening. LeShop leaves the groceries at the door if there is no one at home, but Coop@Home requires signature for confirmation of delivery. Other than that, LeShop is a slightly more convenient since its website is also available in English.

For delivery rates and other info, please refer to their websites (LeShop, Coop@Home).

Logo courtesy of Leshop and Coop.

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I haven’t been able to blog much recently, since our baby girl is having a recurrent skin infection. She could not sleep well the last few nights, which of course means even less sleep for me. So, this time I just want to share that I just received a box from Nestlé with product samples, mostly baby food. Very interesting timing, as the box arrives just after my baby pass the 4 months mark, meaning that she could start on solids. I, however, prefer to keep her on breastmilk for longer. I think I will start solids when she’s 5.5 month-old. Back to Nestlé, here is a pic of the box:

Not bad. Even though I plan to self prepare the food for our baby, having some jars of ready food could be helpful on the road. And the sipping cup will definitely be used.

Interestingly, I found this sign on the packanging:

(If you don’t understand French or German at all, it says: “Breastmilk is the ideal nutririon for your baby”). Good to see it, even though I think that it may have became like those warnings on cigarette boxes. Everyone knows that they are true, but some people choose to do otherwise.

FYI: I’m not affiliated in any way to Nestlé. This post is just another log of my day.

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