Let me know your favourite UK foods to have around the house!!

Anyone else internally screaming "SHUT THE FRIDGE DOOR!"🤣

Just a quick tip as someone who worked in a kitchen and trained as a chef for a while, meats should always go at the bottom of a fridge. This is to stop any liquids from the meats dripping onto food on the shelves below, which is possible with raw meats and blood especially.

I remember a few years ago there was a tv show in which they taste tested loads of cheese in France. Food experts, that kind of thing. The English cheeses won all categories.

Not only is the chicken half the price it is in America we also haven’t pumped or washed our chicken with chlorine. PLUS you can easily tell it’s from a good farm as you can look for the tractor symbol on the packet.

Alanna, put a bottle of water in the fridge door next to the milk. Then you'll have cold water for your squash. When it is empty refill it from the tap.

Alanna's refrigerator maybe small, but it looks packed with enough food to survive the next Zombie Apocalypse...🍕🍔🍟

A ham and cheese sandwich made with red Leicester is a thing of beauty.😊

The fact that you have an array of Mango Chutney jars split between your cupboards and fridge at varying levels of consumption should be plenty for the Home Office 🙂 One of us!

I remember going to visit some relatives who lived in New Jersey and my father brought some English Mustard with him, now English mustard and American mustard looks very similar, boy did our US relative get a surprise when he used the English mustard like he would American mustard, I thought his head was going to explode (like the film Scanners) - to be fair my Dad could have warned him......

I'm in Spain and I miss squash so much!! Why oh why does the UK have practically an entire aisle dedicated to squash and here nothing.

I think one of the reasons most people don't have huge American style fridges is because we typically don't have to drive 20 miles to the supermarket. When I lived at home in Sutherland we had a chest freezer and separate full height fridge because the nearest decent supermarket was 38 miles away.

Keep a bottle of water (still or sparkling, whatever you prefer) in the fridge for whenever you want some squash, and maybe some ice cubes in the freezer. That basically got me through last summer when the indoor temperature never dropped below 27 degrees C for 3 months...

😂😂… yeah, you’re British enough alright! If you can handle the old English mustard - hats off! I use to have it after a night out boozing… there was a butcher (that was open late) that did pulled beef -cooked & hot-in a baguette lavishly smeared with English mustard .. fantastic!

The Leaf (aka _proper_ ) Tea Ritual (English style): First, boil the water. Then pour some into the pot, to warm it (it'll act as a heat-sink otherwise). Once the pot is too hot to hold, you're ready for the next step (having emptied the pot). Add the required number of teaspoonsful of leaves: that would be two or three for yours - bearing in mind that some teas are stronger than others. Boil the kettle again, and when it's boiled, pour into the teapot IMMEDIATELY: "Take the pot to the kettle, NOT the kettle to the pot" - as our Mums used to teach us. Give a quick stir. Put the pot under the tea cosy (you do have one, don't you, Honey?). Wait at least FIVE MINUTES for the tea to infuse properly: it's a HERB, remember - not instant 'coffee' (yuk !!) - and should TASTE 'herby'. Kitchen timer useful here. Then pour into cup or mug through a tea-strainer, adding milk and/or sugar (Xylotol is a brilliant 'healthy' alternative, but pricey) as required. Sit down with some biscuits - and start sorting out solutions for the World's problems 🙂 Happy brewing, Angel !

You said 'Not really but also sometimes'! Congratulations Alana! You're becoming more British... No one has a clue what you're saying but you sound good! 😁🤪

English Mustard with with pork, lamb or beef

I was eating a bag of McCoys salt & vinegar as I was watching this. I’ve loved them since I was a kid (and that’s a long time ago!). There are better S&V options out there but they will always have a special place in my heart too 💙💙💙

Thanks for sharing. More than the food I love what you have done with storage space. Great organisation.

Grated cheese and a little bit of mustard in mashed potatoes,the dogs bollocks. Loved the video Alanna

Another video talking about food. Just the type of relaxed content I needed today!

orange pekoe, Dargeling, Earl Grey, lapsang souchong, English breakfast . . . so many loose leaf teas.

Well, I for one found your kitchen tour very interesting and enjoyable.

Talking about nostalgia, I feel like i get nostalgia watching your videos sometimes now, in the best way though. If I am feeling homesick or whatever watching these videos often help alot. Thankyou!

Such a packed kitchen Alanna, I don't know how you manage to fit it all in. I was particularly impressed with the fresh veg draw in the fridge, something that has never been used in mine. One thing I did notice was no breakfast cereal. Where are all the boxes of Coco pops, Frosties, Cherrios, Shreddies and other such delights that are usually hiding in a typical British kitchen cupboard. 😊

I've had McCoy's Salt and vinegar Chips and Cheddar cheese sandwich with branston pickle while watching this video that's so weird lol and I've been watching you're video's for so many years and may I say you've definitely proved that you're British at heart 💖 xx

Squash , is usually made from the whole fruit, the juice , the pulp , the skin , the rind and the pips all squashed down to extract all the flavour.

Yes! Encona Hot Pepper Sauce is the best 🤛🏻 I have it in cheese sandwiches. Second random thought - add boiling water to your squash. A hot squash, if you will. It’s excellent.

So my (British) family does pork pie and Branston pickle for Christmas breakfast but I feel like sausage rolls and mustard is a similar scenario!

My Mom always insisted that uncooked meat should be stored on the bottom shelf of the fridge, just above the crisper drawer. This is in case any raw meat juice drips out accidentally, and contaminates other food below. So, I still do so now!

One of your best vids your definitely becoming more like us 😂

Thanks for the tour. I forgot how hard it was to put groceries away. It made me smile.

Happy Valentines Day to you and Mr. Naps!!! My favourite snack is a Scottish oatcake with a fresh farmers cheese (or maybe a bit of Stilton), smoked fish and rocket. You can add a slice of ripe pear for a change-up. Delicious, easy and very unique! Give it a try sometime.

Fun to see a clip of an old video of yours. You have changed, of course 😁 (and not in a bad way at all). Thanks for the kitchen food tour!

I love your food videos!

Such a charming and funny video as always Alaana 😄

Had to laugh out loud when you pulled out the half jar of Tesco's Mango Chutney! Pretty sure there's one in my cupboard too! And kudos on the Cherries and Berries squash, delicious! Edit: Horseradish with Beef, English Mustard with Pork. Also, just say 'Wustah Sauce', everyone'll know what you mean, no need to give yourself an aneurysm!

Brilliant, enjoyable video, Alanna. It’s made me realise my cupboards are bare though because I didn’t have time for my weekend shop 😫

You need to try Lapsang Souchong tea. Everyone i know hates the smell of it but it has this lovely smoky smell and reminds me of bonfires in the garden with my Dad.

I always wondered how to make loose leaf tea properly. It would be great if you could teach us!!!! Thanks for keeping up your vlog, it's terrifically entertaining😊

One of my favourite memory of growing up was having loose leaf tea brewed in a proper pot and served in tea cups with my Nan. We would play dominos while it brewed and then have homemade Eccles cake with it.

Nicely stocked fridge. Someone likes their food!

Alanna sure seems to hit the self-conscious tender feelings of some Brits! And, by the way, lots of Brits who come here to visit blast America meaning the USA freely and you know what? Thanks for coming over! We still love ya, and bless your hearts.

This is why we watch this channel, thx a million from two limies in sunny Phoenix, Arizona USA 😍🥰😘xxxxx

Excellent video - so fun! I agree with another commenter - best in a while. Been watching a+n for years, and this one is real channel spirit❤

Love the way you choose to live the British way. A little challenging but sooo... worth it 🙂

Best Alanna video for ages. You should do more sleepy morning videos

The hot sausage rolls/mustard/Christmas morning thing sounds so good 😋oh and a teaspoon of mustard goes nicely in mashed potatoes 🥔

A big Tick VG for discovering loose tea.....now don't forget a tea cosy to keep the teapot warm and a tea strainer to keep the tea leaves from the cup. I enjoy loose tea every Sunday whe there is more time to enjoy the slower pace of life. Also I only eat the toffee butterkist.

Love your style of presenting "random stuff"😀 Loose leaf tea lady 🙂 yes to the taste test. I've got 5 cartons of juice in my hallway as fridge has protein shake ( cookies and cream is the best ) and other detritus but no lettuce happily 😁

That Christmas mustard tradition is one I keep myself...it's brilliant.

Ooh, Alanna, never apologise for saying Yorkshire like that. I love it and it always makes me smile. Anyway, you must try loose leaf Assam tea...so wonderful. Thanks for the vid...btw, you got a feather on the back of your sweatshirt.

Loose leaf Ty-Phoo is my favourite tea, but quite hard to find nowadays as most supermarkets don't seem to stock it, so I have to order online. Also thanks for reminding me about Encona hot sauce. I haven't bought that for years, but just added it to tomorrow's food order! 😘

For anyone getting into loose leaf tea, I'd totally recommend a small tea blender called Bird and Blend! They're originally from Brighton, but there are some London-based shops in Angel and Borough.

I love how Alanna just leaves her fridge door wide open for almost half the video 🤣. I bet all that lovely M&S shopping haul had a nice covering of dew the next day Also, my theory as to why it's called "squash" is because it is a witty take on "concentrate" - as in the fruit has been "squashed". we don't call it "juice" because it is not juice, lol. That said, you can get juices made from concentrate, so it is a little confusing, but everyone knows juice from concentrate ain't real juice

Tesco Salt and Vinegar crisps are never sold out. I seriously think they do not stock them anymore. It's been the best part of a year since I have seen them in the North East of England.

Another sweet video. Cheers from the Pacific West coast of Canada.

Great video Alanna! The only things i have in my fridge at the moment are a pot of jam, mustard, salad cream and a couple of blood orange ciders! I think i need to do a shop 😂

wow, you always sound so HAPPY! XD

SOOOO funny, you're a riot.

I have treacle spread thick on hot buttered toast, when I have a sweet tooth. Absolutely amazing!!!

I could listen to you say 'Yorkshire' for hours. Thank you for being you.........🤗

Don't forget to empty your used Tea Leaves on your roses (around the base) they will love you for it.

When it comes to crisps, I'm very fond of Walker's Sensations (Thai Sweet Chili or Chicken & Rosemary) and Seabrook's. If you order from Seabrook's directly, you can get SO many flavours you won't ever see in the shops. We used to be able to get Torres crisps in M&S, but I haven't seen them in a while, and they showed up at our nearest Publix recently (I now live in Georgia). Black truffle, Iberian ham, and caviar are the ones I've tried so far, but there's also a white wine variety and a Mediterranean herb kind I have yet to try . . . .

Mini fridges and cool boxes are very cheap and useful 👌 Squash is the past tense of squeeze, it's what happens to fruit.

I have to agree about our cheeses.. I have tried some of the popular French cheeses and a few others but although they are nice enough, English cheeses knock spots off them.. Parmesan and edam are quite good but a nice mature cheddar beats them. Strangely one of the best I ever had was cheddar made in Canada which Sainsbury's sold back in the 90s, which was cheap as well.

We do have full length refrigerators and freezers, it depends on how much space you have in order to accommodate them.

There are places in London that allow you to blend your own tea mixtures with wine style tastings. 👌

Major thumbs up on the Kashmiri Chilli Powder. It's a great spice for adding a red colour to a dish, especially if you get 100% Kashmiri, not very spicy either

Cherries and berries double strength is the business.. and summer fruits

Black Treacle on thick toast or crumpets (with butter, of course) is an indulgent breakfast treat on or around the 5th of November.

Nice vibe

Two things; first, if you make yourself some cheese on toast (extra mature or vintage preferably), just before you serve it, and if possible while the cheese is still bubbling, add either some English mustard or some Branston pickle for a taste explosion! Second, you should consider a popcorn taste test. Last year you could get Chocolate and Strawberry flavour from Tesco, and Asda did a Bacon and Cider flavour. Sweet or salty is SO yesterday!

We make our sausage rolls with mustard cooked in them. Try it.

Colman's, the wasabi of the U.K.! Great video, one of my favorites is Taiwan Milk Oolong Tea, pricey but worth it.

I love your personality. Be careful with the thermostat knob at the top of the fridge. When full, it is easy to knock it and turn the temperature down. We did that until I taped it up.

Fantastic job Alanna 👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏

Nice. Full. Easy buy again

You need to do English cheese, love a crumbly Wensleydale, Lancashire or Cheshire

Great video! I like your sweatshirt btw! Ive got so many oversized sweatshirts recently, they're so nice lol, and it suits you and it suits your hair!

Okay: Alanna rolls out of bed, hasn't brushed her hair...has a video to make! Oh dear. Hold on, I know...I'll show them what I have in the fridge! That's it, that's the ticket! :)

I highly recommend Bird and Blend loose leaf tea, good flavours

I ❤️ Nando’s Perinaise. Glad I can buy at my local (smallish) Safeway supermarket here in my town in Washington state (north of Seattle)..!!

Love your videos. Thank you. Yorkshire tea loose leaf is better than tea bags.

Totally agree with your rating of the Tesco Finest Sea Salt and Cider Vinegar crisps.... more than happy to dispatch a 150g packet all to myself. I particularly like them with a glass of cold milk.

Econa hot pepper sauce goes well with anything. But yesss, add a good splodge to melted butter in a pan then coat crispy wings in the stuff. It's incredible

Favourite foods in the cupboard are tins of Corned Beef and Spam but Tesco here have been out of stock of Corned beef for months now and only sell 'own' brand 'Spam' (has a Chinese name) but made in the NL at the same factory.

Alanna, you have a nice spice rack. Spices at the most accessible height = it's a spice rack. Otherwise, pantry would be a proper designation. I have no UK foods around my Canadian apartment.

Try putting some of your green tea in the teapot, then adding a large sprig of fresh mint and brewing it up. Lovely minty tea. Much better than using bags with dried mint in them.

♥ the just got out of bed style vid! Very relaxed and natural 👌 Fav foods - Moussaka, chicken, mayonnaise, Jambalaya, chicken normandy (chicken, cider, apples, cream), fish pie, bacon, cheese, Quorn sausages, tinned meat, crisps, bread, spag bol (with Quorn), curries (with Quorn), Eccles cakes, walnut cake (like you I mostly prefer savouries). You wouldn't believe it from this but I've cut my meat consumption by 90% - I often go for days without meat, quite naturally. A stock cube on cheese on toast is another trick. I tried A&W root beer the other day, I thought it tasted like menthol cough medicine 🤨😆

Love Ya

When it comes to loose-leaf tea Asam is my favorite. It has the ability to not stew, no idea how it's alchemy of some sort.

You’re in good company.

That't fridge looks so cute. My Fridge is a Tower Fridge same as the Freezer. Store the Juices in Liquid Bags and stick them in the Freezer, then they are ice and then just put cold water on them from our clean water in our UK taps.

I use nothing other than Kashmiri chillies. Buy them in bulk and grind them myself. I do a lot of Indian cooking (most of the recipes taken from a particular KZfaq channel, called Kabita's Kitchen, which I highly recommend) and Kashmiri chillies have heat, but also flavour. Couldn't live without them. Great video, as usual.

The hot sausage rolls cooked then thin spread mustard on top add extra mature or vintage cheese and melt under grill about 5 mins

Thank you.

I'm currently in hospital for a long ol' stay, and we've got a fridge this size between 26 patients lmao, fun times

North Americans always comment on the size of fridges here, we don't need big "US" style fridges because the supermarket is only ten minutes away. Whereas in Canada you may have to travel further and don't go shopping weekly, like we do here. Regarding cheese, British cheese is brilliant. The French think they have great cheese and food. I've been to France a few times and nothing we ate was that great. Even the expensive stuff I could claim on expenses! English mustard is the best, nice and hot! Mixed popcorn is best. I always enjoy your videos!

Try powdered mustard to mix with water. That is much stronger. Horseradish can be mild or very strong and you need to shop around.