Imagine my surprise when they launched this product, small bags of mini chips/munchies. Matutano are the subsidiaries of Frito-Lay part of Pepsico etc who make Doritos and Cheetos etc. They launched the "BITS" line with several different flavours, most of which were ok. I prefered two of the five I encountered at the beginning. the barbecue "twisties" and the "cheetos crunchits" I think they called it. While there are several types of Cheetos on the market here, I didn't care much for the flavour of any of them. Add that I don't really want to eat a large bag of them either... this product was great, it satisfied my craving, yet didn't force me to finish a huge bag (not that the chip bags are bigger than what I was used to in Canada at all) but in this case, just the right portion. There's a product page here: http://www.pepsico.es/index.php?s=productos/bits note that only the BBQ ones seem to have survived. Shame... another product I take a liking to, and they pull it from the market.

Well, this one also threw me a bit, for quite a few months I've been enjoying all the different varieties of these granola bars that are made by General Mills here in Spain (and all over the world apparently). They even have a website for the Spanish version of the product! http://www.naturevalley.es I used to find them in either Carrefour or El Corte Ingles supermarkets, both of which are rather large, and carry a wide variety of products from all over the place aside from typical local products. They used to come as a box of 6 packages, with 2 wafers in each package (they're thin like cookies). Then a while back, the ones in Corte Ingles changed to a box with 6 SINGLE wafers... so I bought them as per usual, grabbing a box of each flavour. Next time I went to Carrefour, they didn't have ANY... figured maybe they ran out of stock, or the best before date expired on what they had... but here we are a few months down the line, and what little was left in ElCorteIngles ran out, I managed to get one last box... and haven't seen one since... I've checked nearly every supermarket chain here, and most only stock the Kellogs brand bars with milk/chocolate on them (that chocolate/milk whatever makes me want to vomit!)... no plain granola bars/wafers anymore :(

When we first moved to Spain there wasn't a whole lot of products that made me feel a bit closer to home despite being on the other side of the atlantic ocean. So once we finished cleaning and painting the new flat, we discovered that one of the local grocery stores had Mountain Dew. They never stocked it in larger quantities like other soft drinks, but they maintained a somewhat normal level of about 18 cans... which for an uncommon beverage in a smaller supermarket is quite remarkable. I regularly bought about 6 cans every few weeks or so. One day they didn't have any. That situation never changed.