Marmite and Fruitgums

The Owzat bar on Kalayaan, just of Burgos Street, Makati has British food including Rowntrees fruitgums in bags (150 pesos) and Marmite (180 pesos), among other things. In the past they've also had Atora suet.

There's no need to do without civilation!

That is good, I only eat fruit gums if they have Marmite on them.

Actually, a bigger challenge in the Philippines is finding proper toast.

In the supermarket at SM Marikina I saw 15kg Butterball turkeys.Reasonable prices too.
I also saw Wagyu beef at P680 per kg. Wonderful
The times they are a changing

Ditto Shopwise in Cubao, although few homes in the Philippines have ovens big enough for a turkey.

The wife actually want to buy an oven for the wood house in the province. Don't know what the cost would be. Might send over a breadmaker as well but the trouble will be finding good flour thats not loaded with sugar

Locally, an electric table top oven is around 3,500 pesos. For a breadmaker look at HMR in Cubao, I've seen them for around 1,500 pesos but they run on 110volts. A cheap voltage regulator will have a 110v outlet.

The house in the province is in Western Samar so the nearest "big" place is Tacloban. Might send my old one out from the uk and treat myself to a new one here! Its getting the right flour being the biggest problem.

Always well worth the try as part of a BBox fill.
Just be careful about equipment like that with some form of electronic timer or micro-processor control system.
Possibly such devices will at best run 20% faster than they are designed for.
This may or may not be a problem, but it may mean developing new recipes for that electric breadmaker.

Indeed, use a voltage regulator, voltage fluctuates a lot in the Philippines.

Agreed.
But my point was regarding the frequency.
Voltage regulators will only change the voltage not the frequency.

UK is 50 Hz
Philippines is 60 Hz

I wasn't entirely clear, my apologies. Although allowing for the frequency itself will affect cooking times so does the voltage variation - it's an issue I have with my microwave in which I have to extend cooking times to allow for voltage fluctuations.

Few electricians understand the need for earthing and 'grounding' - electrical shocks when touching refrigerators etc. is happily shrugged-off.