Kathmandu - Post Report Question and Answers
What household or grocery items do you wish you had shipped to post?
I wish we had shipped more paper products (toilet paper, paper towels, napkins), but in fairness we largely adapted to the Nepali versions of things while we awaited our consumables. Many folks ship large quantities of spices, cleaning products and liquor. - Jun 2024
Make sure you ship all of your favorites, especially anything liquid. I wish I would have brought more canned goods, nuts, almond milk, soda/energy drinks. Some of the canned goods are more expensive and lower quality. I've never seen almond milk here. The dairy options are limited or not to my tastes. We brought cheese with us on our flight (but you can get some good cheeses here, sometimes it is more expensive) and we make our own yogurt. - Aug 2022
Everything. I had no idea that simple things like good flour, baking soda, and spices would be extremely hard to find. We ended up using all of our consumables allowance and purchase dry goods from Amazon monthly. Think ahead about entertaining, holidays, and birthdays, and ship everything to post. I shipped vanilla, sprinkles, cranberry sauce, cookie cutters, pumpkin, and a bunch of spices. You can find some things here if you really try, but the quality is lacking, they are expensive, and it's just plain easier to order it. Also, if you have kids bring everything they like! Cereal, snacks, toys, books, baby wipes, diapers etc.... - Aug 2019
My favorite beer, liquor, and wine. There is some here, but a limited selection. pickles. I miss pickles. Bring Western spices, quality cleaning supplies, personal care, pet food, ziplock bags. These can all be difficult to find on the local market. Basically anything you really NEED, bring with you, as you probably can't find a quality version here. - Aug 2015
Liquids. - Jul 2014
High quality cooking oil, balsamic vinegar, a 3-year supply of liquid toiletries (you can get, but not your brand necessarily if you're picky about that), green chiles, green enchilada sauce and other Mexican food. - May 2014
LIQUIDS! Snacks, potato chips, salsa, soy sauce, apple cider vinegar, perfume, make-up, long shelf silk milk and tomato sauce, quinoa. I would not have bothered with olive oil, oatmeal, salt or sugar. The ones here are very good. - Apr 2014
Lots of shampoo and conditioner, laundry detergent, listerine. - Dec 2013
Microbrew Beer. You can pretty much get most other things here. - Jun 2013
Definitely. - May 2013
Consumable items: chocolate, chocolate chips, flour (local is crap for baking), western cereals and chips, canned cat food/dog food. Anything you want immediately, or inside of three months (household items can take a while) - Sep 2010
Paper bags, toys (in Nepal toys are expensive and cheaply made).You will not like your choices for childrens' clothing. You can have your clothing made, but they cannot do jersey or stretch fabrics. You can have jeans made for children if you find a good jeans tailor. - Jan 2010
Not much. Maybe some specialty foods etc. - May 2008
