I like to use the Toogoodtogo app when im travelling. For example this week i got a huge bag of bakery for only €5 and will probably last all 2 weeks I’m in Munich!
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@mititeika we also like TooGoodToGo. However we mostly use it at home as many of our housesits are quite rural. We have a favourite bakery at home we get a bag from regularly!
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Food plays a 0% part in deciding where we housesit or indeed holiday.
With house-sitting, it’s pretty much 75% pet related and with holidays, location is pretty much 100% the main thing.
As you can establish, we are not food conniseurs, we simply eat and enjoy whatever we fancy at the time. 
Looks yummy @Amparo
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It’s pretty easy anymore to get “good” cheese in the States. Health food stores have a variety.
My partner and l had beer as a choice of beverage in McDonald’s in Spain this year. As it was a hot day it was a nice refreshing surprise!
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The aperitif culture in France is very important to us and a wonderful part of the French lifestyle that we greatly value.
The aperitif is more than just a drink – it is a social event.
During a pet sitting in Libourne, we were invited for an aperitif by the home and pet owner’s local neighbors and had the opportunity to relax, share stories and make new connections.
It was a very special aperitif: The French invited us Germans on the French national holiday, July 14th. It was an honor for us.
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I checked baggage just to bring home four loaves of a favorite bread from San Francisco, where I just wrapped a sit. (I keep a folded up duffel bag in my roll-aboard, in case of purchases.)
Each loaf weighs a ton and this bread smells, tastes and chews differently vs. other bread. It freezes well, too. The bakery is well established and had put out a cookbook and shared the recipe, but I’ve read that people have strived to replicate it, yet fallen short.
My husband and I used to live in the Bay Area and still can’t find bread as much to our liking, across various states and cities in the U.S.
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Now that’s dedication (breadication?) @Maggie8K 
there is nothing like a great loaf of bread.
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Yes! The funny thing is, people used to line up for long stretches to buy this bread when the bakery was newish and had only one location. I would’ve never queued for bread. Instead, a coworker gave me a loaf as a gift. I privately wondered, what the heck is so magical about this bread that someone would consider it a gift, especially out of the blue? But when I later cracked it open and smelled it, heavenly. Even better when eating it.
Europeans are so lucky to have high-quality bread so much more readily available than Americans. I remember decades ago, when my husband went to France for the first time, on a work trip. Back then, long-distance calls were expensive, so we kept them brief. He phoned to say he’d arrived safely and he blurted out without preamble: “The bread here is SO GOOD!”
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