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For more on marking an answer as the "Best Answer", please visit our FAQ.I believe the only thing you can't take to Spain would be meats that aren't vacuum packed.
But like I do both ways (spain to uk and vice versa), if they don't catch you why not try it? The most they'll do is confiscate it anyway.
The Spanish don't really care, but the UK are of course totally anal about this and would confiscate some food it they found it, but they never do. I live in Spain and take food to my family in the UK all the time. Butifarras (delicious sausage), fantastic jamon serrano, all the good stuff. Never been touched. And so what if they did? It's not like smuggling drugs, they'd just confiscate it and dispose of it.
The best one yet was when a friend opened a gastro pub in the UK and we came back through Gatwick with an entire leg of jamon in a tennis racket cover. Even funnier after he'd paid for it and realised his general liability insurance wouldn't cover it and all his friends had to eat what they could since he couldn't sell it........
As someone else said here most british food's available in either special UK supermarkets or in good food halls like the biggest Corte Ingles (spanish equiv. of m&s or john lewis)
But what really cracked me here up was the guy who said he didn't trust spanish chicken production techniques. Spanish chicken is so much better! Not only does it taste better (like chicken, unlike most UK supermarket chicken) but it has far fewer preservatives in it and therefore is loads better for you (the reason I know this is that when we first moved here we lost quite a few chicken breasts to the hungry dustbin in "oh it's only been in the fridge a couple of days it'll be fine for tomorrow's lunch" type events.
Food in general tastes better here, and has fewer chemicals and preservatives. Why bother bringing your own food when it's so good here?
ah well, if you don't like paella then you've obviously never had a good one. Paella is a bit like some british food in that it's very hard to do in a restaurant - roast beef and yourshire pudding are next to impossible in a restaurant, but delicious when my mother makes 'em.
Similarly, over here I've had some incredible paella and some paella which is basically boiled rice with meat in it and not worthy of the name. You should try it again in a good place....!