What the fuck have they done to chocolate?

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I just treated myself to a nice bar of galaxy....

It's grim

Thanks @TheSassyAssassin ! Yum!
I'm feeling feisty lately and have turned into a cause fighter. I'm on a mission! I'm really wanting to simplify and purify the food that I eat by cutting out nasty ingredients like palm oil and artificial this and that. I love junk food, I really do, especially sweets now that more of them are veggie, but I want my proper food to be, well, proper! I'm off to a local bakery tomorrow that's listed on the Real Bread website as only using flour, water, yeast, and salt. Proper back to basics stuff. I'm aiming to cook more from scratch and use better quality ingredients and cut out the unnecessary. I've decided I'd rather eat smaller quantities (have smaller meals) of higher quality food than continue to eat larger portions of cheaper, poorer quality foods and chocolate is definitely one of those foods! I've eaten 5 of the montezumas buttons today. If they were the Cadbury ones I'd eat the whole large bag of giant buttons and feel sick at the cloying greasy waxiness. Instead I'm satisfied with the small amount of fat superior chocolate.

A good stance and strategy for health too. I agree and also try hard to try to strike a decent balance but recognise I have a way to go. Have been thinking of investing in a bread maker though as would like to make my own but don't have the time to do that from scratch really. And yes to the choc - DD and I shared a mini milk choc bar (30g) and then I have had a dark choc and sea salt one (also 30g) over the course of the evening and I am entirely satisfied

You tell 'em, bloody liars.
I'm forever saying Mr Cadbury must be turning in his grave, it's so so sad

‘Wasn’t it a glass and a half of fresh milk, now it’s a logo? More like a glass and a half of palm oil now.’

I’ve noticed they are putting a glass and a half of fresh milk in their large bars again. I noticed an improvement after boycotting it for years and looked on the back and was pleasantly surprised.

Ooooh, I wonder if LC can make chcolate coins. As bastarding Cadbury stopped them

I get chocolate coins from
M&S each Christmas for stockings and our reusable advent calendar. Email James and ask him

Learning so much from this thread. But it's also making me want chocolate. A lot.

YY to the quantities of ingredients. - it's all bollocks, they're implying that anything with the "magic ingredients" of milk, sugar and cocoa are Dairy Milk.

I use the same ingredients, (and few other secret ones that only I know) to make my famous Choc -o- Caramel Treat. So, I can say that this is IDENTICAL to Dairy Milk bar. What??? The magic ingredients are the same?! Therefore nothing is different, I certainly haven't changed my recipe. Honest. Np. I can't show you the original recipe. it's a secret. Just trust me, I'm an honest humble Treat maker. Would I tell fibs or bend the truth??? Believe me, my Choc -o- Caramel Treat tastes exactly the same as a bar of Dairy Milk. You are imaging the difference. I'm suggesting that you don't actually remember what Dairy milk tastes like. It's always tasted exactly like this, despite the gallon of plam oil that was never there .

I complained years ago to Mondelez and they said the recipe hadn’t changed it was my imagination and they hadn’t received any other complaints.

wundy are you sure you actually wrote to them, you didn't just imagine that??? ;)

I wrote to them last week! Maybe there is something wrong with their email system?
Or we should all start writing paper letters to them?

I've got what feels like horrendous PMT today, I've got neighbour issues and my misophonia is playing up and I want ALL THE CHOCOLATE!!!

I've got a biscuit and raisin yorkie in addition to my stash in the fridge. I've just opened it and can't believe how small the chunks are now.

What are these Lidl nutella doughnuts? I don't remember noticing them - what do they look like?

Must be something in the air today. I'm really tired and not feeling well so that combined with the neighbour stuff and hormones isn't helping.

I wonder how many order LC has had since this thread started.

Just come back from a lidl shop and browsed the Chocolate purely in the name of research.... . It turns out the fin carre milk chocolate is in fact different pack to pack despite the same packaging. I thought it was purely weight difference but was wrong. The 100g foil pack contained no palm fat but did have hazelnut paste so no good for allergies, the cheaper 200g pack contained palm fat and similar cocoa content to Cadburys whereas the cardboard sleeve 200g had 30% cocoa, no palm fat and was only around 20p more expensive. The higher cocoa and milk powder (instead if fresh milk) in this meant it tasted different to old dairy milk but was near identical in texture to old Cadburys - and half the price per 100g

I really think they need to distinguish the labels better though as there is the100g with nuts pack is identical in printed design to both 200g packs without nuts. It has the potential to be quite dangerous.

In the interests of research I have some more chocolate I've not actually done a proper taste test yet. I have very sensitive senses so not sure I need to do a side by side comparison but will do in the interests of proper research

If there's any Nutella involved in the LIDL doughnuts then that would be a lot of palm oil. It's the second ingredient in Nutella, after sugar.

You deserve a standing ovation for your reply to Cadbury's Perverse. What a load of PR waffly bollocks that response was from them.

And thank you James for setting up a little sample pack for Mumsnetters - I have happily ordered (it would be rude not to )

I also enjoyed ignatius' taste-and-compare of the two Dairy Milks. A friend of mine is off to Ireland next week, I think I shall place an order with her ...

I hadn't noticed anything till today but I had some maltesers today and there was that slightly sicky aftertaste that you get with American chocolate. Not good.

I'll post the reply if Mondalez reply. I imagine they won't though.

I've been looking for palm oil free Nutella alternatives but can't find anything that isn't extortionate. My dd would eat it for every meal if she could. She doesn't like the ones without nuts.