Palm Oil - what has it ruined for you?

[ThomasShelbysBunnet]

Quite apart from lovely Cadbury chocolate, and creme eggs, which I've not purchased for the last 3 years, what else has palm oil ruined for you?

It's even in the kids birds eye chicken dippers, so that's them off the shopping list too.

Disgusting tasting, rainforest ruining stuff.

Everything! It's so hard to find certain products without palm oil in -chocolate, biscuits, ice cream etc.

It's really frustrating that it seems to be in everything now.

Loads. So very depressing.

Peanut butter 😡

Treat food, most nice soap and my favourite hair cream .

On the plus side, cutting down the amount of biscuit & chocolate eating is a good thing!

Almost all mass produced foods and keeping myself and almost everything I own clean.

Cadbury fruit and nut, but on the positive side it's saved me thousands of calories

ipswich - Meridian don't use palm oil in their products, and their peanut butter's now easy to get hold of.

Gravy.

I now make my own.

Peanut butter, I don't like Meridian.

lemon curd!

Dairy free butter :(

Also cat food! Impossible to feed my pets without buying palm oil products.

Chocolate, biscuits, pies, crackers-

All the nice things !!

BUT it does force me to not be so lazy about cooking! I only work part time so am lucky enough to be able to make most meals from scratch and do biscuit/cake/treat baking as well.

For fellow chocoholics - Sainsbury’s own brand chocolate blocks don’t have palm oil in.

The habitats of orangutans.

Is there any gravy which it is not in?
I went to Borneo in 2009, having seen the destruction first hand and I can't believe more people don't avoid buying it

I was really shocked when I went to Costa Rica, lush jungle filled with life, plantations of palm oil, absolutely nothing living in there. But they are a fantastic source of income for poor farmers who can't live on thing air. So how do we support alternative income streams for them?

Sainsbo's chocolate is extremely good for the price, too.

Ipswichwitch I recommend wholeearth peanut butter. It's really good.

It is so hard to avoid palm oil, but I do try. Very hard to avoid it in biscuits - I buy mcvities rich tea biscuits mainly because I know they aren't made from palm oil. It's put me off other biscuits.

Whole Earth peanut butter doesn't contain palm oil.

www.ethicalconsumer.org/palm-oil-free-list. Is quite useful

Does palm oil get listed as anything else in ingredients lists?

Trying to persuade myself I don't need a pre bed snack.

If you don't like Meridian try Pip n Nut, so far it has been palm oil free.

What it has ruined for me is almost everything I liked. Chocolate, crackers, biscuits, many vegetarian ready made foods including Cauldron, pastry, have to search to find pastry made with butter. Lemon curd, I miss lemon curd. Even bread has palm oil in now. Ice cream, some drinking chocolates. Oreos, Jaffa Cakes, packaged cakes which also means coffee shop cakes as they are pre-made.

I put so many items back in the shops now after reading the labels that I mainly exist on vegetables and salads and whatever crackers I can find without palm oil which is usually Matzos or charcoal crackers.

Dinos, here is a list

www.ran.org/the-understory/palm_oil_s_dirty_secret_the_many_ingredient_names_for_palm_oil/

Chips, chip shops seem to use that nasty gloop rather than proper oil.

Pringles, stopped buying them.

Tonight I discovered my stock cubes have palm oil in them.

What is wrong with the food industry? They add sugar and palm oil to everything then wrap it in plastic.