To just want some normal yoghurt...pleeeease...

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Went up and down and up and down the yoghurt aisle....there was NOTHING that wasn't either low fat or Activia.

WTF? I just want normal yoghurt...

AIBU?

Souljacker - your oven sounds so posh!!!

I have just double checked the pot of 'low fat' yogurt I bought and the ingredients just say 'low fat yogurt from milk'. I, too, was under the impression that low fat implied artificial sweeteners and rubbish (but still bought it anyway because I love strawberries and yogurt!)

I think it's really strange the supermarkets do this, buyer demand I suppose. Asda often only has one kind of full fat natural yoghurt, sainsburys today, it was cheaper to buy two pots of yeo valley flavoured than natural and no kids 4 pot of natural- they sell it in tesco but I hate Tescos. Yoghurt making with uht works really well in a cheapo asda food flask too! I've never strained but that sounds wonderful. Renewed my lazy arse to get back on the yoghurt making tip.

Corus, nope, ours is a big Tescos with clothing and housewares too. Just a shit yoghurt range. This has only happened in the past year. I have to go rooting for the decent stuff now, which I don't want to have to do.

I'm in a city where a large proportion of the women absolutely insist on having diet coke as a mixer with their tonne of ALCOHOL and then shove a kebab into their face on the way home. But it's ok because they had diet Coke in their drinks.

I hate low fat processed food. It's all a con and I avoid it like the plague. I prefer to eat food that is naturally low in fat. But If I want butter for my toast I want proper butter, not watery margerine with loads of chemicals. If I want yoghurt I want the creamy full Monty.

Big tubs of Lancashire natural yogurt. It's normally near the lassi and yogurt drinks not the yogurts.

Ooh now I'm getting annoyed about diet drinks too. With disgusting sweeteners that hang around on your taste buds for a wierdly long time and just taste false.

Just give me PROPER coke and I'll have SMALL amounts at a time, now and again. Which is fine.

Corus, the next nearest is Asda. Even worse, I would think. Actually we have an Aldi nearby. Anyone know what their yoghurt is like?

I had a bit of a rant about this in tesco yesterday - everything was either low fat crap or sugary cheesecakes/desserts. Totally enraging. This is why I normally make my own.

I am starting my baby on foods (7m) and find it hard to find small pots of plain no added shit yoghurt. Lidl is winning so far but even those are quite big. I was shocked to see that the teeny yoghurts in supermarkets with cartoon characters on etc have sugar as the second ingredient! I think that's awful

products.uk.fage.eu/yoghurt/total-classic-170g

Total comes in full fat (5% - still low fat), 2% and 0%.

Lovely stuff. Milk, cream and the cultures. That's it. Comes in small tubs as well.

Sorry but just to throw in, one of those stonking big aldi /lidl greek yoghurt tubs keeps happily in my fridge for up to over two weeks while I get through it. Just starts to separate a little by then but a stir sorts it out. Tastes/smells fine.

CorusKate - I'm not sure what I thought bio was, but I thought it was one of those "special" activia yoghurts which seem a big gimmick to me! I would have been happy with organic full-fat yoghurt (which I found in the kid's section).

Yes, it was absolutely vital !

I don't actually eat very much yoghurt, hence the confusion, but I will know better now!

We use a yogurt maker. Carton of uht milk and a couple of spoons of the old yogurt. Occasionally we start a batch with a new supermarket yogurt if its started to go a bit wrong. Been doing this for about 10 years.

It's really annoying isn't it! I suspect some of the wrong bacteria gets in. Very easy to tell though as it either doesn't set right or smells a bit funny.

I use sainsburys basic yoghurt, it contains cows milk and nothing else. It would be easy enough to add some fruit and perhaps a bit of honey or sweetener. You could even mix it with some cream if you want extra fat.

When I was a child, my mother used to make kefir, with a culture that one of her hippy friends had brought back from Bulgaria. Every week the culture (which was sort of jellyish and gloopy) was washed and lovingly put in a new batch. Until the week that I absent mindedly ate it. We went back to yogurt after that.

Lidl is my favoured yoghurt shop. Aldi, OK.
Low fat yoghurt is far worse fot my health. Be cause its watery and sugary, I grt hungry sooner and end up snacking more. A pot of decent yoghurt keeps me going much longer.

man...I forgot I made this thread...then posted another...

Yes like Bulldozers we buy Tesco litre tubs of natural full fat Lancashire yoghurt.
DH calls it "Local yoghurt for local people".
I have been surprised though, at how quickly the kids have taken to it after years of low fat oversweetened muck. It is also tolerated by the lactose intolerant ones.