to wonder where all the yoghurt is???

[Chachah]

I've been living in the UK for almost ten year, and that's a mystery I still haven't solved.

I just want to buy regular natural yoghurt, without any fruit or sweeteners or anything, just plain old yoghurt.

Now I can find those super impractical big pots, and I can find single portion pots. But where are all the packs of 4? 8? 12? My local Tesco is pretty big, and nothing in sight. Same with Sainsburys.

Now I know, I know, it'd be unreasonable to expect supermarket aisles to look exactly the same as they do back home. But surely, yoghurt? that's pretty basic?

Is there something obvious I'm missing here?

maybe because most people want flavoured stuff for eating

Just decant it into smaller reusable pots for packed lunches etc.

As Nanny said.

I think lidl do some small individual pots. I always buy the big pots so not 100% sure

Annoying isn't it. I want yoghurt that's not full of sugar to make it low fat, that doesn't come in a huge tub.

So so so annoying. I buy lots of little single pots in asda.

Lidl sell multi packs of Greek yogurt which is lovely.

Aha, my observational memory must still be working soaccidentprone! Thanks for confirming Lidl do sell them

You're right OP. Tesco is also ridiculous with every single type of yogurt being stuffed full of mysterious gut-invading bacteria. Eugh.

Is it really too difficult to pick up 4 small pots rather than a '4 pack' of yoghurt?

Lidl do a 1kg bucket of really lovely creamy Greek yoghurt (low fat version as well) for about £1.70 - ten 100g portions, 17p each, bargain!

I always assumed individual pots were more expensive. Maybe not.

Thank you for the Lidl tip!!!

Single yoghurts tend to be more expensive than buying the huge tubs but no more expensive than buying a 4 pack. I've also got 4 packs of plain yoghurt from Lidl before, but we don't have one nearby so not up to date with what they have.

Why don't you buy a big pot and decant? You'll save money and help the environment.

We don't eat yoghurt quickly enough to buy the big pots and decant, it just leads to a lot of waste.

The lidl one lasts for ages, it says use within three days once open but I've got some in my fridge that I opened ten days ago and it's still fine.

I went to LIDL yesterday and while I hadn't originally wanted any yoghurt, I bought some because their stuff is just so toothsome.

I maybe eat 2 yoghurts per week, big tubs grow mold before I finish them.

Yeo valley do 4 packs.

On a somewhat related note, has anyone seen Skyr for sale in the UK?

How can you not eat yoghurt quick enough for the big pots to make sense but care enough about a 4 pack? Straight yoghurt lasts weeks!

I don't care enough about a four pack, that was the OP. I buy individual pots most of the time.

Natural yoghurt doesn't grow mould for weeks if left in sealed pots. I've used yoghurt left unopened and 2/4 weeks past its "use by" date and it's been absolutely fine.

I've never had issues with using unopened yoghurt past it's sell by date, but once opened (but stored in a sealed container) about a week - 10 days appears to be it's limit.

www.eatbydate.com/dairy/yogurt-shelf-life-expiration-date/