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?

I'll eat yoghurt opened and unopened for up to two weeks after its use by date. It tastes fizzy if it's turning.

I'm also a foreigner and yoghurt is one of my bug bears too! I was quite seriously thinking about trying to set up a tub-set yoghurt business a few years ago as what's available here is disappointing compared to home, and horribly sugary as well.

Yeo Valley does a four pack of natural yoghurt tubs, both full and reduced fat I think, but I haven't seen any others.

I wish low fat and fat-free (bleurgh) yoghurt would bugger off. It's everywhere!

Yoghurt is a low fat food anyway, no need to take the good stuff out and stuff it with sugar instead.

I was thinking of fruit flavoured low fat/fat free yoghurts.

They're full of shit and taste like shit.

What I'd like to see here is a range of yoghurts in one litre tetra packs a bit like the packs used for juice. That's one thing I really miss from home.

The point is that people buy the low fat ones thinking they're making a healthy choice, but are actually eating a pretty sugary thing. It really isn't just a Mumsnet 'thing'.

Corus I have also wondered about this as well, I eat quite a lot of low fat plain yogurt and I think it's quite a healthy food.

No, the low fat ones generally have more sugar as they up the sugar content to make up for the lack of fat/flavour. They work on the assumption that people still see fat as the enemy of a healthy weight rather than sugar.

I think the low fat ones are often full of artificial sweetners,which if you don't like them is fair enough, but anytime anyone suggests not using squash with sweetners, there's an outcry. Have yet to work out why on mn sweetners and sugar are just fine in water (as squash), but not good to flavour yoghurt.

Lidl do small and big pots which are good.
Also Total yoghurts come in small sizes
I agree, a real problem.
I am always on the lookout for individual plain full fat yoghurt.
To my delight, a local creamery has just started doing them for Co-Op.
I have just been out and wiped out the entire stock until Tuesday.

The most acceptable flavoured ones I have found are Morrisons own French set yoghurts which are cheap,not too sweet and very nice indeed.

I suspect not many people are thinking of that, CorusKate. Low fat yoghurt is often spoken of as a very healthy food. Diets (including NHS dieticians) recommend it as a healthy alternative, fruit is seen as a good choice, and yoghurt is more or less the same thing. Sugar is added to make the low far version more palatable too.

I googled at random. A Tesco value low fat fruit yoghurt has 15.4g of sugar in a pot.

Muller Lights are full of sugar and people eat them every day as they think it's a food that will help them become slim. They have 12 g of sugar in each pot and market themselves as fat free.

We have to be careful about carbohydrate in general with a T1 diabetic in the family but then again,we always were.
I like plain yoghurt but another good way to have it is with a handful of berries. I buy big bags of frozen fruit (much cheaper and so many different kinds available). The kids zap about 90g of this in the microwave and mix with yoghurt. Delicious.

Yes, but it's not about the low fat yoghurt v the full fat yoghurt in that context. It's about the fact that they are NOT the health food they are made out to be. Have two of them a day and you've had more sugar than a Mars Bar.

Sorry, cross-post. I don't eat yoghurt at all myself as I'm currently eating nothing with more than 3g sugar in 100g. That rules out a depressing amount of food!