Jelly/Trifle

[WoodwormScrubs]

This is going to sound ridiculous. My Easter has been trifle free for the first time ever!

Usually make a jelly/fruit/sponge/cream trifle, but the jelly has gone weird. Hartleys/Rowntrees red jelly now tastes awful, and Sainsburys and Tesco don't sell the Vaulue/Basics stuff any more (not out here anyway).

I know that this is a low-brow sort of trifle, but does anyone know of a red jelly that does not taste ragingly 'artifical'?

I'm willing to try making my own if it can be made red and easily.

Probably not much help, but we never put jelly in trifle!
However, you could try a couple of tablespoons of a decent strawberry or raspberry jam instead and decorate with the most relevant fruit?

I made the BEST trifles imo anyway but now I am allergic to milk so I cant have them. I used to do,

A layer of amaretti biscuits, you can use alcohol to wet them or the juice from the fruit.

A layer of naice tinned peaches or apricots.

A layer of naice fresh custard (ready made [bublush]

A layer of fresh whipping cream

Toasted flaked almonds.

Even better if you leave it to set for a while in the fridge then put the almonds on.

Bloody allergy.

Jelly??

Swiss roll (jam not jam and butter cream obviously) Sherry, mixed tinned fruit, custard of choice (I don't much like cold custard so I leave this to you), whipped cream.

DH would decorate with crystallised pineapple, papua, angelica and ginger in elaborate designs because his mum did for Xmas and special occasions.

I know, I know! My trifle is the stuff of primary school lunches , but if I were to serve up 'proper' trifle to the other people in this house, they'd all assume I'd been drinking and forgotten the jelly.

It would be like Rachel from Friends, and her mince meat trifle, I'd hear about nothing else for years.

So, I need to find red jelly that does not taste like an energy drink. In desperation, I looked on Waitrose online - nothing own brand, only Hartleys. What has happened to cheap red jelly?

just put jam in....seriously, i bet they won't even notice! :D

we do sponge, sherry, jam or raspberries, amarettis, more sherry, jam or fruit (depending on which i used in the first layer), custard and a big thick layer or soft oozy lightly whipped cream

I havent seen smartprice jelly for ages, have you tried homebargains? they might do a cheap jelly.

Even Aldi only do hartley jelly now.

If you have a corner shop they might do a cheaper jelly too.