Does anyone else get fed up with the amount of low fat stuff you have to trawl through to find normal food in the supermarket?

[BroccoliSpears]

Particularly in the chilled section.

You really have to hunt for full fat yogurts among all the low fat.

"Virtually no fat" cottage cheese .

The only full fat cream cheese is plain - all the flavoured ones are low fat.

And last week I gave up trying to find chocolate mousse that wasn't low fat.

Yes, I do. I think it tastes like crap, tbh, and you probably eat more of it to compensate...

yup.

Wasn't it someone like Elizabeth Taylor who was asked how she stayed so slim and said that she had noticed that only fat people ever drink diet sodas, so she avoided them?

The yogurts are a bugger. I like to give the full fat ones to lo. And what's with low fat cottage cheese?? It's already low fat, isn't it?

Actually, this obsession with 'diet' versions of luxury foods probably says an awful lot about our general relationship with food.

Yes! How refreshing...I thought it was only me that abhorred all this fandangled healthy packaging....IMO it is only the packaging that is healthy - to mke something low fat and tasty they have to ram it full of other stuff which is actually worse for you!

Ahh no Habbibu - because you can get special diet yogurts that fill you up for longer.

eewww - those are the vilest idea ever.

I hear you, Broccoli!

Especially because a lot of the 'low-fat' and 'healthy' products are loaded with artificial sweetners.

FFS have a fucking banana!

Oh me too! I don't want to eat lots of low fat/no taste stuff, I want to eat a little full fat/much taste stuff!

And they are vile. Nigella Lawson had a good take on this - when she wants to eat less fatty stuff, she eats strong flavours - Thai, Chinese, Japanese, etc., and I think that works because it's satisfying in a different way from fat. It's like eating very strong dark chocolate - you don't get the sugar/fat hit as much, but it's a satisfying taste. And those things happen to be low fat. They're meant to be. Ersatz versions of naturally fatty foods don't have the fat or flavour satisfaction.

I'm always amazed that people refuse to drink full-fat milk. If you look at the ingredients it's only 5% fat anyway.

Hmm - I think I find semi-skimmed more refreshing as a drink, actually. But skimmed is vile...

Interesting findings from this latest research on diet food.

I personally prefer to eat smaller portions of full fat food because invariably low fat means loaded up with sweetners in order to make it palatable.

and even then palatable is pushing it as a description, frankly.

True, vile is vile.

Glad it's not just me.

I absolutely refuse to buy anything that tries to market itself as healthy. Jelly tots "with real fruit juice" FGS. "Wholegrain" cereal bars full of sugar.

Nothing "low fat" comes into this house. If you want bread and butter, have it. If you need to cut down, have an apple. The diet industry is enormous, but still people are getting bigger and bigger. It doesn't work. Eat less, get more exercise.

you could always shop online and then you wouldn't havevto trawl the shelves looking for stuff

I have the same problem with stuff marked "No added sugar".

They haven't added sugar because they've added aspartame and/or saccharine, both of which fill me with dread.

We know what sugar does. It rots teeth, and adds weight, IF you eat too much of it and don't brush/don't exercise it off. It does neither if you take care of yourself/your kids.

But we have no idea what the long term effects of aspartame are, Not good I'll be bound.

Why does Tango advertise on the label "no artificial colours or flavours", when it contains aspartame? Isn't aspartame an artificial sweetner?

Would agree about the yoghurt thing-its really annoying hunting down the full fat yoghurt. As a teenager though I hated the taste of cream and wouldn't drink full fat milk but now I love it. There isn't a lot of difference really between full fat and skimmed. I heard a dairy farmer on the radio saying that skimmed milk is 2% fat, semi 3% and full fat 4%. But I expect it varies from time of year and herd to herd. Its not like skimmed milk is fat free.

Would far rather eat simpler foods even if they are higher in fat or sugar , realistically sugar is sugar and I can limit it whereas god know whats in a lot of these flavourings and sweeteners, you need to be a scientist to understand it.

God yes, I find it really annoying, I don't need to lose weight and I object to supermarkets and their ilk, policing the way I eat.
And I really do feel that the low fat shit is a con, want to lose weight, eat less. Don't buy 20 tubs of half fat creme fraiche and eat it in one sitting.

Halla-bleedin-lulleigh!!!
Although I have slightly different reasons for wanting full fat stuff (ds,ASD, hideously bad eater), it takes me forever to find it.
I eat all the full fat stuff and I'm a size 14. Granted I'm 6ft with it but I still know not to overindulge.
I don't want to give Ds all these artifical sweetners and other bollox. What's wrong with everything in moderation?

rantinghousewife - you are just a show off