Asda

[Copper]

We decided that as we were in Poole yesterday we should make the effort to find the new large Asda. It was not easy to find as Poole have an interesting policy with roundabouts. They have put traffic lights on the large roundabouts and silly lane markings - I pity the holiday makers as they try to change lanes round the roundabouts. Asda was just off one of Poole's more confusing junctions so it was a bit stressful.

We ventured into the store and did a lot of walking and searching - not a dairy free product was found. In desperation we asked an assistant and we were told that dairy free products were integrated with usual stock! If we wanted dairy free icecream we would find it with ordinary icecream. We looked at cheese, biscuits and chocolate - found nothing and left. I guess I can cross that store off of my list!!! :rant:

[Pam]

Our local Asdas have free from shelves - not a lot on them but they do none the less have them. Tesco or the local Sainsburys superstore are the best for free from.

[Lan]

Hi all,

Health food shops are also good on dairyfree items.

Kind Regards,

Lan. :D

[Copper]

I was hoping for more choice - silly me. I have not set foot in Sainsburys for well over a year since they stopped stocking the free from shelves. I might venture into the store on my way home from work one day.

I just buy things from Tesco, the deli and my local health food shop.

[matt]

i have to say i stick to tesco's holland and barratt and a big health food shop in salisbury. between them i can get most of what i want. still looking for the dairy,wheat and choc free mars bar:drool: :lol2:

sainsburies just doesn't do enough, i've never liked asda much. they are cheap but you get what you pay for.....

local butcher:drool: not that i like meat or anything. lamb steaks and beef......

[Pam]

I always do my shopping at Morrisons because I think it is good value for money there. They only have a tiny free from section so I end up going elsewhere for the special stuff. We don't eat huge amounts of meat so I just get supermarket mass produced cheap meat. I wouldn't have time to go to different shops for my meat, veg, bread, groceries etc.

[Mac]

anyone tried Marks and Sparks dairy free spread? its lovely and 89p........cheaper than Pure.

[Pam]

Pure green is cheaper than that at Morrisons - about 74p I think but I never go to M&S, I can't afford to look in there. I like to get all my shopping in one go wherever possible that way I'm not tempted by too many bargains.

[Mac]

Is it?!?!?! I've never found it cheaper than 95P........must take a look in Morrisons on Friday.

[matt]

i'm into pure blue at the moment. which ofcourse is the most expensive!

don't often go into the food hall of m+s as there isn't one nearby so it would be a specific long trip just for spread. easier to pay a few pence more.

thanks for the heads up though. any other good dairyfree stuff from them?

[Pam]

A lot of people like Sainsburys own free from spread but I wasn't impressed. They all taste like cheap margarine as far as I'm concerned and I'd love one that tastes like butter when you put it on toast. So now I just go for the cheapest Pure as that is my cheapest option at Morrisons where I do my weekly shop. It used to be 69p but it went up in price a couple of months ago. The sunflower one is a little more expensive and the organic one is twice the price. I filled in the customer satisfaction survey on the Pure web site a couple of years ago saying that I didn't like the flavour of the green one so they sent me vouchers for money off the other two suggesting I might like one of them better. I can't say that I noticed a difference but unless you're actually spreading toast or scones thickly with the stuff it doesn't really matter anyway.

[matt]

sorry but the image of hot lardy cake spread thickly with butter just went through my head:drool:

i'm going to have to reintro wheat and then if that works find a bakers that actually makes lardy cakes and get them to do one without any butter(some do depends on regional receipe) i know i can buy from tescos but there's nothing like freshly made.....

[Pam]

I don't think I've ever had lardy cake. It isn't something that we see around here.

I've just checked my Morrisons till receipt, Pure green is 75p and I think their prices are the same whichever store you are in - no regional differences. The same stuff is 92p in my local Co-op though (rip off merchants, think they can charge the earth because they are the only supermarket in the town centre - unless you count Lidl).

[Mac]

I'll go to Morrisons Friday then definately, I've never been in since it was a Safeway. I like the yellow pure the best. The M&S dairy free has the best taste of all of them though, vary nice spread thickly of course on their Ginger Cake (99p dairy free too)

[Pam]

I think yellow Pure is about 99p at Morrisons (when they have it) and the blue one is around £1.39 but I only ever buy green anyway. My daughter refused to eat the blue one when I bought it a few weeks ago - it had been on offer and there was no green left. Do the old Safeway stores stock all the Morrisons products now?

[Mac]

not sure, I'll let you know, I would have thought so though, Yes, I am totally with your daughter on that one, the blue pure is awful, strange seeing as organic is supposed to taste better!

[matt]

if anyone does need to eat the trufree biscuits then morrisons have a deal on two packs for 2 quid. except their computers knackered at the ringwwod store and they take off too much so it's only about 1.60 for two! hurrah still damn expensive way of buying custard creams etc but cheaper than anywhere else by far.

i quite like the organic pure spread, horses for courses etc.B)

[matt]

never had lardy cake?!! mind you it is a traditional dorset/hampshire type thing.

they take dough add lots of lard and currants. roll it out like puff pastry then add more rasins/lard then foll again about four times. it's lovely but obviously very fattening. the hampshire one omits the raisins but you don't get many bakers who make them fresh these days. mostly get deliveries of all their cakes so is done to the old dorset receipe with raisins.

i do make a very good date and walnut loaf which is dairy free and very moist. bit of a tea bread type thing. i'll post the receipe if anyone wants it.:drool:

[Mac]

I would love that recipe please matt. That Lardy cake sounds gorgeous too!! Thing about the pure blue was that when I first bought it I really really liked it, to the point I had convinced myself it tasted quite like butter, then for no real apparent reason. it just started to taste kind of "off" all the time, I probably have weird taste buds!

[emi_150]

I found that aswell. But I think it might have something to do with me eating some normal butter again and remembering how nice it tastes and how pure tastes nothing like it! :headbang: silly me!

[Copper]

Matt and I will tell you that you just have to get these thoughts out of your head. Nothing is going to taste like butter and most certainly nothing is going to taste like real cheese. You have to try things and decide do you like the taste yes or no and not compare it with the dairy product. It took me about 2 years to think like that about cheese though but I do like scheese :)

[emi_150]

As cheese is the thing i react to worst i've not had it in years and have completely forgotten what it tastes like... but boy does it smell funky!! :D

[Pam]

Dairy free cheese smells like vomit in my opinion! Sorry, but I think it is disgusting and don't bother buying it any more with the exception of Tofutti slices.

With regard to Pure Yellow (92p at Morrisons - I checked tonight - that's Huddersfield Morrisons at Waterloo, Emi) It says on the lid "new & improved" so that might account for the changed flavour.

[matt]

i'll dig out the receipe later and post it seperately in a new thread.

don't forget that like all spreads they have a shelf life, about 1 month for pure, was it longer than that before it tasted funny?

never never try to compare. you just have to consider them as seperate entities. like ham or marmite, both go on bread but they can't really be compared to each other.

if you put pure against butter or scheese/cheesly against cheese you're not going to get a good comparison. before writting off either scheese or cheesly try the other flavours. i'm not a great fan of the cheddar version, but i do like the edam, cheshire and mozerrella scheese.

i'd only do the lardy cake at home if either you like making bread or have a bread machine as it is dough you're making. the folding and lard etc not too much hassle as you only need to do it three times not about 30 like puff pastry!
i can dig out a receipe for that aswell if anyone wants it.:drool: