Apro Soya Yoghurts

[Lan]

Hi all,

Have just tried the Raspberry and Vanilla Alpro Soya yoghurts and they are fantastic.:drool::drool::drool::drool::drool: Has anyone else tried them yet? They come in a pack of 4 and I paid about £1.39 for them.

They have 87 calories per pot and the ingredients are as follows:

Water, Raspberries (10.8%), Hulled Soya Beans (7.6%), Sugar, Fructose-Glucose Syrup, Rice Syrup, Modified Maize Starch, Colour: Fruit and Plant Extracts, Raspberry and Vanilla Flavouring, Tri-calcium Phosphate, Stabilisers: Pectin and Agar, Sea Salt, Acidity Regulator: Citric Acid, Selected Cultures: S. Thermophilus L. Bulgaricus L. Helveticus.

Contact details are:

www.alprosoya.co.uk (http://www.alprosoya.co.uk)

(UK) 0800 0 188 180
(ROI) 1800 992 878

Let me know what you think. :naughty::naughty:

Lan. :D

[Pam]

I like Alpro yoghurts too and took advantage when they were on offer in Morrisons at 86p for 4 a few weeks ago but those were the other flavours (strawberry and peach). Unfortunately they didn't have any alpro yoghurts at all this week, not even plain ones so I've had to do without.

I use the plain one to make a yoghurt mint dip to eat with indian foods (yoghurt, lemon juice and mint sauce). You can also make your own yoghurt by using the plain one as a starter with soya milk then add fruit puree to flavour it. And it is always useful for making a hot curry into a milder korma type one.

I have to say that for flavour and texture the Sojasun ones are much nicer but at 55p each they are too expensive for everyday eating and not widely available. The lemon one is particularly nice. They come in a nice glass jar but once you've got a cupboard full of jars you don't really need any more.

[scranL74]

I still haven't found the Raspberry and Vanilla ones yet, but I looooove the cherry ones! :D

[Pam]

Yet another week with no Alpro fruit yoghurts at Morrisons, though they had the plain one tonight. I ended up getting some in Tesco this week as Sainsburys didn't have any either - maybe there is a national shortage due to Lan buying them all!!!

[linny]

:) My Mother-in-Law treated me on Friday. She found some Sainsburys Free From Iced Dessert. It's like raspberry ripple ice cream and lovely. The ice cream is quite sweet, more like the whippy ice cream. She got it at a Sainsburys superstore and they also had a caramel and walnut flavour. Shame our local one probably won't have it, all they stock is 'low carb'. That's another treat I can indulge in!:) :bleh:

I was ill for 3 days last week with a bad stomach and blisters on my face as well as very swollen and painful hands and ankles. I think I ate some dairy in an uncut 'hedgehog' loaf from Asda. Never again! Why don't they list the ingredients on the bakery stuff in supermarkets? I've looked at doughnuts before and wondered if there's any milk in them but haven't been brave enough to try.

[Pam]

I had both flavours of Sainsburys free from ice cream at christmas, both delicious but rather expensive (think they are £2.69 for 500ml compared with £1.59 for 750ml of Swedish Glace vanilla). It annoys me how the free from aisles have suddenly become filled with low carb and Atkins stuff.

I took Morrisons to task over the instore bakery products but was told that cross contamination was too much of a risk so they couldn't provide ingredients lists for those products. My daughter had a bad reaction from one of their french sticks a couple of years ago and I assume it must be the glaze on their bread that contains milk. Now we tend to stick with the pre-packed labelled stuff, at least you know what you are getting then.

I've heard that Tesco doughnuts are safe but they don't seem to put the ingredients list on the pack so I'm a bit wary, most doughnuts do include milk in the ingredients.

[matt]

lots of breads will be bulked up with powdered milk and some will use milk as a glaze or ingredient. plus they add butter to lots. as they said lots of cross contamination. bear in mind most of the "bakeries" aren't. the bread comes in part cooked from huge central locations and is just heated through in store. so they have no idea if the breads been exposed or indeed if milk is involved in any way with the ingredients.

safer to buy slightly less fresh ones in sealed bags with ingredients listed or go to proper bakers and get something made on premises.

[zoefruitcake]

I'm not much of a bread eater, but it wasn't until I was given a breadmaker and was looking through the recipes that I found that most contained milk. What sort of sick and twisted world do we live in?!?!
Anyway, I was just going to say I have a constant battle with my local Tesco to get enough Alpro Soya Yoghurt. I used to have a special order for 6 tubs a week, but a new section manager decided in November that it wasn't worth it, and cancelled it.
I add my favourite damson jam to it and whip it up with my Braun handblender - yummy

[Pam]

The milk in bread is mostly for cosmetic reasons, it helps the crust to brown and look nice. I just miss it out from the breadmaker recipes and it doesn't seem to do any harm.

[linny]

Wow, Sainsburys is doing well round here, I spotted some of their Free From custard yesterday. I haven't tried it yet as I still have some Alpro custard in the cupboard. It's slightly cheaper than Alpro but I wonder if it's the same? Has anyone tried the Sainsburys custard?

[Pam]

I always make my own custard in the microwave using soya milk and birds custard powder (or cocoa and cornflour for chocolate custard).

[matt]

i make bread all the time in breadmaker. i use olive oil and the end result is lovely and soft and apparently very tasty. can't eat it myself make it for ma and pa and my daughter.

good to see a hitchhikers quote zoe. roll on the film release. shame the late great adams not around to see it.

[Pam]

I didn't read that properly Matt and wondered how and why you would want to make custard in a breadmaker! Don't you ever make gluten free bread? There are lots of flours available.

[zoefruitcake]

I was casting my eyes over this whilst on the phone to my mother and started to think about custard bread...mmmmmm :drool: ;)

Anyway, Matt, I can't wait for the film, I hope it doesn't disappoint. It is sad that Mr Adams left the planet almost 4 years too early to see it, but I like to think the delay is so that technology can do it justice

[Pam]

What's custard bread? Do you mean bread and butter pudding?

[matt]

bread and butter pudding:drool: :drool: :drool: with sultanas and brwon sugar on the top.... god that's lovely stuff.

i have made gluten free bread but i'd say it's nothing like the real stuff. tends to be grainy. i tend to survive using premier biscuits instead of bread.

went mad today and made some dairy free banana and choc cakes. for daughter and mum. daughter going through a like don't like phase. hence bought some banana's......don't want them. so to save chucking them made some cakes. see if she falls for it.

htchhikers.....the technology will be the death of it. the radio and tv worked because of the lack of sophisticated technology. seen some clips and looks very good. proff in the watching though. we'll see.

can't get the image of bread and butter pudding out of my head.

[paranoidangel]

On hitchhiker's, I did like the Stephen Fry narrated trailer. But I'm waiting to form an opinion until after I've seen it.

I'm also looking forward to the next radio series (Quatenery? and Quintessential)

[Copper]

Ooo Matt look what you have done - changed the thread from yoghurts to Hitchhikers :)

[matt]

not just hitchhikers, bread and butter pudding, gluten free bread and banana cakes.


but it had already gone to bread and icecream without my help.

i wonder what the alpro youghurts would be like semi frozen? not a great yoghuurt eater but do like the occasional icecream type thing. semi freeze it then put it over a hot pudding!:drool: syrup sponge or something.

[Pam]

I haven't frozen the yoghurts but I have frozen the desserts (custard type ones) and they were ok. My ice cream maker sits in the back of a kitchen cupboard unused and unloved. I really must make more of an effort this year.

[linny]

Sorry, it was me who changed yoghurts to ice cream, I couldn't find anywhere else to put it!

Pam you've been given a trophy by your name, is it because you're champion of the arcade!?
Today is the last day of term, off to St Thomas' hosp with Megan tomorrow:( and then I can enjoy Easter. :) Happy Easter to everyone and I hope you enjoy the dairyfree eggs.:D

Sorry I've changed the subject again!:o

[linny]

It is arcade champion and I've got one too!! Nice to get a reward in life isn't it!!

[zoefruitcake]

No such thing as custard bread :lol2:
I had just mis-read it because I wasn't concentrating :unsure: and started to imagine something like custard sandwiches :drool:
Anyway, I was going to say that I have attempted to freeze Alpro yoghurt in my 1970s ice-cream maker. It won't freeze the whole way, but it does make a nice iced pudding affair :drool: