Non vegetarian supermarket desserts

And, why aren't there more gf ones!

I don't often use them but I always check. What is more concerning is that they use gelatine instead of making the yogurt or whatever thicker. Gelatine is clearly cheap.

Gelatine may be cheap but it's good food. Almost pure protein. I guess that's no consolation for vegetarians.

Re having it in puddings: most people aren't vegetarians. I guess that's no consolation either!

Hey ho.

I think I'd make my own if I was concerned about the animal origin of ingredients.

Dh is talking about getting yogurt maker of some sort because he wants high fat low sugar yogurt and these are hard to some by as most in supermarkets are low fat and high sugar

I've found the easy yo one simple to use!

Bags
Get him some of this Total Greek yoghurt
It has 5g fat per 100g yoghurt which is the highest fat content I have come across (They do a no-fat one too, so be careful you get the right one) and there is no added sugar.
I never buy fruit yoghurts because they are all too sweet for me. I just add my own fruit to plain yoghurt.

Thanks, jane. Unfortunately no-one stocks that near us. However, there's a Waitrose opening soon so here's hoping.

bags this morning I have a choice of Co-op Greek style plain yoghurt (10.9g fat per 100g) or Yeo Valley Greek style plain yoghurt (9.5g fat per 100g).
Perhaps either of those would suit MrB's discerning palate

Proper yoghurt should contain only milk and cultures. There are though a range of things that i think should be labelled "dairy desserts" that have other thickening ingredients (cheap flavoured ones and the more expensive fruity ones usually)

Our Co-op doesn't usually have it, jane. That's the problem. Mr Bags does like proper Greek yogurt. So do I. It's getting hold of it in the back of beyond that's the problem .

It's a cheese desert around here too unless you like any flavour of Cheddar.

Full fat Greek yogurt is just gorgeous. I could easily eat a whole tub.
It is awful how many of those deserts have gelatine in. I do not totally avoid gelatine but when its used as a cheap filler in something else I avoid it on principle.

Why, nellie, when it's good food? Why avoid eating cheap nutritional food on principle?

The gelatin that comes out of the bones you boil up for stock is what makes a good soup. Can't be beaten.

Just so no-one gets confused about what I'm saying there... avoiding eating desserts containing gelatine because one's a vegetarian is a separate matter from avoiding eating certain desserts because gelatine has been used in them as a cheap filler.

I don't eat such desserts for a different reason from both of those... well, two reasons actually: I don't eat desserts, and if I did I'd make my own, with or without gelatine, as desired.

And anyway, it's pudding not dessert.

Don't eat puddings either.

And not because I don't like them, but because I only eat one course meals so puddings don't feature.

Thatbags I have bought any Easiyo yoghurt maker. They have Greek yoghurt culture/milk sachets which are excellent, prticularly with honey drizzled over. It makes a litre at a time - quite a lot but it lasts a week or so and if he likes it he will get through it. Sold by several people online, including Lakeland Plastics. Don't bother with the Starter Pack, which just has a using yoghurt recipe book and one sachet of culture, but costs almost twice what the older packaging of just the maker does.

Someone also buying sachets in Lakeland said that the Greek yog with coconut is even more delicious, but I have not tried that yet.

You just add cold water to the inner container, and boiling water to the outer, and leave it overnight.

But if I were to eat cheaply made gelatinous puddings, it would probably be the sugar and some other ingredients that concerned me more than the gelatine. At least gelatine is worth eating for its nutritional value.

I think I'll get him one for xmas, elegran.

They're brilliant. My kids (39and41) much prefer the easy yo one to bought ones!. The natural Greek one makes wonderful raita and tzsiki (sp)

Or you could get an Easyyo. Make a thick yoghurt with skimmed milk powder (which works out very cheap) 7 rounded tablespoons of powdered milk seems to do it. And just add some single cream to the mix bags

Bags I am a vegetarian. There are plenty of cheap nutritional foods, lentils chickpeas etc etc which offer good protein and fibre.

It's overpriced desserts that have been padded out with other cheap products such as gelatine just to make their texture better I object to.

I would prefer to eat plain jelly, as at least that does not pretend to be anything else.
I can buy a 550grm pot of thick Greek yogurt from ASDA for little over a £1. As made by "Yeo valley".

I'm in a quandary. I've really gone off meat! Don't know why, don't like much fish except beluga caviar and smoked salmon, oh! And tinned sardines and salmon. Hate green veg especially raw eg salad.
I can therefore only really eat chocolate and that's fattening!
What shall I do?

Can you eat jelly if you're a vegetarian? Gelatin is an animal product.

Why is adding an ingredient, cheap or otherwise, to improve the texture of something (make it more palatable) a bad thing? Isn't that what good cooking is all about?