h2g2 The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy: Earth Edition

Yeah, who wants to drink or eat anything that tastes of saccharin? Its awful. A lot of these sweeteners are 200 times sweeter than sugar, just what kind of diet do they think we need?!

I agree, Kaz.

Too much sugar makes my tongue feel all furry! I wonder whoever decided just *how sweet* commercially made products should be? And how they came to decide they had to be soooooooooo sweet?

az

Absolutely no idea, but it is a technique used by drug pushers. To up the concentration without you realising. Makes you wonder doesn't it?

Humph.

My fussy eater of a daughter had just found a Tex-mex wrap in the supermarket that she would agree to eat on "rushing off somewhere else" evenings.....


...and now they've stopped supplying them

There's another thread for things like that, LS

Artificial sweetners (as well as being so sweet they taste bitter, to me) are highly laxative...be very, very, _very_ careful!

Unless you're diabetic - stick to sugar, you can always clean your teeth afterwards

BC

"I suppose I'll just have to change my supermarket "

One good thing about the Co-Op, they are usually behind the times and, consequently, do a good line in leaf teas, and there are stores in all the bits of Wales I've visited, including Caerdydd.
Damn.
Two good things about the Co-Op ...

theres actually 1 in Penarth where I live
I've only used it for odds and sods, in between th fortnightly trek to tescos
I'll have to check it out

To the first post-

I hate it when they improve things!
I buy things because I like them, improving them usually means I quit.

General Foods International coffees
Cafe Vienna. They improved it till it was awful.
Then they dicontinued it.

Years later I have finally found a liquid hazelnut creamer I like.
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I have never seen powdered Woolite
I would like it if it's cheaper in that form.
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I think we can still get those scotch pads but not sure.

I have switched to 3M - a flat green scrubbie that lasts a long time.
It gets limp like a rag which is helpful to get into crevices and edges

I used to like saccharin in iced tea (melted easily)but nothing else.
I hate nutrasweetI quit drinking TAB decades ago when they switched the sweetner. I would like to thank them for that though since I stopped drinking soft drinks(sodas)
all together!

aspartame . The only yogurts you can get without it these days are the incredibly expensive ones.

"They" ALWAYS discontinue products as soon as I fall in love with them.
Does anyone remember the wonderful blackberry juice (in 1l cartons) M&S sold for a few weeks?
Or the anti-bacterial foam cleaner that could be used anywhere - spray on/ wipe off...

My latest bete noir is a wonderful little gadget Phillips brought out a few months ago for we female gorillas. You clip in a container of wax, plug in, and 15 minutes later Bob's a close member of your family...
Used it twice and then needed a wax refill. Guess what?

<<"They" ALWAYS discontinue products as soon as I fall in love with them.>>

Yes, but I guess we wouldn't notice them discontinuing stuff we hate or never buy. Mind you, it does seem that quite a few things I happen to like end up getting discontinued. Like each time I find a Body Shop soap I like.

Blackberry juice sounds amazing! Here you can buy flavoured yoghurt without aspartame (though with too much sugar) but all the low-fat yoghurts have aspartame.

I once saw an ad in a British magazine for unsweetened yoghurt with unsweetened fruit in it and thought that sounded wonderful, but I've never seen it here.

az

Try buying natural yoghurt and flavouring it your self. Pineapple either fresh or from a tin, is nice choped into chunks and then added with the juice stirred in too.

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I just *knew* some smart*rse was going to come along and say that!

Quite often I do, but I like the convenience of just being able to open a yoghurt container and have the fruit already there, especially when I am in a hurry in the morning and have no time to prepare breakfast. So there!

az

sometimes even the most basic products seem to disappear in favour of a range of exotic that I'll never buy

there have been times when my local supermarket hasn't had any grapefruit juice, but does have passionfruit and mango or whatever