Emergency hot chocolate!

Broomstick

Can anyone recommend a brand of hot chocolate that tastes as if its had lots of milk added (ie it's not watery cocoa) and will mix ok with water that's less than boiling (ie thermos flask after a couple of hours)? I'm looking for something that I can stick in the car's emergency box. The stuff we use at home for hot chocolate really needs milk adding. I wouldn't normally go for over-packaging but in this instance something long-life in sachets would be fine.

Thanks
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Vaila

options hot choc

adelight

Galaxy. It dissolves really well and has sugar granules in it, you could probably add a spoon of milk powder to the tub too.
My OH says diet chocs like options and cadburys are really watery, and making them for him is a pain with those brands as they refuse to dissolve and have lumps of powder!
With a flask you can always give it a good shake to mix it.

RAS

Hi

Just mix together your normal hot chocolate and dried milk powder. Store in a samll container and rotate it back into the house every few weeks (and drink).

I do something similiar with instant whip and dried milk powder when I go camping.

Linda32

Mint aero hot chocolate is really nice and mixes with water.

I'd make it in a jug in the first instance then pour into the flask, made up.

Katgoddess

I use cadburys hot chocolate. The one where you add water. I think it tastes awful normally, but for some reason it tastes divine when poured from a Thermos flask.

Owain_Moneysaver

They all seem watery to me, because they're made with skimmed milk powder and don't have the milk fat (which would probably go rancid).

A small tin of evaporated milk perhaps?

sophieschoice

Horlicks malt with chocolate. But not the extra light version which is dreadful.

babyshoes

I like the options one, and the Sainsburys basics one is not bad either, though it does taste better with a bit of milk added it is ok without. Perhaps you could buy a selection of little sachets and try them all to see which type you prefer.

natlie

Hi
most are better if you add in more than the mix states I add in an extra spoonful for every three spoonfuls (teaspoons) I like the cadburys but the new cafe direct one is good and green and blacks instant
Nat
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Broomstick

Some useful suggestions - thank you. Do supermarkets sell individual sachets - then we could do some try-outs - or have you got to buy in bigger quantities? If we can get individual sachets, maybe I should try out a hot chocolate tasting session with my DSs one day when we are stuck indoors. Mind you, we probably wouldn't agree!

I didn't make it clear at the start but what I tend to do is carry round a thermos of boiling water and make up drinks from that as and when is needed. We had an awful habit in our house of forgetting to wash up thermos flasks when we got home and I've discovered that if the flask has only ever had water in it disaster is averted! That means that I'd really like to find hot chocolate that will mix up (and taste) ok when I'm using water that is not boiling hot. I'm hoping to keep some powdered hot-chocolate in the boot of the car just incase we need it in a stuck-in-the-car-in-snow-and/or-traffic-jam situation then all I have to remember to take is my usual flask of hot water with us.

B x