Organic food in supermarkets

Kirri

I won a pack of 9 bars, I thought they were ok but I didn't overly like them.

That box scheme is doing a GF box soon too.

Didn't realise it was a VAT thing. I always compared snack and baking aisle nuts, was quite a big difference.

Edwardia

I will bookmark the link thanks.

OH tried Nakd bars but found them too sweet - we don't bake, don't eat biscuits, don't have sugar-laden cereals. Over time think it does make us more sensitive to sugar ???

It's because baking aisle = food = no VAT and confectionery has VAT.
Mind you having said that ice cream does have VAT

Kirri

^ I'm sure it does affect how we taste things given what we generally eat, I eat too much sugar and like sweet things.. I liked the Nakd bars! it's probably one area I need to do something about at some point..

Just seen a comp for an A&C hamper on the comps board. Lots for organic toiletries on the Veg Living mag comps too.

Edwardia

G&B fan there Kirri Can't eat it myself, not enough cocoa solids = too sweet for me. The ice cream I do indulge in occasionally but altho the chocolate is like, the best EVER, OH and I both prefer Mackies vanilla.

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Hello, I am new to this thread but have been on mse for a long time. Glad that I have been told about you and hope it is ok to join you

I love some vegan food and also veggie food but am neither vegan nor veggie. I eat organic when I can and raw from time to time but am not obsessed about anything, except eating healthy good food. We use butter and non homogenised milk, never marg in any shape or form and nut and hemp milk, which I usually make.

I have to get most ingredients via the internet eg this morning I ordered 3kg of ground almonds from goodness direct. We finished the last of the lovely almond balls that I made from ani phyo`s deserts book. They are absolutely gorgeous by the way. I do store this stuff in a fridge, specifically for raw food ingredients and I also vac pack first, as I will for this amount of ground almonds. It will stay fresh for a long time

I discovered raw chocolate a few weeks ago and it is utter heaven, easy to make and very satisfying without having to eat lots

I see a 9bar discussion, we have them in the house for dh but I make sure never to get the peanut version. They are so handy to have in the car, just in case

Kirri

Welcome kittie glad you made it over from the freezer thread.

What are the almond balls? they sound interesting.

and what is bad about the peanut bars?? I was looking at them this morning in an email they sent me, thinking they may be worth trying (I had pumpkin I think it was before).


Edwardia, I'm getting in practice in eating the G&B dark chocolate versions... I've always found it quite bitter but I think I am getting used to it a bit.. My fave used to be the white, I now like the crispy, almond or butterscotch - hence weaning myself slowing onto trying the 70% and 85% bars.

I've never had raw choc and don't think I've seen it even.

alfsmum

Kirri, WF stocks several raw choc bars and also vegan raw choc brownies which are lovely.

We have a box full of G&B bought from Ocado a couple months ago at £1 per 100g bar - not likely to see that price again! - and WF were doing bogof on the assorted 35g multipacks on Wednesday so bought a few packs of those too!!!! Only eat chocolate occasionally so won't need to buy for a year or more

Welcome Kittie:j

Kirri

Thanks ^ will look for the raw choc when I go back next week! Curious to taste it now.

Kirri

GF organic pizza base (don't think this has been posted?)

http://vegusto.co.uk/grocery/262-amisa-org-deep-pan-gf-pizza-base-260g.html

Edwardia

As I loathe shopping, I don't do much. preferring to get it all delivered. OH neglected to tell me that we were low on teabags until we had two left. I schlepped to Sainsbury's for SO organic teabags (£2 for 80) which IMO are waay better than Morrisons'.

Decided to make an afternoon of it and took in an exhibition and the Christmas lights before trawling round bookstores and drugstores. Ordered the Daylesford cook book £30 :eek: and bought some Old Spice for OH :rotfl:

We were watching 2013/vintage Christmas ads on YouTube and he got all nostalgic because his grandad used to wear. I found it in Superdrug under £10 Prolly full of nasties so anyone have any recommendations for decadent-smelling virtuous pongs/lotions for men please ?

Kittie welcome :j Hemp milk sounds brave to me.. I've had Faith in Nature hemp and something shower gel <holds nose>

Me too, I want to know why not on the peanuts. OH and I lurve the Suma organic peanut butter (smooth or crunchy) from Budgens mmm and I just bought OH GranoVita (pea)nut luncheon to try from H&B.. he's still psyching up for that. :rotfl:

Kirri, yes if you're used to sweet things, 90% cocoa, 85% cocoa - even 70% cocoa can seem bitter at first. A wine expert told me years ago that most people start with sweet white wine and get drier and venture into red, gradually.

So with chocolate, you get to a point where you can divorce the sugar from the chocolate and appreciate the dark, luxuriousness, the truly chocolately smell and taste of 90% cocoa as opposed to something like Galaxy which is actually only 25% cocoa :eek:

OH handed me the empty Dragonfly Mexican spice burgers box with URGH DRY written in sharpie :rotfl: If you want to try these free from wheat gluten dairy GM ingredients additives preseratives and colourings vegan burgers, they are available from A&C and Riverford. https://www.dragonflyfoods.com I thought they were hard on outside, mushy inside and the spices kinda crept up on me

Kirri thanks for the pizza base find. OH likes Amisa stuff so far. I need to browse on Vegusto some more. These the ones I found from Ulula
http://www.ulula.co.uk/shop/baby-food-item.php?ProductID=691&CatID=197