Where are the dried prunes gone in supermarkets?

Pollycat

od244051 said:

My dad loves having a few of them in his porridge most days and now down to final pack. We can't get them anywhere in supermarkets. Asda, Aldi, Lidl and Sainsburys. Why is this? There are some on Amazon which are very expensive (£8+ a kilo) or have £3.50 p&p on them.

Pollycat said:

maman said:

I'm convinced I saw them in Aldi last week when I was buying apricots. They may not be totally dry though, I didn't check. 

I saw them too in Aldi last week..

I didn't check if they were slightly re-hydrated or if they were the sort which one soaks at home as I wasn't buying them.

They were with the dried apricots and nuts and seeds.

Just back from Aldi.

"Dried prunes ready to eat" - lots of them on the shelves as above.

jon81uk

Something like the fully dried instead of being ready to eat has probably just gone "out of fashion" most people likely want them ready to eat rather than having to soak them.

Bacman

Prunes you re-hydrate would then logically become plums again

203846930

Checked again in Lidl today and they are 'soft pitted prunes' so not the fully dried ones that you are looking for.

Emmia

duncanthedog said:

Checked again in Lidl today and they are 'soft pitted dates' so not the fully dried ones that you are looking for.

Dates and Prunes are entirely different fruits - the former comes off a date palm, the latter is a dried plum and comes off a plum tree.

Rosa_Damascena

I like the Aldi prunes but they are less melt-in-the mouth than they used to be. They are still soft and not hard gobstoppers.

203846930

Emmia said:

duncanthedog said:

Checked again in Lidl today and they are 'soft pitted dates' so not the fully dried ones that you are looking for.

Dates and Prunes are entirely different fruits - the former comes off a date palm, the latter is a dried plum and comes off a plum tree.

Sorry, a typo on my part, I meant to put prunes, no idea why I put dates

Now changed

JosephK

Resurrecting an old thread! Have been able to find prunes with a bit of searching until recently but now, other than expensive health food stores, they seem to have disappeared completely.

SWMBO says I'm not seeking hard enough

Emmia

Ocado are listing M&S ones - £3 for 510g - but I don't know how that compares, as I've never bought prunes.

https://www.ocado.com/products/m-s-soft-prunes-528857011

maman

They just returned to Aldi after an absence of about 6 weeks. £1.69 for 500g.