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Yogurt Help Please!

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TheClockworkDodo

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If you have any fruit (or toffee!) yogurts, fromage frais, or quark in your fridge, please would you have a look at the ingredients for me? And if they DO NOT say lemon juice, citric acid, or any other kind of citrus, please post the brand and flavour!

I don't care how much fat or carbs or cals they have in them, so don't worry about those, I just want to know about citrus as I'm badly allergic to any kind of citrus, even in tiny amounts, and most yogurts contain lemon juice. For years I've been eating Petits Filous fromage frais because they didn't ... but the last 2 packs I bought I noticed (after buying them 😡 but thankfully before eating any 😱 ) that they said "now with added vitamin D". And when I checked the ingredients - yep, they mean they've added lemon juice so now I need to track down some alternatives in a hurry.
 
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Longley Farm yogurts just have fruit and cane sugar added to the yogurt. Loads to choose from that aren't citrus - black cherry, raspberry, strawberry etc. I usually have the natural ones. Very thick as it's made with jersey cow milk but not overly sweet. 34p at Morrisons and I think some Asda sell them as well.

http://longleyfarm.com/longley-farm-yogurt
 
Thanks, Matt - actually R bought me some of those for me from a farm shop last week, but I haven't seen them in any of our local supermarkets, and he doesn't want to go to the farm shop every week as it's a bit far. I'll have to look at the stockist list on their website ...

... no, just tried that and they say there aren't any near us, they don't even have our farm shop listed :(
I searched Sainsbury's and Ocado websites for them and they both said no matches. We don't have Asda or Morrisons.
 
Had another look at stockist list, and discovered that if I put the county rather than the postcode I do get our farm shop, but there's nowhere any nearer :(
 
Have you tried Easiyo? I resorted to making my own years ago because of the cult of the low fat yoghurt and I'm intolerant of some "preservatives". I've never seen citric acid listed or lemon juice but there are loads of flavours and natural yoghurts so you'd need to check the ingredients for each type. You need a flask type thing and the tubs to go in but after that you just add water to the sachets bung it in the flask and hey presto you get yoghurt 8 hours later. It lasts for 14 days in the fridge (you can freeze it too) and is available from amazon, Lakeland, Wilko, QVC, Holland and Barrett and some supermarkets. This link is for Lakeland because it shows the ingredients. http://www.lakeland.co.uk/content/documents/70506_label.pdf. This is the Greek which is the one I use most, but they also do a massive array of flavours, low fat versions and some that are flavoured but unsweetened if you prefer to sweeten yourself either with less sugar or with sweetener. I'm a bit of a yoghurt obsessive, love the stuff and put it in almost everything 🙄

It's much cheaper to culture your own yoghurt btw which I have done in the past but my Lakeland yoghurt maker bit the dust a few years ago and I haven't got round to replacing it. Off the shelf wise I use Longley or Yeo Valley http://www.tesco.com/groceries/prod...gclid=CKuV1MiSudACFUEcGwodA6IC8w&gclsrc=aw.ds. That link is the Tesco website, they list ingredients and carbs for everything (oh how I love you Tesco 🙂).
 
You can make your own -
all you need is a wide mouthed vacuum flask, milk and a pot of live yoghurt to get you started and a thermometer
 
Thank you all for your ideas. I had wondered about the Easiyo, @KookyCat - I don't want to make my own the traditional way as I really like flavoured yogurt for my pudding rather than plain yogurt with fruit or whatever added to it. I'll have a look at the ingredients of the sachets on Lakeland, thanks.

Yeo Valley is no good, unfortunately - they were the first place I looked as I eat their natural yogurt for breakfast. All their flavoured yogurts contain lemon juice. And nearly all of Rachel's do too. I went through them all on the Ocado site (which also lists ingredients), but looking at dozens of yogurts one at a time takes ages and I was losing the will to live, which is why I posted here!
 
Easiyo mixes say "flavouring" 🙄 - have emailed them to ask if any of them (other than the lemon, obviously) contain any citrus flavouring. Their fruit squirts contain citric acid.
 
KookyCat said:
Have you tried Easiyo? I resorted to making my own years ago because of the cult of the low fat yoghurt and I'm intolerant of some "preservatives". I've never seen citric acid listed or lemon juice but there are loads of flavours and natural yoghurts so you'd need to check the ingredients for each type. You need a flask type thing and the tubs to go in but after that you just add water to the sachets bung it in the flask and hey presto you get yoghurt 8 hours later. It lasts for 14 days in the fridge (you can freeze it too) and is available from amazon, Lakeland, Wilko, QVC, Holland and Barrett and some supermarkets. This link is for Lakeland because it shows the ingredients. http://www.lakeland.co.uk/content/documents/70506_label.pdf. This is the Greek which is the one I use most, but they also do a massive array of flavours, low fat versions and some that are flavoured but unsweetened if you prefer to sweeten yourself either with less sugar or with sweetener. I'm a bit of a yoghurt obsessive, love the stuff and put it in almost everything 🙄

It's much cheaper to culture your own yoghurt btw which I have done in the past but my Lakeland yoghurt maker bit the dust a few years ago and I haven't got round to replacing it. Off the shelf wise I use Longley or Yeo Valley http://www.tesco.com/groceries/product/details/?id=258756574&sc_cmp=ppc-_-sh-_-msh-_-bg-_-px_|_shopping_gsc_|_all_products-_-&gclid=CKuV1MiSudACFUEcGwodA6IC8w&gclsrc=aw.ds. That link is the Tesco website, they list ingredients and carbs for everything (oh how I love you Tesco 🙂).
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I gave up on Easiyo, apart from it shipping all the way from NewZealand, it's expensive and I had some failures. I make my own with a Lakeland Yourt maker, p.s. If yours is broken then phone them up, they replaced mine without question even though it was over a year old (part of the Lakeland Guarantee).It make a litre at a time and is never ending, you use your last batch to start the next, just add long life milk (semi skimmed, full fat etc).
 
What Vic said. I also have a Lakeland yoghurt maker and do my own thing these days and freeze it till I need it. I don't have a lot so a litre will last me a couple of weeks. You could add some No Added Sugar squash for flavour (no I haven't tried it, it's only just occurred to me - Vimto flavour anyone?). I normally add a few berries or nuts to mine for the taste. The Easiyo was indeed easy, but YUCK! The result was far too sweet for me and sent my BGs rocketing.
 
It is a common experience with Easi-yo, to be a bit and miss! I am a member of a forum where many also found the same.
 
I make my own too using full fat long life organic milk from Sainsburys. This allows me to pour it straight into the yogurt maker, add a spoonful of Greek yogurt as culture and voila...a bit pot of delicious home made yogurt.

For flavouring I melt a little butter in a pan, add some water and blend in cocoa powder, stevia cyrstals and vanilla paste. This goes into an old Nutella jar and sits in the fridge. When I want a chocolatey fix I just mix some into a bowl of yogurt. A little maple syrup mixed with yogurt is also delicious.
 
Thanks everyone - will think about it. I'd really rather buy ready-made yogurt if I can find anything suitable as I don't cook (I loathe cooking - as unpleasant, tedious chores go, I'd rather scrub toilets) so making our own means extra work for R - also I want the flavouring mixed in to start with rather than added at the eating stage. But at this rate I suspect we may end up investing in some sort of yogurt maker ...

As far as the Easiyo is concerned, I like sweet things and they don't normally send my blood sugar up, so that shouldn't be a problem for me! Yes, I am a weird diabetic!

But I doubt I could have no-added sugar squash, Alison, though thanks for the idea - I can't have normal squash as it's too full of ingredients (by which I mean colours, flavours, sweeteners, preservatives - oh, and of course, citric acid ... 🙄 )
 
Have you tried Quark? I buy it from LIDL and it's delicious.
 
Had to look that up, @Marsbartoastie - Quark to me is something the Quarkbeast says (@KookyCat will know what I'm talking about, don't know if anyone else will!). Or possibly something charming.

Looks like some of those also going to be flavoured with lemon or lime, so I'm back to my original question, trying to find out which brands/flavours are citrus-free. It could give me a few more options though so I'll add it to my original post - thanks 🙂
 
Just looked at Lakeland yogurt-maker, hmmm. Does anyone know of a yogurt-maker, other than Easiyo, where you can add the fruit or other flavouring at the beginning rather than having to make natural yogurt and then mix the fruit or whatever in at the end?
 
You may well be right, Grovesy - I don't know anything about cooking! I just don't much like natural yogurt with fruit added to it, it's not sweet enough for me. I was thinking of those bread-makers which allow you to add something like seeds or raisins to a separate compartment, and mix them in for you at the relevant stage, and wondering if any yogurt-makers do something similar.
 
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