Lazy bloody town and damned sports candy

[ailbhe]

Linnea is really confused by what constitutes "healthy" food and since I explained that fruit contains sugar (we were talking about dental health) she's not sure whether she's ALLOWED to eat fruit any more. I can't see why any child likes bloody Lazytown because it is incredibly irritating and all the people are wholly unattractive and the puppets are horrible, but they do - and it's a bit crazy about the whole food thing.

Sports candy. Fruit is FRUIT, it's not a substitute for sweets and cake. It's worth eating in its own right. And conflating sugar and refined sugar is really annoying.

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[biascut.livejournal.com]

I am particularly annoyed about this as it makes it harder for me to buy normal-sugar squash!

[the-changeling.livejournal.com]

Rocks

http://www.rocksorganic.com/

[biascut.livejournal.com]

Sorry, I don't want recommendations - I just want to be able to get ordinary Robinson's lemon barley water when I'm down the Co-op, but they only have sugar-free versions!

[thealmondtree.livejournal.com]

And even some of the ones that don't claim to be sugar-free still have artificial sweetners in them.

[st-lemur.livejournal.com]

Yes, I hate this as well :(

[ailbhe]

What, really?! Gawd. What about other supermarkets? We pretty much never drink squash unless we're having a birthday party so it's not something I've checked.

It has just occurred to me that they may no longer do a real sugar version; do you suppose that's true?!

(Er, yrs etc, Shocked of Reading, apparently - sorry about that).

[ailbhe]

I checked Tesco - no real-sugar Robinsons. At all.

[biascut.livejournal.com]

Tsk! Yeah, that's what our Co-op is like.

It's not that I can't get it at all, but I can't get it reliably just going to the Co-op and the Tesco Metro and things that are in the city centre, which is where we do most of our non-fresh-fruit-and-veg shopping (things like pasta, breakfast cereal, milk, butter, biscuits and so on.) If I were going to the really big supermarkets I'm sure I'd find it, but it's ridiculously frustrating when there are actually half a dozen different types of squash in the shop and every single one of them is aspartame horridness!

[st-lemur.livejournal.com]

I started buying my pickled cucumbers from the Polish shop because the Tesco ones have artificial sweetener in. Anyone know of a source for rollops without sweetener?