Liam on Linux

At the start of November last year, I couldn't find an Ian breakfast staple: Lidl's clone of Muller Light yogurts in our local store. OK, they are sometimes out of stock for a day or two.

That turned into a week, then two, and then I didn't see them in a couple of other Lidls either. OK, they've stopped doing them, grrr.

Fortunately, Aldi's basically identical clones continued to be in stock, but they don't have a nice loyalty scheme unlike Lidl.

Somewhat to my surprise, Lidl's version reappeared earlier this month. Slightly more expensive - I see I was paying £2.49 for the six pack in late October and they're £2.59 now - but I'm still glad to see them back.

When I abandoned muesli in favour of a wholewheat cereal in 2021 as part of that breakfast, following the big gall-bladder ouch, thanks to the fat content of the nut component, I did want some added sweetness. Around the same time, Lidl's 'Greek week' products included some fruit peel in syrup. The orange peel one was definitely the nicest of those, although the pomelo one was interesting, so since then I have been buying up multiple jars of it every time 'Greek week' comes along.

They've almost always been enough to last for the necessary two months, and the syrup is useful as a flavoured liquid sugar when doing other things.

This time, when 'Greek week' came around although they had the pomelo and the fig versions, the orange peel one had been replaced by an orange slice version. Oh no! You get fewer slices than you do bits of peel - I only have one at a time, unless they're particularly tiny - and the flesh of the orange isn't going to be as good as the peel, is it? I only got one jar to try.

It turns out it is, and I'll be back to getting more than one the next time.

Just over twenty years ago, I posted about my distress following a very nice mustard changing its receipe. We never did find a good replacement...

... until I noticed a single different looking jar in Lidl's regular mustard bits of the shelf. I look at the label and it uses cider vinegar (it calls it 'apple vinegar') and while it does have spirit vinegar, there's less of it than there is salt.

It turns out to be very very nice, and I went back a couple of days later to find the rest - it turned out to be part of 'taste of Deutschland' week even though it's made in Poland from Canadian mustard seed! Only 99p too.

Prompted by something someone said...

If you have central heating, is it

a) on a timer?

b) turned on / off manually or via a thermostat?

c) controlled by an app?