Galaxy Vegan Instant Silky & Smooth Drink

 

Vegan recipe in that there is no intended milk or milk products in the jar, however there is a warning on the jar that the product was made in a factory with milk products, so some milk traces may be present. 

It certainly is smooth - some may say oily (we do). There is some chocolate flavour here, but not much. It sort of tastes like corn mush or well coked veg. There is a sort of not-quite-right flavour to this. It's drinkable, but not entirely enjoyable - at times it tastes like warm vegetable oil (like Mazda) mixed with a little cooking chocolate. 

The main ingredients are: Sugar, Maltodextrin,  Dried Glucose Syrup, Fat Reduced Cocoa Powder (10%), Coconut Oil, Soya Protein. 

We won't be drinking this on its own again, but shall use it in blends to see if that works. 


Date: Oct 2021    Score: 2 

Lindt Hot Chocolate

 

Cocoa, sugar, and 8% Lindt chocolate. It's smooth and pleasant, but lacks depth and is a little sweet. Quite drinkable, but at the top end for price, even for a brand name hot chocolate. £4.00 for 300g from Tesco (£1.34 per 100g). There are some more expensive, but Twinings is £1.15 per 100g and Cadburys is 80p; while Tesco own brand is 40p. 

Meh. Not one we'll be buying again at that price, unless they bump up the chocolate content and give it more oomph.  

Date: Oct 2021   Score: 4 

Oxo Meat-Free Beef Flavour

 

Oxo is a beef tea, along with Bovril. It was developed in the late 1800s. The cube is crumbled into a mug and hot water poured on. There are, thankfully, veggie versions now. Bovril was made into a veggie version, but after some protests the liquidised remains of young cows was restored to the product. A form of beef tea can also be made from Marmite - which has always been veggie - but that doesn't work as good. 

I can remember my first Oxo beef tea. I was a child, probably about eight years old, and I'd come home from playing quite cold and wet because we'd been caught in the rain. My mother made a mug of Oxo, and put in pieces of bread. I quite liked the bread soaked in Oxo, but it was the drink that really excited me, and I can remember wanting to drink more of the juice, and regretting that my mother had put so much bread in the mug! 

This modern veggie Oxo is delightful. Just salty enough. Very savoury and satisfying. 

Date: Oct 2021    Score: 7