Ovaltine Last winter I developed a craving for old fashioned hot drinks, such as Horlicks, Ovaltine and good old hot chocolate. I blame the cold weather as I'm normally an ice cold soft drink girl. I admit I bought this because the Horlicks I normally buy was not available at our local (not very good) Co-op and was hoping for a similar smooth malty taste to Horlicks. I do remember Ovaltine from my childhood, but it wasn't seen as a drink for kids in our family more for the grannies and grandpas, so I don't have any particularly strong memories of it. The tub is exactly the same as the one shown in the Dooyoo picture. On breaking ...  Read the complete review

Up to last week, I have to admit that I had neither purchased nor tried Ovaltine before. My husband was already familiar with it, and would say that he often took it if he had trouble sleeping when he was younger as the warm drink made him feel heavy. I have probably seen it on the supermarket shelf before, but never looked at it. However, when I first found out I was pregnant and you are given lots of pregnancy sample packages, I ended up with 2 packets of ovaltine, each having one serving in them, as well as a money off coupon to buy the jar. At the time, with the joys of first trimester nausea, I put them away in the cupboard, forgetting all about ...  Read the complete review

I've been having some major issues with sleep recently, I have to admit, I am a bit of an insomniac. And on my most recent trip to my doctor, in the hope of him prescribing me some heady sleeping tablets again, he suggested I tried this first. My first reaction was 'What are you mad?!', I had absolutely no believe that this would work... what so ever. I managed to find a 300g tub of 'Ovaltine, night time, white malt.' just under the £2 mark. A quick look over the packaging told me there are 12 servings in a pack and it is made of 64% Barley malt extract (presumably this is what makes you sleepy?) , various other long chemical looking words and some added B ...  Read the complete review

As far as hot drinks go, Ovaltine falls kind of on the outskirts of the hot chocolate range. Although it has cocoa in it, this is minimal, and the main appeal of the drink is the malty goodness it contains. The cocoa is mainly there for the taste and smell, as if the malt is not enough. However, what it does is provide an extra flavour to the drink. Ovaltine's appeal is in its nutritional, tasty and malty goodness, and the cocoa flavour satisfies the chocoholics among us who crave the notion of having choc every five seconds. I must confess: this often includes me. The jar of Ovaltine is full of the fine, powdery product, and the best way of making ...  Read the complete review

Being a Horlicks fan and my local shop having none I had to re-evaluate the situation! Did I walk away with no night time drink or do I look for an alternative? This is how I ended up with a tub of this! I couldn't bare the thought of going to bed and listening to my beloved 'The Archers' which I catch up with last thing at night on my laptop in bed with my milky, relaxing drink! The Packaging.... Well I purchased a 200g tub of the original ovaltine and it set me back £1.29 in Nisa. It is available of course in all decent supermarkets and corner shops etc in single sachet sizes, 200g and 300g sizes in original, light and chocolate flavours, some of ...  Read the complete review