In th UK, we used to eat a reasonable amount of gut-friendly food, which included yogurt, cheese, kimchi, sauerkraut, … the usual stuff.
We haven’t found kimchi anywhere (and I’m a bit leery of making it).
What sorts of gut-friendly food do you eat?
Raw sauerkraut - available from the deli counter in most supermarkets in winter and bio shops.
Thanks - I hadn’t thought of a deli counter. Hope our SuperU does it.
Still not sure about making kimchi - kilner jars and pressure …
Have you tried your local BioCoop? Ours sells Kombucha, Kefir, Kimchi and other similar products
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Oh if only we had something like that! We have a SuperU (which I love because it does local produce, but which is more Morrisons than Waitrose) and Leclerc. Plenty of cheap pizza joints, though.
There’s probably something in Saumur. Them’re reet posh in Saumur.
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Why, its easy, you can taylor it to your own taste and its quick to ferment unlike 2 week wait for sauerkraut.
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We found kimchi in the Grand Frais we visited the other day. You get used to travelling significant distances when you live in rural France!
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I have completely forgotten about yoghurt since Fran died. My local Auchan ran out of custard last week and I transferred my allegiance to ice cream to go with my tartes (shut yer smutty mouth, there are no tarts here, only tartes) for dessert and I could have substituted yoghurt, always plenty of that about, memo for Monday. 
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I bought a cheap yogurt maker a few months back and it makes brilliant yogurt - much better than the supermarket, though I’ve no idea why. I eat a pot of yogurt every day at breakfast. Takes seconds to prepare the stuff if you keep bottles of UHT in stock.
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Sadly, again, my life changed greatly last year and I seem to be more busy than ever. The nearest I come to food preparation is once a week to roast all the chopped up veg in my fridge, mixed with olive oil, in the air cooker, with melted Cantal on top, 2 meals, the 2nd with a bit of jambonneau usually. 
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Sounds good to me David! The yogurt though does, literally, take seconds - mix starter with milk, pour into the jars, switch on.
What’s the ‘starter’, what jars do I have to buy, switch what on? Surely not easier than buying half a dozen pots in Auchan?
Oh, and btw, I ran out of milk a week ago which made me realise that, now I no longer make porridge for Fran every morning, and I can’t get Shredded Wheat here now, I hardly drink milk at all. Same goes for the delicious locally produced honey that she had mixed in with the porridge. Bought 2 pots a couple of months ago and have still got one and a half left now.
The jars come with the yogurt maker, I got this one but there are loads like it-
https://www.amazon.fr/dp/B0977G3RQ9?ref=ppx_yo2ov_dt_b_fed_asin_title&th=1
the starter is this powdered stuff (available in all supermarkets) and yes, much easier!
https://www.coursesu.com/p/ferments-lactiques-pour-yaourtiere-mon-yaourt-maison-alsa-8g/2256974.html
I appreciate your evangelistic fervour Angela, but I live in a very small house where the slow cooker and the coffee filter machine take up much of the kitchen table, the air cooker, kettle, breadboard and chopping board take up most of the counter top, the mini oven sits on what used to be a computer table with another breadboard on top of it to protect the steamer above that from frying its little legs and a microwave on top of a fridge freezer. There is a stack of 4 shelves full of ‘stuff’ useful, occasionally useful, maybe useful one day and in any case I haven’t the time or energy to sort one from t’other.
I will buy some yoghurt in pots on Monday, I promise, but I simply haven’t got the space, time or inclination to make the bloody stuff myself. 
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Fair enough, David! Each to their own 
Don’t think I don’t appreciate it though, but if I ever find a replacement for Fran, highly unlikely because I am not looking, I will make sure that whatever her other attributes are, I will insist that she knows how to make yoghurt. 
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Ah, that’s exactly the moment when someone appears. That self-sufficient “good in my own skin” aura is like a flame to a moth. 
If one is looking one comes over as needy and prospective partners run for the hills.
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Yes, exactly, it isn’t that I have not got a roving eye, but certainly not needy. After all I have been the effective housewife here for many years now, apart from the last 2 when the wonderful Chrystelle came in for 2 hours every Wednesday, to do the housework. She wasn’t really needed, but our conversations in French were definitely looked forward to each week.
I thought it was milkshake, not yogurt, which brought all the boys to the yard.
I like to use evaporated milk to make yoghurts in the machine. Stems back to when mum used to make it and used Carnation milk to bulk up the ordinary milk which was always full cream.