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Originally Posted by Owlie
I assume you mean with actual strawberries, but have you tried the GG Honey/Strawberry flavor? OMG. :eek: I just discovered it this week (on sale at our food co-op), and YUM! "Authentic" or not, it's freakin' amazing.
Flybye they were handing out sample tastes of Greek Gods at the grocery store and I behaved quite shamefully. Yummy.
GG is very good...just annoys me that they market themselves as authentic greek yogurt when they are not...
When I did the San Antonio Rockn'Roll half marathon, fage was there handing out stacks of $1 off coupons. I swear the guy gave me a stack 1/2 inch thick, hubs and I have used them all though.
Try fage with udi granola and honey, OMG!
My absolute FAVORITE greek yogurt parfait, is 2% fage, honey, bob's red mill granola, peanut butter and bananas. Oh mannnn.
+1 plus it has a little tartness instead of the artificial chemical sweet of other sweetened and low fat yogurts. As far as calories, 6 ounces of grocery store low fat honey greek yogurt (grocery store brand) is 150 calories and will last me three hours of heavy training where as yoplait of the like may only come in at 100 calories and I burn through it in the first hour.Quote:
Originally Posted by GLC1968
marni
I buy a 12 pack of Chobani at Sam's Club - its less than $1.00 a container that way, but comes in 3 flavors - strawberry, blueberry and peach. I love Dannon Greek Honey tho, haven't tried Fage and they don't sell Greek Gpds around here.
I'll have to try it. Does it have the jam-like goop in it, or something else?Quote:
Originally Posted by emily_in_nc
Yup...that's the problem. I only eat the plain Chobani, and I've never seen it in a 12-pack anywhere around me. I've seen the larger (32oz?) tubs of it, but I prefer the single serve cups.Quote:
Originally Posted by surgtech1956
I've bought a big tub of the 0% fage at costco before for a good price (I can't remember)
And my problem is I don't care for the peach flavor. :( The plain on a baked potato roasted with sea salt and olive oil is my idea of the perfect recovery meal. :)Quote:
Originally Posted by nscrbug
Ooooh, yummy! Trader Joe's has a nice no-fat "European style" plain yogurt that I like as well. It is relatively thin, nice and tart, has a good amount of protein in it and it is pretty multi-purpose.Quote:
Originally Posted by Pedal Wench
Chobani is pretty darn good, I just don't care to pay that much for single servings and that is the only way I've seen it sold.
No jam, no goop, just flavor. :DQuote:
Originally Posted by Owlie
YAY! We picked some up from Kroger today. I'm resisting the urge to stick my face into it until AFTER dinner. :D
Oooh, report back on how you like it. I was amazed at the flavor. YUM! :D:DQuote:
Originally Posted by Owlie
At the grocery stores in my area (Chicago suburbs), they also sell the Chobani in larger size tubs (32oz?)...but evidently, that isn't the case everywhere. My main gripe, is that I can't find the plain flavor in all stores. My local Jewel store carries all the fruity flavors, but no plain...which seems weird to me. I even spoke with the dairy guy there, and requested that they stock the plain...but have yet to see it on the store shelves. :(Quote:
Originally Posted by Catrin
We needed sour cream. At first we couldn't find a good sour cream replacement. Sour cream there was thick. You could stand a spoon in it. I had to mix it with milk to get a consistency to dollop on tacos or potatoes. It didn't taste very good either. Then I tried Greek yogurt. Someone had told me to give it a try. Fage was all there was and I paid equivalent to $15 for a large tub. It was an immediate favorite in my house. Less fat than sour cream. So when we came back to US I was thrilled to see that it was big here too. I find the fruit add ins are yummy too. IMO.
I'm pretty sure the thread is still around but I started a yogurt maker discussion a while back. Just a bit of insight, a friend bought me a yogurt maker as a gift. I had originally been using a heating pad in a box to make yogurt. Honestly I prefer the box method, the yogurt maker I have makes the milk at the bottom or the jar to get "rubbery" somehow?!?! I never had that issue with the box, or cooler method as zoom-zoom mentioned. I need to try straining some. Do you let the yogurt stain for a long time in the fridge?
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Originally Posted by Blueberry
Nope, just overnight. :) Man, I need to make some, soon. I can't find full fat greek yogurt very often.Quote:
Originally Posted by WindingRoad
I had some today with some granola. It's good! It's sweeter than the regular honey version, so my portions will have to be a bit smaller. Still good, though. We're turning the rest of it into frozen yogurt. :DQuote:
Originally Posted by emily_in_nc
Interesting - and I'm sorry you're having that happen:( I'm guessing it's the Yogourmet? Very, very odd....Quote:
Originally Posted by WindingRoad
Fage is all we use instead of sour cream anymore. We would usually buy a tub of sour cream for something, eat a little bit, then the rest would go bad. Now we just use fage. I also add a little bit of half and half to the fage if I need some mexican crema for something.Quote:
Originally Posted by zoompastmykids
good stuff!
I looked in Costco when I was there earlier this week... The big tub of fage 0% is like $5.89...
But they do have a two pack of kirkland brand non-fat greek yogurt for about $5.50. it's two 32 ounce tubs.
I don't know a lot about greek yogurt (I've had fage a couple times), so my opinion maybe suspect given that I don't know what good greek yogurt is really supposed to taste like... But I like the kirkland brand yogurt and from looking at the nutritional information, it seems high in protein - 20 grams per 227 grams of yogurt, 120 calories 10 grams of carbohydrates.
I've been adding blueberries & strawberries to it and eating it for lunch this week.
Sounds yummy Cataboo! Some of the non-fat "Greek" yogurt out there is just awful - I picked up some the other day that had no flavor at all...
I keep toying with the idea of a Costco membership, but for a single person it is hard to justify.
one of the greek yogurt connoisseurs on here may not agree with my assessment of the Kirkland brand yogurt, but I like it.
Share a costco membership with someone & split the cost - you can put 2 cards on a membership. Chances are if you get the executive membership with the rebate you get at the end of the year, it pays for the cost of the membership.
I'm on my Mom's membership, and yes, as 1 person living alone, sometimes the quantity that food comes in can be daunting.
Gas is consistently cheaper at costco than elsewhere. Their tires are the cheapest when I need to get good tires (i have to do all 4 on my awd subaru when I do)... It ends up being around $750 for the good tires as opposed to $1200 going to NTB or the other places I check, where the mid or bad tires would cost me $750. They rotate & fill my tires while I'm in there shopping.
Glasses & contacts are also cheaper at costco. It costs me about $80-100 to get prescription polarized sunglasses which is great given my penchant for ocassionally losing my glasses kayaking.
Fruit & vegetables at costco tend to be organic, and you get about 3-4 times as much of them as what you'd pay at the regular grocery store. At the regular grocery store, I can't afford to splurge on organic stuff - at costco, it's fine. I tend to buy lots of vegetables/fruit to make salad and try to eat it all before it starts to wilt or go bad, and then if they start to, I just make a big pot of soup or pasta sauce out of it all... So, I might eat 7 days of salad, and then have another weeks worth of soup to eat or freeze to eat later. At any given time, there's always frozen spinach soup in my freezer which is great to take out when I need a quick healthy meal. I will often do that with things I buy at costco, split things in half and just immediately freeze half - I do that with their hummus & a lot of their spreads and breads. That way I'm not wasting food.
The caveat is that I'm quite happy to eat the same food every day for a week. I know some people like more variety. I'm kinda lazy when I'm only cooking for one.
I also find their warranty/return policy on electronics well worth it. You can return electronics within 3 months of buying them, so it's great for trying out a camera. You also get an additional year's warranty on all electronics you buy at costco, and if you have the costco american express card, that adds another additional year's warranty. So if I have a choice between buying electronics online for maybe $20 cheaper or buying them at costco, I buy at costco for the piece of mind of knowing that I can get an additional 2 years warranty free and have up to 3 months to return things. You may not buy that much electronics, but I like my gadgets and cameras.
Hmmm, this is interesting. I will have to think about it and see if I have any current Costco friends who might want to go in on a membership to save money :)
Greek yogurt is a type of yogurt that is celebrated for its very thick and creamy texture. The process for making it includes extra steps that result in its thickness.