Greek Yogurt

[marni]

The advantage to the Greek style (other than being thicker) is that it's higher in protien than regular (since it's more condensed) and I think it's more filling, too.

+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.

marni

[surgtech1956]

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.

[nscrbug]

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.

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.

[Pedal Wench]

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.

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.

[Catrin]

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.

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.

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.

[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.

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.

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.

[Cataboo]

I've bought a big tub of the 0% fage at costco before for a good price (I can't remember)

[zoompastmykids]

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.

[WindingRoad]

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?

You can use skim milk, but my experience is that it will result in a not very thick yogurt. Lots of recipes have you add extra powdered skim milk to the milk, and that does seem to help.

[zoom-zoom]

Do you let the yogurt stain for a long time in the fridge?

Nope, just overnight. Man, I need to make some, soon. I can't find full fat greek yogurt very often.

[Blueberry]

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?

Interesting - and I'm sorry you're having that happen I'm guessing it's the Yogourmet? Very, very odd....

[abejita]

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.

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.

good stuff!

[Cataboo]

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.

[Catrin]

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.

[Cataboo]

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.