Greek Yogurt

[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.

[Catrin]

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

[Poleride]

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.