to want to buy normal fruit yoghurt that isn't reduced fat or with random bacteria in it?

[IceBeing]

Seriously! In a whole supermarket aisle of yoghurt and yoghurt adjacent products, every single fecking item was either activia or low fat.

I don't want activia! I don't want low fat (high sugar).

I just want yoghurt!

AIBU?

There is nothing like a large dollop of natural greek youghurt, a sprinkling of either granola and bircher musli, with some honey. Or just greek youghurt on top of sliced mango and pineapple chunks.... Bliss.

Failing that M&S has some lovely high fruit full fat youghurts.

Agree with Quint.

Natural Greek yoghurt, full fat of course, is delicious. I regularly have a few dollops with a banana, or strawberries or anything in the fruit bowl, with a spoonful of seeds/nuts. It's delicious, filling and healthy.

It annoys me so much that the yogurt isle is filled with sugary shite. People think they are being healthy when they could in fact just be choosing something in the sweet/chocolate isle.

I've been using this pouring yogurt lately and it's lovely

Dried fruit is very sweet, but probably better than a spoonful of jam as you are eating fruit and getting the roughage.

I'm no expert though.

EasyYo is great, I totally agree, it's the only yoghurt I eat these days, but it is full of alive and happy bacteria.

Does Easi Yo work out as good value for money?

The price has gone up a lot in the last couple of years treacle
It's worth looking for deals either at Lakeland or directly from Easiyo. I buy mine in a small local shop because I want to support that shop (it's the best place to buy spices and nuts and the like and I really don't want it to close) and that makes it more expensive for me. If you buy it while a deal is on (the sachets keep for a very long time) you probably pay about £1.60 for a sachet that makes 1 litre yogurt with living bacteria which is not a bad deal, I find.

I forgot, there is of course the investment into the pot and thermo-thingie, again it's worth looking for a special offer.

you can use the EasyYo tub thing without the sachets - from memory you need a spoon of proper alive yoghurt, add it to milk (might have been UHT milk actually) and leave it in the tub with hot water overnight/till it's set.

I tried making my own yoghurt a while back using a flask. It was far too runny, so I strained it through a cloth, but then instead of being thick it was almost solid!

Do you think using an actual made for the job yoghurt maker would give a better result? (just thinking about what was said there about using the Easi Yo without the sachets)

According to this you need to add skimmed milk powder to get hte consistency you need.

It was a few years ago I was doing this, and can't remember the actual quantities I used, sorry.

I tried it once but it didn't work for me, might try it again with added milk powder. I remember my grandmother making Quark and that needed to be drained as well, it was quite runny otherwise.

I make my own yoghurt with organic skimmed milk once or twice a week. There's nothing else in it. Very easy and healthy. Although I'd prefer to have a glass container to make it in, I haven't found one yet so I use this

www.lakeland.co.uk/3440/Electric-Yoghurt-Maker

I know I'm reviving this from days ago, but I told someone on here that I thought Danio yoghurt wasn't full of crap, but I'm on Tesco's website at the moment and I'm looking at it and I think I've got it wrong.

Thing is, I can't remember what the actual brand was that wasn't full of sugar etc. Possibly Liberté, but I'm not sure about that either actually!

Don't know if someone's already mentioned these but Aldi's full fat greek yoghurt fruit corner thingies are lush. In a pack of 6 you get 2 each of strawberry, rhubarb and honeyed peach. Yum!

it annoys me too. i don't want everything low fat and i don't want bacteria that came from somebody's poo in the 1950s in my yoghurt.

I no longer buy flavoured yoghurt because they contain as much sugar as ice cream - not healthy at all. I buy plain yoghurt and have it with berries. Sometimes add a little bit of honey.

You want the Lidl Turkish yogurt - 10% fat.

Best yogurt ever.

Nice with maple syrup.

well over the weekend i thought id get out of the habit of buying junk yoghurts for dd (i have low fat natural) and got her creamy greek yoghurt. i added pureed fruit to it, and some honey. she doesn't like it! any ideas? maple syrup... theres an idea, would that be a relatively healthy thing for me to add to it for a toddler?

Maple surprise is just mainly sugar isn't it? So is honey.

I'd just keep persevering with the Greek yogurt. How old is she? Could you just put a few raspberries on top of it, then she could pick them out but might get the taste for the yoghurt too?

I challenged the assitants to find anything even resembling normal yoghurt (not activia, not low fat) yesterday...they returned with something that looked lovely, was not activia and did not say 'low fat'. However it did say 0% fat. I suggested that while they had matched my actual request to the letter they had somewhat missed the point.

And I think you should go for full fat for yourself. Low fat yoghurts usually have added sugar. Check the ingredients.

It is ridiculous the whole thing.

If we all just ate full fat natural yoghurt, the companies wouldn't make much money out of us would they?
So they HAVE to invent some unnesessary, added stuff and convince us that it's healthy or healthier or good for us. Whereas actually the natural stuff is all we need.

Yup I think natural yoghurt plus fruit is the way forward...even the full fat pots have too much sugar...