My favourite Greek yoghurt travels by refrigerated lorry all the way from Greece

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Embarrassed to admit that I never thought about this before. My favourite brand was not available online this week and the substitute - also Greek’ - had travelled many miles overland through the Balkans, Europe and ferry etc - to reach me. Turns out that’s what my normal v delicious and well known branded yoghurt does every week, because it can’t be called Greek if it isn’t made, packaged etc in Greece. So I’m thinking, there must be a UK-equivalent Greek-style’ yoghurt that is just as delicious but without all the miles?

And yet people want to destroy our little remaining farmland with more home building.

Check the nutritional values of ‘Greek style’ yogurts, as they tend to be less macro friendly than authentic Greek yogurt

Aldi’s Greek Style full fat yogurt is the best I’ve had.

Food miles actually add very little to a food's carbon footprint, so it might not be worth worrying about.

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I knit mine 😂

I have a greek yoghurt maker
Then it has a strainer to get the perfect thick creaminess
Supermarket just doesnt compare

London here too. Is it the Great London (Fage) Greek Yoghurt Shortage???

Lidl's Greek Yogurt is amazing, but the Lidl Greek Style Yogurt isn't. I picked up Greek Style I'm Lidl once and I was really disappointed!

I’ve also been buying this one recently as the Fage has disappeared from my Sainsbury’s. It’s very nice and also cheaper.

I buy Greek yogurt, I haven't found an alternative that tastes anywhere near as good.

I do my best to buy British - veg, fruit, cheese, bread, butter, beer etc, but some things I would go without if I couldn't get the imported version - Greek yogurt, French wine, Italian olive oil etc.

We live in a global economy, I'm happy to support the Greek economy in my tiny way, I support British farmers and food producers generally.

I don’t think it contains sugar unless it’s flavoured, but it often contains a thickening agent - and sometimes this is gelatine so the yogurt isn’t suitable for vegetarians.

Similar to my method, but I don't make my own yogurt from scratch, I just use own brand natural yogurt (with cultures and no additives) and strain it overnight in my strainer. Result is thick, creamy, lovely, thick (whatever style you want to call it) yogurt!

Plain ones don't. I checked many

I’ve tried a few “Greek style” yogurts and none can compare to actual Greek yoghurt. It’s like “Grilling cheese”, apparently like halloumi but really without the depth and taste of actual halloumi.

Arla plain Skyr has 61 kcal, 0.2g fat and 10g of protein per 100g, but I expect other brands of skyr are not exactly the same.

This page says that technically Skyr is a cheese rather than a yoghurt.

This is another myth, a few have thickners but the majority dont

Its just strained yoghurt that is made somewhere that isnt Greece

I’ve been getting a ‘set’ greek style yoghurt, it might be by Onken. Never looked where it’s coming from though. I used to get the Tesco finest Greek yog but was looking for sonethung cheaper.

Get a Greek-style yogurt which is just yogurt, no additives. If you want it thicker, you can then strain it in a sieve lined with cheesecloth/muslin/similar (in the fridge) for a few hours until it's the texture you want.

Yes I recently read that ‘Greek’ yoghurt is just usual yoghurt strained for longer to make it thicker. Good to know!

And if you strain it further you end up with labneh and can mix herbs and garlic in it for flavoured cream cheese. Gorgeous

My mum and I used to “make” Greek yogurt in the 80s, by using normal full fat yogurt and putting it in a colander lined with a muslin cloth or clean tea towel over a bowl
the water drips out into the bowl making the yoghurt thick and dense , you then scrape it out of the colander, and half the water is gone and it is lush and thick

I do that and I use the whey in a smoothie.
I also use Greek yogurt that way and add a bit of salt and make a type of soft cheese.

Total is made with cows milk whether you buy it in Greece or not.

And come to think of it, I would assume that most of that cows milk is imported into Greece, because there just aren't that many cows there.

They’re all horrible unless they’re the proper Greek one

Embrace the goodness

Estate Dairy is what you're looking for.

Their yogurt is made in Cheshire I think. It's gorgeous, proper yummy yoghurt.

10% fat so great for kids and 9g protein so much better than a lot of the supermarket greek style ones.

I doubt many others are reading this thread with my issue but I LOVE Greek yogurt but I can’t eat dairy as my breastfed toddler has CMPA, and Cocos yougart is actually a very good imitation of Greek yougart made from coconuts

Fage yoghurt is infinitely superior to all the Greek style yoghurts.