Healthy Yoghurts for young child

[Wills]

Hi, dd2 is almost a year (51 weeks) and can go through 4 Danone, formula milk fromage frais things in one sitting. I'd like to start giving her ordinary yoghurts but most are either fat free adults or their child like packaging looks as though they're going to be packed with sugar. Any recommendations for good healthy fat filled yoghurts with no colourings and lowish sugar???

I use Rachels organic ones. I particually like the one with honey. and ds laps it up!

Wills - We eat Rachel's organic wholemilk bio-live yogurts. My children are 10 and 9 years, though, so you might need the following info to see if they are suitable for your needs. I've got a strawberry one here. "Rachel's organic bio-live wholemilk strawberry yogurt is made using pasteurised fresh milk from organic farms. Prepared with whole pieces of fruit and the health-giving bio-live cultures Lactobacillus acidphilus & Bifidobacterium lactis as well as Lactobacillus bulgaricus & Streptococcus thermophilus. Especially suitable for children and health-concious adults. Less than 4% fat. Added ingredients:- organic strawberries (9%), organic raw cane sugar. Gluten free. Nutritional information:-
Typical values per 100g.
Energy - 362kj/87kcal
Protein - 3.5g
Carbohydrate - 10.5g
Fat - 3.4g

Suitable for vegetarians. Soil Association Organic Standard."

That might a tmi, though! They do strawberry, raspberry, natural, rhubarb, vanilla and other flavours. The orginal farm is about 1 mile from me here, but I understand the company was bought out a little while ago. We used to go and buy them from the little farm shop!

Just get greek yoghurt and mix in your own fruit/jam.

That should be "That might be tmi (too much info)"!!!

Sorry to sound silly, but is it ok to feed live yoghurt - she's close to one but not quite.

I fed live yoghurt to my dd I also bought an easiyo machine from lakeland so I can make my own unsweetened full fat yoghurt. I add fruit puree or mashed banana to it.
otherwise I buy Rachels Farm organic it is gorgeous or total greek yoghurt, dd will eat this on its own.

fed to dd from 8 mths btw

Have been giving dd Yeo Valley organic yogurts for years now, can't remeber when we started but before she was one. She is now very fussy about her yogurts and doesn't like them too sweet or too creamy!!

Thanks everyone - off to place order. Will look further into making my own - thanks for the suggestion.

My two love the organic Noddy yoghurts - they do them in Sainsbury's.

We like Sainsbury's Organic Wholemilk yogurt - it comes in natural or other flavours. DS1 loves it ... well, until his Daddy introduced Onken!

Mmm, second that, the sainsbury's organic wholemilk natural greek style one is yummy, I eat it too now DD 11 months has it with fresh fruit, with fruit puree or just on its own and it is by far her favourite puds we get through gallons of the stuff.

I used to do yeo valley, but realized that they are full of starch and I don't think it's such a good idea to fill my children's stomach with "filler" instead of good food. I have actually switched to the ASDA own brand flavored yogurts. They have artificial flavors, but not other ingredients. In fact most of the artificial flavors are close chemical replications of the natural ones and I don't think there is much harm in them. My children love them. They come in packs of 6 flavors and they love to be able to choose a flavor each morning (dd only ever wants lemon, but luckily isn't old enough to realize that 5/6th of the time she is getting something other than lemon even though I call it lemon).

the yeo valley ones have organic tapioca starch? That is a natural plant sourced product.
You reckon thats worse than artificial flavours?

I use Yeo valley for the whole family or Total Greek yoghurt mixed with fresh fruit. Wills - I could be wrong, but I thought all yoghurt contained live culture - that's what makes it yoghurt. The difference between them is the fat content and other additives. You could also try natural fromage frais (usually found next to the milk and cream rather than with the yoghurts in the supermarkets) and add your own real fruit in whatever consistency you need. I stopped buying the danone baby yogurts when ds was 6 months and hungry all the time - couldn't afford it.

The starch is only to thicken it a little. Think of it as the equivalent to using babyrice to make a puree less watery. You could of course use the yeo valley natural yoghurts and add your own fruit puree but they do end up very very runny.

Doesn't anyone give their babies Yoplait Petit Filou anymore? Everyone I knew gave them to their babies when DS was a baby (he is 4.8 now) and I gave them to him from 4 months. I was thinking of giving them to DD soon (she is 6 months) ...
Are they bad now??? Should DD not have them?

Ghosty - ds loves them, but when I tasted them I couldn't believe how sweet they are. I didn't study the ingredients but just thought they had to be packed with sugar to taste that sweet. I also thought they were expensive as he would happily scoff 2 or 3 at a time (greedy guts - must run in the family)

petit filou are very high in sugar, my dd has weight gain issues due to a genetic syndrome, when our dietician was working out her diet at 8 mths, she advised 2 pots a day to give help give dd 5 times the amount of sugar per day that normal babies need.
Go figure!

have always bought greek yogurt and added things to it. DD would prefer 'baby yogurts' (the ones in the individual pkgs) but they have so much sugar.....sometimes I put a sprinkle of 100's and 1000's on it so she thinks she's getting a real treat!