Home Made Yoghurt

[nattylou]

Hi, ds is nearly 6 months, and I have tried petits filous, which he absolutely loves. However, at £1.48 for 6, it is going to cost me a fortune.

Was thinking about buying a yoghurt maker and making my own but am not really sure where to start. Do i use full fat milk nad natural oghurt, or soya milk? Any help and advice is greatly appreciated.

L x

Not sure how to make yogurt from scratch but I often buy wholemilk natural yogurt and add my own fruit puree to that.

How old is your lo?

He's 8 months now. I first introduced yogurt at 6 months. I do try to mostly avoid the ones with added sugar.

Yeo Valley and Rachaels make big pots of organic greek yoghurt which is lovely. I add mashed up banana to sweeten and other fruit for flavours.

hello
I bought a yoghurt maker when i first started weaning and make youghurt most weeks. The maker was about £20 from rosemary conley but lakeland do one too and I use UHT milk which is 50p a litre from tescos.

I use natural yoghurt as astarter every now and then but if you remember to keep a bit of homemade youghurt this works too - just tends to start going runny after 5-6 times then I buy natural yoghurt again. make sure you buy yoghurt with live bacteria in it. I have had best success with yeo valley, tescos bio yoghurt seemed to make a very gloopy yoghurt which tatsed fine but textuire a bit weird.

If you starin the yoghurt through a (clean!) muslin to drain out exzcess fluid you get amazingly creamy greek style youghurt.

dd 11months eats the youghurt plain or with fruit and it helps me steer clear of the petit filous etc.

FYI tho I asked my HV and she said the tescos value fromage frais are almost exactly the same at petit filous buit only 44p for 6 so I do keep some f these handy for picnics etc

HTH

My mum used to make it in a thermos flask. You heat up the milk and yoghurt, pour it into the flask and hey presto! My grandma used to make it by keeping it in the airing cupboard!

k have a recipe for this somwhere - I think you need a thermometer and have to heat the milk to an exact temp - too complicated for me but my mum used to do this too and it made lovely yoghurt

I make yoghurt sometimes. I don't have any fancy equipment at all. The recipe I use is: put full-fat milk in saucepan, heat up till it starts to boil, pour it out of saucepan and put in a suitably sized bowl/whatever, when it's cooled so that you can put your finger in without hurting, stir in a tablespoon or so of LIVE plain yoghurt (Yeo Valley is the one I've used, live yoghurts should be advertised as such on the pot), cover it up with clingfilm and a teatowel and leave somewhere warm overnight. By the morning it should be set. The important part is not adding the live yoghurt too soon, since if it's above about 40C it will die instead of converting all the milk to yoghurt. Then store in the fridge and use as normal.

Wow I thought it would be really difficult to make your own yogurt keeping your starter cultures pure etc

I buy Yeo Valley Organic Full Fat yoghurt and ass my own fruit or give plain, it's lovely plain too.

wow phyllomytha

wish I had known it was that easy - wouldn't have wasted £20!

has anyone given their child - 6 months old - tesco value fromage frais - 44p for 6.

I use \ thermos.
Heat up the milk and natural yogurt and normally abouit a table spoon of dried milk as it does just thicken it a little bit allow to cool put in flask and leave over night and I flavour it too with mashed fruit.
Yummy.
It was a nutritionist I saw when DD had excema flare up and he said do it like this.

yes nattylou - as my earlier post dd has these and has been fine. Please don't anyone shoot me down in flames!