Another Greek yogurt

[jmk]

I'm familiar with Trader Joe's Greek style yogurt and Fage Greek yogurt.
My local Whole Foods has started to carry another brand as well:
http://www.3greekgods.com/
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jmk in NC

[Diva]

On Apr 13, 1:26 pm, jmk <jmk446...@yahoo.com> wrote:
> I'm familiar with Trader Joe's Greek style yogurt and Fage Greek yogurt.
> My local Whole Foods has started to carry another brand as well:http://www.3greekgods.com/
> --
> jmk in NC

For the best and healthiest yogurt you ever had with a gazaillion
healthygut bacteris

1 quart or liter cow or goat's milk
1/2 cup plain commervial yogurt..


In a saucepan over medium heat: bring milk to the simmer stage 180F.
use a thermometer. Cover with a tea toel and allow to cool 15 minuets.
Set pot in a few inches of cold water in the sink until
temperaturedrops to 77 F. In a bowl , place the commercial yogurt and
a half cup of the milk. Stir until smooth. Addremaining milk. replace
oven lightbilb with a 60 watt bilb and leave yogurt covered with a
dish or plastic wrap in oven for 24-28 hours. Refrigerate for 8 hrs.
or overnight.

For thicker yogurt drip through cheesecloth or a paper coffee filter

This will result in lactose free yogurt.

Diva
SCD 7 years, celiac
219/140

[LFM]

I finally tried Fage's greek yogurt (finally found it in a local standard
grocery store without having to make a special trip to a specialty whole
foods) and its pretty darned good.


"jmk" <[email protected]> wrote in message
news:[email protected]..
> I'm familiar with Trader Joe's Greek style yogurt and Fage Greek yogurt.
> My local Whole Foods has started to carry another brand as well:
> http://www.3greekgods.com/
> --
> jmk in NC

[Elizabeth Blake]

"Diva" <[email protected]> wrote in message
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> For the best and healthiest yogurt you ever had with a gazaillion
> healthygut bacteris
>
> 1 quart or liter cow or goat's milk
> 1/2 cup plain commervial yogurt..
>
>
> In a saucepan over medium heat: bring milk to the simmer stage 180F.
> use a thermometer. Cover with a tea toel and allow to cool 15 minuets.
> Set pot in a few inches of cold water in the sink until
> temperaturedrops to 77 F. In a bowl , place the commercial yogurt and
> a half cup of the milk. Stir until smooth. Addremaining milk. replace
> oven lightbilb with a 60 watt bilb and leave yogurt covered with a
> dish or plastic wrap in oven for 24-28 hours. Refrigerate for 8 hrs.
> or overnight.
>
> For thicker yogurt drip through cheesecloth or a paper coffee filter
>
> This will result in lactose free yogurt.

I bought a yogurt maker last year. It has 8 individual cups. I've had
mixed results with it. My first batch was pretty good but others didn't set
up at all, or some came out okay and others were still basically milk. I
don't recommend getting a yogurt maker with individual cups.

Your non-machine method sounds very easy but my oven doesn't have a light.
I'd like to try making my own again but my maker is such a pain.

I buy Trader Joe's brand of Greek style yogurt since it's so much cheaper
than Fage. When my supermarkets have a sale on quarts of plain, nonfat
yogurt for $2 or less I buy that and strain it myself. A quart yields about
the same volume as the Trader Joe's container, and is cheaper, and just as
good.

I always wondered why the Greek/strained yogurt was lower calorie & lower in
carbs than regular plain yogurt. I guess that all goes out in the whey.


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Liz
HW:268 CW: 161.4 GW: 148

[Diva]

On Apr 14, 12:16 am, "Elizabeth Blake"
<poodleb...@[email protected]> wrote:
> "Diva" <c.fril...@sympatico.ca> wrote in message
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> > For the best and healthiest yogurt you ever had with a gazaillion
> > healthygut bacteris

Liz use my directions and your yogurt maker.

Diva
who has two poodles and gives them yogurt

[Elizabeth Blake]

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> On Apr 14, 12:16 am, "Elizabeth Blake"
> <poodleb...@[email protected]> wrote:
>> "Diva" <c.fril...@sympatico.ca> wrote in message
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>> > For the best and healthiest yogurt you ever had with a gazaillion
>> > healthygut bacteris
>
> Liz use my directions and your yogurt maker.

Okay, I'll give it another try. The last time I attempted it, the only
yogurt I had to use as a starter was fat free Greek (Fage) yogurt. That was
the batch that didn't thicken at all, so I'm wondering if strained yogurt
can't be used to start a new batch.


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Liz
HW:268 CW: 161.4 GW: 148

[Diva]

On Apr 14, 10:14 pm, "Elizabeth Blake"
<poodleb...@[email protected]> wrote:
> "Diva" <c.fril...@sympatico.ca> wrote in message
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> news:[email protected] oups.com...
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> > On Apr 14, 12:16 am, "Elizabeth Blake"
> > <poodleb...@[email protected]> wrote:
> >> "Diva" <c.fril...@sympatico.ca> wrote in message
>
> >>news:[email protected] roups.com...
>
> >> > For the best and healthiest yogurt you ever had with a gazaillion
> >> > healthygut bacteris
>
> > Liz use my directions and your yogurt maker.
>
> Okay, I'll give it another try. The last time I attempted it, the only
> yogurt I had to use as a starter was fat free Greek (Fage) yogurt. That was
> the batch that didn't thicken at all, so I'm wondering if strained yogurt
> can't be used to start a new batch.
>
> --
> Liz
> HW:268 CW: 161.4 GW: 148

Liz use plain Danone as a starter. After your milk is heated you can
strain the milk with a sterile strainer when adding it to the
starter. After it is set in the fridge you can stir it. I don't bother
and don't mind if it is a little "lumpy."

Diva

[determined]

"LFM" <[email protected]> wrote in message
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>I finally tried Fage's greek yogurt (finally found it in a local standard
>grocery store without having to make a special trip to a specialty whole
>foods) and its pretty darned good.

Told you so...;-)

[determined]

"jmk" <[email protected]> wrote in message
news:[email protected]..
> I'm familiar with Trader Joe's Greek style yogurt and Fage Greek yogurt.
> My local Whole Foods has started to carry another brand as well:
> http://www.3greekgods.com/
> --
> jmk in NC

It doesn't look like it has as much protein in it as Fage.

[Chris Braun]

On Fri, 13 Apr 2007 13:26:56 -0400, jmk <[email protected]> wrote:

>I'm familiar with Trader Joe's Greek style yogurt and Fage Greek yogurt.
> My local Whole Foods has started to carry another brand as well:
>http://www.3greekgods.com/

Have you tried it yet? Which is your favorite of the three?

Of the two TJ's yogurts, I slightly prefer Fage & DH slightly prefers
TJ's brand. We generally buy TJs as it's a fair bit cheaper and DH
eats more than I do.

Chris
262/130s/130s
started dieting July 2002, maintaining since June 2004

[LFM]

"determined" <[email protected]> wrote in message
news[email protected]..
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> "LFM" <[email protected]> wrote in message
> news:[email protected]..
>>I finally tried Fage's greek yogurt (finally found it in a local standard
>>grocery store without having to make a special trip to a specialty whole
>>foods) and its pretty darned good.
>
> Told you so...;-)

yeah, its just not easy to find around here. As it is, when I finally
found a store that carried it, they had 2 containers on the shelf, so I
bought one for a trial. It just so happens to be one of the grocery stores
I rarely go into. (Sweetbay) because they traditionally just don't carry as
much of what I like. (Even on my lean cuisine lunches I keep on hand at
work, they do not carry the sandwhiches I like).

[determined]

"Chris Braun" <[email protected]> wrote in message
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> On Fri, 13 Apr 2007 13:26:56 -0400, jmk <[email protected]> wrote:
>
>>I'm familiar with Trader Joe's Greek style yogurt and Fage Greek yogurt.
>> My local Whole Foods has started to carry another brand as well:
>>http://www.3greekgods.com/
>
> Have you tried it yet? Which is your favorite of the three?
>
> Of the two TJ's yogurts, I slightly prefer Fage & DH slightly prefers
> TJ's brand. We generally buy TJs as it's a fair bit cheaper and DH
> eats more than I do.

The TJ's brand doesn't seem as creamy. The texture is not as smooth and
seems a little more sour to me. But it's so much cheaper.

[determined]

"LFM" <[email protected]> wrote in message
news:[email protected] ..
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> "determined" <[email protected]> wrote in message
> news[email protected]..
>>
>> "LFM" <[email protected]> wrote in message
>> news:[email protected]..
>>>I finally tried Fage's greek yogurt (finally found it in a local standard
>>>grocery store without having to make a special trip to a specialty whole
>>>foods) and its pretty darned good.
>>
>> Told you so...;-)
>
> yeah, its just not easy to find around here. As it is, when I finally
> found a store that carried it, they had 2 containers on the shelf, so I
> bought one for a trial. It just so happens to be one of the grocery
> stores I rarely go into. (Sweetbay) because they traditionally just don't
> carry as much of what I like. (Even on my lean cuisine lunches I keep on
> hand at work, they do not carry the sandwhiches I like).

We have an over-abundance of grocery stores here, but it seems like I have
to shop 3 different stores to get everything that I consider to be a basic
staple. I mean, I have adopted a much more diverse way of eating over the
recent years, but I can't see why they don't have one store that carries
everything.

[LFM]

"determined" <[email protected]> wrote in message
news:[email protected] ..
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>
> We have an over-abundance of grocery stores here, but it seems like I have
> to shop 3 different stores to get everything that I consider to be a basic
> staple. I mean, I have adopted a much more diverse way of eating over the
> recent years, but I can't see why they don't have one store that carries
> everything.

Its the same for us around here. Heck there are certain things I like to
get that I can only get at Walmart Supercenter. And I consider it standard
everyday kind of stuff too. Like the fig newton bars we like, the ones
that have the two long bars in the individual wrapped packages. They are
great for DS's lunches, for DH to grab on his way to tennis or for us to
throw in the day cooler for mountain biking or on the boat. They don't
carry those at the general grocery stores, I can only find them at Walmart.
Yet all the other stores have regular fig newtons.

I hate grocery shopping, and it makes things worse that I have to shop
multiple places to get what I want.

Remember that really good jerky from Sedona? I've only found it at
Walgreens, nowhere else.

[Cynthia P]

On Sun, 15 Apr 2007 16:38:40 -0700, determined wrote:

>
> We have an over-abundance of grocery stores here, but it seems like I have
> to shop 3 different stores to get everything that I consider to be a basic
> staple. I mean, I have adopted a much more diverse way of eating over the
> recent years, but I can't see why they don't have one store that carries
> everything.


Heck, we only have three grocery stores in town... and I still have to
shop all three because there are certain things that I can get at each
store that I can't find at the other two. It's rather irritating, not
to mention time consuming.

I hate grocery shopping. Hubby actually likes doing it, so sometimes
I'll send him off to one of the stores, usually Wal-Mart. But I think
it's harder for him to resist temptation, so I do it most of the time.


--
Cynthia
262/240.5/152

[jmk]

determined wrote:
> "jmk" <[email protected]> wrote in message
> news:[email protected]..
>> I'm familiar with Trader Joe's Greek style yogurt and Fage Greek yogurt.
>> My local Whole Foods has started to carry another brand as well:
>> http://www.3greekgods.com/
>> --
>> jmk in NC
>
> It doesn't look like it has as much protein in it as Fage.
>
>

No, it's nutrionally more like regular yogurt than like cottage cheese
and the Fage's is the other way around.

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jmk in NC

[jmk]

Chris Braun wrote:
> On Fri, 13 Apr 2007 13:26:56 -0400, jmk <[email protected]> wrote:
>
>> I'm familiar with Trader Joe's Greek style yogurt and Fage Greek yogurt.
>> My local Whole Foods has started to carry another brand as well:
>> http://www.3greekgods.com/
>
> Have you tried it yet? Which is your favorite of the three?
>
> Of the two TJ's yogurts, I slightly prefer Fage & DH slightly prefers
> TJ's brand. We generally buy TJs as it's a fair bit cheaper and DH
> eats more than I do.
>
> Chris
> 262/130s/130s
> started dieting July 2002, maintaining since June 2004

I havne't tried it yet. I prefer Fage but it's gone up in price again
so I've been buying TJ's (Greek style and regular). I get Stonyfield
sometimes as well.

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jmk in NC

[jmk]

Chris Braun wrote:
> On Fri, 13 Apr 2007 13:26:56 -0400, jmk <[email protected]> wrote:
>
>> I'm familiar with Trader Joe's Greek style yogurt and Fage Greek yogurt.
>> My local Whole Foods has started to carry another brand as well:
>> http://www.3greekgods.com/
>
> Have you tried it yet? Which is your favorite of the three?
>
> Of the two TJ's yogurts, I slightly prefer Fage & DH slightly prefers
> TJ's brand. We generally buy TJs as it's a fair bit cheaper and DH
> eats more than I do.
>
> Chris
> 262/130s/130s
> started dieting July 2002, maintaining since June 2004

I had it for lunch today and it was good but not like the TJ's or Fage.
It had more of a Stonyfield consistency -- not at all watery but not
nearly as thick as the other two Greek yogurt's that I've tried -- and
was super tangy. I liked it but I didn't love it.

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jmk in NC