Fromage Frais Flavoring

[Mark T]

I've swapped my pre-diagnosis cerial/muesli breakfast for a bowl of Fromage Frais/Greek Yogurt/Onken with added mixed nuts. My body just can't deal with carbohydrates first thing in the morning.

This has presented two problems:

The yogurts are all a little bit bitter. Adding nuts makes it bearable, but it's still needs a little improvement. The obvious thing would be to mix in some honey or syrup - but that defeats the point of the yogurt.

I was thinking of mixing in some vanilla to flavour it. I notice that I can get peppermint flavourings too. Has anyone else tried these sorts of yogurts and flavoured them?

The other problem is that the yogurts keep on seperating - but I don't think I can do much for that (other than buy smaller pots so they are not open so long - a 500g pot will easily do 3 or 4 days for me).

 

[Copepod]

Might be worth trying going down market...
I use Sainsbury's Basics plain yogurt (or occasionally Asda or Tesco equivalents) on my muesli - a 500ml pot lasts me 4 to 5 days, but never separates. To me, yogurt tastes mild, certainly not bitter. You could add your own nuts.

 

[Mark T]

Might be worth trying going down market...
I use Sainsbury's Basics plain yogurt (or occasionally Asda or Tesco equivalents) on my muesli - a 500ml pot lasts me 4 to 5 days, but never separates. To me, yogurt tastes mild, certainly not bitter. You could add your own nuts.

I might try that one next. I have actually been adding my own nuts 🙂

The basics doesn't look too bad, it's 7g Carb per 100g @ 50p
The Onken is 5.6g Carb per 100g @ 98p

The Sainsbury's Fromage Frais is lower again at 4.2g per 100g and 83p - but that definately needs flavouring!

 

[Natalie123]

I used to add a small amount of fruit like blueberries - I'm not sure if this would be too much carbs for you though? I used to manage with a small amount. I also tried adding a sweetener like splenda, I don't really like using sweeteners as I don't know much about the health effects - it seems a bit artificial to me - does anyone have any thoughts on sweeteners?

 

[scanz]

Throw in some raspberries and/or strawberries, they are gorgeous with natural/Greek yoghurt. I make out that 50g raspberries is only 2.5g carbs, 80g strawberries is 5g carbs and use 50g of Yeo Valley Organic Natural Yoghurt which is 3.3g carbs 🙂

 

[shiv]

Gary Scheiner says the best breakfast to prevent a spike is red berries and plain yoghurt 🙂

 

[AlisonM]

I often make my own yoghurt which is very easy to do (that way I know what's in it) and add berries, such as rasps or blueberries for breakfast. I also sometimes add sesame seeds, sunflower seeds and/or pistachios for a bit of crunch.

 

[SusieGriff]

I have (frozen) mixed red berries every day with yogurt, and it's great, no spikes just good low BG readings. I read somewhere that fruit with 'berry' endings, like straw,blue,rasp etc... are better than oranges/apples etc...