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Yogurt Help Please!

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Mixing in some maple syrup would give you a sweet toffee flavour. Mixing in some chocolate sauce (as previously mentioned) would give you a sweet chocolate flavour. Stirring in some jam would give you a sweet fruit flavour. I'm beginning to think this is an elaborate wind up!
 
I'm just trying to get my philosophical head round the difference between fruit flavored yogurt and yogurt flavored with fruit, same as do you like milk in your tea, or your tea with milk.
 
mikeyB said:
I'm just trying to get my philosophical head round the difference between fruit flavored yogurt and yogurt flavored with fruit, same as do you like milk in your tea, or your tea with milk.
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In fairness mike, not all milk is equal. There is, goats, sheep, lactose free, soya, coconut just to name a few. Then the order of construction. Milk first? Plus stirring anticlockwise or clockwise depending on which hemisphere you are in. Plus there is a research paper on biscuit saturation.
 
mikeyB said:
I'm just trying to get my philosophical head round the difference between fruit flavored yogurt and yogurt flavored with fruit, same as do you like milk in your tea, or your tea with milk.
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I can answer the milk thing...if you put the milk in first it warms more gradually than if you 'shock' it with a lot of heat. Suddenly heating a protein like milk hardens it so it won't take as nice. It should always be milk first. Can't add anything about yoghurt tho' as I don't like them.
 
I have experimented quite a lot with yoghurt because like you, I don't enjoy the flavour of natural yoghurt, and adding fruit doesn't seem to disguise that. The success I am now having is by getting Greek yoghurt (Fage Total, not the low fat one), which is less sharp to start with, and adding sufficient sucralose as well as the fruit. I just had one with a mashed banana and it was the yummiest most satisfying dessert ever, only improved by adding crunchy peanut butter! Another thing I use is rehydrated prunes chopped up with a few walnuts. I too hate cooking but this really doesn't fall into that category and the delayed gratification improves the enjoyment!
 
Radders said:
I have experimented quite a lot with yoghurt because like you, I don't enjoy the flavour of natural yoghurt, and adding fruit doesn't seem to disguise that. The success I am now having is by getting Greek yoghurt (Fage Total, not the low fat one), which is less sharp to start with, and adding sufficient sucralose as well as the fruit. I just had one with a mashed banana and it was the yummiest most satisfying dessert ever, only improved by adding crunchy peanut butter! Another thing I use is rehydrated prunes chopped up with a few walnuts. I too hate cooking but this really doesn't fall into that category and the delayed gratification improves the enjoyment!
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It sounds lovely and quite inventive radders but I find myself thinking for the carb cost of all that palaver I could have had a piece of chocolate cheecake! :D I know not as healthy but deliciously more decadent.
 
Amigo said:
It sounds lovely and quite inventive radders but I find myself thinking for the carb cost of all that palaver I could have had a piece of chocolate cheecake! :D I know not as healthy but deliciously more decadent.
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A very small piece of chocolate cheesecake I would think? And it really isn't a palaver, mashing a banana and mixing in a yoghurt and some sucralose?
 
[PEDANTRY]Back in the olden times when tea was first imported the high society folk who drank the stuff did so out of very expensive and fragile porcelain which would shatter if you poured in anything that was too hot. Which is why we have the tradition of always putting the milk in first. This meant the cup heated up more slowly and thus didn't explode.[/PEDANTRY]

[PEDANTRY 2] Lime is citrus and therefore could also be a problem.[/PEDANTRY 2]
 
Radders said:
A very small piece of chocolate cheesecake I would think? And it really isn't a palaver, mashing a banana and mixing in a yoghurt and some sucralose?
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Just me making naughty choices, mainly because yoghurt doesn't float my boat and banana spikes me to the stars!
 
Radders said:
I have experimented quite a lot with yoghurt because like you, I don't enjoy the flavour of natural yoghurt, and adding fruit doesn't seem to disguise that.
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Yes, that's the problem with the plain things - not at all like adding milk to tea or tea to milk which will just mix together either way.

The plain yoghurt or quark might work with maple syrup though, @Marsbartoastie - I'd forgotten that idea, sorry - they would be mixable in a way plain yogurt and a separate portion of fruit are not (or at least not without a blender, and we don't have one).

I'm just frustrated by the lack of ready-made fruit yogurts which don't contain citrus :( as that is what I was really looking for.

Lime would definitely be a problem for me, Fergus and Alison, as you say - I'd already noticed that, I read everything very carefully as there's some sort of citrus in so many things.

Anyway, R has now bought about a fortnight's worth of Longley Farm yogurts and I'm going to experiment with feezing a couple to see if they freeze OK - if they do the problem is solved, he can just go and buy me a month's worth every time he goes to the farm shop and we can freeze half of them.
 
Hey Clockwork... I was in Lidl yesterday and noticed a large tub of Milbona Strawberry yoghurt (like a mini bucket with a handle).

I looked at the ingredients and it didn't mention citrus or anything citrus-ish at all. It did say that colouring was from beetroot but even I know that beetroot isn't citrus.

Maybe worth checking it out in a Lidl store near you.

Don't worry about the Milbona yoghurt product recall last year, that was to do with milk labelling not citrus.
 
That is, assuming it's a Lidl brand - will have a look at some other supermarkets online for it too ...
 
We don't have a medical section on the forum so I'm going to hijack this thread...

It seems Thrush is quite common amongst diabetics. Does anyone have any recommendations for a good yoghurt to treat this and other sweat rash like symptoms? Would it need to be organic and sugar free?
 
Yes - both 'live' yoghurt and sugar-free, Mr Clogman.

It goes horribly 'crusty' when applied externally though as it dries out - this is where girls have the advantage since we can apply it very un-messily to the affected area internally by using a Tampax applicator when we don't otherwise need the Tampax, LOL

And it does mean getting into a shower under warm plain unadulterated tap water every morning - at least!
 
TheClockworkDodo said:
Thanks, Jonsi, I will look out for that if I can find a Lidl anywhere near 🙂
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There's one in Oxford, Cirencester, Witney & Bishops Cleeve. My nearest is 8 miles away or 13 miles away (no shops at all where I live).
 
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