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Favourite yoghurt toppings

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What are your favourite Greek/live yoghurt toppings?

I'm just getting into the habit of eating yoghurt daily. I've tried a few different berries, always put chia seeds in, but looking for some crunch!
 
Mixed seeds like sunflower and pumpkin, or about 15g of a low sugar granola like Lizi's or some own brands are lowish carb or All Bran or chopped nuts.
 
I'm another fan of mixed seeds like sunflower, pumpkin, flax and sesame or mixed chopped nuts or a small sprinkle of low carb Granola. I also usually have a good sprinkle of cinnamon.... obviously that doesn't add texture, just flavour. Sometimes I add psyllium husk to thicken it up, especially if I have used defrosted frozen berries which have collapsed and released their juice.
 
Not really toppings, but about 6 weeks ago I had a tidy up of various cereal - y sort of things that I'd had for ages, most of which were no doubt past their sell by dates
These were the dregs & part used packets of -

Two different makes of sugar free muesli
All Bran
Milled mixed seeds
Mixed nuts - I haven't got a food processor so chopping them finer on a board was fun, but I managed to at least confine them to the bench top and not the floor
Sultanas
A couple of cereal bars I'd been carrying around in case of hypos for so long that they'd crumbled to dust in the packet
I bought some new dried milk powder, the whole/full cream stuff by NIDO

I blended this lot together in my wok - the biggest bowl thing I have, in batches, and it is all stored back in the plastic inner bags from the cereal packets

In the evening I soak a few spoons of this mixture, natural yogurt, and some frozen fruit/berries in water and leave it in the fridge overnight
Sometimes I add cinnamon powder, but I didn't want to treat the whole batch
This swells & softens everything, even the nuts. Then I have some for breakfast the next morning, and as a snack for the rest of the day
I use quite a lot of water, so not only is everything softened, it's also quite thin & watery, so I don't actually consume many carbs.
 
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zuludog said:
I use quite a lot of water, so not only is everything softened, it's also quite thin & watery, so I don't actually consume many carbs.
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I'm really not sure you are selling it very well 🙄

Do be careful with out of date nuts ... particularly chopped ones, as they can go rancid but can also develop toxins. Like seeds they don't keep so well once they are chopped/ground/milled.
 
I like raspberries and cacao nibs or walnuts
 
Thanks everyone, lots of great suggestions I've got some low sugar granola at the moment which is nice. 🙂
 
surelynot said:
Thanks everyone, lots of great suggestions I've got some low sugar granola at the moment which is nice. 🙂
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Just be aware that "low sugar" can still be high carb as oppose to a lower carb granola which has less oats and more nuts and/or seeds as well as being low sugar. It is the carb content which is important not specifically the sugar.
A normal granola would typically be about 63g carbs/100g. A low carb Granola is going to be about 43-49gcarbs/100g
The one you have might be low sugar and low carb but to assess it you need to look at the total carbohydrate content. Most of us ignore the sugar content when we assess food for suitability and just look at the total carbs.
 
rebrascora said:
Just be aware that "low sugar" can still be high carb as oppose to a lower carb granola which has less oats and more nuts and/or seeds as well as being low sugar. It is the carb content which is important not specifically the sugar.
A normal granola would typically be about 63g carbs/100g. A low carb Granola is going to be about 43-49gcarbs/100g
The one you have might be low sugar and low carb but to assess it you need to look at the total carbohydrate content. Most of us ignore the sugar content when we assess food for suitability and just look at the total carbs.
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Yes, I need to be mindful of that. The one I have is this, I assume that's OK? I'm only having a couple of teaspoons on top of my yoghurt.
 

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Looks excellent. 33% is about as low carb as ever I have seen for granola so curious about the brand. Can I ask what it is?
 
Thanks for that. Yes, I used to buy that one and the Eat Natural Protein Granola, but our local Morrisons stopped stocking them so I had to find alternatives (less good alternatives I should add). I had forgotten their carb content was quite that low. I doubt you will find better.
 
Lizi's Low Sugar Granola is super tasty with some yogurt and strawberries! 🙂🙂
 
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