Check out your local East European or Indian or Middle Eastern grocery. More whole-milk yogurt than you can shake a stick at!
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There are times when I think Burn Notice is an hour-long commercial for yogurt.
I’ve never understood the obsession with removing all the fat from dairy products. I mean, whole milk is about 29/30ths fat-free anyway (to use marketing-speak). Milk and yoghurt just don’t have that much fat in them to begin with!
There is one and I hate it. The commercial that is. The guy is on the phone talking about all the weight he’s lost eating all these yummy things. Of course, they portray him as too stupid to know it’s yogurt. So, maybe that counts.
I don’t like yogurt.
We get full-fat yogurt for our baby, who needs the calories. There are specific brands marketed as “baby yogurt”. The only difference as far as I can tell is that baby yogurt is made with whole milk, so it’s full-fat.
I think it’s not so much the total fat content as it is the saturated fat that is a concern to those who look for reduced-fat/fat-free dairy products.
That commercial is mystifying. Yogurt is often recommended for people who are getting diarrhea because of taking antibiotics. It doesn’t make you poop. In some cases it can keep you from having too much poop.
I’ve looked in every supermarket in the area – Wegmans, three Shop-Rites, a Stop & Shop – same selection in every single one. Good suggestion on the ethnic markets, I’ll have to find one. Or move to Vancouver. Larry Mudd, did you really mean 15% fat? Wow.
Thanks, I may actually give that a try. What volume are you starting with for the one spoonful of starter yogurt? Is that per quart, per cup, etc?
Yes. (Though I am beginning to doubt myself - the brand I think I usually buy has a website that says their thickest is a mere 11%.) The only other brand I buy regularly is Astro, and I don’t find online evidence of a 15% from them, either.
But I am certain I’ve taken home a big black-and-white tub of 15% fat yogurt - this is the absolute best for spooning onto borscht.
Standard low fat yoghurts here are about 2%, but it ranges from 0% up to about 10% or 11% for the “creamy” stuff or the full-fat varieties of Greek yoghurt. I wouldn’t mind some of that 15% stuff - the more fat the better, I say!
Trader Joe’s has 0%, 2% and full fat greek yogurt. It’s by far the least expensive greek yogurt I’ve seen at the local store, Whole Foods, Target, etc. A pound of it is about $3 where I am. Fage runs about $1.50 a single container whereas a single TJ container is 99 cents.
I know lots of men who won’t touch regular yogurt with a ten foot pole but plenty of athletic guys who swear by greek yogurt because of the high protein.
Mind you while they don’t advertise much to men (one somewhat funny exception embedded in this link), the weight training and body builder sites are full of advice to eat it. See for example here.
I made some yogurt with a little plastic thermal yogurt maker I think I bought at amazon.com. There was an instruction sheet, it was simple enough. Pour in milk heated to the proper temperature and mix in a couple of tablespoons of the plain old non-flavored stuff from a carton, put the lid on, keep it in a warmish place overnight. (I don’t know where I would buy ‘yogurt starter’, the bit of plain worked to thicken it just fine.) But I was kind of disappointed in the end product, it was almost like sour cream, kind of sour-bitter tasting, and watery. I drained it in a strainer lined with a coffee filter. Would have been a fine ingredient for cooking or making some kind of drink in a blender, though.