Greek yogurt

You know I am the world's biggest proponent of greek yogurt- here's some other things I have done with it-

I recently used it in place of sour cream in my mother's favorite layered jello dish- it's the one where you make a layer of (sugarfree) jello, then mix some of the jello with sour cream to make the next layer - we use six flavors of jello- 12 layers- it's beautiful. I made it for the lunch after her funeral. Not one person knew the difference-how cool is that?

I made a great peanut butter pie- mixed the yogurt with cream cheese and peanut butter, vanilla, stevia, put it in an almond flour shell, and drizzled it with melted lindt chocolate

lemon/lime/orange parfait - I use one packet of true lemon/lime/ or orange to 6 oz of yogurt- add two drops of stevia- then layer that with muscarpone cheese filling- and top with whipped cream.

Top my chili with it-ditto for my tacos wraps.

Used it in  my sauce for veggie golumbki.

here's the best one- I subbed almond flour for white, stevia powder for sugar, and the GY for sour cream in my sour cream drop cookies for Christmas- sooooo good and 2 net carbs per cookie. Drizzled them with Waldon farms chocolate dipping sauce- my kids gobbled them up.

I'm glad you can eat it with no BG rise- did you buy F A G E? OIKOS? What fat level?

sandy

Hi ceebee,

I'm on the road this week, but Ill post you the recipe for the jello as soon as I get back home. True lemon/lime/orange are little packets of dried juice. They come in a box of 40. Kroger keeps them with the teas and Giant Eagle has them next to the reconsituted juice in the baking aisle- go figure. One packet has less than 1 carb- and nicely flavors a cup of the yogurt- I use them in water too. I miss orange flavored things so much- this is a true- unsweetened flavor.

The daVinci syrups are sweetened with splenda and splenda raises my blood sugar more than actual sugar. I drank a bottle of the calorie free ( 1-Liter) water that WalMart sells in various flavors and it shot me up 74 points! I almost cried. I was at a show and couldn't leave the floor to get differnt water- or go walk a treadmill to drive it down.

I can drink any coffee I want as long as I sweeten with stevia and use heavy cream- or drink it black. AT Starbucks, I get the darkest roast they have on tap and ask them for a cup of whipping cream to go with it- it's never a problem.There was a recent study that suggested ingesting caffeine while fasting raises BS- but the study was flawed. They used pure caffeine- not coffee. Black tea has a lot of caffeine- sometimes more than coffee- but no recommendations were made about tea.

I live by my meter- and so far- my meter loves coffee as much as I do

Do you use those sugar-free water flavoring powders that come in individual portions (like crystal light?) I sometimes put one of those in a cup of GY- and freeze it almost solid, then blend it with my handblender until it is like soft-serve ice cream- the Crystal light Morning Sunshine ( Sunrise?) + 2 drops of vanilla  tastes like a creamsicle-YUM

sandy

I have seen the shaker bottles. They are priced better, for sure- but the packets provide the perfect amount of flavoring for me- whether it's a pot of yogurt or a bottle of water. I buy a box of each flavor and make a vareity pack for my laptop bag- I take them and my Advantge bars EVERYWHERE!

I never thought of using them in my hummus or salsa - I always use fresh - I am going to see how that works when I get home- reat idea!

I have only seen the orange in packets- so you may be stuck. I'll bet your Kroger would order it for you if it does come in the shaker though- mine is very accomodating when I ask.

sandy

Oh, Sandy, I didn't know that they also made a True Orange.  I have to look for that.  Ceebee, the brand is called True Lime (and True Lemon).  The bottle is 2.85 oz and as I said it lasts a really long time because just a sprinkle on food gives a nice lemony taste.  It is made by Grand Brands, Inc.  The bottle says their website is www.truelemon.com. You may find the product in the condiment aisle, or baking, or where sugar and artificial sweeteners are (where I found it here).