Greek Yogurt!

I had read about Greek yogurt before and Friday I found some at Harris Teeter and I thought I might try some.  For those of you who have read "French Women Don't Get Fat", Mirelle mentions falling in love with yogurt when she was in Greece, then talks about eating plain yogurt as a snack.  She doesn't mention that she has continued to eat Greek yogurt, but I think maybe she has. 

I always thought that plain yogurt was a bit extreme.  I've tried plain yogurt before and, to me, it's just too sour to tolerate plain.  Even the full fat version, with creme on top, was too sour and repellant. 

Anyways, I got some Greek plain yogurt because I was planning on using it on some Indian food I was making to cool it down (so sweetness isn't needed).  I tasted it before I used it to see if I noticed a difference between it and your standard, American-grocery store variety of yogurt.  Boy, was there ever a difference!

Greek yogurt isn't sour at all!  There's a bit of a yogurt-y taste to it, but for the most part it's rather bland.  Reminds me of eating ricotta cheese.  If you wish you were eating more yogurt, but can't really stand the taste of it, or if you are diabetic and can't eat the yogurts full of sugars (I am pretty sure this didn't have any added), you might try Greek yogurt.  I think Greek yogurt is made from goat's milk, although it doesn't say that on the container.  That might account for the difference in taste though.  If it is indeed made from goat's milk, that makes it even better for people who are lactose intolerant, as goat's milk has less lactose in it than cow's milk, and yogurt bacterias consume a lot of the lactose anyways.

Stoneyfield also has a line of soy yogurts out too, for those who are lactose-intolerant to the point they can't do regular yogurt. 

Oh, good grief morality sensors!

Replace those three asteriks that the net-nanny software bleeped out with a three-lettered word for a cigarette in Britain (or a deragotory word for a gay person--thus why it bleeped it out).

I could see myself eating that with a tiny bit of fruit (can't do too much of that, you know) on a more regular basis. My guts seem to do best when I am eating yogurt, but at the same time, I get tired of it pretty easily and I just don't care for that sour taste too much. I think I'll either try it for breakfast next week or for dessert.

That greek yogurt I got comes in different levels, like milk (skim, 2%, whole). I got the 2%, although I'm not adverse to whole yogurt. Dairy fat doesn't bother me the way trans fats--like from commercially-fried foods--does. If you can stomach it, the higher the fat somthing is, the faster it fills you up. They are pretty sure that's why French people are, on average, smaller than Americans--they eat more fat, but are content with fewer calories overall. Also, they eat a LOT less sugar, which is why it's good to switch to eating a yogurt without sugar in it, even fake sugar. Some people think that just tasting sugar makes you want it more, so you eat more--like some sort of addiction. At least that's the theory behind the new study that found that people who drank diet drinks tended to weigh the same as a non-diet drink drinker, despite the supposed caloric difference. Whoops! French people are supposed to consuming something like 5 pounds of sugar a year where Americans consume 80-120 pounds a year (depending on who you read). Of course, they also walk a lot, have never heard of an elevator, and take about 3 more weeks a year in vacation time than your average American, all of which could contribute to that thinness thing.

I wonder if all of us on this board worked just 32 hours a week and got 5 weeks of vacation every year off, including all of August, if we'd have less IBS? Who wants to move to France and be our guinea pig? LOL.

Man, sounds like I'll have to try some of this stuff.  Sounds yummy.  And I've been having my watery, more-than-frequent diarrhea lately, despite my diligent intake of probiotics!  I wonder what the Lactobacillus content of this stuff is like?  Aw man...let's not even go there.

Mmmmm greek yoghurt!
It's so good with honey!

Nicola

I'm getting some tonight, can't wait to try it. Will toss my 2 cents in after I try it!

I got the 0% stuff at Harris Teeter last night because they were out of everything else. The guy stocking the shelves said they were having trouble getting it in (actually imported from Greece) and that it went back out as fast as it came in. I guess it's really popular!