Homemade Challenge: Yogurt
We made homemade yogurt last week in the slow cooker, it was super easy and we were thoroughly pleased with the result. The yogurt came out creamy, delicious and magnificent! Adding some berries and some toasted granola made this a pleasure beyond compare to anything I have ever tasted in store bought yogurt.
It may not seem like a huge difference in price, but when you consider that normally I would buy about two-500g tubs of yogurt per week, the savings can really add up! Even if you only bought yogurt on sale at 0.34$ per 100g, over a year of grocery you would have saved 60$. What you would be getting in return are a few ingredients I am not too keen on having in my diet. Among them, nutrasweet, or other artificial sweeteners, and stabilizers such as alginates (carageenan), gelatins, gums (locust bean, guar), pectins, and starch.
Here is a recipe for homemade Yogurt in your Slowcooker
Cost of homemade yogurt vs store bought based on prices available through www.IGA.net, week of September 7th
| Homemade | Danone Silhouette | Liberté | Astro Vitalité | Yoplait | Olympic Bio | |
| 100g | 0.22$ | 0.34$ | 0.60$ | 0.62$ | 0.62$ | 0.72$ |
It may not seem like a huge difference in price, but when you consider that normally I would buy about two-500g tubs of yogurt per week, the savings can really add up! Even if you only bought yogurt on sale at 0.34$ per 100g, over a year of grocery you would have saved 60$. What you would be getting in return are a few ingredients I am not too keen on having in my diet. Among them, nutrasweet, or other artificial sweeteners, and stabilizers such as alginates (carageenan), gelatins, gums (locust bean, guar), pectins, and starch.
Here is a recipe for homemade Yogurt in your Slowcooker
Posted by Thrifty Table at 09-08-2009 
Categories: That's a Loaded Crock
Tags: homemade yogurt store bought slowcooker artificial sweeteners
Categories: That's a Loaded Crock
Tags: homemade yogurt store bought slowcooker artificial sweeteners
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02-24-2010
THRIFTY TABLE budget recipes for the epicurean palate wrote:
Breakfast: Coffee, Breakfast Sandwich, Saffron and Lemon Yogurt.Tasks involved: Grind coffee beans, and set the coffee maker, prepare egg, bacon and toast english muffin. I prepared the homemade yogurt last night using these instructions but to give it flavor, I simply added lemon zest and threads of saffron during the "incubating" period.Total time involved: 3 minutes 10 hours for the yogurtThe day nutritional values: 38.7% fat, 23.1% protein, 38.2% carbs, 2g fiber and 548mg sodiumCost: coffee: 15 -
02-25-2010
THRIFTY TABLE budget recipes for the epicurean palate wrote:
Breakfast: Coffee, Breakfast Sandwich, Saffron and Lemon Yogurt.Tasks involved: Grind coffee beans, and set the coffee maker, prepare egg, bacon and toast english muffin. I prepared the homemade yogurt last night using these instructions but to give it flavor, I simply added lemon zest and threads of saffron during the "incubating" period.Total time involved: 3 minutes 10 hours for the yogurtThe day nutritional values: 38.7% fat, 23.1% protein, 38.2% carbs, 2g fiber and 548mg sodiumCost: coffee: 15 -
02-25-2010
THRIFTY TABLE budget recipes for the epicurean palate wrote:
Breakfast: Coffee, Breakfast Sandwich, Saffron and Lemon Yogurt.Tasks involved: Grind coffee beans, and set the coffee maker, prepare egg, bacon and toast english muffin. I prepared the homemade yogurt last night using these instructions but to give it flavor, I simply added lemon zest and threads of saffron during the "incubating" period.Total time involved: 3 minutes 10 hours for the yogurtThe day nutritional values: 38.7% fat, 23.1% protein, 38.2% carbs, 2g fiber and 548mg sodiumCost: coffee: 15
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