Chobani Flip Greek Yogurt

This post is yet another complaint regarding yogurt varieties available in Canada versus the US.  There's just so much more to choose from in the US.  I bought this at a Walmart in Buffalo.  Greek yogurt and chocolate.  Yum!  Chocolate chip yogurt on one side and raspberry sauce on the other.  And as the name says, you flip the sauce over into the yogurt side and mix.

Taste was pretty good.  One improvement I would like to see is maybe instead of having chocolate shavings in the yogurt portion, melt the chocolate into the yogurt.  I didn't like the chunks of chocolate. But overall, very good as a dessert substitute, much healthier than ice cream!

Chobani Flip Greek Yogurt 

Chobani Flip Greek Yogurt

IÖGO Yogurt

I normally try and update my blogs in chronological order of when I visited a restaurant, or cooked a dish or tried a new food.  IÖGO yogurt has made break my process!  This yogurt is completely DISGUSTING!  I got 2 of the regular single serving yogurts from my mother in law.  Flavours were kind of strange to begin with.  One was a pineapple coconut, the other was peach passionfruit.  I tried the pineapple coconut first.  Smelled decent, colour was ok and had little chunks of pineapple in it.  I found it too sweet, fake sweetener sweet and oh my was it liquidy!  I'm not sure if its because I normally eat Greek yogurt now, or what.  The consistency of this was more like a watered down smoothie!

A few days later I ate the peach passionfruit yogurt.  I really didn't want to, I told the hubby to eat it, but he kept delaying it.  And no, it's not because I grossed him out by telling him how bad the first one was, it's just that he's too forgetful.  I open up the yogurt and am surprised with this weird pinkish orangish colour.  It's so weird I had a hard time describing it to the hubby, closest I got was maybe a peach or skin coloured crayon.  I really should haven taken a picture.  How can this company claim that they don't use artificial colours?  There's no pink in peach OR passionfruit.  DISGUSTING!

I really did want to like this product because of all their healthy claims and funky branding.  I guess I'll stay with my trusty Greek yogurt from Liberte or Kirkland.

Dessert Yogurt

As i'm writing this entry, I have to admit I'm not fully paying attention.  I'm writing this with a gorgeous lake view in front of me.  But this weekend is a good time for me to catch up on all my posts.  There's not much to do here, so it's super relaxing!

Yogurt, ever since my detox diet, I have been consuming huge amounts of it.  I prefer Greek yogurt, but its so expensive.  So to cut down on the costs, I buy both Greek and normal yogurt, and do a half half mix.  I then top off the yogurt with some fresh fruit and quinoa granola (found the recipe in Jillian Michael's cookbook).  I'll post up the

But the point of my blog is actually to complain about the lack of dessert yogurt flavour available in Toronto.  When I made a trip down to Buffalo, I was able to find a variety of dessert yogurt flavours at the local Walmart.  I brought back lemon meringue pie and key lime pie flavours to try.  The lemon meringue pie flavour was so good!  Tasted exactly like lemon meringue pie filling.  Great for a real pie dessert substitute, much healthier.  The key lime pie flavour tasted like lime jello.  It didn't taste very good, very artificial tasting. 

While on my weekly grocery run, I noticed Yoplait carries a lemon parfait yogurt.  I thought, since the US flavors were by Yoplait, and this one was by Yoplait that it would be the same.  I was very wrong.  I don't even know how to describe it.  The flavours were so weird.  Now I don't know what to do with whats left of it.  I guess I could dilute it with some vanilla yogurt to make it taste better.  Guess I'll have to bring back yogurts whenever I cross the boarder.....

Yogurts

Jillian Michaels Quinoa Granola

1 cup quinoa (uncooked, rinsed and drained)

1/4 cup whole flaxseed

1 tbs honey

1 tbs olive oil

I added some cinnamon in for extra flavor as well.

Mix all the ingredients together, spread on a cookie sheet and bake in a 375 deg oven until slightly browned.

Enjoy!