Hi, everyone. I'm Noreen and welcome back to my kitchen today for our installment of kid Friendly summer snacks
I've got a little bit of a story time for you, and I'm going to show you how I do a flavored yogurt
Hack that is going to make your life a little bit easier
And I think save you a little bit of money in the long run
And you're going to be able to make all your kids happy and who doesn't like that
So let's go see how this all comes together
Today, I'm going to share with you a super easy way to make all your kids happy
By flavoring plain or vanilla flavored yogurt. That's what I have here is some vanilla yogurt
With Jam or in this case an all-natural fruit spread that is only sweetened with fruit juice
So this isn't about refined sugar. This is about natural fruit sugar, so this is a super healthy snack
It's a great breakfast you can add granola to it
You're just going to take about a tablespoon of the fruit spread and you can use listen you can use whatever
Jam that you have I've done this with my homemade Jam
But today because we're doing kid-friendly summer snacks I kind of thought let's go ahead and use that natural fruit spread
because that way it's not got a lot of extra sugar in it and you can just go from there, so
This is as easy as it gets
I've got these little jars our 4 ounces, so they're a half a cup. I fill them up to the bottom line
With the yogurt, and then a little tablespoon, which is the serving size of this fruit spread?
right on in there and boom
Strawberry yogurt
And the best part about this is you get to control
The type of yogurt use if you like organic yogurt which this happens to be organic whole milk yogurt?
Maybe you prefer a greek style yogurt. You can use that too
But yogurt is cheaper if you buy it in a big container than is if you buy it in the individual flavors package
Or even though squeezable yogurts if you break those down else per ounce they're expensive
so this is a really nice way that you can control what goes into your kids or into you for that matter and
you'll know exactly what's in there, and you can do this so simply and
again
Super easy pop them in your fridge mark them on. The top. What flavor they are so today
I've done strawberry peach Cherry and raspberry and
Me I'm not even like I know you will hear here's the raspberry
Give it a taste
Now this is what I use vanilla yogurt
So there is a little bit of sugar in that but I used one that had a lower sugar
And it was the stonyfield organic French vanilla
yogurt
It is not Vegan, but it is delicious
And this is just another way for you to kind of stretch your food dollar and make your kids happy
Like I said you don't have to use this particular fruit spread you can use whatever kind of Jam
You have on hand and you know maybe your kids like grape Jelly yogurt who knows because that's what they like
And you're not going to be able to buy that in the store
Like plums you can buy plum yogurt. You. Can't buy that pineapple yogurt. You can get pineapple jam, or you can use the crushed pineapple?
Really big possibilities are endless
But I something else you could have done put the fruit in first
Baked fruit on the bottom yogurt. That's right. That's a great idea honey
I didn't think about that you make your own fruit on the bottom yogurt
And then your kids can stir it up when you give it to them, so it's kind of like a little extra prize
I like fruit on the bottom yogurt. I always did
I know some people really don't like
Anything but the priests turn stuff, but that's fine. Whatever floats your boat
But here's the story time I've been doing this since I was 13 years old
because when I was 13
We had some very dear family friends. What we still do who live in British Columbia and
The reason that we met them was because I grew up in Tucson, Arizona
And that was the home of an organization called up with people and up with people was a youth
organization that was dedicating dedicated to spreading peace and
friendship throughout the World through music and Dance and
every year they would convene at the university of Arizona and
They would come from all over the world and the people of Tucson were asked to act as host families
For the kids that were there
for rehearsal and all that getting organized before their 4 troops went out across the globe to
Perform their wonderful music so I grew up with up with people and I still to this day
Sing many of their songs and I love them. They are no longer a thing anymore
One of the girls that came in stayed with us the very first year that we did it her name was Christine
we just really became close with Christine when she had her dress rehearsal her parents flew to Tucson from
British Columbia where they have a farm they stayed with us and their names are dick and vera and I love them to death
There are special special people
I haven't seen them in many many years, but Kris is now obviously all grown up has a family
I believe her children are actually grown up now, too
They dig and vera took us on a week-long camping trip like camper style camping trip across
Canada and we went from we went from British Columbia
Into Alberta and we saw Lake louise and banff and yes
Those elk really do and moose they roam the streets of banff, and it's super cool
but a little dangerous lake louise probably the most beautiful place I've ever seen on Earth in my entire life and
We went to the Columbia icefields, and it was just really a once-in-A-lifetime opportunity
To see parts of Canada that I probably otherwise would not have seen but any case in that camper on that camping trip
Zera only bought plain yogurt, and that's what we would enjoy for breakfast and never in my life
Had I put plain yogurt in my mouth, and it was horrible and revolting because I had no flavor
But it was super sour and varys said oh here, honey
And she brought a bunch of homemade jam from her you know farm. She grew all of her own fruit and
She had strawberry Jam and raspberry Jam. She's like what Flavor
Do you want and let's put some of that Jam in your yogurt?
And then you can have your own fruit flavored yogurt
so I know that that's kind of a long roundabout story to get where I was going but
But that's my story time about that
And it never left me I've been doing it ever since so thank you very aware ever you are for
Sharing that idea with me because it really is kind of Brilliant
And I think that it's an appropriate thing to share with you
All you moms and grandmom's out there yogurt is not cheap
And sometimes it can be difficult to you know you stack those little containers in your fridge
They fall over if you don't have a basket to put them in
This is a great way these little 4 ounce jars you can get a dozen of them for about five or six dollars
They're washable reusable. You're not throwing anything away
Just pop the lid on it mark it with what Flavor or just fill it with plain yogurt
or don't do that at all just keep the yogurt in the fridge and the Jam and the fridge and
When they want something ask them, what flavor they want and pull it out?
And it's all good. So that is my flavored yogurt
Hack and my story time about how you can flavor your yogurt
Any old way you want with things you probably already have in your fridge, so I hope that's helpful
And I hope it's a new idea for you
and if you've been
Doing it for a long time like I have leave a comment down below and let me know how much you love this idea
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Hat a try for your kids or yourself or whatever, and I hope that you love it and until next time I'll see
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