arghh my family

rchddap1

tiptoes wrote:

My daughter will try thing as long as she has had a hand in making it.

Have to agree with this as an idea. I point to a pizza hating young teenaged daughter (yes they do exist).....who made a pizza at our house and consequently decided that she'll eat ours, but only if she helps to make it.

thriftlady_2

You really just have to persevere domesticgoddess.You'll get there in the end.

Just a thought,maybe the yog wasn't sweet enough.Be a bit heavy handed with the sugar to begin with.Once they stop moaning you can gradually cut it down and their palates should adjust.

You could also try adding a bit of food colouring if the hm stuff isn't the right colour.Mind you, a few raspberries mashed into plain yog makes it a beautiful colour.

Failing that,freeze it in lollie moulds -my kids eat anything if it's frozen on a stick!

It may be a bore, but work out the cost of a pot sized portion of your yog and show OH just how much cheaper it is-it will be.I often work out how much it costs to make things from scratch-it is very satisfying.

MrsTinks

Thankfully my other half is gradually coming round to my way of thinking about the MSE way but I can fully sympathise with lack of support It's only this week I think he has totally understood the severity of things and how serious I am about this. When I pointed out that yes we need a holiday for a few weeks, but a cheapie holiday now will mean we don't spend several thousand we can't afford but I will be able to pay MY debts off in less than a year with luck! and if I can do that then I will be able to have saved enough for a really nice holiday NEXT year... all paid for up front (with various discounts I hasten to add )

In the mean time the few things he WON'T accept hoem made or cheaper alternatives to I just hide from him his cheddar is one... I save the zip bag from the cathedral city and put the Tesco mature cheddar in instead he's not noticed it yet

Brassic

Lol - you lot are so funny hiding the packaging. Haven't found the need to do that yet, but I'm sure the time will come! My kids are the same btw - they'll eat anything they've had a hand in making :rolleyes:

culpepper

Im suprised your OH should think it a fad!
You are making it exactly the same way that the commercial yoghurt is made but no additives.
If you need it a bit thicker,you can add milk powder.
Put a nice dollop of jam in it and it tastes lovely!
Try pie filling and it looks like the fruit corner yog's.

I worked out my HM yog was 25p for the milk and 10p for 1/3rd of a tub of yog. The next batch was just 25p for the milk and each batch was 25 fl OZ which is 20% more than the original tub.I'm on batch 4 from the same original starter
so 100 fl oz has cost me £1.10 so far. I use UHT which just needs warming rather than scalding and I can warm it in the microwave .
If the small single yogs are 5 fl oz each, thats about 5p a yoghurt guaranteed no colourings,flavourings or preservatives.

madfrenchgirl

cunning thing arent you tine?

when i worked at morrisons, i used to go through every line and check that every product was on the shelves. It is amazing the amount of different crap and products you can have in the chilled department: chilled fruit juices, probiotic yogs, drinking yogs, chocolate mousses, mousses with fruit jam, organic yogs, yogs with so ma ny additives that they are not yogs anymore, yogs for kiddies with crunchy bits, all the different types of mullers, plain yogs, cheap value yogs, fromage frais plain or lo-fat or with fruit...

of course you ahve to multiply this by the numebr of brands fighting against each other and add to that the supermarket nromal, finest and value brands...

The whole of it is down to marketing: a engenius tool making us believe that we need something and have to have it, creating a want into a need. The official definition is: "to identify the needs and wants of the customer and providing a solution".

The best bit abotu marketing is making people believe that superfoods really are good for you... Omega 3 milk is useless, eat eggs instead!

Tine, I applaud you and I applaud everyone else here for not falling into the trap. Kids are very about "fitting in": if you dont have the right shoes, the right toy, the right anything it wont work. The same thing has spread out to food unfortunately: seems like if you dont have McD's you are not cool.

I hope for you that this yogy business will make them realise that they have to think for themselves.

nicki_2

Not much advice from me as we don't really eat yoghurts (only buy some for DDs packed lunch and since she's only 5 I'm NOT giving her homemade ones in pots as they won't come home - I've even spent money on plastic spoons ) so to me it's not worth making this sort of thing from scratch.

The way I convert my lot is I just buy the cheaper one :rotfl: If there are complaints then I only have to mention "Disney Land / New house with garden / Debt free date (last predicted CC debt free date being September 2009 :eek: ) or the possibility of a holiday" and whatever change is excepted I think it might also have something to do with the fact that I'm the one who does the shopping but there you go.

Give them time, and no other option, and they soon come around *evil smilie* :D:rotfl:

Brassic

madfrenchgirl wrote:

Tine, I applaud you and I applaud everyone else here for not falling into the trap. Kids are very about "fitting in": if you dont have the right shoes, the right toy, the right anything it wont work. The same thing has spread out to food unfortunately: seems like if you dont have McD's you are not cool.

Sorry to go off on a tangent here, but this is soooo true. The kids last school was really up on it's healthy eating policy - children weren't allowed chocs or crisps in their lunch boxes, if they did they got sent home with a note for the parent telling them off! (Got one for sending daughter in with smarties on her b'day).

New school has nothing like this, and my girls get the p*ss taken cos they don't have any chocolate or crisps :mad: Gahhhhh.

thriftlady_2

madfrenchgirl wrote:

cunning thing arent you tine?

when i worked at morrisons, i used to go through every line and check that every product was on the shelves. It is amazing the amount of different crap and products you can have in the chilled department: chilled fruit juices, probiotic yogs, drinking yogs, chocolate mousses, mousses with fruit jam, organic yogs, yogs with so ma ny additives that they are not yogs anymore, yogs for kiddies with crunchy bits, all the different types of mullers, plain yogs, cheap value yogs, fromage frais plain or lo-fat or with fruit...

of course you ahve to multiply this by the numebr of brands fighting against each other and add to that the supermarket nromal, finest and value brands...

The whole of it is down to marketing: a engenius tool making us believe that we need something and have to have it, creating a want into a need. The official definition is: "to identify the needs and wants of the customer and providing a solution".

The best bit abotu marketing is making people believe that superfoods really are good for you... Omega 3 milk is useless, eat eggs instead!

You may be mad madfrenchgirl,but I agree with everything you say here:T

All those different yogs got me thinking- why not have a yogurt party for the family domesticgoddess? Lay out a big bowl of your lovely hm yog,and add lots of little bowls of things to add to it.A sort of diy 'fruit corner' thing but without the cr*p?

You could have;a few choc chips,sunflower seeds,nuts, maple syrup/honey/brown sugar,lots of fruit(pieces and berries),coconut,crunchy granola-type cereal, jam......

thriftmonster

Brassic wrote:

New school has nothing like this, and my girls get the p*ss taken cos they don't have any chocolate or crisps :mad: Gahhhhh.

My kids have had this - and I've posted before about it and one of the things that really helped my kids was reading all your posts about your kids HM things. Now they just ignore the other kids - even when being told HM meringue and raspberries looks like "dogpoo" - only the less polite version.

Re the yoghurt I would agree about the sweetness issue - you can cut it gradually