Flavouring yoghurt

Tigsteroonie

Am posting this in OS as I think you'll have the best answers (and I'm not sure it fits anywhere else!)

I want to start buying goats milk yoghurt for the little one, but our local shops only stock 'plain' and not flavoured. I really don't think he'll eat it because he's used to children's yoghurts & fromage frais - strawberry, apricot, banana are his favourites.

How can I easily add flavour to the plain yoghurt? Pureeing the fruit isn't always going to be a possibility. Would ice-cream syrups be too sweet? (not worried about sugar level!) What about jam?

Linda32

I don't eat yoghurt myself but OH does. I puree fruit and freeze it. Could you do a big batch and freeze in smaller portions?

I just pour into a bag to freeze, then when I defrost just put it in a plastic box to defrost and then tip it out into the box when defrosted.

We have an allotment so I know we are spoilt but I'm sure you could do the same with whoopsied fruit.

I'm sure jam would work, although in this case I think the cheaper ones would be the best as they would be thinner to stir in. Maybe lemon curd would be nice as well to swirl in.

Kevie192

What about a little drop of food flavouring, the kind you'd use to flavour cakes or buttercream? You can get a huge range of flavours these days!

Tigsteroonie

You see, that's where I'm out of touch - I haven't ventured into cake baking aisles for donkeys' years! The only flavouring I remember is vanilla, which (if you didn't buy pods) used to come as a little brown bottle of vanilla essence. I'm guessing that you mean shops now do similar little bottles of banana & strawberry flavours?

qwerty79

Honey, jam, banana, fruit syrup

happy35

easiyo do fruit purees, think they sell them in Lakeland.

I have seen them on QVC, they say they are pure fruit and nothing else but I haven't checked them to know for sure

sophie131

happy35 wrote: »

easiyo do fruit purees, think they sell them in Lakeland.

I have seen them on QVC, they say they are pure fruit and nothing else but I haven't checked them to know for sure

http://www.easiyo.com/easiyo-product-details/strawberry-fruit-squirt.html

I have used these before and they are tasty - Lakeland, QVC and our local health food shop sells them.

Pink.

This older thread should help:

Flavours For Natural Yoghurt

I'll add your thread to that one later to keep the suggestions together.

Pink

rachbc

How about a ready made fruit puree like baby food/ ellas pouches? Far prefereable to artificial flavouring or syrups. Jam would work but depends how good little one is with 'bits'. Mine hates bits!

AimingForBetter

I used to give my Twins plain natural yogurt with either mashed banana or some of the Organix or Hipp etc fruit puree pots - so the boys had more variety of flavours and it was far easier & cheaper for me (the pots used to be on offer a lot).

Natural sugars in the fruit will sweeten enough for a little one, even now my two (age 4) prefer less sweet things and always go for the fruit option over actual sweets.

It might help to add a higher amount of puree to the yogurt to start with and gradually adjust as he gets more used to it, natural yogurt has more of a 'tang' than the normal sweetened fruit yogurt which may take a little time for him to adjust to.

HTH

AFB

BitterAndTwisted

Lidl do bags of frozen strawberries/mixed berries, so maybe other supermarkets do too. I can't think of one good reason why you couldn't defrost a small handful at a time, mash it up and then stir into the yoghurt.