RE: Making Your Own Flavored Yogurt
Coolchinilla - you are saving money. If a 4 cup container costs almost $2 for plain, and a 1-cup container costs $2 each, you're saving yourself $6 by buying a 4 cup of plain.
Unless I'm reading this wrong, you have $6 to spend on flavorings which shouldn't cost anywhere near that to flavor 4 cups. An initial purchase might cost you that much depending on what you're using, but it could be used for more than 4 cups of yogurt, if you know what I mean.
Posted on 02/11/2009 | Report Spam or Abuse

RE: Making Your Own Flavored Yogurt
You can also mix vanilla yogurt with plain yogurt 1/2 and 1/2 or to taste.
Posted on 05/22/2007 | Report Spam or Abuse

RE: Making Your Own Flavored Yogurt
FABULOUS IDEA! I accidentally picked up a huge carton of plain yogurt thinking it was vanilla - now I know what to do with it! Thank you!
Posted on 05/22/2007 | Report Spam or Abuse

RE: Making Your Own Flavored Yogurt
Try the crystal lite flavor powder packets they sell for bottled water! They work great without adding extra calories.
Posted on 04/11/2007 | Report Spam or Abuse

RE: Making Your Own Flavored Yogurt
Not only have I recently discovered how EASY it is to actually MAKE yogurt, [see "Making Homemade Yogurt" http://www.thriftyfun.com/tf837542.tip.html], I have also discovered frugal ways to flavor it. Over ripe bananas that nobody wants to eat & plain yogurt in a blender make a great smoothie. You don't have to add sugar because over-ripe bananas are much sweeter. Leftover fruit salad that's no longer appetizing to look at can be mixed with plain yogurt and a little sweetener for the "fruit on the bottom" type, or blended for a smoothie. I have also used canned or leftover fruit pie filling. If unsweetened yogurt is too tangy for you, a couple drops of vanilla extract helps to make it a little less tangy.
Posted on 08/21/2005 | Report Spam or Abuse

RE: Making Your Own Flavored Yogurt
You can buy a bottle of sugar free flavoring (irish cream, chocolate, english toffee, french vanilla, etc) at Smart and Final for about $4.00. It only takes a small amount to flavor my 2 quarts of homemade yogurt. It is supposed to be used for coffee, but why not other items?!
Posted on 01/26/2005 | Report Spam or Abuse

RE: Making Your Own Flavored Yogurt
Another way to flavor yogurt is to use unsweetened drink mixes. Just a bit goes a long way.
Posted on 01/26/2005 | Report Spam or Abuse

RE: Making Your Own Flavored Yogurt
Actually, I've found that I DON'T save money this way. A 4-cup container of plain yogurt costs $1.98 and the indivdual 1-cup flavored yogurts costs $2. Not enough savings to bother with. It may be different in different parts of the country. I was surprised when I compared prices like that.
coolchinchilla
Posted on 01/26/2005 | Report Spam or Abuse

RE: Making Your Own Flavored Yogurt
It is even better for the waistline if you use the "all-fruit" spreads instead of preserves. Smuckers is my preferred brand.
Posted on 01/26/2005 | Report Spam or Abuse

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