by Jenna on June 18, 2011
I have this container of yogurt cheese in the fridge or actually I am making yogurt cheese. It’s been straining for about 24 hours now, but I keep dipping into it. It’s the perfect thing for my sweet tooth. And it’s so easy to make. First you line a wire mesh strainer with coffee filters.
Then you just let the yogurt strain for as long as you like. For Greek-style yogurt it will take about 8-10 hours for yogurt cheese it takes about a day. The yogurt will be thick almost like cream cheese and it can be rolled into little balls and kept in olive oil. You can store it in the refrigerator for a couple months…I think. It never lasts that long around here.
We couldn’t even get to the cheese part because I was enjoying this. Just one more picture. Umm….better than ice cream.
Okay, so now that I am becoming so knowledgeable about yogurt, I was telling a friend about Fage Total 0% Greek Yogurt. I was telling her that there was a completely fat free Greek yogurt and that tasted great.
I’ve never really been into fat free. I feel like it’s okay to eat fat in the foods that are supposed to have fat in them.
However, she was eating non-fat yogurt plain yogurt everyday and not loving it. That just seems like such a shame to me because I enjoy my full fat yogurt treat without any guilt. I know it’s good for me.
If you are going to insist on nonfat yogurt, you have to try Fage’s 0%. It is rich and creamy and satisfying.
So, I had to go out and get my facts straight. I not only loved the taste of this Greek yogurt, but I really couldn’t tell the difference from this and Fage’s 2%. There was a slight difference between the whole milk Greek yogurt that I normally buy and the 0%, but it was barely noticeable. I could definitely get used to this stuff.
So, here are the nutritional facts from FatSecret.com.
There are 120 calories in 1 serving of Fage Total 0% Greek Yogurt and zero of those calories are from fat. 31% of the calories are from carbs and 69% are from protein. This is an incredible food and a tasty high protein snack. In fact it might be the perfect diet food.
