Necessity being the mother of invention.

[Pete57]

Do you ever eat a pot of yogurt and think I wish there was a bit more in there.

As of late I've had to change more of my diet due largely to having found out I have diabetes, one challenge is that I have always liked ice lollies and they have had to go due to the high levels of sugar, but rather than simply cut them out I have been experimenting with natural yogurt and fresh fruit.

First try I used kiwi fruit, very nice but very sour, next I tried cherry but I also added some canderel, I found out that freezing yogurt that contains canderel changes the sugar content as that that was left over was much sweeter than that which had been frozen. In all that I have tried so far I have found a by product if you will and that is how to make my own sweet yogurt all I use is one large pot of natural or low fat Greek yogurt, 2 teaspoons of canderel sugar and 5 - 6 ozs of fruit put all ingredients in a jug and then I add a stick blender to get it to the consistency I want, then put it in containers (old yogurt pots with snap on lids) and put it in the fridge for a couple of hours.

[OliveOyl]

Morning Pete57 , oh yes, I've often wanted a little more in the yogurt pot, I do love my yogurts :). I like the idea of making my own and will try what you have suggested, I always have mixed berries and other fruit in my freezer

I don't have a sweet tooth but will buy the smallest Canderel or similar and try a yogurt both with and without it

Thanks for your experiment

[Pete57 in reply to OliveOyl]

If you don't like canderel try sweetex if you use that.

[OliveOyl in reply to Pete57]

Actually I don't take any sweetener or sugar at all, gave it up when I left school. I went from an active schoolgirl to someone sitting in front of a typewriter....no computers in offices 54yrs ago .......the weight slowly crept on so I gave up sugar

I don't suppose canderel is so sweet that it will make me shudder it will just take away the sourness, thank you for doing the experiment, we can help each other so much this way

[Dodowings]

Hi Pete57,

Have you tried xylitol? It's a sweetener made from birch trees. As with many, you have to make sure you don't binge on it, or it acts as a laxative, but in reasonable amounts it's lovely.

It's also very good for teeth and health generally.

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Try using mango, such a naturally sweet fruit. Hopefully you then won’t need any sweetener at all.