Over the weekend I was grocery shopping and noticed a HUGE container of Greek God's Greek Yogurt on sale for only $1.89! I had to snatch it up, even though I had never tried it before because it was a huge steal and these yogurts are usually $6.99+, and it wasn't expiring for another 3 weeks (so why on sale?! Weird!)! My son looooves yogurt and usually eats one cup at least once a day....totally his favorite food. When I was putting the groceries away I realized that we already had a ton of yogurt. My mother-in-law totally stocked up while she was watching him when we were in Mexico last week. Oh no, what to do?! I remembered the Popsicle cups we bought at IKEA (you know, that we absolutely needed) last time we were there (only $1.99, score) and it hit me.....YOGURT POPS! You see, we recently let my son have ice cream for the first time, and he loved it. He ate it up and was crying for more. I am not a big ice cream person, so we rarely have it in the house, but I was thinking it would be really easy to trick him with these frozen yogurt pops! And....I was right!
This was so easy: Put yogurt in containers, freeze, remove, eat! These babies are only 51 calories per pop (and that is full fat yogurt, so fat free or low fat would be WAY less)!
Yogurt and containers
Yogurt in cups
A little skeptical at first....
Kid approved!
I have to add though, after I bought this yogurt and tried it myself, I was super excited to find a yogurt that I really liked. I am not a big yogurt person, but this yogurt was sooo delicious and creamy and awesome. I googled it and ended up finding some interesting information, and I will not be buying it again. It's not even real 'greek yogurt', which is disappointing. The label is very misleading. It has an artificial thickener in it, called pectin, which is not all natural like the label also states. This yogurt has no where near the protein count of greek yogurt...it actually has half as much (only 6g per serving compared to the usual 12 in greek yogurt). It is also full fat (which is good for baby, not for me), and has 310 calories per serving!!!! Ugh. Anyway, I suggest trying this, but with a different greek yogurt. Chobani and Oikos have some really fun flavors that would probably be great as a yogurt pop!
Heather Kent
That sucks about the yogurt. I will have to watch out for that brand, but this sounds like a great treat for Andy. He loves popsicles and he loves yogurt!
arzea
It was really a bummer because it was the most delicious 'yogurt' I have ever tasted! But, I recently tried the oikos brand and I liked that better than chobani, i think 🙂
Heidi @ lightlycrunchy
I made some of these not too long ago to use up some greek yogurt before it's due date. The kids loved them, I wasn't quite so keen. But I'm not a huge yogurt fan unless its smothered in fruit and granola (which isn't very low fat either).
arzea
LOL! I know, I want to try them using regular yogurt, too. It might be more to my liking 🙂
Our Kitchen Inventions
I'll have to snag some of those pop makers at Ikea...we tried to find them at Target a few weeks ago, and the staff told us they were "Seasonal" so they had none...I guess, in retail summer is over, right? LOL!
P.S. Sent you an Evite to Supper Club, so let me know if you can make it!
Susan
arzea
I just RSVP'ed! Unfortunately I have to go to a wedding in Athens that weekend. BUT, can you please include me in the next one? I really want to come!
Our Kitchen Inventions
Got your RVSP. Will definitely let you know when the next one is scheduled and send an Evite to you. Will miss you!
arzea
thank you!!!
Becky
Wait just a freaking second - how did I not know about your blog?!?
arzea
I don't know how thats possible since I post about it all the time!!! Glad you found it, finally 😉
April
Sorry my blog would not let me reply to your comment on mine. Thank you! My son is 25 months old now but he is not the biggest guy on the block. Your son is adorable!
arzea
How weird! Thanks!!