Greek Yogurt

               Lately I have been gorging on Greek yogurt.  Okay, maybe gorging is the wrong word.  I am not eating yogurt twenty-four hours a day.  But I am eating it much more frequently than I used to.  It is not often that a day goes by that I do not eat at least one container of yogurt, if not two.  The yogurt is that good and I find I even want it for dessert.  One single serving cup is very satisfying.  It also works great as a shot of protein when I am running out the door.

                The two brands I eat are Oikos and Chobani.  I like both brands but for different reasons.  Oikos has the better texture, in my opinion.  I agree with John Stamos on that one.  The yogurt is really smooth.  Chobani has more unique and interesting flavors.  Blood Orange is not a common flavor in my experience.  Each brand also does different flavors better than the other.  One big example of this is Pineapple.  With Oikos it is okay, but Chobani does it really well.  I definitely know I am eating pineapple when I am eating Chobani.  Oikos, however, does a fantastic job with Key Lime.  I do not know if I have ever eaten Chobani’s Key Lime, but I think Oikos’ would be hard to beat.  It tastes as though I am actually eating the filling of a key lime pie, with just a hint of crust.  I have no idea how they get that hint of crust taste into the yogurt, especially since the yogurt is completely smooth, but it is delicious.

                There are so many more flavors than the ones I mentioned above.  In fact, I did not know how many until I went to the new Woodman’s grocery store in Waukesha a couple weeks ago.  I could not believe the number of flavors I did not know about.  They just are not at the other grocery stores in my area.  At the end of the shopping trip over twenty dollars worth of yogurt was in the cart.  A lot were flavors I already ate regularly, but some were ones I was trying for the first time, like Chobani’s Apple Cinnamon.

                Greek yogurt is definitely not the worst thing in the world I could eat. This is a good thing since I am eating so much of it. Even though both Chobani and Oikos have a lot of flavors, I hope they each come up with more. I would be really excited to try them and extend my Greek yogurt diet.