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ColinJ

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Is there any chefs on the forum, my wife has just bought a yogurt maker with not much success at the moment,firstly she cannot get the yougurts to solidify they always seem to runny,and where can you buy low sugar ingrediants from,some internet sites [Lakeland] do the the ready low fat ingrediants but not low sugar-anyone got any ideas on this one.

Colin. :(
 
Hi Colin - I am bumping up your post in the hopes that more people might see it and have an answer for you. Personally I don't know much about home-made yoghurt I'm afraid.
 
ColinJ - I have never made my own yogurt, but our Mum had a yogurt maker, she used to thicken the yogurt by adding dry milk (this would add more carbs) or gelatine.
I have for a short while made my own kefir, flavoured with stewed rhubarb, sweetener and ginger, or berries (mashed up) and sweetener, stewed apple, 5 raisins, cinnamon and sweetener, lemon peel and sweetener, orange peel and sweetener, ground hazelnuts and a few drops of Da Vinci syrup, Lidl sugarfree black cherry jam - all low carb stuff, guess these flavourings can also be used for yogurt.
 
ColinJ,

firstly, there should be no issue of low sugar.
It is a while since I made yoghurt, but I checked on
http://www.makeyourownyogurt.com/make-yogurt/what-you-need
and as I thought all you need is milk and a yoghurt culture - which in turn is just a portion of live youghurt.
If you want to go low fat, then use low fat milk.

Secondly, don't be mislead by commercial youghurts.
As far as I know a good fresh home made youghurt is generally creamy but not set.
Commercial youghurts often have extra stuff in them to make them set because that is the way they are marketed.
However unless you particularly want it to be set, it is just as healthy and tastes just the same if it is like single or double cream.
Not all commercial yoghurts are set - you can buy runny ones as well. :D

So, in summary, I don't think your wife is doing anything wrong with the yoghurt maker - sounds fine to me.
You don't need anything but milk and a culture and once you have made your first batch then the last bit of your first batch is your culture for the second batch.

Cheers

LGC
 
LGC. Thank you for your input,thats been very good infomation for me to get my wife to carry in with them,my GP put me onto the idea to get a yogurt maker as you know what goes into them and so far they have been a great help to me into losing weight.
I have always had a sweet tooth and thats contributed to my weight which as been a factor in my T2 not so much with chocolates/sweets but with desserts with meals as my wife does absolutely delicious cheese cakes/crumbles/bread butter puddings/homemade rice puddings etc.
So we went and bought a yogurt maker and my wife uses different fillings with a touch of canderel for each one and they are quite cheap to make and you do know what ingrediants they contain,and they are very nice.


Colin :thumbup:
 
I just drooled all over my keyboard.

You are a bad person :shock:
 
Hi, I work in Lakeland. If your wife is using the yogurt powders from there, try using slightly warm water to mix it in, this should help it set. The longer you leave it to set the stronger(sourer) it will be.
These yogurts are full of live cultures being freshly made, but unfortunately although they do a low sugar one, there is milk powder in the mix which makes it high carb. I did ask the rep. about this and she said they had tried making a lactose free one (soya) but have not had much success with it yet.

Jane :D
 
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