Yogurt okay?

[bpollina]

According to http://www.lowcarbluxury.com/yogurt.html low carbers can eat yogurt (plain, nonsweatened) daily and counting 4 carbs per cup. Is this true for us on Atkins?

I've read elsewhere on this board to use greek yogurt and add blueberries or the like. This is VERY expensive. Any real advantage to using greek vs. sugrar free regular fat yogurt?

[not2late]

2Big had an FAQ around here before about the yogurt thing.

Anyhow, I make my own yogurt, using 2Big's secret recipe. You take a tablespoon or two of plain, full fat yogurt with live cultures, add it to a half gallon container of Hood's Carb Down Milk. Put it in a warm place (a turned off oven with the pilot light on, a cooler with hot water bottles, etc.) and let it sit for 8-12 hours. The yogurt will form and you'll have a half gallon for about $4.00 as opposed to $3.00 for 12 ounces. I estimate the carb count on the homemade low carb yogurt to be about 3 but I count it as 4 for 1 cup of the yogurt.

[not2late]

Here's the yogurt link

http://www.atkinsdietbulletinboard.com/viewtopic.php?t=68091

[2big4mysize]

actually you can't and the the data on which those low carb luxury yogurt info was based on was flawed. We a letter from the Atkins folk on why you can't anlong with complete info too with all the chemical steps and the carbohydrates produced and the info from the dairy concil about the lactose being added back posted somewhere on the board if you care to look it all up in the search feature, but basically the bacteria in the yogurt breakdown the lactose which was what that fellow was searching for into to shorter chain carbohydrates. They also alter the proteins to create a new carbohydrate and the yogurt manufactures themselves add back lactose after the fermenting process to keep the bacteria viable until the expo date on the carton.
So you can eat yogurt you can make your own from the hood countdown milk or you can buy low carb yogurt in the store whenyou get to the dairy rung of OWL but you need to count the full amoun tof carbs in the container.

It always surprizes me when a writer will say a food has less carbs and the company is adament it has the amount they paid the independant lab to tell them it has. If the carbs were lower the cals would be lower too and in this day and age of cal and carb concious consumers the companies would be falling all over themselves to promote this lower cal lower carb food.

Happy low carbing.

[kkat55]

Re: Yogurt okay?

This link is broken (for the yogurt)...anyone, by chance, know where it could be?

[Pinky Mallone]

Re: Yogurt okay?

Thanks for the info. The link worked for me but took a moment to load. I eat yocheese about twice a week and some times if a craving hits I now add Davinci and/or berries to it. Yummm-

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[not2late]

Re: Yogurt okay?

This link is broken (for the yogurt)...anyone, by chance, know where it could be?

Since this thread is well over a year old and the board was upgraded to a new server, it doesn't suprize me that the internal links on these old threads don't work.

The yogurt thread is in the FAQ section of the board.