Greek yogurt, defying the laws of physics

Date: 2010.08.25 | Category: miscellaneous, Uncategorized | Tags: product review,restaurants

I eat a lot of yogurt, and usually I just get the plain, nonfat kind.  I’m pretty particular about it.  The flavored stuff has so much sugar and bizarre ingredients added that I usually won’t touch it.  Don’t get me started on Yoplait.  It’s not yogurt if you ask me.  Plus, eat the real stuff, and you get to eat a lot more volume.  More food = good, right?

There is always a lot of buzz in the healthy living blog community about Greek yogurt.  In fact, I see it so much that I sometimes wonder if anyone ever eats the non-Greek stuff like me – Greek yogurt is expensive!  But it’s good, and here’s why: the texture is awesome.  It’s creamy and thick – it just has good mouthfeel.  Secondly, there is a lot more protein in Greek yogurt. The only difference between regular yogurt and the Greek stuff is that the Greek kind is strained.  In fact, you could make it yourself if you wanted to.

• In a 6 ounce serving of Fage 0% you get: 90 calories, 0 g fat, 7 g carbs and 15 grams of protein. 
• Non-Greek plain nonfat yogurt has: 80 calories, 14 g carbs and 8 grams of protein (which varies slightly from brand to brand).

I forgot to mention that Greek yogurt also defies gravity.

Those Greeks are smart!

I didn’t sit down today to go on and on about Greek yogurt but that’s exactly what happened.

I ate some before my run and I will also add that it makes good pre-run fuel: I had an awesome 6 mile run this afternoon.  I didn’t feel tired and felt like I could have kept going.  Disclaimer: I apparently have a stomach of steel and dairy doesn’t bother me.

After my run we went to Sweet Tomatoes.  We’re not cool and we like salad bars so don’t judge.

There is an unwritten rule that if you’re eating salad for your main meal, it should at least be three inches high.

I like eating at salad bars with my husband because I never feel judged for how huge my salad plate is.  In fact, I think we are subconsciously competing about who can make a bigger salad.  Mark just told me that he thinks his was “way bigger” and now I wish I had taken a picture (that’s what she said). 

Oh, there’s a lot of stuff in there.  Eggs, blue cheese, peas, chickpeas, cauliflower, celery– I pretty much just threw the salad bar on my plate.

This soup doesn’t photograph well, but it was really good.  It’s called Canadian Cheese and smoked ham, but it was more like Canadian Cheese soup with an essence of ham. That’s not a complaint, just semantics…

I’m out.  Goodnight!