Yoghurts

[Oma]

Gem , Daisy and I were talking about yoghurts ,
Can anyone remember the first time you tried yoghurt ?
I know they were around in about 65 onwards but I didn't taste one till the 70's ,

There was big TV adverts on for Ski yoghurts I remember ,
The first one i tried was a Strawberry one , in them days there was lovely big bits of fruit in ,
I was hooked as soon as I tasted one ,
Strawberry and Peach were my go too ones ,

Now they have so many varieties , I love most but buy a lot of Vanilla as I add my own fruit ,
I eat one everyday at lunch time , I never tire of them ,

I do have brands I like most ,
Sainsburys and M&S Madagascar Vanilla , and recently Aldi's extra special ones .

[Lizzie48]

I tasted my first yoghurts when I first came to live here and I still LOVE them! I like the plain ones, I can remember taking them in my suitcase when I visited my parents as I couldn't get the ones I like in the UK. I remember my mother being here and she said " I couldn't eat that". I told her to try it, after the the yogurts were always on her shopping list.

I do like quark as well here but once bought it whilst on holiday in the UK and that just wasn't the same.

[Nanto2girls]

I bought my first yoghurt when DS1 was six months old, he's 51 now.
Didn't like at all, fed it to DS1 and he loved it. He still does like yoghurt.
Even now i don't like it. Hubby will eat them,but he doesn't ask me to buy them.

[Oma]

B wont eat them unless its in cooking , he cant stand milk unless he's cooking with it either , but he loves cream

[Gemini]

I would be about 16, in my last year at school. I remember my friend and I walking down to Jacksons supermarket and buying a Ski yogurt in our lunchbreak. Ski came in little waxed cardboard tubs shaped like milk churns. My favourites were William Pear, and Hazelnut.

Yogurt is a staple in our house, and was all the time the children were growing up. My DD's grew to hate my stock answer to the question 'Is there any pudding', which was 'There's fruit in the fruit bowl and yogurt in the fridge'! (We did let them have actual puddings sometimes )

The drug both OH and I are on depletes calcium so we are supposed to have plenty in our diet, so we have at least one yogurt each a day.

[Daisy]

I discovered yoghurt the first time I went to stay with my French penfriend in the early 60s. I loved it, and also Quark (Lizzie - I agree, it didn't taste the same in England) and fromage blanc battu which is similar and equally delicious. Then Ski Strawberry yoghurt started to appear in UK shops and I was hooked.

My current favourites are the large pots of Yeo Valley - plain, vanilla, blueberry or lemon curd, and we've usually got 3 out of 4 of them in the fridge. I also love Activia Fusion - fruit on the bottom - in prune flavour. I could eat it at every meal but limit them to breakfast and dessert after dinner most days!

[Gemini]

I love Yeo Valley yogurts Daisy, and Rachel's Something (I'm too far from the fridge to check the proper name!)

[Plantaholic]

When yogurts arrived in this country, I bought a yogurt maker and went to a deli to buy a live yogurt for a starter. we added our own fruit. I love vanilla Oma or lemon curd. There is a large pot of Alpro mango in my fridge yet to be started. My DD has a yogurt maker with lovely small glass jars, they add their own fruit or flavour. My OH used to love the Muller Corner ones but they were not pure yogurt. He had one every day.

[Gemini]

My dad loved the fruit corners Plant.
He had never tried yogurt beofre, and a lovely lady who visited her husband in the same nursing home brought her OH and my dad one most days (she brought them both lots of treats, was a sunny cheerful presence, and made dads time in the home a brighter place )

[Oma]

I love Vanilla with a teaspoon of sweet mince meat mmm not actually good for you but I don't care its tasty

[Plantaholic]

Must make some more lemon curd, DD puts it in her home-made yogurts.

[Daisy]

I'd forgotten I used to have a yoghurt maker. It had 6 small glass pots and you just needed some fresh live yoghurt to get it started.