I want to be a yogurt person. I have tried to be a yogurt person for years without much success. Truthfully, I have found success only once, until today.
Over the years I have tried many but I find that yogurts do something to my blood sugar levels that just stops me eating them soon after starting. I admit that I do not understand what the problem is but based on my detective work of their ingredients I have concluded that it may be the specific kind of sugar that is added to them?
I finally found a yogurt several years ago now that left me both satiated and with no blood sugar spikes but they discontinued it. I googled just now to try and find it but with no luck. It may have been called a natural yogurt. Sadly, I cannot even remember which company made it. I use to buy it in single serving multipacks of 1/2 vanilla and 1/2 either strawberry or raspberry, strawberry I think. I would recognize it if I found an image online. Anyway, it was delicious.
Over the years I have tried many but I find that yogurts do something to my blood sugar levels that just stops me eating them soon after starting. I admit that I do not understand what the problem is but based on my detective work of their ingredients I have concluded that it may be the specific kind of sugar that is added to them?
I finally found a yogurt several years ago now that left me both satiated and with no blood sugar spikes but they discontinued it. I googled just now to try and find it but with no luck. It may have been called a natural yogurt. Sadly, I cannot even remember which company made it. I use to buy it in single serving multipacks of 1/2 vanilla and 1/2 either strawberry or raspberry, strawberry I think. I would recognize it if I found an image online. Anyway, it was delicious.
Today I have finally found a second one.
It is called President’s Choice 2% Honey Greek Yogurt. For anyone reading this outside of Canada, President’s Choice is a private label brand of products sold at Canadian grocer Loblaws. I believe they may sell President’s Choice products in the United States.
Anyway, back to my new find. I was at Loblaws yesterday and noticed three versions of a President’s Choice single serving yogurt on one of those end of aisle displays (a small refrigerated end of aisle display), mango, vanilla and honey. It was the fact that they were Greek yogurt that caught my eye and my eyes were first drawn to the vanilla. I have a secret fantasy that I have told no one until now of building a vanilla bean plantation. I have no idea how vanilla beans are grown. Is plantation even the right word? I read the ingredients on the Vanilla Greek Yogurt and dismissed it as likely to have the same blood sugar reactions that I have had before now.
Then I read the 2% Honey Greek Yogurt ingredients: skim milk, honey, cream, bacterial culture. I was impressed by the small number of healthy real food ingredients. The only thing I would change about it would be to change the label ingredients to identify the milk and cream as Canadian Dairy or not. The front of the label does say Product of Canada. Unfortunately that sad and meaningless designation, practically reviled, does not help answer that question.
For breakfast today I had the single serving size President’s Choice 2% Honey Greek Yogurt and a soft boiled egg (small pot of water brought to boiling then turned down to between 3 and 4 on my electric stove and after bubbles no longer rise to the surface egg gently placed in pot for between seven and eight minutes, depending on how you like your egg).
I was satiated with no blood sugar issues for many hours afterward. I will definitely eat today’s breakfast again. In fact, I would eat it again tomorrow except I only bought one President’s Choice 2% Honey Greek Yogurt.
If you are looking for a healthy yogurt to have for breakfast, I recommend you try President’s Choice 2% Honey Greek Yogurt!
Bon Appetit!
It is called President’s Choice 2% Honey Greek Yogurt. For anyone reading this outside of Canada, President’s Choice is a private label brand of products sold at Canadian grocer Loblaws. I believe they may sell President’s Choice products in the United States.Anyway, back to my new find. I was at Loblaws yesterday and noticed three versions of a President’s Choice single serving yogurt on one of those end of aisle displays (a small refrigerated end of aisle display), mango, vanilla and honey. It was the fact that they were Greek yogurt that caught my eye and my eyes were first drawn to the vanilla. I have a secret fantasy that I have told no one until now of building a vanilla bean plantation. I have no idea how vanilla beans are grown. Is plantation even the right word? I read the ingredients on the Vanilla Greek Yogurt and dismissed it as likely to have the same blood sugar reactions that I have had before now.
Then I read the 2% Honey Greek Yogurt ingredients: skim milk, honey, cream, bacterial culture. I was impressed by the small number of healthy real food ingredients. The only thing I would change about it would be to change the label ingredients to identify the milk and cream as Canadian Dairy or not. The front of the label does say Product of Canada. Unfortunately that sad and meaningless designation, practically reviled, does not help answer that question.
For breakfast today I had the single serving size President’s Choice 2% Honey Greek Yogurt and a soft boiled egg (small pot of water brought to boiling then turned down to between 3 and 4 on my electric stove and after bubbles no longer rise to the surface egg gently placed in pot for between seven and eight minutes, depending on how you like your egg).
I was satiated with no blood sugar issues for many hours afterward. I will definitely eat today’s breakfast again. In fact, I would eat it again tomorrow except I only bought one President’s Choice 2% Honey Greek Yogurt.If you are looking for a healthy yogurt to have for breakfast, I recommend you try President’s Choice 2% Honey Greek Yogurt!
Bon Appetit!
Elina Grace Edwin
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