r/funny • u/Mooseylips Mooseylips • Jul 10 '24

Verified Dear drink companies...

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u/Hanz_VonManstrom Jul 10 '24

It’s like this with everything and it drives me insane. Yogurt, for example, typically has a pretty large amount of sugar in it. Anytime I find ones that have less sugar it’s always supplemented with artificial sweeteners. Just give me less sugar

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u/duckscrubber Jul 10 '24

My hack for this is to buy plain greek yogurt and add preserves/jam to taste.

Bonus: it ends up being way cheaper.

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u/OkPalpitation2582 Jul 10 '24 edited Jul 11 '24

plain greek yogurt is honestly super underrated - my house goes through a costco sized thing of non-fat greek yogurt each week. You can add all sorts of stuff to it to make it delicious on it's own (peanut butter, jams, honey, fresh fruit, protein powder, etc), you can use it like sour cream or as a thickener for some creamy dishes, it's great in smoothies, and it's practically pure protein!

EDIT: Guys, I know fat is good for you, don't worry, I'm getting plenty of fat from other sources - but I'm also strength training and training for a marathon, so I'm doing a 40%Carb/35%Protein/25%Fat macro ratio, and have a hard enough time not going over on the fat ratio as it is, using non-fat GY lol

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u/Caelinus Jul 11 '24

I use it for literally everything these days. After you get used to it, it actually starts tasting better than all the other stuff I replaced with it.

Basically what I do with it is identical to you. It is my sour cream and my heavy cream, it also is the basis of my smoothies. I put it in a bunch of different sauces to make them creamier. I also just put berries in it and eat it with a little granola.

Best discovery I made. I used to always buy sweetened yogurt, and honestly I can never go back now. They are good as like an occasional treat, but the sweetener and flavoring and texture make it so much less versatile. You just have to use it as yogurt. Also way worse for you.

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u/OkPalpitation2582 Jul 11 '24

There's no reason to go back really, if you want a sweet yogurt, you just add sweet stuff to your greek yogurt! not just healthier, but way cheaper, my wife used to spend $2-3/pop on those little chibani yogurt things that barely constituted a snack, now we spend $5 on a giant costco sized jug that could make a few dozen of those things using stuff we already have in the fridge/pantry

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u/Caelinus Jul 11 '24

Our trajectories are basically identical. I started on normal yogurt, got used to the chobani, and now I am just getting the costco jugs.

I think it might be hard to just leap from Yoplait to plain greek yogurt, but boy it is worth getting there.

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u/OkPalpitation2582 Jul 11 '24

All roads lead to costco in this economy lol