Quickie Review - Marrook Farm BioDynamic Yogurt

I've previously ranted about the only kind of yogurt you can get your hands on being 'sugary' or 'low-fat'. Leaving us with low-fat, but that's not the right answer for our WOE.

Today, at my local organic greengrocer, I saw a glass jar of Marrook Farm BioDynamic Yogurt in the fridge. It has a reasonable 4.7g of carbs per 100g, and is described on the jar as being 'cream at the top' yogurt. Yes, it's a full-cream, yogurt, they LEAVE THE FAT IN IT.
I had about 100g with some low-carb strawberry jam, and it tastes very nice and creamy. Its a different sort of flavor to the Greek-style and 'natural' low-fat yogurt. It's not a bitey yogurt, and in fact it tastes sort of like Philadelphia cream cheese.

Highly recommended if you can get your hands on it. They have a contact number on the jar of (02) 6550 4439, if you want to find a local stockist.

Quote Of The Day

From the Simpsons -

Homer: Are you saying you're never going to eat any animal again? What about bacon?
Lisa: No.
Homer: Ham?
Lisa: No.
Homer: Pork chops?
Lisa: Dad, those all come from the same animal.
Homer: Heh heh heh. Ooh, yeah, right, Lisa. A wonderful, magical animal.

A rant on yogurt

If you go to your local supermarket fridge shelf, you'll notice that yogurt comes in two varieties, no or low fat, and 'full fat, plus a couple of buckets of sugar'.
Your only off-the shelf flavored lowish-carb yogurt is the Yoplait 'no-fat' yogurt, the strawberry variety checks in at 10 grams of carbs. It's tasty, but you won't be eating that on Atkins induction. (It's also a canonical example of why you should check 'serving size' vs 'carton size', apparently the good people at Yoplait assume you'll be saving half of your portion for tomorrow, the 5g of carbs listed on the label is for 100g of product, not a 200g tub)
Even the 'natural' yogurts are mostly 'fat reduced', it's impossible to find a low sugar yogurt that isn't fat free. Fat is important on this WOE for satiety, kicking off ketosis, and I suspect it's partly why your skin gets better when you start eating this way. A low-fat yogurt is tasty but doesn't satisfy.
Is it so hard to leave the fat *in* the yogurt? The fat-reduced 'natural' or 'greek-style' yogurts are *always* higher in carbs than the non fat-reduced variety.
It's annoying, but I think I've found a solution, greek style yogurt (full-fat) and Cottees Diet Strawberry conserve (0.6g carbs per tablespoon, according to my new friend Calorie King). Can't get that in a *tub* though.
I'll post a road-test in a few days.

Not all bunless burgers

Welcome to the first post of 'No, I *don't* want fries!' . This blog is all about maintaining a lower carbohydrate existence in the face of Real Life. Real Life serves up stress, strange working hours, holidays (religious and otherwise), sweet sweet danishes, and restaurant staff for whom 'no muffins, please' is a difficult concept (and you're a difficult customer for throwing them off their groove like that!)

I've been pursuing this Way Of Eating since August of last year. There have been mistakes. There have been donuts. But my overall health is great and I've lost the equivalent weight of a 17" monitor (CRT, not LCD).

Not everybody makes this lifestyle work. It's not as convenient as the McDonalds drivethrough or a muffin-latte combo from Coffee HQ on the way to work. I don't think the concept of comfort food exists in quite the same way any more, so there's no burying your sorrows under french fries.

You *can* live this way though and there's many people for whom this is the Right Answer. I'm one of them, so's my SO. And from day to day you need to make decisions, and plans to stay on this track. You don't know, starting out, what's a carb bargain and what *isn't*, what you can eat, what day to day life on this WOE is supposed to be like. That's what this blog is about.