Comments on: No Sugar, No White Flour – Meal and Snack Ideas

By: Diane

Diane — Mon, 23 Jan 2012 17:40:59 +0000

I also add about 1TBSP of the greek yogurt to my oatmeal along with fresh berries, cinnamon and walnuts, delicious

By: NMP

NMP — Tue, 16 Aug 2011 16:22:57 +0000

Yes, greek yogurt will rock your yogurt world and once you try it you will never go back to the processed stuff again. Fage Total 0% tastes just like the fattening stuff! It is so rich and flavorful. You can sweeten in up for a treat with berries or you can use as sour cream on mexican food or to top potatoes and it is not bland at all. My husband wasn’t even a yogurt fan until I brought this stuff home and now I can’t keep him out of it. Good stuff and good for you!

By: Erin, The $5 Dinner Mom

Erin, The $5 Dinner Mom — Wed, 10 Aug 2011 02:27:16 +0000

We have a “banana morgue” too! Love that you call it that!

By: Meg

Meg — Tue, 09 Aug 2011 21:03:30 +0000

Plain unsweetened yogurt tastes great if you add frozen berries (you can thaw them or use as is) with some of their juices. Pure vanilla extract tastes great too, just use a drop since a little goes a long way. Overripe bananas are also another great sweetener in muffins, smoothies, yogurt – freeze them when they’re really overripe and then just take them out as needed from what we call the “banana morgue.” Let them get really, really overripe though – black on the outside and completely mushy on the inside.

By: Chrissy

Chrissy — Tue, 09 Aug 2011 16:19:58 +0000

I thought that I would pass on some of my children’s favorite snacks.

hummus w/ veggies. There are so many variations.
roasted chickpeas(their favorite)

I also use orange juice to sweeten my pancakes. The kids love it.

By: Teresa

Teresa — Mon, 08 Aug 2011 22:11:14 +0000

There are lots of yogurts with no sugar, especially most of the plain yogurts which you can sweeten with honey (preferably raw), agave, sorguhm or maple syrup and fruit. But there are some flavored yogurts that also do not have sugar most of them are the organic or greek or basically more expensive:). If you still cant find it make some its really easy. Then add the sweetner you like.

My mom when I was younger stopped usuing sugar most of her stuff was terrible (sorry mom). Several years ago I decided to cut down on our sugar and first I switched to organic, then to turbinado or succant, now I use mostly raw honey, or maple syrup, I am starting to use sorghum but do not have that down yet. I have found some wonderful non sugar desserts(for my chocolate fix) on raw food sites…..some of it is amazingly good. Some is not as good as the processed, but not bad and much better for you.

I started grinding wheat a few years ago and that has helped with not usuing white sugar and I slowly incorporated other grains into the breads so my family would get use to it without even knowing:)
Do not feel bad when you do use sugar or white flour or even wheat, its a process…. do what you can but if you put a pinch of sugar in a smoothie its ok:) eventually you will be able to leave it out and no one will notice.

Teresa

By: susanne

susanne — Mon, 08 Aug 2011 18:55:19 +0000

Learning better nutrition is definitely a PROCESS!!! I am learning to make small steps and then build from there.
Greek yogurt has no added sugar and I believe it is higher in protein than regular yogurt. I have it with fruit and homemade granola (which has brown sugar but at least I know the ingredients in it!!!). Also great for shakes/smoothies because no added sugar and you can sweeten it with fruit (or honey I suppose although never tried it).
I make a smoothie with greek yogurt, frozen strawberries, milk and a crystal light energy powder (not all would approve, but it replaces my caffeinated, high fructose corn syrup laden soda so that is my trade off!). For the kids, I leave off the CL powder and add fresh fruit or a fruit syrup I have made — yes with a small amount of sugar, but I know everything that is in there so I am happy with that for now.

By: Erin, The $5 Dinner Mom

Erin, The $5 Dinner Mom — Mon, 08 Aug 2011 18:28:26 +0000

It is indeed tough Claire. I don’t have everyone doing this…yet.

I’m hoping this is the start to getting rid of as much sugar as possible in the household!

By: Erin, The $5 Dinner Mom

Erin, The $5 Dinner Mom — Mon, 08 Aug 2011 18:27:30 +0000

haha, yes Heather. I don’t eat much yogurt myself and haven’t spent too much time reading labels, but I know that sugar-free, aspartame free yogurt exists.

And yes…can be disgusting, but if it makes you FEEL BETTER, and it really is what’s best for your body, then you’ve got to go with that. I recommend adding fruit and honey to sweeten it up! You could even cook the fruit in some honey, then let it cool before adding to the plain yogurt.

The new plain Greek yogurt might be a good option to start with…just read the labels.

By: claire

claire — Mon, 08 Aug 2011 18:27:03 +0000

What a challenge this is! WOW. I am not sure if we could do that in this house. When your family is used to a certain way it is hard to change. I’ll see what I can do to change a little by little.