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Do you eat Chobani or Oikos Greek and leave the fruit alone?

brandonrf
brandonrf Posts: 37 Member
edited March 3 in Food and Nutrition
I am adding two 5.3 oz yogurt cups to my day everyday. Love the stuff. Its my go to snack and its loaded with Protein. I dont eat the fruit at the bottom cause i know its loaded with sugar, so I enjoy the yogurt, skim it off the fruit layer and throw the fruit and cup away. But in my calories I show higher content of carbs than I should be. Is there a way to remove those carbs and input a modified Greek yogurt cup in for my daily intake.
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  • Cardio4Cupcakes
    Cardio4Cupcakes Posts: 289 Member
    Why not just buy Greek yogurt without the fruit in it?
  • FitMelody4Life
    FitMelody4Life Posts: 106 Member
    agreed, why be wasteful when they make a product without the fruit
  • lynn_glenmont
    lynn_glenmont Posts: 10,129 Member
    Why not just buy Greek yogurt without the fruit in it?
    +1
    You'll probably save a lot of money doing this, as well.
  • Cardio4Cupcakes
    Cardio4Cupcakes Posts: 289 Member
    Also, if you buy a big tub of it instead of individual containers and portion them out in tiny Tupperware containers, you save money and help the environment.
  • GiveMeCoffee
    GiveMeCoffee Posts: 3,556 Member
    Really???

    You do know they make plain yogurt if that's what you like or eat the damn fruit it's the best part

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  • Cranquistador
    Cranquistador Posts: 39,744 Member
    NO
  • brandonrf
    brandonrf Posts: 37 Member
    Ouch harsh bunch...

    Yes, that is the obvious choice. Just to buy the plain but I dont like the plain. If i do the fruit cups I get some of the fruit flavor but not all the sugar since its separated and sitting at the bottom.

    I buy the cups for conveinence and dont really care to save the planet. Where I buy yogurt, the individual cups are the same price as the tubs per ouce. I have done my homework on yogurt since its my favorite go to snack/breakfast.

    As for cost that is something I watch like a hawk and well I pay about 12.1 cents an ouce for the fruit version and 12.0 cents an ouce for the plain. I eat about 10 ouces a day (netting 24g protein) so I would be saving a wopping 1 cent a day (30 cents a month) and still have to flavor the plain boring yogurt.

    I really enjoy my food and while I dont eat sweets anymore I do watch sugar intake. I eat for healthy living not to cut ever carb. I eat about 150-180 grams of protein a day, fill in the rest with carbs and keep my fats for the most part around 40-50 grams. My pie chart has equal parts carbs and protein and about 20-25 percent fat.

    The point was to get what you want in your day and modify modify modify as tony horton says to make it work for you. I do that in my dieting as well but still truely enjoy what I eat.
  • SonicDeathMonkey80
    SonicDeathMonkey80 Posts: 4,489 Member
    Buy plain and add a packet of stevia and some vanilla extract. You're welcome.
  • lemurcat12
    lemurcat12 Posts: 30,886 Member
    Why not just buy Greek yogurt without the fruit in it?

    This. Try adding fruit yourself, though, that's tasty.
  • Cardio4Cupcakes
    Cardio4Cupcakes Posts: 289 Member
    Buy plain and add a packet of stevia and some vanilla extract. You're welcome.

    Some of my friends will also add a tiny bit of Crystal Light powder (like very tiny)
  • lporter229
    lporter229 Posts: 4,907 Member
    Eat the plain with a dab of honey or maple syrup and walnuts . Or just put fresh berries in it so you get some of the flavor from fruit but not over the top sweetness.
  • BusyRaeNOTBusty
    BusyRaeNOTBusty Posts: 7,166 Member
    Or there's just vanilla.... :huh:
  • brandonrf
    brandonrf Posts: 37 Member
    Well I guess I am alone on this one. As to the stevia comment. Absolutely. Stevia has changed my life. I dont have to hunger for something sweet anymore, I just mix up a glass of brewed iced tea and add stevia for a sweet fix.
  • usmcmp
    usmcmp Posts: 21,219 Member
    You do know that milk products contains lactose, which is sugar.
  • EmilyJackCO
    EmilyJackCO Posts: 621 Member
    Try the Tillamook Farmstyle Vanilla Greek Yogurt. It's effing phenomenal, and you can add anything or not. And higher in protein than Chobani.
  • brandonrf
    brandonrf Posts: 37 Member
    You do know that milk products contains lactose, which is sugar.

    Yes sir, still eat 50 or so grams of sugar a day but I dont eat processed sugars. Greek yogurt only has 1 gram of sugar per 5 oz.
  • usmcmp
    usmcmp Posts: 21,219 Member
    You do know that milk products contains lactose, which is sugar.

    Yes sir, still eat 50 or so grams of sugar a day but I dont eat processed sugars. Greek yogurt only has 1 gram of sugar per 5 oz.

    I'm a woman.
  • tsimblist
    tsimblist Posts: 206 Member
    ...

    Yes, that is the obvious choice. Just to buy the plain but I dont like the plain.

    ...


    As for cost that is something I watch like a hawk and well I pay about 12.1 cents an ouce for the fruit version and 12.0 cents an ouce for the plain. I eat about 10 ouces a day (netting 24g protein) so I would be saving a wopping 1 cent a day (30 cents a month) and still have to flavor the plain boring yogurt.

    ...

    You may want to double check your calculations. The plain yogurt cup has more protein since the carbs aren't there.

    I didn't like plain Greek yogurt either. But I learned to like it when I saw how much more protein I could get for my money & calories.
  • SonicDeathMonkey80
    SonicDeathMonkey80 Posts: 4,489 Member
    Well I guess I am alone on this one. As to the stevia comment. Absolutely. Stevia has changed my life. I dont have to hunger for something sweet anymore, I just mix up a glass of iced tea and add stevia for a sweet fix.

    You gotta do the extract though or it will still taste like crap. Almond works well too.
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  • BusyRaeNOTBusty
    BusyRaeNOTBusty Posts: 7,166 Member
    You do know that milk products contains lactose, which is sugar.

    Yes MA'AM, still eat 50 or so grams of sugar a day but I dont eat processed sugars. Greek yogurt only has 1 gram of sugar per 5 oz.

    But even the non-fruit part of Chobani is "processed".
  • caesar164
    caesar164 Posts: 312 Member
    Yeah, your defenitely alone on this one brah :-)
  • Fullsterkur_woman
    Fullsterkur_woman Posts: 2,712 Member
    I am adding two 5.3 oz yogurt cups to my day everyday. Love the stuff. Its my go to snack and its loaded with Protein. I dont eat the fruit at the bottom cause i know its loaded with sugar, so I enjoy the yogurt, skim it off the fruit layer and throw the fruit and cup away. But in my calories I show higher content of carbs than I should be. Is there a way to remove those carbs and input a modified Greek yogurt cup in for my daily intake.
    Sure, if you insist on doing things the hard way, you can create your own custom food and input the information for the plain yogurt in place of the info on the cup. Scaled, of course, to account for the difference in weight. Perhaps divide by 5.3 and multiply by however many ounces of actual plain yogurt you get out of it.

    Or maybe just log plain yogurt.

    But any way you slice it, I didn't find Chobani's nutrient ratio to be nearly as good as Fage plain, and I sure wouldn't spend money on fruit I was gonna throw away. I buy the plain and put in a squirt of Mio for flavor.
  • silver_arrow3
    silver_arrow3 Posts: 1,373 Member
    You do know that milk products contains lactose, which is sugar.

    Yes MA'AM, still eat 50 or so grams of sugar a day but I dont eat processed sugars. Greek yogurt only has 1 gram of sugar per 5 oz.

    But even the non-fruit part of Chobani is "processed".
    Shhhh... Logic is lost on this thread.
  • brandonrf
    brandonrf Posts: 37 Member
    You do know that milk products contains lactose, which is sugar.

    Yes sir, still eat 50 or so grams of sugar a day but I dont eat processed sugars. Greek yogurt only has 1 gram of sugar per 5 oz.

    I'm a woman.

    my apologies, didnt see your profile til just now.
  • SonicDeathMonkey80
    SonicDeathMonkey80 Posts: 4,489 Member
    You do know that milk products contains lactose, which is sugar.

    Yes sir, still eat 50 or so grams of sugar a day but I dont eat processed sugars. Greek yogurt only has 1 gram of sugar per 5 oz.

    Hmmm... pretty sure this yogurt is as far from unprocessed as anything in that fridge section gets.
  • cmcollins001
    cmcollins001 Posts: 3,472 Member
    You do know that milk products contains lactose, which is sugar.

    Yes sir, still eat 50 or so grams of sugar a day but I dont eat processed sugars. Greek yogurt only has 1 gram of sugar per 5 oz.

    I'm a woman.

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  • brandonrf
    brandonrf Posts: 37 Member
    Well I guess I am alone on this one. As to the stevia comment. Absolutely. Stevia has changed my life. I dont have to hunger for something sweet anymore, I just mix up a glass of iced tea and add stevia for a sweet fix.

    You gotta do the extract though or it will still taste like crap. Almond works well too.

    I have a bottle of KAL pure stevia on my work desk right now. Its the extract with out additives.
  • kshadows
    kshadows Posts: 1,315 Member
    I don't buy the "fruit on the bottom" type because I think it's gross. The blended ones are super good though... I love coconut, orange cream, cafe latte, and several others. If you're worried about sugar, maybe buy plain and add your own fruit?
  • George_Baileys_Ghost
    George_Baileys_Ghost Posts: 1,524 Member
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