yogurt – Hand Coding

Cottage Cheese & Fruit?

September 6, 2002August 13, 2005 Ashley Bischoff3 Comments

While I had my mid-afternoon yogurt (a fruit-on-the-bottom yogurt, as I have every day), one of my cow-orkers suggested that I could try those cottage-cheese-and-fruit combos (for instance, “Cottage Doubles”). At 150 Calories and 12g protein each, they’re pretty healthy — though it’s fair to say that yogurt is generally healthy to begin with ;).

Has anyone tried these, and are they any good? I may just buy a couple, but they cost about twice as much as those little yogurts ($1 instead of about 50¢). And, I’m a bit concerned when Kraft’s press release says that “it satisfies you without weighing you down” — could that just marketing-speak to say that they’re not filling?

Yogurt Cities

August 19, 2002August 13, 2005 Ashley Bischoff2 Comments

I like today’s Buzzword of the Day, from Buzzwhack’s Buzzword-of-the-Day mailing list:

yogurt cities: Cities with thriving “active cultures” — museums, symphonies, opera, independent bookstores, etc. — where baby boomers will choose to retire (instead of retirement communities).

I don’t know if that reflects my retirement plans, but I like the word (well, phrase) anyhow.

Nutri-Grain Yogurt Bars

July 1, 2002August 13, 2005 Ashley Bischoff1 Comment

So, I bought some Nutri-Grain Yogurt Bars a couple weeks ago, but I only got around to trying them this evening. I’m a big yogurt fan, so I had my hopes up.

But, it was a bit of a disappointment. For one thing, it was a box of 30 (since I bought it at Sam’s Club). But, inside the “big box” were three smaller boxes of 10 bars each :-/. Obviously, Kellogg’s just took their “normal” packages of 10-each boxes and put threee of those boxes inside a bigger box. Bah.

On to the taste. The outside cookie/biscuit was standard Nutri-Grain bar taste. Inside was the “yogurt”. But, this wasn’t your friendly neighborhood yogurt. Rather, it had the consistency of about caramel — not quite the cool and creamy yogurt that I crave. In fact, had I not read the label, I might not have known that it was supposed to be yogurt in there at all. Then again, I suppose that “Nutri-Grain Goo Bars” just doesn’t have the same ring to it.