Tasty Yogurt

As I mentioned in a previous post, Josiah can eat 32 oz of yogurt in a day if we let him. He is fanatic about yogurt. It's the first thing he wants when he wakes up in the morning and after naps. I buy him the organic stony*field yogurt and it is expensive when I have to buy it so often. So this past week I decided to try to make my own. I figured it couldn't be too hard. I searched the internet and found a recipe to try. Click here to go see it. All I needed was milk, powdered milk, sugar, vanilla bean, and starter yogurt.

First you have to bring the milk just up to a boil. When it was heating it smelled soo good because I had the vanilla bean in it.


Then you let it cool, add the starter yogurt, and put it in jars. You then wrap the jars in several towels and let sit in a warm place for 12-15 hours. I was amazed and shocked that after 12 hours it had set up like yogurt!! Then you put it in the fridge to stop the yogurting process.

The next morning we ate it with breakfast and it was rather tasty. It was not as tart as the store bought stuff, but it was good. I also had some fresh strawberries that were about to go bad so I put them in my food processor to puree them up, then warmed them on the stove with a little sugar. I also did the same with some frozen organic peaches I had. That way I can just add whatever topping I want.

Here is the price of it:
Organic Whole Milk- $4.45/gal (used a half gallon)
Vanilla Bean- .75
Powdered Milk- not sure how much I paid for it
Starter yogurt- .50 (next time I will just use some of my yogurt that I already made)

Homemade Total price- $3.47 for 64 oz of yogurt

Store bought yogurt price- $3.50-$3.99 for 32 oz of organic yogurt (yikes!)

So I am saving 50% by making my own. Pretty good I think! And now I won't have to run to the store just to buy yogurt which I have been known to do. :)