LeavingLondon

I am desperate for Granola with fat free plain yogurt for breakfast. Now I've found the granola but can not for the life of me find the yogurt (am looking for a normal runny consistency). Whole Foods have been kind enough to give me 4 different yogurts to try at home for free but they were all thick (like jelly or Greek yogurt) and Safeway have opened about 3 different yogurts in store for me but they too were the wrong consistency. Can anybody help!!?? (Love how accommodating they are in stores here! Big points for customer service)

My parents have just come over from the UK and have brought with them boxes of Kelloggs Crunchie Nut Clusters which my kids love but can't find here and loads of biscuits so i'm now going to put back all the weight that i've lost over the last 7 months since moving here! Aah!

Bob

Crunchie Nut, they started selling that in some stores last summer.

Yoghurt, I go with the own brand Wegmans which is nice and also Trader Joes own brand.

Could always make your own, it's not that hard if you've a warm kitchen.

Fage is a good brand, but a little thick.
Chobani, the same.
Wallaby, but I've not tried the plain one.

There's also the expensive one that comes in the glass jars, can't remember the name but it's lovely....just a bit to expensive.

LeavingLondon

Thanks Bob. I'll look at those brands and see if i've tried them already.

Yes have seen Crunchie Nut Cornflakes but not Crunchie Nut Clusters! And one of my boys will only eat the latter!!

Guindalf

I'm pretty sure there's a Post product that's Honey Nut Clusters. Not certain though. Look in the regular cereal aisle.

WEBlue

Yes suddenly the very-thick "Greek" style yogurt is everywhere, replacing the old generic low-fat runny yogurt, which has fallen out of popularity.

As Bob suggests, try making your own--whenever I make a batch of yogurt, it's always very thin & runny....

Bob

I used a small tub of the organic own brand Wegmans as the starter and given a bit of time it does thicken up nicely, but not as much as the Greek style.

Normally mix it with maple/golden syrup or honey for a sweetener and vanilla but not making so much as fresh berries are a bit pricey at the mo.

WEBlue

Mine always comes out thinnish--or maybe a better word is 'soft'--but I think that's because I usually make it with non-fat milk. IMO home-made yogurt comes out a bit thicker when you make it with whole milk or even 2% milk. Some methods advocate adding some non-fat powdered milk to give your yogurt a bit more body.

For LeavingLondon, here's more-or-less my method (--though NOT adding in the 'Greek' step where you strain the yogurt). Very simple. All you really need is a dependable thermometer (for cooking liquids), no other special items.
http://www.npr.org/2013/11/06/243014...our-own-yogurt

Bob

Aye, that's the one I use too.

LeavingLondon

Thank you. I'll try that tomorrow! Never made yogurt before!

Bob

Hidden Valley Breakfast Biscuits, they're just like Hobnobs but much cheaper, a couple bucks at the mo with the coupons in Walmart.

Pulaski

Or if you don't like garlic flavoured oat biscuits, try Nature Valley Breakfast Biscuits.

N1cky

Finally caved last week and placed an order at the English Pork Pie place, so far we've eaten the Melton Mowbry pork pie, which was delicious, unfortunately they only sent a 6oz instead of the 1lb I ordered. Also had some Cumberland sausages, which we devoured with mash and onion gravy. They were lovely, great flavor and the skin was very thin like what we get in England.

We've got some plain chipolatas to eat for breakfast tomorrow. Also ordered some Lincolnshire and Pork and Leek varieties, hope they are as good as the first lot.

I'd definitely order from them again. I bought $75 of products and got shipping for $25, all but one pack of sausages were still frozen when they arrived.

claire1107

Has anyone ever found any crumpets or pikelets.. we really miss these..

Nutek

Stop and Shop sell Crumpets around here.

claire1107

aww just checked website we don't have one in the state of Florida