6 natural ways to flavour Greek yoghurt for kids

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Have you noticed?  I don’t buy kiddy yoghurts.  One of the main reasons for that is their sugar content, one of the other reasons is that I’m a cheapskate.  I make my own yoghurt for around $1.20 per litre. The kids love it, I use it in baking, lunchboxes and all sorts of things.

It’s thick, creamy and delicious on it’s own, but it does have a tang to it, so if you’ve got picky kids or kids who are used to kiddy yoghurt, you will need to flavour it.  Plus, let’s be honest, it’s fun to have different flavours of yoghurt in your lunch! So here are 6 ways to flavour Greek yoghurt!

all natural ways to flavour greek yoghurt? Yes please!

If you want to read more about the kiddy yoghurts, Stacey from My Kids Lick the Bowl has done an awesome blog post about it.  Once you see how much sugar is in those pouches, you will never turn back.

so much yum!

When I mention yoghurt in this article, I’m talking full fat, greek yoghurt.  Jalna make a pot set one.  It is as similar to the homemade yoghurt that I make that you will find in a supermarket.  Low fat yoghurt has no place in a kids lunchbox unless it has been prescribed by a medical practitioner.

pouch…and go!

Now, I recently moved to using reusable yoghurt pouches (I use My Lil Pouch– I’ve tried a few brands but really like these ones- I have to admit here that they have sent me some to use gratis, but that doesn’t change my opinion…because I’ve had a few brands sent to me for free and this is the one I like best) and the ease of using them has gotten me hooked.  Miss 4 doesn’t need a spoon (which gets lost anyway) and doesn’t complain about wanting her yoghurt to look like the ones the other kids have because the pouches are cute with nice designs.  They can also go in the dishwasher–a big plus for me.  I’ll be sharing a post next week with my top tips for using yoghurt pouches.  You can read my post on how to use the pouches here.

top spouts are our favourite!

So…how to flavour yoghurt for kids…let’s go!  Pick a favourite and make it today!

1.  Strawberry vanilla yoghurt.

strawberry vanilla…so delish!

So many of the strawberry yoghurts on the market contain strawberry “flavour”.  How much more strawberry flavoured can you get than actual strawberries?   Anyway, at the risk of sounding like an alcoholic, the smell of the strawberries when I was blitzing them was definitely channelling a really good quality strawberry daiquiri.

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Creamy vanilla strawberry yoghurt

Prep 5 mins

Total 5 mins

Author kidgredients

Yield 1 200ml pouch

Need yummy ways to flavour Greek yoghurt? Perfect for kids who are used to kiddie yoghurts or who don't like it plain! Cheaper than buying prepackaged flavoured yoghurt.

Ingredients

• 5 tbsps yoghurt
• 1 tsp vanilla paste
• 5 strawberries, chopped

Instructions

1. Blitz the strawberries and stir through the yoghurt with the vanilla.
2. If you're using a pouch, blitz together to make thinner.

2. Apple pie yoghurt.

Apple pie yoghurt?  She’s gone mad, right?  Nope.  Think about all the sugar in the kiddy yoghurts.  Replace that with natural sugar- apple and add cinnamon.  It’s awesomeness beyond compare. Now, I’ve cooked and blitzed my own apple here, but you could buy an apple puree with nothing else in it and use it, no problems.

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Apple pie yoghurt

Prep 5 mins

Cook 10 mins

Total 15 mins

Author kidgredients

Yield 1 200ml pouch

Need yummy ways to flavour Greek yoghurt? Perfect for kids who are used to kiddie yoghurts or who don't like it plain! Cheaper than buying prepackaged flavoured yoghurt.

Ingredients

• 1 apple, stewed in water and drained and blitzed (or 1/2 cup commercial puree)
• 1 tsp cinnamon
• 5 tbsps yoghurt

Instructions

1. Combine the apple, yoghurt and cinnamon and serve.
2. Blitz together if you want it thinner for a pouch.

3. Classic yoghurt. 

classic…yumminess!

I call this one classic because it reminds me of the flavours that I used to have on yoghurt in Europe, a bit of sweet, a bit of spice and a hit of vanilla.  This one is also delicious as a porridge topping, so don’t stop at using it for your yoghurt.  This is a real favorite with the kids.  Raw honey is actually good for you, as well as being an awesome sweetener.

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Classic Yoghurt

Prep 2 mins

Total 2 mins

Author kidgredients

Yield 1 200ml pouch

Need yummy ways to flavour Greek yoghurt? Perfect for kids who are used to kiddie yoghurts or who don't like it plain! Cheaper than buying prepackaged flavoured yoghurt.

Ingredients

• 5 tbsps greek yoghurt
• 1/2 teaspoon raw honey
• 1/4 teaspoon vanilla paste
• 1/4 teaspoon cinnamon

Instructions

1. Top the yoghurt with the other ingredients, mix as you eat.
2. Or in a pouch, mix all to combine ensuring there is no cinnamon left dry so as to be aspirated.
3. Fill into your yoghurt pouch.

4. Blueberry and lemon yoghurt.

blueberry and lemon…the perfect flavour combo!

There’s something about the purpley colour that blueberry turns yoghurt, it is really yummy looking.  it’s important to get the ratio right with this one, I’ve said about 20 blueberries will do the trick and just 1/2 a teaspoon of lemon.  The yoghurt is naturally tart anyway, so too much lemon will leave you with a fuzzy tongue!

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Blueberry and lemon yoghurt

Cook 5 mins

Total 5 mins

Author kidgredients

Yield 1 200ml pouch

Need yummy ways to flavour Greek yoghurt? Perfect for kids who are used to kiddie yoghurts or who don't like it plain! Cheaper than buying prepackaged flavoured yoghurt.

Ingredients

• 20 blueberries
• 5 tbsps yoghurt
• 1/2 teaspoon lemon juice

Instructions

1. Blitz the blueberries with the lemon juice and stir through the yoghurt.
2. If you're using pouches, blitz the lot together so as to make it thin enough!

5. Maple and cacao yoghurt

maple and cacao…like healthy chocolate

Cacao is really good for you but it is the bitter (but healthier counterpart) of cocoa.  So what to do?  I mixed it with maple syrup as it’s both sweet and natural. This is a sometimes yoghurt as it is chocolate in flavour and because of the maple syrup (basically sugar).

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Maple cacao yoghurt

Cook 5 mins

Total 5 mins

Author kidgredients

Yield 1 200ml pouch

Need yummy ways to flavour Greek yoghurt? Perfect for kids who are used to kiddie yoghurts or who don't like it plain! Cheaper than buying prepackaged flavoured yoghurt.

Ingredients

• 5 tbsps yoghurt
• 1 tsp maple syrup
• 1 tsp cacao

Instructions

1. Mix all the ingredients together ensuring you eliminate any dry lumps of cacao that could be aspirated.

6. Banana milkshake yoghurt

banana milkshake!

So a while back in summer, banana milkshakes used to be the big thing in our place.  A banana blitzed, a pinch of nutmeg and some milk.  That’s all it took to make very content kids at breakfast time.  I’ve transferred this to be a yoghurt flavouring because they love it so much!  Now, this will go slightly brown in the pouches if you send it in a lunchbox, but I use the coloured pouches so they don’t notice.  If you are doing this for pouches, blitz the yoghurt together with the banana and the nutmeg so it gets a bit runnier.

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Banana milkshake yoghurt

Cook 5 mins

Total 5 mins

Author kidgredients

Yield 1 200ml pouch

Need yummy ways to flavour Greek yoghurt? Perfect for kids who are used to kiddie yoghurts or who don't like it plain! Cheaper than buying prepackaged flavoured yoghurt.

Ingredients

• 1 banana
• 5 tbsps yoghurt
• 1 pinch nutmeg

Instructions

1. Blitz the banana until pureed, stir in the nutmeg and yoghurt.
2. For a yoghurt pouche, blitz all the ingredients together.