Being Healthy With Yogurt!
Over the past several weeks I’ve been taking this Holistic Course that focuses on being healthy as a lifestyle by incorporating ALL THE THINGS that I’m about: Fitness, eating well for health, sleeping well, managing stress, decreasing the toxic load, and more. This has spurred me into action! There are some things in my life that I know I should change up … but its habits - right?
I have not only learnt a whole lot more, I’ve learnt the reasons behind some of these healthy changes & habits. Gut health for example - I’ve know for years that a healthy gut is a happy body. That if our guts aren’t happy, there’s chaos going on somewhere else inside & “acting out”. This has naturally lead me down the path of making my own yogurt!!! How did these 2 things come together?!?!
Yogurt… my kids are obsessed with it, it’s a quick easy snack, breakfast, lunch filler, and CAN be very good for your gut health!
I’ve always been so torn when buying yogurt in the store because I know how processed it is, how many fillers & junk are in it, and the worst in my opinion… the sugars! In my opinion, most of the store bought yogurt is actually not good for us, its not good for our guts because they’re either filled with sugar OR don’t have any of the live, active cultures.
So i decided it was time to try my own using the best quality ingredients I could get my hands on. I have read that it is actually cheaper to make your own but my main reason for making it was so I was in control of what was going into the yogurt, making it as good for us as possible!
The result: a whole lot of plain, delicious yogurt! It was a bit thinner than the yogurt we bought but so good. My kids don’t eat plain yogurt so I added their favs to the yogurt & they loved it. My youngest was a “typical kid” (whenever anything is slightly different from the way they’re used to, they automatically say they don’t like it) and because it was thinner he declared he didn’t like it. My solution, I put it into a cup, added a straw, & said it was a yogurt drink. That was fun & then it was his new favourite thing to eat / drink!
Here’s the recipe I used:
