Trader Joe's, Whats Good???

[Duke07]

Take that greek yogurt and mix it with your sweet potatoes add some cinammon and splenda and with your mashed potatoes with salsa. I do it all the time good stuff.

[wukillabee]

Take that greek yogurt and mix it with your sweet potatoes add some cinammon and splenda and with your mashed potatoes with salsa. I do it all the time good stuff.

So your saying when i make the mashed sweet potatoes just add the yogurt with some cinn and splenda? So the yogurt would take place of butter/milk to soften the potatoes right? My gurl makes the mashed sweet potatoes so im not sure how to make them. Im assuming this is what u would do?

[sarika]

I buy the non fat greek yogurt too, but I actually like the sour taste. If you need to sweeten it up you can do the splenda/cinnamon combination. Or, Jello makes sugar-free single serving packets of both chocolate and vanilla pudding that are only 25/35 calories and mix well with the yogurt. You won't find those at TJ's but any major chain should have them.

As far as making the sweet potatoes, I would peel them, chop them up then steam them until soft and tender, then blend in the food processor until smooth. Now you have 2 options, you can mix with the yogurt and just eat up. Or, if you're a culinary genius like myself, I strongly recommend turning it into more of a casserole. To do this, add the yogurt to the mashed potatoes in a mixing bowl along with 1/2 cup of egg whites and some cinnamon. Depending on how strict you are, you can add a tsp of vanilla extract too if you'd like, there's 1g sugar/tsp. Anyway scrape your mixture into a baking dish coated with cooking spray and bake at 350 for about 30 minutes or until golden brown... my oven has a mind of its own so I could be off with that estimate.

For a different direction with the yogurt, it tastes great with fresh dill and lemon juice cucumber. I mix that together and eat it on Ezekial toast with sprouts... all of which you can get at traders.

Oh and an amazing cheat meal is the yogurt with blueberries, pistachios, and some agave nectar, I actually had that when I was in Europe, it's to die for.

The yogurt isn't really all that bad, train your palette and you"ll learn to love it too.