PSA: don't use greek yogurt for babies. Greek yogurt has that thicker consistency because they've squeezed all the whey out of it. However, the whey is the most nutritious, protein-filled part of the yogurt. My aunt who is a physician looked this up when I told her I was giving dd greek yogurt, she was trying to figure out the difference.

The trader joe's organic, full fat, plain yogurt.
No sugar or additives and only $3 for a big container.

Anonymous wrote:Trader Joes has full fat Greek yogurt.

Be careful at Trader Joes, they have full fat "greek style" yogurt which is different. I was duped, they add whey to it to up the protein.

Trader Joes has full fat Greek yogurt.

doc told me plain, whole milk yogurt was best too! my 10-month-old won't eat much without some kind of sweetener (especially the greek), but I just add a little applesauce or other baby puree with fruit to sweeten it a bit and she's on board. it's still much less sugar than the pre-sweetened yogurts.

re: full fat greek yogurt - my giant doesn't carry it either! the 2% fage is the closest I've seen. so, I use that from time to time to get a little more protein in her. (she won't eat meat so far unless it is ground up and hidden in a puree and soy seems to make her crazy gassy. )

It's also cheaper to buy a big tub of yogurt than a bunch of little baby snack pack types.

Anonymous wrote:I am having the hardest time finding full fat organic greek yogurt to the point of resorting to making my own. Where and what brands are you all buying?

Pretty sure Whole Foods and Trader Joe's have full fat organic Greek yogurt. If not, maybe My Organic Market?

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Anonymous wrote:Low fat diets are the most ridiculous thing and a perfect representation of a poorly studied and broad generalization that fat is bad. Fat is good and fine, sugar not so much. Eat whole foods that are not processed and all is well. It is not natural to eat reduced fat foods, therefor they are processed.

Un. Homoginized whole milk is processed. Before homogenization came along cream rose to the top and usually was removed I part or in whole to use as cream or to make butter. Ergo people drank low fat milk.

Sugar occurs naturally in fruit. It isn't inherently bad.

Trickling Springs.....magical stuff.

Anonymous wrote:Low fat diets are the most ridiculous thing and a perfect representation of a poorly studied and broad generalization that fat is bad. Fat is good and fine, sugar not so much. Eat whole foods that are not processed and all is well. It is not natural to eat reduced fat foods, therefor they are processed.

Un. Homoginized whole milk is processed. Before homogenization came along cream rose to the top and usually was removed I part or in whole to use as cream or to make butter. Ergo people drank low fat milk.

Sugar occurs naturally in fruit. It isn't inherently bad.

Low fat diets are the most ridiculous thing and a perfect representation of a poorly studied and broad generalization that fat is bad. Fat is good and fine, sugar not so much. Eat whole foods that are not processed and all is well. It is not natural to eat reduced fat foods, therefor they are processed.

Anonymous wrote:Everything that I've read says that babies/toddlers should have full fat everything, because they need fat to help their brains grow. We have steered away from Greek yogurt for our 1 year old because I was worried that too much protein would make him constipated (he has had that problem before). We give him plain full fat Dannon yogurt. At first we couldn't find it at our local grocery (they only had low fat and fat free yogurts) but now they've started carrying it.

Not necessarily true. We never did whole milk. But my kid eats a pretty varied diet. He gets plenty of fat-avacado, olives, fat in the not whole fat dairy products, eggs, nuts, salmon, etc.

Two pediatricians were not only on board, but recommended this approach.

Might be different if you have a kid who is a picky eater.

Fage full fat greek yogurt, found at Wegman's and occasionally at Whole foods.

Anonymous wrote:We never gave our baby "baby yogurt." We bought full-fat plain yogurt.

+1. I used to mix it with a mashed banana.

We started with 0% fat and moved to low / full fat. I add some sugar and mash strawberries / raspberries through a strainer. Buy the fage kind. I prefer yogurts that are natural, with no addition of starch or pectin.

full fat greek yogurt