Yogurt Parfait

First Yogurt Parfaits Of 2021

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Portable Yogurt seems to be my prime goto during the week when I grow bored of breakfast in bar form. You can use pretty much anything for a container, but I prefer these yogurt cups. They come with a dome for storing cereal, or other kinds of toppings.

I’ve reached a point with my workday parfaits that I don’t need to even look at recipes, unless I’m looking for flavour inspiration. I almost always use oats with these things. One scoop per cup does the job.

Equal parts milk and yogurt come into play; sometimes I’ll also do straight yogurt, but I prefer it to be kinda like a smoothie bowl. In this case I’m using regular milk and honey sweetened greek yogurt, as greek style yogurt is DUMMY THICC on protein. Then of course comes flavouring my canvas. For the two parfaits I made I decided the base would be my matcha/monkfruit powder.

I like to use chia seeds whenever possible. They’re a great thickener if you want your breakfast to have a pudding like consistency, and have plenty of nutritional value. Plus they add a nice crunch.

 

Mixed in a different fruit into each one. The one on the left got the blueberry treatment, and for the other one I tried dragonfruit. I ate that one today, and I’m thinking if I go to use it again to add a second fruit like strawberry to it for added flavour. Dragonfruit is good for you, really high in fiber, but at least in frozen form it’s quite lacking in taste. I’ll be looking forward to some blueberries and matcha tomorrow, that particular set has become a regular staple and a good combo with matcha. Both green tea and blueberries are rich in antioxidants.

To top it off I added fruity granola for additional crunch. Eating one of these gives me enough energy to power me up until I go home for the day, and I like them because they’re easy to make ahead. This is probably my favourite breakfast lifehack.

By The Power Of Britain I Have Strawberry Banana Yogurt!

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I ate through the last of my weekend breakfast and had to resort to midweek yogurt breakfast for tomorrow’s on the go breakfast prep. I forgot to get some strawberry yogurt, but in a pinch the British Strawberry Nesquik did the trick, and I even decided to add Banana Nesquik to make it Strawberry Banana, and they both have actual vitamins so not only will it taste good but I made it slightly healthier somehow! I also added fresh strawberries, pecans and semisweet mini chocolate morsels. I also have some cocoa granola for an additional crunch. I’m thinking this will pack enough protein to take on tomorrow. I’ve mostly been eating keto bars instead of a normal breakfast since I pretty much came back from vacation, and I’m in need of something slightly more flavorful, and possibly able to hold my appetite for longer than 4 hours..

 

Maple Chai Yogurt Concoction

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I’ve been having a hankering for chai pudding lately. I’ve searched the internet but haven’t found many results. Instead of making a dessert though I opted to make a yogurt cup with chai spices instead. I took oatmeal, vanilla greek yogurt, milk, chia seeds, fresh ginger, cloves, cinnamon, nutmeg, brown sugar, and maple syrup to make something like a maple chai. For the crunch topper I have chocolate granola with dried red berries. I’ve already had a little taste, and I’m already looking forward to lunch breakfast tomorrow!

Valentine Yogurt

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I celebrated Valentines Day by making a chocolate strawberry yogurt parfait with a few chocolates and some cocoa granola:

The one on the left is a mint chocolate parfait. Figured I would make something holiday themed and practice for a St Pat’s parfait for next month! I want to make something that tastes like a shamrock shake minus the throat burning and concrete staining our amazing American McDonald’s Milkshakes are known for.

On another note: I’m almost out of Watermelon juice… :zorak:  Will have to stock up for the weekend I suppose. :melon:

This thread is brought to you by several balanced breakfasts

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I’ve more than fulfilled my promise this weekend for healthy breakfasts, and even managed to get over my fear of oatmeal. I grew up not really caring for it… and I think in part it might be in how it was prepared for me the few times I had to to try and stomach my way through a bowl. Now that I’m an adult with an overactive imagination and an appetite to apply a small amount of it to I think I’ve managed to actually make oatmeal to be proud of. The above is a mix of chopped frozen black cherries, whole recently frozen blueberries, dried cranberries, sliced fresh banana, pralines, maple syrup, brown sugar, cinnamon and just a touch of salt. It was the right amount of sweetness, and the addition of nuts and berries gave it additional flavor. I was so proud of myself that I decided to do a different variant today:

This one consists of brown sugar, vanilla extract, walnuts, frozen mangoes, strawberries and pineapple chunks, and another chopped banana. It felt nice to have something warm with the taste of the tropics on an otherwise cold morning. I’m thinking of next week of making some breakfast curry of some sort; until then I have these to look forward til hump day.

The one in the middle is a raspberry white chocolate parfait that I plan to bring to work tomorrow. The one on the left is a caramel banana oat parfait (though they all have oats in them), and the one on the right is basically the same thing as the one on the left but with maple syrup instead of caramel, and the addition of walnuts. Oh, and they all have cocoa granola because that just sounds good with any of these. :trollface:

If anyone has good breakfast or any other kind of food ideas you’ve tried recently I’d like to hear it!

Mastering The Zen Of Yogurt

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Sorry, been a busy week and these have really been coming in handy. I never got to put together that caramel banana one I had envisioned; instead I decided to make all of the remaining yogurt parfaits for the week into matcha ones, not that you’d be able to tell or anything due to all of that fruitiness going on.

This mix consists of:

  • Greek Vanilla Yogurt (or your personal preference)
  • Honey or Agave (optional)
  • Blueberries
  • Black Cherries
  • Japanese Matcha sweetened with Monkfruit
  • Pulverized Oats
  • Topped with a fruit and nut granola mix

After eating one of these I was basically set for the rest of the day. I haven’t even had a proper after work lunch yet, and I ate this about 7 hours ago! The sweetness of the blueberry helps offset the tangy black cherries, and matcha mixed in yogurt with fruit not only adds a nice tea flavor but also offers helpful antioxidants alongside the blueberries. I’m not a health nut, but somehow I keep making these choices.

I’ll be bringing another parfait of the same make tomorrow, that one was good enough to have an encore.

All of the breakfast

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I pretty much have breakfast mapped out for the week. I made some eggs and sausage today with a spicy tomato three pepper sauce, sadly I was too hungry to take a picture. Then later on in the day I made some raspberry and cherry sauces to mix with the parfaits. I have two of them dressed with nutella, a thick, sweet and kind of tart cherry sauce and a crunchy mix of cocoa granola and caramel cashews, the other nutella one has a tangy raspberry sauce, cocoa granola and a three nut mix of praline pecans, honey roasted peanuts and caramel cashews. The parfait in the middle is probably the most innocent. It has a mix of matcha (sweetened with monkfruit), honey, pineapple, mango, strawberries, freshly grated ginger and a mix of honey and fruit granola with my three nut mix leftover from the other parfait.

On the left I made a homemade cherry sauce with frozen cherries, sugar, lime juice, cornstarch and vanilla extract. While the raspberry sauce is runnier and mainly consists of raspberry, sugar and lime juice. These also go nice on ice cream, or if you want to strain the seeds out you could serve the raspberry sauce in some soda, tea or a cocktail. I think the raspberry sauce might even be good for milkshakes or smoothies.