Oui Yogurt

[ysabetwordsmith]

Yoplait has a yogurt version that just appeared in stores near me.  Oui is a French-style yogurt in a glass jar, considerably more expensive than any of my usual selections, but sooooo good.  It is fully set with a thick, silky texture. The fruit is on the bottom, but the top layer also tastes like fruit even before stirring -- a distinct improvement over the Dannon fruit-on-the-bottom which was never any good until stirred, and nowadays the texture is gloppy and awful then, so I gave up on that version.  Also when you peel the foil off the cap, there's a happy little message on the bottom side.  Today's said "Dance in the mirror."  (Yes, I've done that.)  I love seeing little prosocial things like that.  Local-America doesn't seem to be reusing the jars, but T-America would.  First I tried the black cherry, today strawberry, both excellent.  I've seen blueberry and I think a few other flavors.  So my new rule is that I can buy one of these as a treat, along with the cheap stuff.  Yoplait Original is decent, and I love Annie's. The latter actually makes a vanilla that has flavor,  not just equivalent to plain, which I discovered by accident.  Anyway, if you like solid yogurt, try the Oui.  Tres bon!

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[thewayne]

My wife is unhappy because it appears that our Albertsons may have stopped carrying Sigi's yogurt, hopefully it's a 'temporary out of stock' situation. That's the problem with living in an extremely rural area: we only have three grocery choices, the other two are a small local chain and Walmart. The local chain has their own tortillaria, so we always have amazing tortillas, which is wonderful. And since Albertsons opened, now Walmart gets 5% of our custom instead of 95%.

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[ysabetwordsmith]

That's frustrating.

We live in a rural area too, but we ramble around several towns. There's a lot of stuff we can't get at the local Wal-Mart. We do some shopping at Ruler or Aldi, but for the nice items, we're hitting Champaign-Urbana at places like World Harvest, Cheese & Crackers, Harvest Market, etc.

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[thewayne]

Unfortunately we're more isolated.  We live 20 minutes from the closest major town, and the two big cities are 90 minutes (Las Cruces) and 2 hours (El Paso) away and have basically the same selection.  The smaller towns around us are even further away and have a much worse selection.  Rural New Mexico is a wasteland.  El Paso also has Sprouts and Whole Foods, but on the whole, the shopping isn't any different. For us, our most joyful plunder is when we're in Phoenix: we take a big ice chest and hit Trader Joe's.  Albertsons does good for us, we shall see what happens with yogurt.  The big question will be whether we could order it online, which I'm sure we can, and whether or not you can freeze yogurt, which I expect we can. A store called Cheese & Crackers sounds VERY dangerous!  There's a French bistro in Longmont, Colorado (N of Denver) that has an amazing cheese cave, I'm glad that I don't have regular access to it!  Likewise, there's a store in Las Cruces that has a not quite so amazing cheese selection that I conveniently forget to explore when I'm in town.  My wife has developed a cheese sensitivity, so I content myself with a wonderful very sharp cheddar from Trader Joe's, which I've stockpiled ten or so blocks in our fridge.

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[ysabetwordsmith]

>>Unfortunately we're more isolated. We live 20 minutes from the closest major town, and the two big cities are 90 minutes (Las Cruces) and 2 hours (El Paso) away and have basically the same selection. <<

That sucks. :(

We're about 10 minutes from the edge of town, but more like 20-30 from the middle where we shop, and that's both of the two nearest towns worth shopping in. However, an hour away has a much better selection of stuff, adequate to most of our needs.

>>Rural New Mexico is a wasteland. <<

Painfully true.

>>For us, our most joyful plunder is when we're in Phoenix: we take a big ice chest and hit Trader Joe's.<<

LOL we have friends bring us care packages from Chicago, like fresh kielbasa and pierogies.

>>The big question will be whether we could order it online, which I'm sure we can, and whether or not you can freeze yogurt, which I expect we can.<<

Well, you can obviously freeze it, because frozen yogurt is yummy. However, I doubt it would thaw well into snacking yogurt.

>> A store called Cheese & Crackers sounds VERY dangerous! <<

Gourmet cheese and some other stuff, so yes. I am enamored of the fact that they sell their butt ends at a discount whenever a wheel gets too small to carve easily. Bargain compte!

>>My wife has developed a cheese sensitivity<<

To the microbes or the dairy? If microbes, I don't know a great solution. Very young cheeses and cheese-like things such as cream cheese or farmer's cheese might be okay, but not for everyone. If dairy, consider exploring non-dairy cheeses.