My Favorite Quick Fix Snack – (greek yogurt meets molasses)
Sometimes you happen upon perfect combinations that just call out to the Southern tastebuds. Watermelon and Salt, Bacon and biscuits, Tea and sugar 🙂
Today I couldn’t resist sharing my new favorite combination. I’ve been eating this at least once a day for about a month now, especially when I was working on my book. And as soon as I’m done writing this, I’m going to fix myself another one because it is just that good. Sometimes this is breakfast, sometimes it’s lunch, sometimes it’s an afternoon snack. It’s always good though and if you are even remotely a yogurt or molasses person, you’ve got to try this.
If you’re not currently a yogurt person but love molasses (or honey), this may change your outlook!
Meet Greek Yogurt.
Not just any yogurt, greek yogurt is thicker and has more protein than regular yogurt. I don’t know a soul at Dannon and I’m not being paid or anything to blog about this particular brand (but hey, if anyone decides they want to pay me, my kids grow out of their clothes pretty fast…) but this is my favorite one to get. I get the individual cups most of the time because I can grab it and go if need be.
It is important to get plain. Not vanilla, but plain. That way we don’t have all of the added sugar and we can add our own. And believe me, some yogurt out there really racks up the sugar grams!
These little cups cost about a dollar each and I buy five or six a week to keep in the fridge.
You can also use this in place of sour cream in recipes if you like.
To make it like I do, add in one or two packages of Splenda.
I usually just add one but when I’m not feeling as sweet as I should be, an extra packet might help 🙂
You know you can use sugar if you want to, of course, but I’m saving my sweet calories for the grand finale!
Oh, and by the way, this little cup has 15 grams of protein and 0 fat.
and now it has two packets of splenda.. ~grins~
Stir that up really good.
Drizzle top with about one tablespoon of molasses.
OH how I love molasses. Deep, dark, sweet and bitter molasses.
Doesn’t that look good? Like a molasses sundae 🙂
If you don’t love molasses, this is also divine with a good drizzling of honey.
You CAN buy greek yogurt with honey on the bottom but that is just a big old mess. The honey is watered down and weak so just get plain (not vanilla) and make it yourself for the real deal.
Me. Happy.
Do you have favorite quick fix snack right now?
Tell me about it in the comments below!
“Good Mom’s have sticky floors, dirty ovens, and happy kids.”
~Submitted by Jayme.
I will be trying the Greek yogurt with molasses tomorrow morning.
Some mentioned watermelon and salt. My cousins and I used to go out to our Grandparents’ garden with a salt shaker. We would pick a few sugar babies (I think that was the variety). They were smallish and very sweet we could crack them open using our knees and sit in the hot summer sun passing the salt shaker around while we gorged on sun-warmed watermelon. Great memories!
My family ate canteloupe with black pepper but no salt. I introduced some of my west coast friends to this treat and at first they were all skeptical but now they love it, too. The pepper enhances the sweetness of the canteloupe.
I looked up your website after seeing you on Beat the Chefs. Great Site! I love Molasses and love Greek yogurt. I never thought of combining the two until now. My late Uncle always made molasses for us and now it’s hit or miss with the ones we purchase in KY, but I will try this. Thanks!
Boy am I glad that I just found this website. What a great resource for loads of info. I just so happen to finally find a greek yogurt that I liked the taste and consistency of…Chobani…I had almost given up. All the GREAT ideas will keep me going with lots of choices for jazzing up the plain greek yogurt. I am diabetic so I have learned that the plain is much better for me this way I can control my own add ins. Great ideas..thanks.
I am so glad you found me too Nini!! I look forward to getting to know you and I hope you enjoy the recipes!!
I absolutely loooove this!! How did you ever come up with the idea of combining greek yogurt with molasses?
My favorite snack/s are Ricotta cheese, Panna Cotta,, or lightly sautèed apples finished with a drizzle of Mugolio (Italian pine cone syrup).
Actually quite delicate in flavor.
Ohhh, that sounds good Fran!!!
this looks like a really unique combo. the only problem with greek yogurt is that it is void of all of the good probiotics, it is not as healthy as plain whole milk raw yogurt. My go to snack it the previously mentioned raw yogurt with a sprinkling of mixed frozen berries and maybe a teeny drizzle of honey or a small sprinkle of raw sugar (which has such a better flavor than regular sugar), or a dash of vanilla stevia….unfortunately Splenda is just sweet chemicals, not that healthy even if you are saving calories. thanks for the fun idea…I will try this modified tomorrow!
Very interesting idea! I make our Greek yogurt and we usually eat it with honey, but I’ll bet my husband would love it with molasses. You’re so clever, Christy!
I can’t wait to hear what he thinks! I am betting he loves it though, I know I am sure addicted!