I've been eating yogurt every day for breakfast for, oh, five years now? Yes, that would certainly get boring after a while - if it was exactly the same day after day! What starts off as a plain bowl of yogurt changes daily as I add in fruit, drizzle on sweetener, or sprinkle something crunchy on top. Here are my favorites!
Personally, I love plain, nonfat, unsweetened yogurt. It's tangy and smooth, and works as a foil for just about anything I feel like putting on top. I go through about one tub every week, scooping out about a half a cup of it every morning.
Just as with salads, I try to have a variety of toppings on-hand so I can mix and match every morning and not get bored. Also like salads, I keep it simple with just a few ingredients each day.
1. Fruit - A crisp apple cut into small chunks or a single banana is my standard, but I like to change it up when fruit is in season at the farmer's market.
2. Granola - Classic with yogurt and with good reason! Granola adds crunch and texture to yogurt. I've been obsessed with this Olive Oil Granola lately.
3. Cereal - When I'm out of granola, I'll steal some of my husband's cereal. (Cheerios are my favorite!)
4. Graham Crackers - Crumbled on top, this is another crunchy add-in.
5. Toasted Nuts and Seeds - I keep a container of toasted mixed nuts in my fridge for both my breakfasts and my salads. Seeds like flax and sunflower seeds are great, too.
6. Honey - My sweetener of choice. I treat myself with good local honey. The flavor is so good that a little goes a long way!
7. Maple Syrup - Less sweet than honey and a good pairing with granola or toasted nuts.
8. Jam - Different flavors of jam add great variety, especially in the winter when the fresh fruit isn't as good.
9. Peanut Butter - This never mixes in completely, and I love getting a little of it in my spoonful every few bites!
10. Cinnamon - A little sprinkle over the top of everything adds a nice spicy-sweet note to every bite.
What do you put in your yogurt?
Related: How Can I Make Thicker Homemade Yogurt?
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plain rolled oats are awesome too. with fruit and honey. and slivered almonds.
I eat home-made yogurt every morning as well. I cut up a couple of stewed prunes and poached figs and stir it in the yogurt with a tablespoon of organic coconut oil. Sometimes I'll add a few chopped up almonds for crunch.
I like the your idea of peanut butter, Emma. I will definitely try that!
My fave things to add to yogurt are blueberries and strawberries. I also love adding granola mixed with wheat germ and honey. So yummy.
I'll have to try graham crackers. Such a good idea!
Definitely granola, berries, nuts, maple syrup. My sister likes to add chocolate chips, but I can't do anything remotely sweet in the morning.
Also great with lemon curd :)
I stumbled upon this article as I was eating my snack of yogurt with raisins and walnuts! Thanks for the new ideas :-)
I have plain nonfat yogurt or kefir EVERY morning too! With fresh fruit if it's around, but always with a cut up banana (makes it sweet enough). I also make my own muesli/cereal mix with plain rolled oats, ezekiel sprouted grain cereal, slivered almonds, sunflower seeds, freeze dried raspberries, raisins, dried cherries... or whatever other nut or dried fruit I have on hand. Never gets old! Breakfast all the time!
Frozen fruit in yogurt is ridiculously amazing!! Blueberries, peaches, and cherries are my favorite. If you let it sit for a minute, the yogurt freezes just slightly around the fruit and it almost becomes the consistency of frozen yogurt. Once you try this, fresh fruit just won't cut it :)
Anyone ever do anything savoury in their yoghurt? Tomoatoes? pesto? I can't stand to eat sweet things in the morning so I either top some polenta or steel cut oats with yoghurt and tomatoes/cucumber/rocket/spinach or eat toast. :)
Fresh fruit and nuts!
Sometimes frozen is good; not always though.
Mm.. Looove yogurt. Plain with frozen berries and Kashi GoLean Crunch was my morning habit in the States and seriously, along with Mexican food, it's probably the thing I wish for most in France.
Mmmm I love adding jam.
Non-fat, plain yogurt - preferably good Greek yogurt. My favorite topping combo is Cantaloupe and/or watermelon, toasted almonds and, sometimes, a tiny bit of Greek honey (which has so much flavor).
I add or switch out things like toasted Flax seeds, toasted unsweetened coconut, blueberries, anything naturally sweet and/or crunchy. And my husband's cereal works, too. In fact, why use milk when you can use yogurt!
In addition to the post/comments: cacao nibs, chia seeds, spices instead of or in addition to cinnamon, like ground ginger or cardamom, roasted vegetables like sweet potato or beets, in chunks or pureed.
I love plan yogurt but prefer full fat and thick, like greek.
I usually have it several mornings a week, and sometimes for lunch too (if I haven't had it for breakfast, that is). My favorite is strawberries, honey, cinnamon and a handful of homemade granola. I will toss pretty much anything into it, though...jams and jellies work really well!
Breakfast every morning is homemade yogurt with ground flaxseed and cinnamon mixed in, sprinkled with Kashi GoLean as I eat it. Love it!
I recently started making a list of 101 ways to eat plain yogurt on my blog: http://www.fixmeasnack.com/category/yogurt-101/. I'm half way there and continue to be amazed at the infinite possibilities that lie within a humble container of yogurt.
Oh, and if you wanted, you can heat the peanut butter up in the microwave before you add it to the yogurt and it would mix in more smoothly. Sounds like the random globs are workin' for you though.
Would you believe Grape Nuts? Frozen blueberries when I have some, but I love the ultra crunchiness of Grape Nuts in yogurt.
Grape Nuts are actually awesome - I agree!
I usually do Greek yogurt but a favorite combo is chopped dried figs, walnuts, and a bit of honey. Blueberries are another favorite, even better if its with some granola. I also do a lot of bananas and maple syrup in the winter. For a sweet treat, sometimes I mix in some chocolate syrup and chopped nuts to make a fake-out sundae.
Grape Nuts are the favorite add-in in our household, too!
@Dithie, I sometimes mix in a little Indian mango pickle or lime pickle. The spice of the pickle is awesome with the creaminess of the yogurt.
@SarahB, love the lemon curd idea, will need to try that!
@Crowland, AWESOME post. Thank you for sharing
My mom works in a school system and lots of times at lunch they will have these little individually-packaged cups of dried cherries, raisins, and nuts (usually almonds I think) and the kids have to take one but if they don't want it they are allowed to put it back on the table at the end of lunch so it doesn't get thrown away and staff are allowed to take the leftovers if they want them. Without getting into the fact that it sucks that the kids would reject something that yummy, my mom loves picking up a couple since lots of times she doesn't get to sit down and eat a full lunch and they are a really high-energy snack when she is on the go. Last week I told her she should stir them into her yogurt and she decided I was a pretty great daughter because it is pretty delicious.
Lemon curd sounds so good. I am excited to have the attention span to make yogurt again once my proficiency exams are over next week. I love this time of year because I always have some form of leftover rhubarb something around that can be mixed with my morning yogurt--rhubarb applesauce, rhubarb jelly, rhubarb syrup, the tart-sweet thing just does it for me and the pink looks so pretty. And so nomalicious with a couple blueberries or blackberries and some toasted pecans thrown on there. Om nom nom.
ok this is not a mix-in, but sometimes I've been known to toast some frozen waffles and then top with yogurt and berries that I've cooked really quickly with a little sugar. Yogurt as a topping can also turn leftover apple crisp into breakfast. sigh.
mm, all sounds great. i like grated ginger, honey, and ground caradamon...or a splash of OJ and honey w/ granola. anything i find and fancy in the morning i put in.
Dried fruit. Any kind of cereal from homemade granola to boxed ones. Preferably cereal without sugar added like Ezekiel toasted grains or Good for You granola. Then you can use a sweetened yogurt (Liberte Svelte is our favourite) or a plain yogurt with some maple syrup. Mmmm.
Pumpkin butter is a lovely add-in for plain yogurt...
Fruits, cereal, oats, pieces of cookie, but the best of all....chocolate chips! :)
While living in Europe I used to buy this yummy yogurt (yoghurt is much better in Europe!) that was peach flavored with wheat berries in it. They were soft and plump wheat berries and it gave my yogurt more substance. I can't find yogurt in California with this. I make my own yogurt anyways, so now I'm going to buy my own wheat berries, cook them up and add them to my homemade yogurt and flavor it with my canned peaches which I will turn into a semi puree and sweeten with stevia drops. I also recommend the flavored stevia drops for sweetness with flavor. They come in all kinds of flavors. My favorite is English Toffee. I buy them at Sprout's Farmers Market.