We love yoghurt, I love the way that Miss ND gets the giant tub out of the fridge each morning and spoons some into a bowl and just eats it, no sweeteners, just plain yoghurt, it’s like an appetiser before her main breakfast.  I am so pleased I have managed (so far) to keep her taste buds on the less sweet side, she is used to my baking with less sugar!

I usually have around a quarter of a tub left when I feel I need a fresh tub so have been looking at recipes to include yoghurt and have been compiling a folder of things to try.  We use Total Greek Yoghurt, it’s so thick and lush, we like the full fat kind, but you could use the 0% or 2% in any of the recipes.   I find a lot of recipes that use yoghurt only use a small amount, this recipe uses a good dollop!

Total Greek Yoghurt have a challenge going on Twitter at the moment, I’m not on Twitter nearly enough so have just found it, so today I am making their Mixed Berry Oatmeal Bars which I am hoping will be a healthy lunchbox favourite with Miss ND and maybe a little treat with my tea.  You can find the recipe on their extensive recipe site here where they have a week’s worth of recipes using yoghurt, I shall be cherry picking my way through them!

The oats in the recipe provide fibre and if using raisins, a good source of iron.  I’ve only made a couple of  tweaks, one to reduce the sugar and the other to substitute the sunflower oil for coconut oil, our oil (along with olive oil) of choice.  Pleased to see an egg white in the recipe too, always have an egg white or 6 hanging about in the fridge or freezer (I freeze them labelling the amount on the bag, makes it easy to whip however many I need for a recipe), this also adds to the protein content of the bars along with the yoghurt content.

Mixed Berry Oatmeal Bars were very easy to pull together and really delicious and filling too, I think the little girl is going to like these!

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