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Greek Yogurt Game Changer!

3K views 12 replies 7 participants last post by  John.in.France 
#1 ·
I eat Greek Yogurt every morning- I love it. Bugs me that it is fat free. I need more fat.

...Fage has a FULL FAT Greek Yogurt! it is called Fage Total and it has 10g of fat.

Halleluiah! The best of both worlds! Grabbing some tonight- I found 2 stores near me that carry it (ones I never shop).
 
#2 ·
For a long time Fage was the only full fat yogurt I could find locally. About a year ago local markets dropped the full fat version and now only low fat is available. Sometimes it sucks living in the boonies. I have to drive 75 miles to get to a town for better selections.
 
#3 ·
Ugh. You are right about the FF versions- in my neighborhood- it is all fat free. That is it. I live in a very metropolitan suburb (outside of DC), so we have every darned store you can imagine, or the East Coast version. Still- I had to click 12 stores until I found the 2 who carry it. Out of 40. 75 miles- wow, Wally!
 
#10 ·
Try Sprouts if they have it in your area. I used to be in San Diego and there were only one or two stores in the whole city which sold the full-fat version. Sprouts was one of them.
 
#5 ·
I don't do much grocery shopping or go into grocery stores other than where BH usually shops. All of those have 0% Fat yogurt, Fage as well as other brands. I'll have to look around whenever we go to bigger towns. The Walmarts and Brookshires close to us say they can ask for other stuff but they don't get it. They have to settle for what regional/corporate HQ wants them to have.
 
#6 ·
Yes, the central purchasing departments of the various supermarket chains have a lot to answer for.

Ten years back when we first arrived, our local supermarkets sourced their veggies, meat and dairy products from local suppliers. It had a downside - you only got what was in season locally but it was fresh and in a lot of cases you knew which farm had supplied the meat.

Over the years, central purchasing has taken command. Now, even in the middle of the "boonies" we've got the same choices as the residents of Paris - and lousy stock control and stock management to back it up. Gone are the local cheeses and local cream. Our only option on cream is a nice carton of Ultra Heat Treated, with added soya (BH is allergic to soya) that's good for six months before opening.

And yes, the low fat craze has penetrated even here in France, the home of the high fat diet:(
 
#13 ·
The south of France - à la "a year in Provence" is prime tourist country and some of the markets there survive solely because of that trade and some of them aren't "real" French markets.

As you move north, the old traditions are dying as we speak and more and more we are trapped in the hands of the big supermarket chains.

It's a real shame!:(
 
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