Journeyer’s Chronicles

Today I am making homemade yoghurt. It’s something I started thinking about a few weeks ago to try to help reduce our grocery bill. I have been spending around $15/week on bought yoghurt and we would use more if we had it.

I thought about an EasiYo system. But with the the price of the unit and ongoing cost of yoghurt sachets, I wasn’t going to be making much of a saving over yoghurt bought at Aldi. Most of the recipes and instructions I found on the internet seemed like too much work and a little complicated. I was sure I had seen a simple recipe somewhere but couldn’t find it for the life of me.

Then earlier this week, Rhonda at Down to Earth posted her yoghurt recipe. It was just what I was looking for. Instead of putting mine in a cooling oven, I have it in a thermos which I think I read somewhere is OK to do.

The finished yoghurt should be ready in the morning. Provided it all works out (let’s be positive here), I’ll divide it into two batches, adding some roughly pureed fruit or jam to one batch and keeping the other plain. I’m not sure what the reaction will be from the kids. They are used to the sweentened store bought yoghurt, so they may not like the taste initially. I’ll just have to tinker with the fruit or perhaps honey to get it right for them.

Rhonda estimates her recipe costs around $1.85/litre. That would make a saving for us of around $430/year - almost three week’s worth of groceries, or two weeks away in our caravan!