{"id":923,"date":"2015-11-24T10:00:45","date_gmt":"2015-11-24T10:00:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ipa.local\/blog\/?post_type=ftg&#038;p=923"},"modified":"2016-01-27T16:00:19","modified_gmt":"2016-01-27T21:00:19","slug":"yogurt-powers-dessert-menu","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/internationalprobiotics.org\/home\/yogurt-powers-dessert-menu\/","title":{"rendered":"Yogurt Powers the Dessert Menu"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Yogurt<\/strong> shines at<strong> breakfast<\/strong> and holds its own at <strong>lunch<\/strong>, when health-minded folks enjoy its low price, easy portability and willingness to play with sweet or spicy. <strong>Dinner<\/strong> usually finds it back in the refrigerator unless some creative soul dresses a salad or baked potato with it.<\/p>\n<p>And in <strong>dessert<\/strong>? How sweet to ask but yogurt rarely makes an appearance.<\/p>\n<p>What a shame.<\/p>\n<p>Yogurt can be a creamy stand-in for puddings, ice cream and even for its cool cousin (live bacteria-free usually), frozen yogurt. Often we feel that dessert has to be decadent to be delicious. Not true. In fact, after dinner, your family or guests may prefer a light touch.<\/p>\n<p>Get creative:<\/p>\n<p><strong>Pumpkin Parfait<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>3 cups plain Greek yogurt or regular yogurt, drained<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>1\/3 cup brown sugar or honey<\/li>\n<li>\u00a01 cup pumpkin puree<\/li>\n<li>\u00a01 tsp cinnamon<\/li>\n<li>\u00a01 cup whipped topping<\/li>\n<li>4 Tbsps. chopped pecans<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Mix yogurt, sugar, pumpkin and cinnamon.<\/p>\n<p>Assemble in 4\u00a0wine or parfait glasses: First, whipped topping then nuts then pumpkin mix then repeat, dividing evenly.<\/p>\n<p>Refrigerate for 4 hours.<\/p>\n<p>The above\u00a0recipe is moderate in calories and robust with <strong>probiotics, protein, calcium\u00a0<\/strong>and<strong> vitamin A.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Other ideas:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Layer berries with chunks of angel food cake and plain Greek yogurt sweetened with pomegranate or other juice.<\/li>\n<li><\/li>\n<li>Mix thick yogurt with a little cream cheese and vanilla and spoon over slices of pound cake. Top with grilled nectarines or peaches.<\/li>\n<li><\/li>\n<li>Mix Greek yogurt with unsweetened cocoa and sugar to taste. Layer with Nutella and low-fat whipped topping.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Granted, not all these creations are low-calorie. But they offer some nutrients which are actually good for us. Most chocolate cakes and cheesecakes clog our arteries and increase inflammation, not to mention guilt. We need a finite amount of calories in our increasingly sedentary lives; empty calories are not the way to go.<\/p>\n<p>Reward your guests with yogurt desserts.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Yogurt shines at breakfast and holds its own at lunch, when health-minded folks enjoy its low price, easy portability and willingness to play with sweet or spicy. Dinner usually finds it back in the refrigerator unless some creative soul dresses a salad or baked potato with it. And in dessert? How sweet to ask but [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_bbp_topic_count":0,"_bbp_reply_count":0,"_bbp_total_topic_count":0,"_bbp_total_reply_count":0,"_bbp_voice_count":0,"_bbp_anonymous_reply_count":0,"_bbp_topic_count_hidden":0,"_bbp_reply_count_hidden":0,"_bbp_forum_subforum_count":0,"_eb_attr":"","_genesis_hide_title":false,"_genesis_hide_breadcrumbs":false,"_genesis_hide_singular_image":false,"_genesis_hide_footer_widgets":false,"_genesis_custom_body_class":"","_genesis_custom_post_class":"","_genesis_layout":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/internationalprobiotics.org\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/923"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/internationalprobiotics.org\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/internationalprobiotics.org\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/internationalprobiotics.org\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/internationalprobiotics.org\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=923"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/internationalprobiotics.org\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/923\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/internationalprobiotics.org\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=923"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/internationalprobiotics.org\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=923"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/internationalprobiotics.org\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=923"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}