In addition to reviewing picture books, and the occasional movie and books for moms here on the blog, I’m going to start reviewing products. Here’s the first one to kick it off: a strainer to turn regular yogurt into Greek yogurt. I love this!!! Kudos to my darling sister-in-law/girlfriend for finding this and gifting it to me for my birthday last fall. She’s a genius! She knows how much I love Greek yogurt and was thoughtful enough to find this product.

I shared my Greek yogurt recipe over here, years ago. Greek yogurt was a staple in my diet for many, many years. I was in love with it! Then I turned carnivore and rarely ate it. I ate it every so often, like on Sundays when family members were eating ice cream. Then I gave it up all together to finally meet my weight loss goal. Anyway, at the bottom of that linked post above, you will see that in order to turn the yogurt into Greek yogurt, I tell you to line a colander with a tea towel or the remnant of an old sheet or other tightly woven cloth. Then you put the colander over a bowl. Then you ladle the yogurt from the crock pot into the bowl. The whey drains out to give you thicker yogurt, aka Greek yogurt, but then you have to scrape the fabric off with a rubber scraper, and then wash the fabric. The whole ordeal can be quite awkward and gloppy, getting yogurt on your hands. With this product, the clean-up is so much easier! No more messy towels to scrape off, rinse out, then hang to dry and then wash in the washing machine. See the inner basket below? It involves a mesh wall that is fine enough to allow the whey to drain out of the yogurt.

So, when the yogurt has the consistency you want, you just scrape the yogurt out into your storage container (I use glass jars) and then you pop the mesh basket liner into your dishwasher and wash it. Voila! Greek yogurt with easy clean-up. I give it a 5 out of 5 stars!

I will be using it more now that I am transitioning off my carnivore diet. I met my weight goal of getting below my wedding weight so now I’m going to be eating a lot more yogurt as I maintain weight. I’d like to build muscle and lose the remaining inches of fat I can still pinch. I am ok maintaining the weight I’ve hit; I just now want to change the fat and muscle composition of my body. I want to be stronger and more fit so now I’ll be exercising at least four times a week.