Quads Being Raised As Triplets: 2015

Friday, March 27, 2015

Homemade Greek Yogurt

I decided to reduce our use of plastics and save some money. Something we eat a ton of is yogurt, my kids love the stuff. And I try to buy the organic whenever possible, but it gets soooo expensive. And there is a lot of plastic waste, even if it is able to be recycled, usually plastics get recycled one more time and then end up in a landfill.

I started with yogurt for the kids, let it sit over night and finished it this morning. Then I made the Greek yogurt I like tonight. It looks great, can't wait to try it tomorrow!! And I could not believe how easy it was to make!!

I bought milk from a local dairy farm that is less than 2 miles from my house, and it comes in a glass bottle, bonus!! For the "starter" I used a half cup from some yogurt I had on hand. (but I can save a half cup of this to use in my next batch)

I followed the recipe from live simply blog

to make it Greek Yogurt I strained it for a half an hour to get the "whey" out. I did not have cheese cloth on hand so used some coffee filters and it worked like a charm. (The Coffee filters can go right into our compost, but I plan on getting cheesecloth)

Can't wait to try it tomorrow.

Next things I want to try making sour cream and cream cheese. Think of all the plastic I'll not be throwing into the recycle bin that would eventually end up in a landfill!!

Madeline

Our sweet Madeline Jean, had 8 very good days in the NICU. By day 3 Maddie had moved to high flow nasal cannulas for breathing, she was taking feeds and as spunky as ever. On day 8 she became ill, her stomac became enlarged, she was critcal, on day 9 the Doctors took a look inside and found all of her intestines and half of her stomac had died. We had her baptised and held her, as soon as she was in my arms skin to skin with me, we removed her breathing assistance and let her go very quickly and peacefully. We would later find that the cause of her death was NEC (Necrotizing Entrocolitis). We feel blessed to have had her for 9 days.