Hello, ladies,

I want to make some homemade whole milk yogurt for my dd who is on ABX for an ear infection and just out of the hospital for dehydration. She is multiple special needs and totally tube-fed a special, homemade blended diet based on Rice Dream and whole foods.

My question: if I use the store bought yogurt as a starter, will that have the good bacteria needed? it is pasturized. I've made yogurt this way before, but wasn't as concerned about the bacteria then. I have some powdered acidopholus -- can I add that for the same effect? She desperately needs the fat and calories as well as the good bacteria.

I can't leave the house right now to get anything as she and the baby are sleeping and I can't pack her up to go to our only health food store. Her wheelchair doesn't fit down their aisle anyway. So I have to work with what I have, which is the the grocery store brand plain yogurt and the powdered acidopholus.

Thanks and sorry for the interruption. I wasn't sure what forum to post this in. I lurk mostly -- no time to do much else. I shall now scuttle back under my rock.

scroll down a bit or look on the first few pages...there was a thread about homemade yogurt.

HTH

Thank you! I found the thread, but it doesn't quite answer my question. Which, having thought about it a bit more, I can now ask more clearly: Will using pasturized, store bought yogurt as a starter still have all the good stuff that using yogurt from the health food would? Per the book, _Super Baby Food_, using pasturized yogurt would be pointless. I was hoping for more opinions.

This is very important to me as Emily is still vomiting, possible from the ABX, possible from the gastroenteritis or possibly from the ear infection. She is one very sick chick. I do not want her to end up back at the hospital with her because I have to fight so much for her to continue with her blended diet (they usually want to put her on Pediasure or another nasty formula) and because I'm still nursing my one-year-old and I cannot be in two places at once.

Thank you!

I just saw your post and hope its not too late to give you an answer. As long as your starter yogart says it has active & live cultures it will work. The cultures will reproduce themselves in the yogart you are making. Look on the outside of the container sometimes the print is pretty small but it will there if they (live & active cultures) are in it.

I have several recipes and only one calls acidophilus. The recipe states 2 capsules freeze dried acidophilus to make one gallon of plain yogart. I have only made this recipe once and could not find freeze dried so I used two acidophilus caplets that I crushed up and added to the liquid to dissolve and the recipe worked out fine.

Stephanie

Adding acidophilus will help. From what I've read most non-organic yogurts don't have enough good bacteria to do much good.

They pasteurize the milk, and then add in the "yog" ing bacteria. Different flavors depend on different strains of bacteria. You'll get a perfectly nice yogurt using commercial yogurt added to your own milk mixture. If you like the taste of different plain yogurts, tryi culturing them. The stonyfield farm guys found a particularly nice mix, and then started selling the resulting yogurt.

I want to say there's a Martha Stewart article about using the must on vegetables and fruits to make either yogurt, or sourdough. It has to be sourdough-

anyway, good luck, I hope your child starts to feel better soon.

ari

Thank you all very much!