It's 110 and I Want Fro-Yo

Awhile ago, I was cruising the aisle of the commissary and came across this Chobani Key Lime Pie Crumble Greek Yogurt. I ate quite a few of them and really wanted to try to make Key Lime Pie. Then I read recipes and I was like, "Yikes. Raw eggs."

Then, a few weeks down the line, I was eating some plain Greek yogurt and dark chocolate sauce and I thought, "This would be great frozen."

So, at first I tried to make it in the blender, like a smoothy. That wasn't what I wanted. So, I broke down and got out the ice cream maker.

My mom got Pilot Boy an ice cream maker when he graduated pilot training many moons ago. Pilot Boy loves ice cream. Well, mostly Dairy Queen ice cream, but he'll eat other ice cream as well. Anyways, we used it I think twice before we left the Dirt Hole. Shortly after I discovered Pinterest and desperately wanted Cake Batter ice cream because there were no Cold Stones in Alaska, I took it back out and used it a few times. The Cake Batter ice cream went horribly. I also wanted to try something more healthy, so I tried Cake Batter frozen yogurt.

It worked! And it was good! And healthier than ice cream!

Since arriving the land of Okies where most days (even in the winter) it's way too hot to function, I did not unearth the ice cream maker till recently. Why? Because we had a crummy batch of strawberries that I thought I could turn into frozen yogurt. 

The berries went bad before the container was frozen, so that idea died. 

BUT...

Since the bowl was already in the freezer, I mixed up some yogurt and chocolate and made some frozen greek yogurt. 

The chocolate batch wasn't that great. It was a little too tangy, likely due to the plain greek yogurt I used. Also, everything I use baking chocolate in never tastes right. 

I washed the bowl, put it back in the freezer and decided to try again. While picking up things to make more, I found Key Lime Greek Yogurt. Without the crumble stuff. I stared, mouth open and grabbed up six of them. (I also picked up some watermelon. I ate that one yesterday just to taste it and think it'll be good as frozen yogurt too.)

Today, I looked up recipes on Pinterest, found a simple one, and got down to work. 

Key Lime (Or whatever flavor) Greek Frozen Yogurt: The Recipe.

6 containers of Chobani Key Lime (or whatever) Greek Yogurt 

(Next time I think I'll use seven. I didn't have exactly a whole quart, so I added three tablespoons because I thought it was a bit watery.) 

1/2 can low fat (or high fat if you really want) condensed milk 

(I might have used more, as the can claimed to be 14 fl oz, so I measured out 7 fl oz, but there seemed to be less than half left over in the can when I was done.) 

1 tablespoon vanilla

1/4 teaspoon salt

Add all ingredients together, mix, and dump into an ice cream maker. Follow the ice cream maker's directions. 

Once done, scoop into a freezer safe container and put it in the freezer. It'll harden up, so just let it sit on the counter a wee bit before eating.

The Tale of Finding Diapers and Wipes

Before Wiggles was born, I researched diapers. Any mom to be would do this, right?

Yeah.

Was there really a point?

No.

What type of diaper you choose is up to you. While Pampers might claim to be the best, you might discover you cannot stand Pampers because they never contain the exploding poop. Someone might tell you that Huggies are the greatest diapers known to man, but when you put them on your kid, her leg isn't fat enough to prevent any leaking. People might love those environmentally friendly diapers, but you live in the middle of nowhere and they aren't sold at Walmart.

Wiggles wears Luvs. (You live and learn, and then you get Luvs.) Why does Wiggles wear Luvs?

1. They fit her tiny butt.
2. They hold in the exploding poop because they fit her skinny, little legs.

When Wiggles was born, she was a skinny little thing and the newborn diapers didn't fit. Seriously, they were too big. We had to overlap the little straps just to get them to stay up. Since all hospitals love Pampers, we had a free package of Pampers. So, we used them. I didn't like them because they were too big.

Then she began exploding poops. And I liked them even less.

Now, because I had done my research and learned there was no diaper that was the best, I had bought all three brands available in newborn size in town. (Pampers, Huggies, and Luvs.) Finding newborn sized diapers was a trial. But, I'll get to that later.

We used up the first bag of Pampers from the hospital and moved onto the Luvs.

I liked those the best.

Next up, Huggies.

I am not sure who Huggies newborns are made for, but they weren't made for long, skinny babies. Huggies period aren't made for skinny legged babies. (We have size 2 Huggies that we got as a gift from Pilot Boy's work.) I cannot get those stupid things tight enough to prevent side leakage.

So, those were out.

Pampers were okay, but I didn't feel they held a lot of anything, but I used them in a pinch because...Walmart only got in a shipment of newborn sized Luvs like every other month. And then they'd only have like two packages. Wiggles  was also in newborns till she was almost two months. She likely would still be wearing them, only they are meant for tiny loads, not two month sized loads.

So, we moved to size one in Luvs.

And then no one every had those either.

No one every has the size I want. Wiggles is now in the size 2 and no one every has size two Luvs. They'll have every size I do not need, but never the size I do.

Bah.

Now, I didn't do any research for wipes. A wipe is a wipe, right?

No.

Once again, whilst at the hospital, we were given a travel package of Pampers Sensitive wipes. I had bought smaller packages of various unscented wipes to use in my wipe warmer. I had Pampers and Huggies, as those were the only wipes they had at Walmart. (Well, other than the Walmart brand, but I'm a snob.) I used the Pampers for awhile, even bought a huge bag of them to restock the wipe warmer. Then, I discovered a HUGE thing of Huggies All Natural Wipes. I'm pretty sure those weren't there when I first was trying out wipes, but I got them anyways because they were cheaper than the huge package of Pampers.

Whoa. When they say you only need one wipe to clean up, they really weren't lying. I also love how thick the Huggies wipes are.

So, I use Luvs diapers because they fit my kid's skinny little legs and Huggies wipes because they are thick and wonderful to wipe her butt.