If 2 are unopened, why can't you return them? I'd use the opened one any way you'd use sour cream.

You can use it as you use sour cream, and I typically replace low fat yogurt with high fat without any changes as it's just as good.

Or you can eat the yogurt as yogurt...stir in some vanilla and honey, or some all fruit spread or chopped up fresh fruit. Yum.

I have some recipes for loaves and cakes that call for sour cream - so can I just substitute this yogurt for sour cream straight across with no adjustments for fat or liquid content? I have a very good orange sour cream pound cake recipe that is a real winner.
Thanks for your suggestions.

If you google yogurt cake recipes you'll find loads then you can freeze the cakes, or make frozen yogurt desserts. You can use your yogurt in curries too in fact it will replace low-fat no problem.

This is one of my favorite burger recipes. I always use a nice creamy Greek yogurt for it.

CURRIED LAMBBURGERS

Combine:
1/4 cup plain yogurt
2 tsp. Worcestershire sauce
1 tsp. curry powder
2 Tbs. minced onion
1 garlic clove, finely minced
1/2 tsp. salt
1/8 tsp. pepper
2 slices fresh bread, crumbled
2 Tbs. chopped fresh parsley

Add 1 pound lean ground lamb and mix thoroughly. Shape into 6 thin oval shaped patties and grill until done but not dry. Serve in pita bread pockets topped with chopped tomatoes and feta cheese. Note: Fresh chopped cilantro may be substituted for the parsley for a different flavor. Also good topped with cucumber-yogurt sauce.

Return a food item? Hmmmmm, maybe not....

A friend of mine, on a wildly busy day, picked up a special order turkey one year and when she got home and was putting it into the refrigerator, saw it was both larger than she'd ordered, and, it had someone else's name on it.

She drove right back to the store, (Safeway) and the end result was they gave her the turkey, and the turkey she had ordered in the correct size. They told her once the food has left the store and has been out of their hands, even unopened, they can't resell it, so her choice was either accept the free turkey, or know they would be throwing it out and no one would benefit from it. A fresh bird, she popped it in her freezer.

You could use the yogurt for tzatziki or raita, if Greek or Indian dishes appeal to you. We make tzatziki for homemade gyros with grilled lamb. And raita is delicious on curries. There are also curried dishes that use yogurt, as islay says. Do a google search and you'll find lots of recipes. Note that some Indian websites call yogurt "curd", so include this in your searches.

Cheryl

I don't know if I've ever tried returning a fresh (refrigerated) food item. Canned goods, dry goods, no problem but I can see that a store would not be allowed to take back produce, and anything that requires refrigeration even if still sealed. Didn't think of that, but how do they know it was kept refrigerated while you had it? Good point.

Guess this means I'm stuck with the $25 ham I bought especially for my mom, even if she tells me she would have been fine with a ham steak while the rest of us eat the hickory-smoked ham I have in the freezer.

And OP has got to make lots of sour cream pastries and freeze them? Can you freeze yogurt (aside from the frozen dessert, I mean)?

This post was edited by ajsmama on Tue, Mar 26, 13 at 16:51