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❤️ Why you'll love this recipe
- Make ahead
- 25 grams protein
- Kid friendly
I love making these breakfast treats on the weekends and keeping the in the refrigerator for easy breakfasts anytome.
This make-ahead banana pudding yogurt parfait is a quick and easy breakfast recipe that's perfect for those days you need to grab and go! Layers of yogurt, bananas, pecans, and vanilla cookies turn this simple morning meal into a treat.
🔪 Instructions
- Chop or slice the bananas and dip in the orange juice..
- Add about ⅛ of the yogurt to each of four 8-ounce jelly jars or other container.
- Top with ⅛ of the vanilla wafers.
- Add ⅛ of the bananas.
- Sprinkle on ⅛ of the pecans.
- Repeat layers ending with the yogurt or pecans - as you prefer.
- Store, tightly covered, in the refrigerator for up to 3 days or freeze for longer storage.
Yogurt Parfait Peer Pressure
Believe it or not yogurt wasn't really a thing in the early 1960s.
Our moms sleepily poured cereal in a bowl, topped it with milk, and sat across from us drinking instant coffee with bleary eyed boredom while we read the back of the cereal box and shoveled in something sugary.
This was quality time with mom back before Pinterest.
Yogurt was hippy food right along with homemade whole grain breads and organic produce.
Somewhere in that tumultuous time a company decided that yogurt shouldn't just be hippy food so they began to market it to middle America and by 1980 if you didn't eat yogurt you just weren't cool -- or healthy.
My parents, who used organic gardening methods before they were cool, jumped on the yogurt wagon pretty early on.
I think it was because Mom no longer had to actually pour cereal and milk into a bowl - she could motion sleepily to the refrigerator and I could get my container of yogurt and a spoon by myself.
Now, of course, we've embraced the yogurt revolution and most people can't imagine it not being a part of their lives.
There are as many ways to vary this yogurt parfait as there are people who love to eat it!
- Vanilla yogurt, chopped apples, raisins, dried cranberries, and pecans.
- Lemon yogurt, blueberries, chopped white chocolate chips, graham crackers.
- Plain yogurt sweetened with maple syrup, diced pears, walnuts.
- Peach yogurt, vanilla yogurt, gingersnaps, pecans.
- Vanilla yogurt, strawberries, crushed pretzels.
- Coconut yogurt, mango cubes, granola.
- Lime yogurt, strawberries, graham crackers.
- Vanilla yogurt, raspberries, diced peaches, almonds.
- Use chopped waffles for the crunch layer.
- Top with sprinkles!
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📞 The last word
I love these banana yogurt parfaits as a hearty, high protein breakfast that lasts me all morning or as an afternoon pick-me-up. Give them a try - pretty sure you'll love them too.
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📖 Recipe
Make Ahead Banana Yogurt Parfait
Print SaveIngredients
- 32 ounces Greek yogurt, vanilla or plain
- 1 cup bananas, cut in cubes or slices
- ½ cup vanilla wafer cookies, crushed
- ½ cup pecans, toasted and chopped
- ¼ cup orange juice, to dip bananas (keeps them from browning)
Instructions
- Chop or slice the bananas.
- Pour the orange juice over the bananas and stir gently - let sit for a couple of minutes. This will keep the bananas from turning brown.
- Divide the yogurt into 8 3-ounce servings. Or, eyeball it!
- Add part of the yogurt to 4 8-ounce jelly jars or other container.
- Top with ⅛ of the vanilla wafers.
- Add ⅛ of the bananas.
- Sprinkle on ⅛ of the pecans.
- Repeat layers ending with the yogurt or pecans - as you prefer.
- Store, tightly covered, in the refrigerator for up to 3 days or freeze for longer storage.
Nutrition Facts
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