Yoswirls

At Shangrila Mall, my girls saw this Yoswirls scooping station with few table seats and insisted to have a cup for each. It's another froyo (frozen yogurt) product joining the bandwagon of yogurt cafes making waves in the metro. The girls and I love yogurt. Actually it's icecream that we truly love! But for healthy option, we go for yogurt_ when available.





Similar to other froyos, you get to choose your toppings for a separate price. Yoswirls is a product of BTIC ( Better Than Icecream). Years ago, when yogurt wasn't yet popular as today is,  I would buy from BTIC scooping station in selected malls. Back then froyo wasn't yet a word and yogurt wasn't so accessible as it is now.

BTIC yogurt is more bland in taste for my sweet palate, compared to many other new froyos we frequent. Hadn't the vendor of Yoswirls been quick to announce that they were on buy1 take1 promo, I would have had discouraged my girls, haha. Even the syrup and toppings were on B1T1. Beside, the vendor was also quick to add that their pastry was also on sale. Well, she was successfully used the right  keyword  to this cheapskate consumer (miser me! haha).



I had my eye on this pecan? (almond? forgot what nuts) chocolate slice.

Hence, we also added to try their other pastry which names escape me now. Everything was chocolate thu', the other one was  of white choco.



As expected this froyo was short in flavors and really at this point you have to rely on the toppings and syrup. The way to enjoy it is to constantly remind yourself  that its' non-fat and low-cal per spoonful you shove to your mouth. haha. I would rather have a piece of peace of yogurt than a full of guilt regular icecream, haha.



As for the cakes, they all ended in this take-out brown bag. Not wasted cos when husband picked us from the mall, he gorged on them while driving, haha.

Red Mango @ MOA

I have a lifetime affair with ice cream. Whatever weather it is, wet or dry, it remains to be one of my comfort foods. See here  and here. I indulge in the middle of a typhoon as much I do on a hot sunny day. Doesn't matter when. . . but always! Suffice to say, this sinful indulgence is the source of my bulges. To lessen my guilt = calories, I try to modify and look for alternative. Like when the craving hits me in a mall, I go to a yogurt ice cream store instead.. Which is quite easy cos couple of years now, yogurt has been a fad and yogurt stores popping out all over the country. Even groceries are selling  lots of yogurt varieties , see here.Which makes me realize now that it's a fad no longer. Meant to stay as part of a healthy diet.

One of these popular yogurt stores that popped out in my country last year is Red Mango. I wonder why most yogurt brand name has attached color  like the White Hat. As for the Red Mango, I only had the chance to try it this year thu'. latees! The mall that I frequent doesn't have one, so one so late night after seeing a  movie in Imax, ( with cuz and brod), we hit the door just right on time, a minute before it closed.

see _ we made it!

The store is color-perfect.

When asked for the flavors and toppings, didn't have much choice, it was closing and their supplies were already hitting the pan too.

Four thumbs up!