Frozen Yogurt Pops

Okay, in my quest to find healthy frozen treats for my kids this summer, I ended up finding nothing!  Well, that is nothing that comes already made in a box in the frozen section of the grocery store.  Most products out there are so high in sugar & fat with little nutritional value. If I had a kid who ate a well-balance diet the majority of the time, I probably wouldn't care so much. Unfortunately, my oldest is so picky & hard to please that this is not the case.  Unless, of course, the 4 food groups are really Pasta, Ice cream, Bread and Cookies. Oh the humanity!! Once again, I find myself back in the kitchen making my own concoctions just so that I can justify feeding my kids frozen treats at any time!  The supplies are things you probably already have on hand.  I used 9 in. paper "Dixie" cups and plastic spoons to make the pops.  I used greek yogurt because it's way higher in protein than the regular kind.  I gotta maximize these frozen pops for all the healthy benefits! My sons not that big on yogurt so, I planned to make these as much like ice cream pops as I could. At 5 yrs old, he's getting harder & harder to fool.  Emily (almost 2) loves yogurt so, she'll eat them either way.  The first pic up top is of the pops before they were frozen & the 2nd one is after they were frozen. For my son, who doesn't like fruit (yeah, that's I right, I said it), I used vanilla greek yougurt with a little mashed up oreo cookies and a couple spoonfuls of Yoplait Chocolate Mousse yogurt (to give the chocolate ice cream effect).  I kind of layered the items for a nice presentation.  As you can see by the pics, Cameron's looks pretty cool (& delicious!).  For Emily's, I used plain greek yogurt with a little sugar added (still less sugar than using the vanilla yogurt) & pureed blueberries sweetened with a little sugar.  After you put the ingredients in the paper cups (fill about 3/4 of the way full), just stick the plastic spoon down in the cup (with handle side stick up of course).  After they freeze (1-2 hrs), you can just tear the paper cup down the side a little & the treats pop right out with a built-in handle to hold them.   Both kids loved these but, I will make them a little smaller next time because they couldn't finish them in one sitting.  The nice thing is, you can put the pops upside down back in the paper cups & stick them in the freezer to eat the rest later. I recommend eating these outside because they do make a little mess but, they don't seem to drip as much as regular ice cream does.  My kids were wearing their bathing suits to play in the water afterwards so, I figured they'd get cleaned off after eating them without any effort.  I will say that when Cameron first tasted his he said "It tastes like Yogrit (meaning yogurt)" and I played dumb.  I neither confirmed nor denied this because, he will simply not eat things just because he is turned off by what he thinks it is, instead of giving it an un-biased taste.  Although these are made from yogurt, if you have a kid who is just coo-coo, like mine, you can calls these "frozen treat pops" or "frozen ice-cream pops".  Either way, they tatse great & you can feel good about serving them.