What to do with all the leftover yogurt

Is there anything more coveted by kids at the grocery store then rejected (by those same kids) at home as yogurt cups? It drives me bananas. #1 because its loaded with sugar ANYWAY, so it's not my first choice for you but YOU BEGGED FOR IT and so I bought it. #2 because it is terrible for the environment to be purchasing all these little containers ANYWAY and then when you don't even finish it? It's even more guilt inducing. I won't fool myself that I'm making either of these things any better by using up the remainder, but I can at least feel like I have salvaged some bit of justification for buying them in the first place.

I've learned in my years of leftover cooking that there's nothing that can't be made into a muffin. And in this house, muffins are something that typically gets eaten. So that's often the route I go. There's nothing special about the recipe I used, just Google "muffins using yogurt" and you'll find something. 

Yogurt actually is a great muffin base because it adds some fruit flavor, some sweetness (I didn't add any extra sugar), and makes baked goods incredibly moist. 

Guess what? My kids ate them. And finished them.  They got a little protein along the way, and I got to send those cute little containers to the sink for rinsing, knowing they had at least delivered every bit of yogurt they were intended to.

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