I’ve lost my roommate for BlogHer Conference ’09 to the economic crisis (she can’t afford to go anymore), but thanks to Stonyfield Farm, the plans for my own trip to the Chicago conference in July is now extra fortified with organic yogurt.

Stonyfield Farm’s probably the best-known all-organic yogurt company out there, since its products are everywhere from Wal-Mart (Stonyfield’s 85% owned by Groupe Danone and benefits from the distribution power of that giant though some enviro purists aren’t happy with the arrangement) to Whole Foods (some of whose stores have kiosks for recycling Stonyfield yogurt containers into new Preserve products) to Co-opportunity, my local co-op grocery store.

Serendipitously, Co-opportunity’s latest mailer included a coupon for Stonyfield’s new Oikos organic Greek yogurt — so I picked up a cup to use in my creamy spinach curry. And the yogurt was very creamy — despite the fact it’s fat free!

I got the plain yogurt — 90 calories with just 6g sugar and 15 g protein per 5.3-oz cup — but vanilla, honey, and blueberry flavors — sweetened with organic honey and sugar — are available too. Unfortunately, Co-opportunity only has the single-serving cups, which I don’t like to get because they create more plastic waste than I’m comfortable with, even if they can be recycled. I’m hoping the 16-oz tubs’ll get there soon –

In the meantime, I need to look for a new roommate for BlogHer –

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