Yogurt is recommended as part of most healthy eating plans and is usually a staple for people who are dieting.

But even though there are plenty of choices in the yogurt, eating yogurt by itself can get pretty boring so here are some ideas to make it more interesting and tasty without adding a ton of calories to it:

- Fruity Pebbles cereal sprinkled on top (2 tablespoons is 20 calories)

- Cheerios sprinkled on top (2 tablespoons is 13 calories)

- granola sprinkled on top (about 1 tablespoon). Try Galaxy Granola; it’s low fat and delicious.

- Grape Nuts sprinkled on top

- trail mix sprinkled on top

- poured over the top of a bowl of fresh cut up fruit (berries, melon, grapes)

- mixed with a container of ready to eat sugar free Jello (take Jello out of container, cut in bite size pieces and mix with light yogurt of your choice for quick “broken glass” salad that’s around 100 calories and is delicious and satisfying)

- with a couple cookies from a 100 calorie pack sprinkled on top (lemon yogurt with a couple of Lorna Doone shortbread cookies crumbled on top of Yoplait Delights lemon torte yogurt; a couple Oreo crisps crumbled on top of vanilla yogurt; or part of a graham cracker crumbled on top of caramel yogurt are my favorites)

- make a smoothie (toss a container of yogurt, 1/2 to 3/4 cup frozen fruit, a handful of ice cubes, and a splash of water or skim milk or juice into a blender and blend until smooth, adding a little sugar or sugar substitute if desired)

- use as a dipper for apples (dip apple slices into light caramel yogurt)

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