I sometimes mix in some Crystal Lite powder. For hot days I make cacik, a chilled dip or soup.
You can also drain it through a coffee filter in the fridge overnight and blend in onions and herbs to make a "cream cheese" spread.
soften a spoonful of PB (I prefer crunchy) and mix some cocoa powder with that. Add the mess to the yogurt with the allowed sweetener of your choice. I'm in P2 and use agave. Any allowable liquid sweetener will work. I always feel completely decadent when I eat this. It's like a rich, thick pudding.
Should I be looking at specific ingredients that I DON'T want in my plain yogurt? Some of the ingredients in some yogurt is stuff that I have no clue about.
Also, it looks like fat free cream cheese has sugar in its ingredients. Is it not ideal to buy fat free cream cheese?
Check the ingredients on your cc. If there is added sugar, then it's not okay. But I have never seen sugar added to ff cc, unless it's flavored (strawberry,etc.). If you see sugar grams in the nutrition information, but not in the ingredients, then that is the lactose, or natural sugars from the milk, and that's perfectly fine.
Your plain yogurt should only have milk and live cultures as ingredients. Once you are off of Ph1, (fruit and artificial sweeteners) are okay too. What you need to check is if they have added thickeners - corn starch or other. We should not have those.
Check the ingredients on your cc. If there is added sugar, then it's not okay. But I have never seen sugar added to ff cc, unless it's flavored (strawberry,etc.). If you see sugar grams in the nutrition information, but not in the ingredients, then that is the lactose, or natural sugars from the milk, and that's perfectly fine.
Your plain yogurt should only have milk and live cultures as ingredients. Once you are off of Ph1, (fruit and artificial sweeteners) are okay too. What you need to check is if they have added thickeners - corn starch or other. We should not have those.
Hehe, I know of one exception, and it is so weird to me. Trader Joe's has a "Plain Nonfat Frozen Yogurt." I thought, hmm, what an interesting idea. You guessed it, there is added sugar in this plain yogurt! Craziness.