I have two cartons of sour cream. One is fat free, the other is "Light". The brand is Knudsen. They each have 15 calories per Tbs. Is there any reason to avoid the "Light" which has some fat in it, as long as I count the calories in it? The "Light" is so much better than the FF. I sure was surprised to see that they had the same calories.

I say go for it, why eat the stuff you like LESS just to save a little fat. Besides, if they have the same calories but less fat that usually means they replaced the fat with sugar. Not better for you.

I generally choose lowfat over fat free. This is my life, not a temporary diet, and I mean to enjoy what I eat. ff sour cream bears too close a resemblance to elmer's glue.

Your are cracking me up, Ennay.

You are also excactly right about replacing the fat with sugar. It has dried corn syrup and some other unidentifiable stuff in it. My conclusion was that probably the light is actually better for me in terms of less chemicals.

I hear you. This is the philosophy that I want to follow. Like a lot of people on here, I have been on lots of diets. I need a plan for living - not dieting.

I too live by this philosophy. I'm in this for the long haul. I didn't lose 87 pounds to turn around and put it back on. So I simply made changes and choices that fits my lifestyle now and I'm perfectly happy and I don't feel deprived.

If you're happier eating the light sour cream as opposed to the fat-free, then have it

I can't stand either light or ff sour cream. I don't think they resemble Elmer's glue, instead I think they take old skim milk (you know, the sour part) and add flour to thicken it up! They both taste really pasty, like flour. I'll either reduce the amount of the real thing, or mix in z-trim (1/2 & 1/2). I really can't taste or feel any difference with the z-trim mixed in.

I LOVE Daisy Light sour cream. I like it better than the full fat stuff. To me it just tastes fresher. The ingredients are just Grade A cultured cream, skim milk, and vitamin A palmitate.

I tried the Horizon Organic lowfat this week. Yuck! The dog will be getting a bit of it added to her kibble each night until that stuff is gone. Here's the ingredients for that one: Organic grade A cultured nonfat milk and cream, organic tapioca starch, guar gum, carageenan, locust bean gum, vitamin A palmitate, and active and live cultures of L. acidophilous and Bifdobacerium lactis.

My Daisy may not be organic, but it's yummy, and I'm sticking with it.

Rainy

I agree that Daisy is one of the best tasting light sour creams. Breakstone is pretty good too.

My store carries the Daisy brand, but I think they only have the full fat. I will check. The Knudsen's has cultured pasturized grade A milk and cream, contains less than 1% of gelatin, vitimin a palmitate, enzymes.

I find LF is tolerable for a lot of things whereas FF is absolutely horrible.

Can't speak to the sour cream issue directly because sour cream is probably the only fattening thing in the world that I honestly do not like. No temptation for me no matter how high (or low) the fat and calories.

I love Breakstone's Fat Free. It's the ONLY fat-free sour cream I've found that I like. Has a really good flavor.

I like the Tillamook light sour cream - to me that is normal tasting. Tillamook ff is tolerable but tastes like a lowfat product.

I actually have to avoid having full fat sour cream in the house because when I was a kid a quick dessert my mom used to make was just plain sourcream and sugar - sometimes over fruit. I love it. Real sourcream is too tempting to turn into sweetened sourcream which is something i can eat WAAAAAY too much of in one sitting.

That sounds delicious, Ennay. Have you tried it with light sour cream? There's so much yummy fruit around at the moment, and I want to make desserts that don't involve crusts and biscuits

Yummmmmmm. My sister introduced me to this:

fresh strawberries dipped in sour cream and then dipped in a little brown sugar.

You have no idea how good it tastes! Better by far than chocolate dipped strawberries.