Yogurt

I’m sure that many of you already do.  Like yogurt, I mean.

I, on the other hand, have never been able to acquire a taste for it.  I’m aware of the health benefits, of the low calorie-ness of it.

It’s just that I’m a person for whom texture is more important than taste when it comes to food.  And, let’s face it, yogurt does not have an appealing texture for one who thinks that the four basic food groups are pizza, popcorn, pickles and potato chips.

I have lately embarked on a serious quest to shed some pounds, however.  Consequently, I thought I’d try again to see if there were any yogurt flavors or brands that I could actually bear to swallow.

Now, I’m not saying that it’s likely to become a staple of my diet—although I am starting to appreciate the quickness and portability of it—but the miracle is I think I’ve found one.

Yocrunch Cheesecake-Flavored Yogurt.

It doesn’t taste much like cheesecake. At least, not the delicious Baby Watson Cheesecake of my NYC days.  On the other hand, the calorie count is, like, a million times less.

And it’s crunchy!

Well, not the yogurt itself.  But it comes packaged with some crunchy graham cracker crust bits that you sprinkle into the yogurt, thus providing some welcome relief from the sheer awful smoothness of the yogurt.

A quick 100 calorie snack.

No comparison to pizza.  Or potato chips.  Or even pickles.

But it’s edible.

I even selected it out of the refrigerator by choice today.  The choice was a little more due to the desire for a fast and easy boost to the blood sugar than to a craving for the actual taste, but I did choose it.  And ate it.

And realized that herein lies a miracle.

A yogurt I can stand to eat!