DON'T FRONT: Edy's Yogurt Blends Caramel Praline Crunch

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DON'T FRONT: Edy's Yogurt Blends Caramel Praline Crunch

POSTED: Wednesday, April 14, 2010, 3:00 PM

Filed Under: Don't Front

I am of the firm belief that you shouldn't stock your vices in the home. For me, the forbidden fruit is sugar. I have no self-control when it comes to the stuff. A package of Oreos in the cabinet will call to me, siren-like, even while I sleep. Once the box is breached, I will go forty Oreos deep and emerge with teeth capped in black sugar paste and soul smeared with despair. The answer is classic weight-loss advice: don't buy it and you won't eat it. This is all undone when visiting parents, who seem to relish offering dessert after every meal and displaying their fully stocked Carb Cabinet, loaded with chips, cookies, chocolate-covered bits and pieces and everything else you weren't allowed to eat when you actually lived with them for 18 years. This is where we encountered the excessively named Edy's Yogurt Blends Caramel Praline Crunch. As the cardboard tub declaims, this "cultured frozen dairy dessert" is indeed rich and creamy from slow-churning, a process that allows lower-fat ice cream to reach heights of richness normally exclusive to styles with maximum butterfat. The bits of crunchy praline almonds and ribbon of gooey caramel are generously distributed through the pure white fro-yo, adding textural interest to the smooth, aerated cream. A single serving of one-half cup rings up at 120 calories, 30 of them from fat, and delivers 10 percent of your daily calcium requirement. Health food it's not, but it is cultured like a.m. yogurt with active cultures, and the first ingredient is skim milk. As long as you don't devour the entire half-gallon, this is a rewarding treat that gets as far from ice-milk as you can go without shooting your whole week of workouts in their sore foot. Available at Wegman's, Acme and other normal-type grocery stores. Here's a product locator. Don't Front.

SamJ

Posted 2010-04-16 09:10:54

A single half-cup serving? Good one.

Frank

Posted 2010-08-04 14:30:45

My Mom bought this single serve cup as part of her diet because she doesn't want to give up sweets. I love sweets myself but only eat them when I truly have a craving. Today was one of those days and I decided to try this lowfat frozen yogurt. I finished the cup i about five min..it was tasty! THEN, instantaneously my stomach started churning and I ran for the bathroom and had a serious case of diarrhea. TWICE! Never will I eat this product again....unless I am deciding to lose a few pounds in the form of a laxative. All stick to the all-natural stuff next time!

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