Dannon yogurt supplies your body with calcium and it can help you lose weight. According to the United States Department of Agriculture, studies suggest calcium in dairy foods with little fat content increases weight loss. Dannon offers a wide variety of flavored yogurts you can include in your diet to lose weight. These yogurts are ready to eat, but you can create healthy meals using Dannon's All Natural Nonfat Plain Yogurt as an ingredient.
Step 1
Have Dannon yogurt as a drink alone or with cereal. Make yourself a tasty beverage that contains Dannon All Natural Lowfat Yogurt. Put a cup of Dannon All Natural Lowfat Plain Yogurt in a blender, along with ½ cup of fresh strawberries, one small banana, 3 ice cubes, ½ teaspoon of vanilla extract and a few drops of stevia for sweetness and blend for about 1 minute for a fruit smoothie that contains about 216 calories.
Vanilla Dannon yogurt tastes great when it is put in a bowl with corn flakes poured on top of it. One cup of Dannon All Natural Lowfat Vanilla Yogurt, plus ½ cup of corn flakes contains approximately 200 calories.
Step 2
Use Dannon yogurt instead of sour cream. The New York State Department of Health recommends using lowfat yogurt in place of sour cream in vegetable dips and salad dressings. Put 6 oz. of Dannon All Natural Lowfat Plain Yogurt in a blender with ½ ounce of blue cheese or feta cheese and blend for 5 seconds for a creamy low-calorie salad dressing. Pour 2 oz. of this dressing over spinach or Romaine lettuce leaves.
The blue cheese dressing contains about 50 calories per 2 oz. serving and the feta cheese dressing contains about 46 calories per 2 oz. serving. If you like to eat fresh cut vegetables with dips, try a recipe made with yogurt.
First drain one cup of Dannon All Natural Lowfat Plain Yogurt over a colander lined with cheesecloth for ½ hour, and then add to it some powdered onion soup or powdered vegetable soup. Blend and refrigerate for 2 hours. Add the amount of soup mix that suites your taste. This dip contains about 120 calories per cup.
Step 3
Use Dannon Lowfat Plain Yogurt to make Indian dishes such as tandoori chicken. Mix together 1 cup of Dannon Lowfat Plain Yogurt, 2 tbsp. of lemon juice, ½ tbsp. of canola oil and some powdered tandoori spice mix to taste and blend. Put ½ pound of raw white meat chicken in a deep dish and pour the tandoori yogurt mix over the chicken.
Cover and marinate in the refrigerator for up to 12 hours, then remove the chicken from the marinade and place on a rack in a pan and bake in the oven at 350 degrees for about 25 minutes. For the last two minutes, turn the oven on broil and place the pan of chicken in the lower half of the oven so it can slightly brown. Baste the chicken with the yogurt marinade during the first 15 minutes of cooking time. The total calorie content for this Dannon yogurt dish is about 220 calories.
Things You'll Need
- Dannon All Natural Lowfat Yogurt
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