I love sour cream! You can put in burritos, on top of soup, and in a taco salad. Sadly, sour cream is loaded with saturated fat. If you skip the fat for a low-fat or non-fat version, you are simply trading fat for carbohydrates, which may be even worse than just eating the fat.
With a wide list of foods that re enhanced from sour cream, what are we supposed to do? We certainly can’t eat these foods bare! Then one day, the perfect substitute was born! Not only is this substitute not bad for your health, it’s actually beneficial!
Plain Greek Yogurt is the unlikely substitute. The next time you want to throw a huge dollop of sour cream, think again. Non-fat plain Greek yogurt is creamy and thick and a bit sour. Beyond its strikingly similar taste is the fact that Greek yogurt is loaded with protein. One 6 oz serving contains 1/3 of your days protein needs! Greek yogurt contains less additives and sugar than yogurts like Yoplait or Dannon.
The Greek yogurt flavor must be plain, the other varieties will not taste like sour cream, but they will taste great on their own! Chobani is my favorite brand partially due to my Upstate New York pride (it brought jobs to Upstate) and partially due to the fact it has the best ingredients. Brands like Trader Joe's add more sugar than Chobani. Lastly, they are a a business that treats their customers and employees well. Employees are given a case of Greek yogurt every week. They truly believe the "customer is always right" and often fix problems with free yogurt!
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