Health tip #1: Eat Yogurt

The newest Publix (as if two on a city block weren't enough already) has the largest yogurt section I have seen in my entire life. I'm not the biggest fan of yogurt, but knowing how good it is for me I've tried to eat more of it. Plus, it makes a nice and easy snack to throw in my lunch bag.

At first I went for the cheap stuff: Yoplait's value size tub (9 cents an ounce). I mixed in fruit and/or granola for tasty breakfasts or dessert substitutes. Vanilla was my preferred favor until I tried stawberry. Now I can't go back. Vanilla, ewwww.

The last couple weeks I tried Yoplait's YoPlus in blackberry-pomegranate (I really want to find a store with cranberry-raspberry!) because it was on sale. It has the probiotics everyone is raving about, plus fiber and extra vitamin A and D. (A little cave-dweller like me can never get anough Vit D.)
It's now my favorite yogurt because it doesn't have the yogurt-y taste I grew to hate in childhood, but it is pretty expensive: 2.50 for a small 4-pack. (63 cents a serving/15.6 cents an ounce) There is, however, a $1 off coupon on their website and a money-back gaurantee if you don't love it.

Today I picked up Dannon's DanActive: Immunity in strawberry and pomegranate-berry because everyone I know is getting sick and I spend 36 hours a week on a hospital floor infested with shigella, MRSA, VRE, and other nasties. I'm really interested in seeing how this makes me feel because there's scientific evidence from the past ten years that really supports the use of the specific probiotics for boosting immunity.
However, it's almost the same price as YoPlus and it has a weird aftertaste that is strangely reminiscient of the acidophilus tablets I had to take as a kid (gee, imagine that). It is conveniently packaged as a drink, though. I'll ride it out and see.

I hate that all the food that's good for you is so expensive :(