Diet Food Reviews

use it to make tsasiki that is the best stuff ever and dip some pita chips into it man now i am getting hungry

I eat this for breakfast most mornings. If you mix in some fresh berries and sliced almonds you cut the bitterness but keep the rich, cream texture. Very filling and yummy!

Thank you so much guys (and gals) for the comments on how you use Fage. But Max and graceless where are the tsasiki (tzatziki - sp?) recipes??

Tanya, Tzatziki is soooo delicious. Check out this tzatziki recipe from Epicurious: http://www.epicurious.com/recipes/recipe_views/views/5403

This yogurt definitely needs to have some splenda added to it to taste anywhere decent (I actually add 2 packets!)

I love this stuff. For breakfast I stir in a teaspoon of honey, the way I learned to eat yogurt in Spain. Some days I add a teaspoon of sugar and a handful of frozen berries. I also use it as a substitute for sour cream. And now I want to try tzaziki with it. Yum!

I've been looking around for these... they are more expensive than I thought.

anyone know where I can get coupons? I eat 0% fage twice daily -- great for diabetics who trying to avoid high carbs. Fage has 6gto the others' 19g+

anyone know where I can get coupons? I eat 0% fage twice daily -- great for diabetics who trying to avoid high carbs. Fage has 6gto the others' 19g+

I eat at least 6 Fage 2% with honey a day.It is costing me a fortune though.But I love the creamy texture.And the 2% is not as sour.

You're supposed to flavor it of course! Add a tablespoon of jam or something next time.

I LOVE Fage yogurt! Super with honey and/or berries (cherry--yum!) -- almost cheesecake-ish in rich flavor. Just wish it were easier to obtain. Classic Greek desert is yogurt with honey & chopped walnuts...and of course, the wonderful cucumber dip (tzatziki)

fage yogurt is excellent with fresh strawberries, sliced almonds and a generous squeeze of honey!

I can't get enough of the stuff. I usually buy the 2%, but whatever I buy, I put it into a sieve on top of a bowl then in the refrigerator and just leave it there. It gets thicker and thicker, almost like mascarpone cheese. I love it plain, but for breakfast I cut up strawberries and mix them in. I wish it wasn't so expensive though!

FAGE Yogurt is a wonderful product. I am lactose intolerant and I can't eat yogurt, that is until I found out about FAGE. I don't even have to use a Lactase Enzyme caplet with FAGE. I eat the 0% with Trader Joe's Apricot sauce. I wish FAGE had the 5.3oz with honey combo in the 0% instead of Total fat. It's worth the money. It's a meal in itself, especially for breakfast or lunch. I am a senior and this product helps me to stay "regular". . .if you know what I mean.

Love this stuff, Trader Joes also has a great greek style yogurt

Hi,
I am not able to find one. can anyone tell me which stores carry FAge yogurt.
Thanks!

i just don't get it...this stuff is so sour. i love the texture, buy why can't they add some flavor? i'll stick to dannon fruit on the bottom, skipping the fruit. fage...blech!

FAGE makes yoghurt with 0%, 2%, 5%, and 10% fat. Eating 0% yoghurt is like eating "healthy" whole-wheat bread (which tastes like white bread, with sawdust added). You want flavor, try the 10% yoghurt. Yum. Better than a candy bar....

I love Fage, but I can't eat it plain. If I can't find the ones that have the strawberry mix in's, then I buy the larger tub size, and mix in one regular Stoneyfield flavored yogurt to give it taste. I just love the consistency of the FAGE.

I can't eat Fage plain either...but with a bit of blueberry jam mixed in, it becomes a yummy dessert! Another great option is stirring in some sugar-free dry pudding mix; this thickens up the yogurt even more, making it almost like cheesecake. You're not going to find a high protein content like this with any other yogurt!

I am hooked on this yogurt.Looking to find deals on it though.
Ihave found that if you mix it with Stevia and unsweetended chocolate, it tastes like rich icecream..Yum..Love all the protein and no fat...
The 2% is even better..Creamer taste..

I have to be honest... I have been eating the Fage for quite some time now however: There is a new Greek yogurt called Chobani. My friends told me about it, so I decided to try it. I think I have finaly found THE REAL GREEK YOGURT!!

If you don't like sour cream, you would not like this. If you have a sweet tooth, cannot consider a meal complete without dessert, would rather snack on cookies than pretzels, cannot imagine drinking unsweetened ice tea, then add fruit or honey/sweeteners to fage, as has been described by many posters so far. I think of this is another dip for whole wheat pita, up there with hummus tahini baba ghanoush etc. I suggest adding salt, garlic, paprika, and most importantly crumble some fresh or dried rosemary in there, and let sit to absorb the flavor. Then serve with some sprinkled pine nuts and a dash of olive oil on top, alongside other mediterranean dips, olives, etc.

I agree with Gina - I have no interest in American yogurt anymore. A little honey and some diced apples. I also sprinkle in some flax seeds to get some omega-3. I think the savory ideas - cucumbers, dill and salt/pepper sound great, too - like with cottage cheese.

hey, did you guys know you can make your own "greeked" yogurt?
just buy (or make) some regular plain yogurt, and plop some (over a jar) in some cheesecloth, or (what I use, it's easier) a coffee filter in a funnel, and leave it a few hours or overnight in the fridge. Voila! Delicious greek yogurt!
I still buy Fage though, because it's fast and I love to sweeten it and dip strawberries in it. Yum!

I JUST FINISHED EATING A CONTAINER OF FAGE ALONG WITH SOME HONEY AND I HAVE TO SAY IT IS DELICIOUS, BUT DID ANY ONE READ THE NUTRITION FACTS THERE ARE 12G OF FAT AND 20 MG O CHOLESTEROL, I KNEIT WAS TOO GOOD TO BE HEALTHY

I really like the 2% variety -- nice and creamy, but not as tangy as the 0%. I think it's yummy mixed with a bit of spicy Indian pickle, like Patak's variety. Good stuff!

Fage is good with honey, plus you can buy smaller sizes with strawberry. It is hard to take by itself unless you mix it with something.
I love it, particularly with honey.

I really dislike sweet yogurts, so I never ate them. Now, I have this wonderful product with all its nutritional values every day. I think this is the best yogurt ever. Plus, I love that this is so creamy. Most of the yogurts on the shelf are more liquid. This is my breakfast for every day. I eat it with fresh blueberries or strawberries. I can add cinnamon, anything I like. I can even eat it plain, and I still like it. I looked on the internet, and they have this product with fruit: http://www.fage.gr/page/default.asp?id=428&la=2
I have not seen it on the shelves though. Anyway, thumbs up for this yogurt!

After reading this and several comments I am wondering why everyone thinks there is only sweet yogurt in this country. Haven't any of you tried plain yogurt? You flavor it with fruit and sweetener or a tiny bit of fruit flavored drink powder. Nuts optional. Great tasting. The cucumbers etc sounds great too.

"Why didn't you add stuff to it like some sort of sweetener and some fruit? You don't just eat plain yogurt without putting something in it!"

WHAT THE HECK? Don't people realize "plain" is the way yogurt has been eaten for millenia? Why is it that in non-yogurt-eating societies like this, we feel the need to sweeten everything up? (with Splenda, a Carcinogen, nonetheless).

Take it from me (and the rest of the world) Plain Yogurt is delicious and nutritious, if you add anything, add salt!

Fage is the "real" way yogurt is suppose to be. As a little girl my grandmother always made homemade yogurt..When I discovered Fage, it brought it back to me. Unfortunalty, sugar has been added to everything in our foods..Yogurt was not made to taste "sweet" It is yogurt, not ice cream..The true Mediterranean diet is the heathliest diet in the world..only when people "Americanize and supersize" with sugars and fats does it become what it was not meant to be...The sugar and fruit yogurts are not real yogurts.. When in Greece last summer we ate yogurt every day..We actually talked about how happy we were that we now had Fage to eat at home, because it is truly the best, just like in Greece.. We are having a Brunch for Mother's Day at our church and I know the Fage will be the hit of the foods. The people in my family and thousands of families who ate the healthy "unaltered" Mediterranean diet all those years died in their 90's from old age..enough said.....

Fage is my new favorite food. Although I do low-carb, I get the fat free version. I swear its like eating creme fraiche - w/o all the calories! I sprinkle a little splenda on the plain kind and eat it with toasted walnuts and strawberries. I also heard if you freeze it it makes excellent frozen yogurt!

Please, can anyone tell me of the stores that carry fage 0%. I live in GA

it sucked it made me gain 16 pounds

I am so happy to see that someone else commented on the number of people adding Splenda to this yogurt. That is the problem with the way people view food in America. Splenda is a carcinogenic...it is a nasty, sythetic chemical. Why would anyone taint a perfectly healthy (and delicious) food this crap? People are so concerned with the "fat" and "calories"...Splenda will halt your metabolism by contaminating your system with chemicals that get stored in your fat cells. Then your body will totally avoid burning those fat cells because your healthy tissue can't easily get rid of it. People focus on the wrong things.

I am so happy to see that someone else commented on the number of people adding Splenda to this yogurt. That is the problem with the way people view food in America. Splenda is a carcinogenic...it is a nasty, sythetic chemical. Why would anyone taint a perfectly healthy (and delicious) food this crap? People are so concerned with the "fat" and "calories"...Splenda will halt your metabolism by contaminating your system with chemicals that get stored in your fat cells. Then your body will totally avoid burning those fat cells because your healthy tissue can't easily get rid of it. People focus on the wrong things. And huge portions are what makes you gain weight...try eating 1/2-1 cup a day.

I grew up eating this stuff and I love it! I cannot believe that people are adding splenda to this.......it's kind of like adding mint jelly on lamb (another thing a Greek would never do)

Why not buy Yoplait or some other brand that is cheaper and you don't add to it?

Fage is amazing! I picked some up at a local Trader Joe's because I had never tasted Greek Yoghurt. I couldn't believe what a gorgeous texture it had. I've outgrown the sweet manufactured yoghurt. I mix fresh fruit, whatever, honey yummmmmmm. This is perfect if you are trying to eat with more healthful habits. I AM HOOKED - as many possible stars **********

I tried Fage for the first time this morning. I have to say I loved the texture, the taste...I I bought the one with the cherry jam. I absolutely adored it..I swore I was buying this from now on. A few hours later I was terribly nauseous and was like that all day. I told someone maybe it was the Fage. She said she tried Fage and she became very nauseous as well. I am not lactose intolerant but I can only assume that maybe there are more probiotics in Fage that my system was just not used too. Has anyone else had this problem? Does it go away if I keep eating Fage?

Well after knocking fage yogurt on this board this morning I decided I really should give it another chance. Everyone else loves it, so what's wrong with me? Well, the purists out there who wouldn't think of sweetening their sour yogurt will have to forgive me, but I followed the advice of some other posters and added a package of pudding mix to a 17 oz container of the yogurt and- surprise! It was great! I used jello sugar free vanilla pudding mix to add to the yogurt. To top it, I thawed some frozen mixed berries in some splenda (which, by the way, has NOT been shown to be carcinogenic like so many have claimed). The yogurt was so rich, it's reminiscent of cheesecake, and the berries made the perfect topping. Try it! :) It really makes it more palatable.

Okay, so this tasted like straight sour cream. At first I thought it had spoiled, but after reading other post, I found that this was not true. Adding a few fresh strawberries made an excellent addition. The next time I had it with a few spoonfuls of granola and it was fantastic!!!

Strained yogurt is a staple ingredient in nearly all Indian curry dishes. I use so much Fage for curry recipes that I often need to buy the largest container. It's great for marinating and baking with. 2% usually works well to be a bit on the healthier side.

I Lovee FAGE! It is my breakfast staple now. Where else can you get 15 grams of protein without having to stuff yourself with eggs and vegetables in the morning? And it's only 90 calories for a 6 oz! I just add splenda and cinnamon, and it is yummm!! It keeps me full until late lunch. I just have a fruit, coffee, and yogurt in the morning for only 300 calories :) works great :)

I am now totally off the "sweet" yogurts. They all contain High Fructose Corn Syrup! Bad for your health, death for your diet. Splenda - same thing! If you have to have your sweet treat, use honey or fresh fruit, you big babies!

A few days ago I bought Fage yogurt, at the suggestion of my dietician. It is great. I tried the Total 0% fat free. I like the fact that it is good for diabetics and is fat free and cholestrol free. I don't thing I will ever buy those sweet so-called yogurts anymore. This is what true yogurt is like - no sugar or anything.

It is a little expensive and I wish I could get coupons for it. Chobani vanilla is good too, and they have printable coupons on their website.

I buy it in Stop & Shop in Connecticut.

I don't have to bother making it myself anymore.

I work for a company called "Natural-By-Nature" we are a organic dairy company here on the east coast. I had got some of the Fage yogurt to try as a sample.... must say i do like it better over the other yogurts

Fage is simply strained yogurt. You can do this yourself by buying regular yogurt and putting it in a strainer overnight in the fridge. (I buy Dannon all natural fat free.) It drains off all the whey (liquid-y stuff.) It will be just as creamy, and the straining will reduce the volume by about half. That is why FAGE is so expensive-- it's like getting twice the yogurt per ounce because the there's no whey in it!

I really like the thickness but the tartness took some getting used to but I love it with honey,almonds and strawberries. yay !

I don't particularly understand the comments about how this yogurt is sour and everything. Yogurt IS sour. Period. Yogurt is the product of bacterial fermentation of milk sugars that produce lactic acid. Acid => acidic = sour.

It's not strange that this product is sour, what's strange is that everyone is so used to sweets and sugary everything that anything really NATURAL, such as TOTAL, tastes odd nowadays..

I consider Fage 0 to be the Best of the Best for a fat free yogurt, sour cream and whipped cream substitute. I have been on a fat free heart-healthy diet for over three years and Fage has really done wonders in creating new recipes. I always combine it with other ingredients and because it is unflavored it is much more versatile.

tastes great with almond extract!

I looooove this stuff and I'm not even much of a yogurt person :)

It's awesome with honey, black walnuts, pecans, and sliced almonds.

The problem with most of our yogurt is the stuff added to it! We think we're eating healthy and we're ingesting something that either poisons us or spikes our blood sugar! I tried Fage today for the first time and I'm hooked. A tsp of honey and some frozen berries were wonderful. I'm getting a larger portion with more protein, fewer calories, and no chemicals! Can't ask for more than that! Why didn't I find this sooner?

where can you purchase fage?

I happen to like Fage straight up, but it's even better sparked with tasty add-ins! I mix mine with Splenda-sweetened fruit cooked to a marmalade consistency when i have the time, and
applesauce, baby food fruit,(don't laugh!) or melted jam and some Splenda when I'm time-pushed. Or, in a savory mode, I add dry soup mix to it for an instant dip/dressing for veggies.
It is yummy stuff.

Wow! What an interesting post, and comments! I too was shocked at the amount of people commenting about sprinkling the poison, splenda, over this perfectly good food! I think that's one of the problems in America, is that we have allowed the food industry to (feed us chemicals that) brainwash us into thinking that sweet foods are the norm and its ok to eat them every day, more then once a day. Other countries do not do this! I eat it plain.. Total only, as I do not eat low fat ANYTHING. Read the book Nourishing Traditions. This yogurt is the best yogurt out there! Think, rich, delicious.. Almost tastes like soft creamed cheese.. Would you put splendo on you cream cheese bagel? The flavor is very similar.

This is actually the only yogurt I buy. I love it with slivered almonds and a touch of honey.

I love greek yogurt like Oiko's or Fage but since it is so expensive I stretch it by mixing 4 oz greek yogurt with a 4 oz container of yoplus blackberry pomagranit flavored yogurt. By mixing it I get a half cup of thick creamy yogurt for my evening snack with lots more protien and less carbs. YUM. I live on the West Coast and find Oiko's at Fred Meyer and Fage at Safeway. Has anybody found any coupons?

I am also addicted to Fage yogurt. I was one of those people who couldn't stand it at first, but loved it the second time around. I buy a bag of frozen mixed berries, and just slice some up with a teaspoon of sugar. Then, I add "fruit n nut" granola from wholefoods on top. You will never go back to the usual Dannon or Yoplait yogurt again.