Yogurt: What is with These Six-ounce Containers!?

Well, I suppose an era has finally come to an end. I just learned that Columbo Yogurt, the only brand name yogurt still packaged in eight ounce containers, has jumped on the bandwagon of "downsized" containers, and raised their price in the bargain, joining Breyers, Stonyfield Farms, YoPlait and Dannon, the evil company who started all this.

How did we let this happen? Dannon was the first company make their containers smaller, and then raised the price! And people still bought it! It was at this point I crossed Dannon off my list. Soon, Breyers followed suit and got red-penciled as well. I moved on to Stonyfield Farms, and a year later, they joined this rip off club. Bye bye Stonyfield Farms. YoPlait was always in small containers, so I never even looked at it. Now they have this Dannon Activia, which is only four ounces and TWICE the price of regular yogurt, and my doctor says it is the biggest scam out there. He said if you eat one to two containers a day of regular yogurt, it's the same thing.

Since I am on Weight Watchers, and over 50, I have to eat three dairy equivalents a day and fat-free yogurt is my savior because I hate skim milk (oh, excuse, me, it's "fat-free milk" now). I am able to make parfaits with it and even found a cheesecake recipe made with yogurt cheese (drain plain yogurt for a day or two, and you get a cream cheese like result) that was half the calories of regular cheesecake, and counted as a dairy. Weight Watches defines a dairy serving as eight ounces, but even their yogurt containers are 6 ouncers.

Columbo was the last hold out. When I couldn't get that, I'd buy the store brands, which were usually still eight ounces. But now I have learned that Columbo has finally sold out. Since the store brands are harder and harder to find, I am sure they will soon return as six ouncers as well.