Salad toppers and flavoured yogurt

The yogurt cup with fruit on the bottom. The bag of crunchy salad toppers. They sit in the healthy part of the store, with pictures of fields and berries on the front.

A lot of it is added sugar dressed up as health food. Flavoured yogurt can carry more sugar than you'd expect from something sold as a health food. Salad toppers are often candied, coated or sweetened, which turns a salad into a dessert with lettuce.

What I use now is plain. Plain yogurt, with my own fruit if I want some. On salads, a handful of pumpkin seeds or almonds for the crunch. They do the job the toppers did, and there's nothing hiding in them.

When I want something sweet, I have better options than a yogurt cup. Bircher muesli for breakfast. Banana ice cream from the CREAMi, with no added sugar, for dessert.

Plain sounds boring. It's the opposite. Plain is the part I get to decide.