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I cannot find full fat yogurt in any of my local grocery stores. Is "low fat" as good as it gets? Seems like the low-fat diet craze of the recent past, and the current greek yogurt phenomenon, mean that "zero fat" and "low fat" are the only two options.

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Assuming you shop at U.S supermarkets, you can _usually_ find full-fats, but they are almost always the store brand. There are very limited flavor options with full-fat though.

Ohh, what I'd give for full(even extra!) fat yogurt with not a lot of sugar. : (

The best yogurt I have had, by far, far, is Juju Dhau, from Nepal. It's so heavy and creamy, it feels like a meal in itself.

Hey investors, ya hear me? Juju dhau might be the next Chobani!

http://tasteofnepal.blogspot.com/2012/02/juju-dhau-king-of-y...

How about making yoghurt yourself? It's not that hard.

Merchandising it on a large scale would be...

But you probably mean making it for personal use. I'm not the original poster, but I'm going to have to look into that.

2% Fage is usually the best I can find.

The low fat ones are marketing BS—loaded with sugar so they don't taste like nothing. Unfortunately that's very nearly the only thing available at most stores. Misleading advertising/labelling defeats good food yet again.

Every grocery store I've seen carries multiple brands of yogurts (usually in all of strained -- Greek, skyr, etc. -- non-strained, and drinkable), not labelled low- or no-fat that are full-fat. (At least one brands labels them as something like 4% fat, which is a low-seeming number, but is actually full fat.)

Stonyfield and Fage make full fat yogurts, for example. I do not remember seeing any at the grocery chain giants, though. More specialized groceries (e.g., Whole Foods, some "ethnic" stores) may carry a full fat yogurt.

http://www.stonyfield.com/products/yogurt/smooth-creamy/whol...

http://usa.fage.eu/product/fage-total-7-oz

Not sure if it qualifies as "full fat" per se, but Noosa brand yogurt has roughly twice the fat content of most Greek yogurts I've tried (seems to really help texture/flavor as well).

Fage, Straus, Maple Hill, Voskos all sell full-fat yogurt, and Trader Joe's sells one under their own brand. Maple Hill's is not strained and made with milk form grass-fed cows.

Try making your own yogurt. It's not quite as easy as buying it, but it's still a very simple process. You can make it with whatever fat content you'd like (and less sugar, which was the big draw for me), and it's really remarkably good. A decent yogurt maker will set you back maybe 20 or 25 bucks:

http://amzn.com/B000EX16RY

I can't eat nonfat dairy because it triggers my lactose intolerance. It drives me crazy to know that full-fat Greek style yogurt exists but none of my local stores stock it. The best I have found is 2%, and even then the pickings are slim.

That said, my local Safeway does stock 4% Darigold cottage cheese.

Are you not in a major metro area? When I lived in rural missouri (40k city) I still found multiple brands of full fat (and not just plain flavor).

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