If you want to make a healthy alternative to cream cheese, try making your own yogurt and then make your own yogurt cheese. Its easy! You can use a yogurt maker to make your own yogurt from whole or skim milk. I bought my yogurt maker at a tag sale! Take your finished yogurt or ready-made yogurt from the store and simply put it in a strainer on top of a paper coffee filter. Let it stand in the strainer, over a bowl, for a few hours or over night. The liquid will drain out into the bowl and you will be left with the yogurt solids. You might want to squeeze the last remaining liquid out to get this as thick as possible. It will be the consistency of cream cheese but have fewer calories!
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