As registered dietitians and personal trainers you may think that since we eat a healthy diet, exercise and love veggies that we automatically must just not like sweets. Ha! If only!
The truth is we love chocolate and frozen desserts—and have a thang for fro-yo. In college there was a fro-yo store on campus, Yogurt Jungle that had “Jungle Monday Madness” where you could get two small yogurts for the price of one. We were students on a budget and we weren’t shy with our order and usually ordered two. Yes—we each ordered two, which meant four small frozen yogurts each! And we’d end up eating those instead of a healthy dinner—every Monday night! Oy! Thank goodness we don’t do that anymore (yes, we didn’t feel so good the rest of the night) but that doesn’t mean we love fro-yo any less! 😉
Thankfully, since those days, we’ve learned to make some pretty delicious, waistline-friendly frozen desserts that we can eat and get in the very comfort of our own home—and that we love but don’t overeat! Plus, they are a lot less processed and have a lot less sugar—in fact, ours are actually pretty good for you! Remember our Skinny Strawberry Mint Ice Cream, Skinny Banana Ice Cream Sandwiches, Dark Chocolate Banana Ice Cream, and this Chocolate Peanut Butter Banana Ice Cream? Well those just whet our appetite to make more!
Easy Strawberry Lemon Frozen Yogurt
Keep the taste of summer alive no matter the season–with this sweet treat! This strawberry frozen yogurt is perfect for a mid-day snack or a desert and it’s just 95 calories per serving! 🙂
This recipe uses Greek yogurt, so you will get more protein than you would with regular frozen yogurt. It also uses fresh strawberries and a little pineapple too, so you can get some of your daily fruit!
Serves 6
Ingredients:
3 cups frozen strawberries
1 cup pineapple
1 cup vanilla Greek yogurt
1 Tablespoons honey (If you enjoy tart yogurt like Pinkberry, you can leave out the honey!)
2 tablespoon fresh lemon juice
Directions:
- In a food processor, add half of the strawberries, half of the pineapple, and half of the yogurt. Blend until smooth.
- Add the rest of the strawberries, pineapple, yogurt and the honey and lemon juice. Blend again until smooth.
- Let the frozen yogurt sit in the freezer for a couple hours until desired consistency is reached.Enjoy!
Per serving:
Calories: 95
Carbs: 20 grams
Fat: 0 grams
Protein: 4 grams
Cholesterol: 2 milligrams
Sodium: 18 milligrams
Sugars: 14 grams
Fiber: 3 grams
- 3 cups frozen strawberries
- 1 cup pineapple
- 1 cup vanilla Greek yogurt
- 1 Tablespoons honey
- 2 tablespoon fresh lemon juice
- In a food processor, add half of the strawberries, half of the pineapple, and half of the yogurt. Blend until smooth.
- Add the rest of the strawberries, pineapple, yogurt and the honey and lemon juice. Blend again until smooth.
- Let the frozen yogurt sit in the freezer for a couple hours until desired consistency is reached.Enjoy!