Pfft, people talking about health - taste is all that matters!
Taste is all that matters until you hit the age when suddenly you start gaining a lot of weight really fast. I used to be able to eat anything I wanted and still be healthy, which naturally I assumed was my own doing. Then all of a sudden, over the course of two weeks of eating pizza and fries and burgers and bacon, I gained so much weight that I couldn't button my pants anymore. And I didn't gain the weight evenly, either. All in my stomach, hips, butt, and thighs. My arms and face are still super-thin, but the middle of me looks like I must be wearing a fat suit. So from now on I'm skipping the junk food and cooking healthy stuff as much as possible. Not a diet (those don't work), it has to be a permanent lifestyle change. Snacks and greasy stuff every once in a while, but 90% of my food must be healthy.
Jesus, it wasn't long ago that I was listening to people a few years older than me complaining about suddenly gaining weight, and rolling my eyes. "Just get up and take a walk," I thought stupidly to myself. "It doesn't take much exercise to keep in shape." Not when you're 25, it doesn't. "As long as you don't eat too much of any one thing, you'll still be healthy." Unless your variety comes from various types of junk food. "It doesn't matter how much you weigh as long as you're healthy." Until your pants won't button!
Anyway, grumbling about aging aside (I just found my third gray hair!), yogurt is actually perfectly fine for lactose intolerant people. The bacteria in the yogurt digests the lactose for you. I already eat a huge bowl of yogurt with breakfast each day. Organic farmer's-style yogurt with a spoon of homemade fruit jam and another spoon of chia seeds. Yum. Can't eat that for every meal, though.
Made a pretty good salad last night. Shredded lettuce, Chinese cabbage, red cabbage, cucumber, carrot, mung bean sprouts, chives, and a big block of tofu sliced up small with a dressing from olive oil, sesame oil, soy sauce, and rice vinegar. Yum yum. Made me gassy though.
It's raining now and the temperature is supposed to go down a lot tonight, so I think I'll boil up some dried black beans and throw them in the fridge for use for the next few days. Something different from tofu! So much tofu... I can have a cold burrito instead of a sandwich for a change...