One New Year's resolution we could all benefit from, women especially, is to consume more calcium. Dairy products are one way to get your daily dose of this crucial bone-building mineral. What you don't need are the fat and cholesterol that full fat dairy products also contain.

I buy low fat and fat free dairy products as much as possible. Nonfat yogurt tastes fine to me. Fat free buttermilk? Wouldn't bake without it. And I couldn't make my famous cream-free ice cream without fat free sweetened condensed milk.

But fat free half and half sounds oxymoronic to me. What is half and half, if not fat? A fellow foodie told me it wasn't half bad. Give it a chance, she said.