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penguinattackstudios
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Hello everyone! I'm new to the group but I thought I'd like to share my Husband's homemade -fairly- healthy ice cream!
You can add it to your MFP, just look up: Jason's Homemade Chocolate Banana Ice Cream
It's a 3 day process all together (seems daunting but it's actually really easy to make).
Ingredients:
5 Bananas
1 Tsp Truvia Sweetener
4 Tbsp Hershey's Unsweet Cocoa Powder
1 1/2 Tbsp Watkin's Caramel Extract
Utensils needed:
Good blender (I use Hamilton Beach),
freezer-safe container,
knife, and
cutting board.
1) To begin, make sure you have ripe bananas - where they're turning a decent brown/have a good amount of brown spots.
2) Slice the bananas really small and freeze them for two days in a freezer safe container.
3) When taking the banana slices out, separate the bananas into chunks for your blender to be able to handle.
4) Begin blending until you get small banana pellets (they kind of look like the 'dots' ice cream.)
5) Pause the blending and add the rest of the ingredients; you can use whatever other ingredients you like, mine are what I like to use, be creative!.
6) Continue to blend until thoroughly whipped.
Your ice cream is now ready to eat! Enjoy!
Makes about 3 cups (3 servings). It's a great treat for people with hypertension, just be careful, the banana's add a lot of SUGAR even though it's natural, so if you're diabetic watch how much you eat (I suggest cutting the serving size in half).
--Per Serving--
Calories: 180
Protein: 3
Sugar: 23
Fiber: 8
Sodium: 88
Potassium: 703
You can add it to your MFP, just look up: Jason's Homemade Chocolate Banana Ice Cream
It's a 3 day process all together (seems daunting but it's actually really easy to make).
Ingredients:
5 Bananas
1 Tsp Truvia Sweetener
4 Tbsp Hershey's Unsweet Cocoa Powder
1 1/2 Tbsp Watkin's Caramel Extract
Utensils needed:
Good blender (I use Hamilton Beach),
freezer-safe container,
knife, and
cutting board.
1) To begin, make sure you have ripe bananas - where they're turning a decent brown/have a good amount of brown spots.
2) Slice the bananas really small and freeze them for two days in a freezer safe container.
3) When taking the banana slices out, separate the bananas into chunks for your blender to be able to handle.
4) Begin blending until you get small banana pellets (they kind of look like the 'dots' ice cream.)
5) Pause the blending and add the rest of the ingredients; you can use whatever other ingredients you like, mine are what I like to use, be creative!.
6) Continue to blend until thoroughly whipped.
Your ice cream is now ready to eat! Enjoy!
Makes about 3 cups (3 servings). It's a great treat for people with hypertension, just be careful, the banana's add a lot of SUGAR even though it's natural, so if you're diabetic watch how much you eat (I suggest cutting the serving size in half).
--Per Serving--
Calories: 180
Protein: 3
Sugar: 23
Fiber: 8
Sodium: 88
Potassium: 703
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Thanks for sharing the recipe. Sounds good and I'll have to try it.0
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Any time
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I purchased a DASH Diet cookbook and will be sharing the good dessert recipes as we try them.0
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Awesome I can't wait!0
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Berry Sundae
Serves 6
1 1/2 cups coarsely chopped strawberries
1 1.2 cups blueberries
1 1/2 cups raspberries
1 1/2 tbl balsamic vinegar
Pinch cracked black pepper
1 1/2 tsp grated lemon zest
1 1/2 tsp grated orange zest
juice from half an orange
1/2 tsp vanilla extract
3 cups low-fat plain Greek yogurt
6 tbl sliced toasted almonds
Place all ingredients except the yogurt and almonds in a large pot over medium heat, and cook until the liquid begins to bubble. Decrease the heat to low, and boil the mixture for about 15 minutes, or until it thickens. Place 1/2 cup of yogurt into six bowls, and top with sauce and toasted almonds.
Nutrition Facts per serving:
Calories 163
Fat 4 g
Cholesterol 5 mg
Sodium 47 mg
Potassium 353 mg
Carbohydrate 20 g
Protein 14 g0 -
I'm drooling already! I think I may try this on the weekend.0
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Here's a nice healthy snack for you and it's easy to make. Whatever I post in parenthesis is either what I used or the measurements on MFP.
No Bake Energy Bites:
3/4 Cup (12Tbsp)
Peanut Butter (Krema - smooth)
1 1/2 Cup
Rolled Oats (Country Barn - old fashioned)
2 tsp
Vanilla Extract (Generic)
1/3 Cup
Honey
1/3 Cup (5 Tbsp)
Mini Chocolate Chips (Nestle's Tollhouse)
1/2 tsp
Ground Cinnamon
Mix all the ingredients together, and throw it in the fridge to chill.
BEWARE! The serving sizes are VERY SMALL (makes "12" pieces). Even though they're healthy fats, this still contains a lot of fat (and sugar); so eat in portions. On the plus side, a small amount is very satisfying and because the oats are dry they tend to expand a bit in the stomach, which helps keep you fuller. Feel free to add flax seed, coconut shavings, or anything else
Nutrition
Cal: 187
Protein: 6
Fat: 10
Sugar: 12
Sodium: 0
Potassium: 270 -
Forgot to thank you for posting the No Bake Energy Bites.
Thank you!0 -
Forgot to thank you for posting the No Bake Energy Bites.
Thank you!
My pleasure!!0
