Healthy Icecream

Apparently you can chop up ripe bananas, freeze them, and then put them in a blender to make banana "ice cream". I've done it before, but I at least have to add a little skim milk to give them a creamier texture.

That said, I found that the banana sadness that I created really wasn't that much different calorically (caloricly?) from a serving of actual ice cream, so I threw that ish out and never tortured myself in that manner again. Now I just enjoy ice cream/gelato in moderation within my calorie allowance if I want it.

Also, there is nothing unhealthy about dairy, so the absence of dairy/cream in ice cream does not make it more "healthy" for you unless you're lactose intolerant.

Is it possible that on days you're really craving ice cream you could simply save enough calories out to enjoy a serving of regular ice cream?

Kemp's Fat Free, No Sugar Added Frozen Yogurt. 140 calories. Yummy

Take one frozen banana, 6 unsweetened almond milk ice cubes, 1 teaspoon of sweeter of choice, 1/4 cup of milk, 1tspn vanilla essence berries or flavourings of choice. Whizz in blender till smooth. It's not quite ice cream, I kinda prefer the individual tubs ice cream calories and all but nice as a change.

Laramary602 wrote: »

No im not , but adding cream to fruits adds more calories

Try sorbets. They're typically dairy free, mostly fruit based. But they will have sugar to help control the frozen texture.

Or just make room in your daily calorie allowance for a small serving of whatever you want. Someone on here suggested Snickers ice cream bars recently and they're awesome and only 190 calories per bar.

Im always amazed by how few calories ice cream has in it compared to other things.
Id switch down to frozen yoghurt. Sometimes people ry to mimic real food and for me it goes too far and id have the real thing just less of it or if I had to exercise more.

Just eat ice cream. You're not lactose intolerant (or vegan), so there's no reason to avoid dairy. The Dreyers/Edys Slow Churned ice cream has pretty decent macros, and it's not made out of freaking bananas.

I have Braums frozen chocolate frozen yogurt soft serve in a small waffle cone once a week. Their website puts it at 245 but I over estimate and stick it at 300 because lets face it, it's too damn good and sometimes those girls put what feels like a whole lot more than 5 oz of soft serve.

My bf and I do the frozen banana smoothies every couple of weeks when my ice cream craving gets too far. we share 4 oz of banana, 2 oz frozen mango chunk, half tbsp creamy peanut butter, 2 oz fresh chopped strawberry (somewhere in there) A heaping tablespoon of baking cocoa powder (unsweetened), and 3 tbsp of organic vanilla soy milk.

I'm one of the guilty ones that I don't weigh my peanut butter so I could have a goof in there somewhere but splitting that amount between us is around 155 cal each. (allotting for peanut butter)
We like the frozen fruit smoothies.

Mix it up with different frozen fruits, more or less peanut butter or cocoa powder. It's not the same thing but it's still good.

For real ice cream, fit it into your calorie goals. Life changes in eating shouldn't mean restriction, just moderation.

cwolfman13 wrote: »

I don't see anything inherently unhealthy about having some regular ice cream from time to time in a serving size that is appropriate to your goals.

+1

cwolfman13 wrote: »

I don't see anything inherently unhealthy about having some regular ice cream from time to time in a serving size that is appropriate to your goals.

Which, at least for me, means more than the actual serving size listed on the nutrition label, because 64 grams of ice cream is a freaking joke. I eat at least 100 grams as my "serving," but I prefer 150 grams if I can fit it into my macros.