Ah ha! Here's one that looks easy enough. I might add some chopped almonds, pecans, or walnuts into these. Will let you know when I try them.
K.

healthy fudgesicle recipe

(makes 5-6 pops)

2 tbsp cocoa powder
1/2 cup canned full-fat coconut milk
2 small, very-ripe bananas (200g)
scant 1/16 tsp salt
1/2 tsp pure vanilla extract
sweetener of choice, to taste (stevia, agave, etc.)
optional: feel free to add peanut butter!

Healthy Chocolate Fudgsicles Recipe: Combine all items in a blender (I used a Magic Bullet). Pour into popsicle molds and freeze. Easy, right? As I said, the hardest part is waiting for them to freeze! A good way to remove pops is to run the popsicle mold under room-temp water for about 15 seconds, then gently twist. And the proper way to eat the pops is with chocolate dripping down your face.


Each fudgsicle will have 60 calories when made with full-fat coconut milk. You can use lite coconut milk, too, or milk of choice (in which case, they’ll have only around 20-30 calories each), but they’ll be less creamy.

Unlike real fudgsicles (the ones you buy at the store), these have no high fructose corn syrup or processed ingredients you can’t pronounce. They are completely free of any added sugars.

A true healthy treat that doesn’t taste “healthy.”

Substitution notes: I haven’t personally tried omitting the banana, so I can’t vouch for it… but some commenters have told me the popsicles are still good without the banana.

maoribadger wrote: »

KarenZen wrote: »

Ah ha! Here's one that looks easy enough. I might add some chopped almonds, pecans, or walnuts into these. Will let you know when I try them.
K.


Substitution notes: I haven’t personally tried omitting the banana, so I can’t vouch for it… but some commenters have told me the popsicles are still good without the banana.

Definitely one to try. Can you taste the banana. I mean even a trace of it bc Im not a fan of banana flavoured stuff. I would eat a banana happily but not in stuff if that makes sense, in which case I'll try it without. Would drop the cals about 20 a pop too Im guessing

Lise, I don't know what would happen with texture if you take away the banana, but I'm going to pick up some coconut milk and try it out. Funny, I like bananas but am also NOT a fan of banana IN anything else too.
K.

Aaarrgghhhh!!! Oooouuuucchhhh!!!
I'm typing with my laptop balanced on my stomach and just dropped the sucker on my bare toes.

Today was a good day, overall. Dinner with Ariel was great--big salad with leftover organic roasted chicken and some turmeric-roasted cauliflower (very good), which was my "clean eating" recipe of the day. Logged all my food. Swam for my exercise.

As Ariel and I were eating supper, my friend Liz popped in for a gossip. Nancy, she is SO MUCH like you, it's almost freaky. You're about the same age, similar height, similar coloring. She works in a hospital (she does something with seizure monitoring... I think she's an RN). She doesn't collect cats, but she does have a pony, a halflinger. The best part of having two girlfriends over for dinner is that the food is just there, very secondary, and the conversation and companionship are the most important parts. The salad and cauliflower tasted so much better, and the navel orange slices I cut for dessert were sweet and juicy and delicious. I think when I lost so much weight each time I lived in Europe, it was because I ate a lot of meals in that type of communal/friendship atmosphere, enjoying great conversation, maybe sitting outside in a taverna, really enjoying mindful eating. When Jim and I eat, we tend to just wolf down dinner in front of the t.v. , a habit we really should break. There's nothing joyful, celebratory, mindful, or sacred about that kind of meal at all.

I'm going to be busy with Skippy tomorrow, so don't expect to hear much from me (shocker). We're doing a writing workshop in the morning. He's working on a story about a boy who is a bully and the classmate who finally discovers why and helps him stop bullying. Pretty significant stuff for an 8 year old, but he's no ordinary 8 year old. I will NOT be working on my Bigfoot erotica during this writing workshop, LOL, but that's going back on the list of most important things to finish this summer. Afternoon will be water balloon time and swimming, then cooking time (maybe try a recipe for no sugar oatmeal cookies made with almond flour and fuji apple chunks?), then vegging out on the couch and watching a movie time before he goes home for bed. We haven't had a full day together for months, so this is a big treat for both of us! I'm so glad his parents are happy to share him. Just praying that my sciatic pain is manageable for the day.

Despite desperately wanting to, I did NOT get on the scale today to check my mid-challenge weight. I'm just trying to trust the process and believe that if I follow my goals, the weight will come off. Tonight's visit and my excitement for tomorrow reminded me that when I am happily engaged with other people, my struggle to eat well becomes much, much easier. And even now, when my company is gone, I have a happy glow that fills me up so I don't need to pick at the fridge. Three years ago, I would have made sure I had some kind of sweet for dessert, and after company left I would have waited for Jim to go to bed, then I would have eaten whatever was left over in secret and probably lie to Jim that I "threw it out so it wouldn't be a temptation." Two years ago I might have taken the left over sweet and squeezed dish detergent all over it so I couldn't eat it. Tonight, I cut up oranges for dessert. PROGRESS!!!!

Well, time to feed the meowing cat, clean up the kitchen, nuke my butt with some spine and brain numbing meds, and get some sleep. Good luck on challenge day 6 tomorrow! YOU CAN DO IT!

xxxooo
K.