Banana chocolate ice cream
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Single-ingredient banana ice cream is the best! It’s so easy to make without an ice cream maker, so I’ve been experimenting with it. I especially like that it doesn’t require any addition of sugar. Plus, by making my own ice cream, I know there aren’t any preservatives or other ingredients that are questionable for health.
Anyway, this week I made chocolate ice cream with bananas as the base and it was delicious. My whole family loved it and I’ll definitely keep it in my recipe repertoire.
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I achieved my Goodreads goal of reading a hundred books this year! I read 68 books last year and 30 books the year before that. This means 100 is a pretty huge deal for me. Now excuse me as I celebrate with a much deserved break reading more books!
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Congrats on reaching your goal! I set mine as 50 or so this year but surpassed that a while back, so now I just want to double it. Sooooo closeeee.
About two years ago now, I pretty much cut refined sugar out of my diet so now I’m pretty much relying on fruits and whatnots to provide a natural sweetness. I love healthy snacks, although have recently been extremely slack so now I just eat primarily raw. =_=
Thank you, Jess :) I double mine the previous two years. Haha. 2012 from 15 to 30 and 2013 from 30 to 65. This year I’m not going to increase even though the year’s not coming to an end yet. But if you can, go double it. A hundred sounds like a very satisfying number :D
Wow. How do manage to stick to that? Like, what if you eat out? Does this mean you don’t eat cakes, cookies, etc or do you use substitutes like sweeteners? Don’t worry, you’re not alone. If a vegetable can be eaten raw, I’m more likely to eat it like that too instead of bothering to cook. Heh.
My sister makes these mug cakes that are gluten free and dairy free for me, and she made a pumpkin version a few nights ago. That was DELICIOUS! I’m not sure it’s low-calorie, since it still uses coconut flour and a few other ingredients, but it’s better for me because of the gluten/dairy thing. I’d have to find the recipe she uses one day and make it for myself when she’s not home :P
Congrats on reaching your reading goal, by the way!
Lol. Bananas are hardly low-calorie either. While I don’t have any specific dietary restrictions, my dad’s basically a pescetarian who eats predominantly wholemeal grains and not a lot of sugar. So if he wants to eat cake, I mostly have to bake because then I can adjust the ingredients accordingly and use maybe a fifth of the sweetness commercial cakes contain. While I never adjusted to his dietary lifestyle, I do find more and more that commercial products are too sweet and bake with less than half the amount of sugar most recipes call for even if I bake for people besides my dad. So far none of my friends noticed the reduction in sugar, which I find interesting.
Either way, you should go and find out what the recipe is! Nothing beats making your own food. For one, you feel a sense of accomplishment and for another, it’s way better for our bodies, I’m sure :)
And thank you, Kayla! :D Though you’re way ahead of me ;)
I love the banana ice cream and you don’t even have to feel bad eating it! Congrats on winning your Goodreads goal!
Missie @ A Flurry of Ponderings
YES! Especially when there’re no additional ingredient. Then it’s just the fruit, which is wonderful :D Though even for the chocolate ice cream, there’s hardly any guilt in it because I merely added pure cocoa powder. And thank you :)