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Tuesday, July 6, 2010

Healthy Ice Cream

Recipe 1
  1. Buy bananas.
  2. Chop bananas into small pieces.
  3. Freeze pieces overnight.
  4. Use a food processor (pick this up at a thrift store if you don't have one) to chop bananas really really small. Have you ever had Dippin' Dots ice cream? It looks like that. Don't do this if you have a sleeping baby - this is really really loud!
  5. Eat and Enjoy!
  6. Note: You can add any other fruit to this and it makes it delicious too!
Recipe 2
  1. Buy bananas, blueberries, raw honey and cream. Look for cream that has just cream as the ingredient (ie. not ultra pasteurized, Land O' Lakes makes two different kinds of cream). Raw honey is way better tasting...get the locally made honey and it's supposed to help with allergies.
  2. Chop bananas into small pieces.
  3. Freeze pieces overnight.
  4. Dump ingredients into a food processor. Start your food processor, then let it sit a bit, start it, stop it, start it, stop it...etc. I don't want you to burn your motor up! It might seem like a pain, but believe me, it's worth it! Creamy, yummy, healthy!
My notes:
Amounts of each ingredient...you'll have to decide. I tried a bunch of strawberries (bought frozen, then thawed them), few bananas, few blueberries, little cream and honey and we didn't like it nearly as much as our favorite way.

Our favorite way is to fill the food processor bowl almost full of chopped frozen bananas, add a hand full of blueberries, 4 thawed strawberries and about 1/4 cup of cream. When you use that many bananas you don't have to use honey!

My daughter doesn't like strawberry or banana flavor so to make her "ice cream" we whirl up honey, cream and frozen blueberries.

I buy blueberries in bulk from Azure Standard. Every week I buy two big bunches of bananas. One to eat and one to freeze. We always keep frozen chunks of bananas around. Peaches would be wonderful in this too!

It's all good.

Believe me.

No, try it, you'll see!

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3 comments:

  1. I have a similar recipe posted! It's amazing how good blended frozen bananas are...I always tell people you just have to try it, because it's unbelievably yummy.
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  2. Very true Hannah - I don't even like banana flavored stuff and I love this! Off to check out your post.
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  3. What a good idea! I can't wait to try out that second recipe!
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