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Help I'mCraving Ice-cream!

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Can anyone help with this? What do you guys do when you crave ice-cream?
I have just stocked up the freezer with goodies for my hubby and the boys
and it hit home that this year I won't be indulging!! I'm here in Malta and it's getting very hot now. Has anyone any recipes or ideas about suitable ices??
I think I've seen one brand of diabetic ice-cream on the market here but
the price is probably sky high. This is one thing that I don't want to give
up on if possible! Can I only dream about Magnums and Ripple!!!
Thanks Kathyxx
 
I like ice cream too. A little ice cream as part of a meal is nice. Are you on insulin? You can always cover the extra carbs with insulin if you are. It is a treat and not something you eat all the time, so as a treat it will be fine.

Do you have an icecream maker? Most come with recipes for nice ice cream which can be adapted. If you are making sorbet woth fruit juice, don't forget to take the sugar in the juiuce into account.

There is a diabetic ice cream on the market which is not too expensive but still has the carbs in it, so you are probably just as well off with normal ice cream.
 
i know morrisons do a low fat/diabeitc one but i cant recall the name and i dont know if theres any in malta lol , i just have the low fat vanilla one 1 scoop with a selection of fruit
 
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i know morrisons do a low fat/diabeitc one but i cant recall the name and i dont know if theres any in malta lol , i just have the low fat vanilla one 1 scoop with a selection of fruit
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Is it called Franks? I, too, just have the low fat vanilla one. With fruit and part of a meal it's fine! If you're worried about weight, then you'll have to find a way to burn off the extra calories, but I don't think it has a particularly high calorific value as it's mostly water.
 
I have seen Franks on sale in Morrisons. I wasn't sure about the availability in in Malta either.

I haven't had fruit and icecream for ages, sounds yummy. If you are having canned fruit, look at the labels as syrup is full of sugar. Fresh fruit is better and some of that is sweeter than others.
 
Caroline said:
I have seen Franks on sale in Morrisons. I wasn't sure about the availability in in Malta either.

I haven't had fruit and icecream for ages, sounds yummy. If you are having canned fruit, look at the labels as syrup is full of sugar. Fresh fruit is better and some of that is sweeter than others.
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I do use canned fruit, but always get the ones in juice not 'light syrup'. In fact, I've been meaning to do it for ages but now I'm going to write to the co-op and complain that most of their canned fruit is in syrup! They keep pushing the 'healthy food' slogan, so they should have more fruit in juice! I find canned fruity better than fresh (except maybe bananas), because I always end up throwing half the fresh stuff away. Easier if you have a whole fmaily that's eating it, I imagine, as a lot of the offers on fruit are 'buy one get one free', and it's too much for one person.
 
i just use standard ice cream as the difference in the lowfat is so nominal its really not enough for me to worry about. i also use fresh fruit for mine as i hate the syrup the put on canned fruit.
 
Northerner said:
I do use canned fruit, but always get the ones in juice not 'light syrup'. In fact, I've been meaning to do it for ages but now I'm going to write to the co-op and complain that most of their canned fruit is in syrup! They keep pushing the 'healthy food' slogan, so they should have more fruit in juice! I find canned fruity better than fresh (except maybe bananas), because I always end up throwing half the fresh stuff away. Easier if you have a whole fmaily that's eating it, I imagine, as a lot of the offers on fruit are 'buy one get one free', and it's too much for one person.
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In our house it is mainly me who eats the fruit, so a lot ends up getting wasted if I buy it for home. I like a variety, but it is not worth buying a punet of peaches or a bag of celmentines or half a melon or a bag of pears and apples. I'm fed up with them before they are all eaten. It is expensive to buy a portion of this and a portion of that too.
 
kathy said:
Can anyone help with this? What do you guys do when you crave ice-cream?
I have just stocked up the freezer with goodies for my hubby and the boys
and it hit home that this year I won't be indulging!! I'm here in Malta and it's getting very hot now. Has anyone any recipes or ideas about suitable ices??
I think I've seen one brand of diabetic ice-cream on the market here but
the price is probably sky high. This is one thing that I don't want to give
up on if possible! Can I only dream about Magnums and Ripple!!!
Thanks Kathyxx
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Go for the good stuff - the one you love, only have a small amount and enjoy!

If you spend your life avoiding everything you like you won't live much longer, it will just feel like it 😛

I have to admit I packed my ice cream maker away when I was diagnosed, but its just found its way recently to the front of the cupboard, now I am a sucker for a good vanilla mmmmm! :D
 
Einstein said:
Go for the good stuff - the one you love, only have a small amount and enjoy!

If you spend your life avoiding everything you like you won't live much longer, it will just feel like it 😛

I have to admit I packed my ice cream maker away when I was diagnosed, but its just found its way recently to the front of the cupboard, now I am a sucker for a good vanilla mmmmm! :D
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defo vanilla with vanilla pods in it and oh so creamy!!!!! mmmmmmmmmm
 
If you feel you can't eat shop bought ice cream buy yourself an ice cream maker.
Substutute the sugar with Splenda. It tastes just as good as the shop bought stuff 🙂
Saying that though eating ordinary ice cream is fine just use the word moderation.(Very hard with ice cream I know)
 
yes thats the one northener @ franks my mind went blank
 
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I was hooked on ice lollies, the ones with fruit juice outside and vanilla inside. Had to give them up, put on too much weight. Now I freeze my m?ller yoghurt and eat it frozen. Nice and refreshing and cravings are gone 🙂
 
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