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Sharron1

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Oh my, do I like ice-cream and Waitrose sells so many tempting tubs. I am currently trying to manage the Duchy Organic Vanilla tub with a few teaspoons of the stuff. Delicious. Their Strawberry and Cream ice-cream was also good. Of course ice cream does add to saturates. Moderation, portion control.. only wish I was better at them.
 
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We always have a tub of Kelly's Cornish Clotted Cream ice cream in the freezer, and a pack of waffle cones in the larder, during the summer. I'm good, though - never more than one cone a day when it's hot, like at the moment, and only one scoop. I don't go near the Magnums or Soleros - they're for my wife and our sons.
 
Surprised you don't have a tub of rum and raisin in the freezer @Martin.A Have to say I am happy to pass on the cone and just have a scoop in a tub if out and about and save the few carbs that the cone adds. I couldn't keep a nice ice cream at home though as I have no off switch, so best left as a very occasional treat when I am out and about in the summer.
 
It's Tesco's Caramel and vanilla that does it for me. could eat a whole tub in one
sitting - but I don't, as it gives my brain a freeze.
 
rebrascora said:
Surprised you don't have a tub of rum and raisin in the freezer
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Tempting, but it would spoil what I see as a treat to look forward to, eg from Game of Cones in Fowey when we holiday in Cornwall every August.
 
We've just bought some Kelly's honeycomb as recommended by the lady on the till at Sainsbury's who saw our tub of Mackies and said "have you tried Kelly's, I think it's better". Will have to taste test both of course 😉

My current fave is Häagen-Dazs strawberry, a bit sweet but I love freeze-dried berries. I only have a little at a time and it doesn't affect my BG.

Never been much of a Magnum fan, I prefer fruit ice lollies, but hubby got excited by the new Double Cherry flavour so we gave them a try. The chocolate is ok but very dark, the cherry sauce was absolutely gorgeous but the central ice cream just tasted weird to me, so I won't fight him over the remaining one in the box.

Worst ice cream I've had recently was Asda raspberry ripple, I couldn't eat a 3rd spoonful it was so disgusting.
 
rebrascora said:
Surprised you don't have a tub of rum and raisin in the freezer @Martin.A
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Hubby's favourite so we have that too, as well as salted caramel for my daughter. I prefer sorbet but I'm not the primary consumer so we don't keep it at home.
rebrascora said:
Have to say I am happy to pass on the cone and just have a scoop in a tub if out and about and save the few carbs that the cone adds.
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I used to like Oysters but if we visit an ice cream van this summer I am going to be very good and have a boring tub with its little plastic spade.
 
debs248 said:
Hubby's favourite so we have that too, as well as salted caramel for my daughter. I prefer sorbet but I'm not the primary consumer so we don't keep it at home.

I used to like Oysters but if we visit an ice cream van this summer I am going to be very good and have a boring tub with its little plastic spade.
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I remember oysters from the 1970s: I didn't know they still did them!
 
debs248 said:
I only discovered them about 20 years ago, I love the coconut and squishy marshmallow, much nicer than a dry old Flake.
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Me too! I was thinking: could you make the "boring tub" a bit more boring by not even having the plastic spade?
 
I make my own ice cream from eggs and cream real vanilla or coffee or chocolate or walnuts - even rum and raisin.
My grandma used to make icecream for sale way back 'between the wars' using a hand churn with ice and salt - it was called Forget-me-not, with cream from a herd of Jersey - or maybe Guernsey - cows and eggs from the back garden hens. They had a board with a portrait of the cows and a few hens in a border of blue flowers and the name on top. A queue used to form as soon as the board went out. It was recommended for children who failed to thrive. That was by grandma's relatives though so there might have been some undue influence.
With modern freezers it is easy to make icecream.
 
Drummer said:
With modern freezers it is easy to make icecream.
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I used to make a lovely ice cream with honey. Sadly my home cooking days look to be over, unless there's a revolution in the funding and provision of social care. My daughter loves reading my handwritten recipe book but so far no inclination to actually make any of it :rofl:
 
Martin.A said:
We always have a tub of Kelly's Cornish Clotted Cream ice cream in the freezer, and a pack of waffle cones in the larder, during the summer. I'm good, though - never more than one cone a day when it's hot, like at the moment, and only one scoop. I don't go near the Magnums or Soleros - they're for my wife and our sons.
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Wow, that is well managed.
 
I found a box of Magnums in our freezer yesterday. Alas there are only 3 in a box and two of us in the house so after one helping each, there is no longer enough to go around.
I expect the last one will remain in the freezer until one of us is away and the other one remembers.
I will be the next person to be away but I am also most likely to remember.
 
helli said:
I found a box of Magnums in our freezer yesterday. Alas there are only 3 in a box and two of us in the house so after one helping each, there is no longer enough to go around.
I expect the last one will remain in the freezer until one of us is away and the other one remembers.
I will be the next person to be away but I am also most likely to remember.
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Merely a suggestion, you could always hide it elsewhere in the freezer, thereby even if you are the next one away, only you will know where it is. I hide the tubs under all the veg, knowing they will never be found by anyone else but me. I blame Diabetes.
 
Sharron1 said:
Merely a suggestion, you could always hide it elsewhere in the freezer, thereby even if you are the next one away, only you will know where it is. I hide the tubs under all the veg, knowing they will never be found by anyone else but me. I blame Diabetes.
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Disguise it as something your OH dislikes, or is that going too far?

Reminds me a little of when I lived in a student house and my housemates kept stealing my butter, I don't think they meant to but every time they got the munchies late at night it disappeared. I bought a tub of spreadable butter, ripped off the labels and wrote "beef dripping" on the lid in marker pen. No-one ever touched it lol.
 
debs248 said:
Disguise it as something your OH dislikes, or is that going too far?

Reminds me a little of when I lived in a student house and my housemates kept stealing my butter, I don't think they meant to but every time they got the munchies late at night it disappeared. I bought a tub of spreadable butter, ripped off the labels and wrote "beef dripping" on the lid in marker pen. No-one ever touched it lol.
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It always is a problem in shared houses, as well as nobody doing the washing up until there is nothing left to use.
 
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