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Ice Cream?

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It's http://dolcetti.net/ @Sally W - it's in the middle of the Love Lane industrial estate, a most peculiar place for it, but it mainly does wholesale and just has a little parlour for selling to the public. There's a short row of similar wholesale food shops with tiny public cafes - the coffee shop about two doors down from the ice cream one is really nice too.
 
Wow! Thanks Juliet looks like authentic gelato. Will definitely take a trip there sometime. I only know the centre of Ciren so somewhere new for me to try 🙂
 
It is in a horrible noisy industrial estate, Sally, so best to buy the ice cream there and then drive on somewhere else to eat it! We sat in the car in a cul-de-sac in the nearby residential area (Berkeley Rd, if you want to look on google maps) for R to eat his (and me to eat the brownie I bought in the coffee shop). There are plenty of quiet places on the outskirts of Cirencester, but I don't know the southern side of it that well either, and we just wanted to find somewhere quickly before the ice cream melted!
 
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It is in a horrible noisy industrial estate, Sally, so best to buy the ice cream there and then drive on somewhere else to eat it! We sat in the car in a cul-de-sac in the nearby residential area (Berkeley Rd, if you want to look on google maps) for R to eat his (and me to eat the brownie I bought in the coffee shop). There are plenty of quiet places on the outskirts of Cirencester, but I don't know the southern side of it that well either, and we just wanted to find somewhere quickly before the ice cream melted!
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Thanks for the warning Juliet.....,
 
I have eaten some ice cream - it was lovely, but now to see how it effects me! 😱
I tried with half a unit of insulin. It wasn't very sugary, mostly creamy (I had mint choc chip - some of the other flavours I suspect would be sweeter).

@Sally W - the noisy bits of industrial estate are all closed at the weekend, so it was much quieter today!
 
TheClockworkDodo said:
I have eaten some ice cream - it was lovely, but now to see how it effects me! 😱
I tried with half a unit of insulin. It wasn't very sugary, mostly creamy (I had mint choc chip - some of the other flavours I suspect would be sweeter).

@Sally W - the noisy bits of industrial estate are all closed at the weekend, so it was much quieter today!
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Thanks Juliet- so good to know! A shame if it spikes that you can’t make your own...maybe an occasional treat then 🙂
 
TheClockworkDodo said:
I have eaten some ice cream - it was lovely, but now to see how it effects me! 😱
I tried with half a unit of insulin. It wasn't very sugary, mostly creamy (I had mint choc chip - some of the other flavours I suspect would be sweeter).

@Sally W - the noisy bits of industrial estate are all closed at the weekend, so it was much quieter today!
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Glad you took the plunge and I hope you thoroughly enjoyed it!! Hope it treats your bs and intolerances kindly and you have no adverse effects, keep us updated!! 🙂 xx
 
Sally W said:
Thanks Juliet- so good to know! A shame if it spikes that you can’t make your own...maybe an occasional treat then 🙂
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No spike for me, thankfully - half a unit of insulin dealt with it nicely 🙂
I was more concerned about the food intolerances - seem to be OK so far though ...
 
I was just about to say I don’t have a problem with ice cream at all, there’s a farm near me that makes it fresh and I often have a scoop or two. It’s not super sweet so it suits me perfectly, I go with 1.5 units for 2 scoops and that works out perfectly for me and I’m 1:20/1:17 depending on which way the wind is blowing. Glad you enjoyed it 🙂
 
Thanks Kooky 🙂

Know what you mean about which way the wind is blowing, over the last month I had a week when I thought my monitor was stuck on 11, put all my doses up, had 18 hypos in 8 days, put all my doses down, woke up every day with readings of 8 or 9, put my basal up, and have now started waking up with hypo hangovers 🙄 It was partly being ill (the week I was stuck on 11), but mostly the weather, I imagine.
 
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The raspberry ice cream is made by a food processor: should have said. I do have a small Lakeland ice cream maker I’ve never used. Raspberry one is so easy I’ve not bothered. If you do want to try it I got it from ‘Step Away From The Carbs’ website. I always reduce the sweetener though as I find raspberries quite sweet so you may want to reduce sugar.
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I am definitely going to try this, we've got one of those smoothie makers which would work. I miss fruit so I need to get some in somehow. What sort of ratio of fruit to cream do you use?
 
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I tried it, and it wasn't a huge success to start with. Think my blender is too big for the portion so it didn't blend too well and it stayed runny. Tasted amazing though. Will have to experiment and try again with a smaller blender.
 
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