Do you love ice cream, but want to lose weight? Â Are you watching your cholesterol levels and fat intake and ice cream isn’t in the plan? Â I have GREAT news for you!
You can have your NICE CREAM and eat it, too!
These 5 Nice Cream Recipes are fantastic and good for you! Â They are high in potassium, vitamin B6, vitamin C, fiber, and low in calories, cholesterol, and fat!
IÂ demonstrated the recipes on Facebook Live, so you can check out the video here.
These 5 Nice Cream Recipes are so easy and fun to create that you will be experimenting with your own fun flavors in no time! The base to the Nice Creams are bananas, but you can experiment with other fruits. Â You can try peach nice cream, strawberry nice cream, raspberry, blueberry, you’re only limited by your imagination.
TIP: Make sure your bananas are ripe when you freeze them!
Ready to create?
Banana Nice Cream
 Ingredients for Banana
2 frozen bananas
Directions for Banana
Peel 2 bananas, slice, and freeze.
2. Blend 2 frozen bananas until they resemble soft serve ice cream. It might take several minutes depending on your blender.
3. Top with nuts, coconut whipped topping, chocolate syrup, fruit, etc.
Makes a nice generous portion. It’s around 200 calories without any toppings.
That’s it! Â Easy breezy! Â You can add this to your morning oats, have it as an afternoon snack or dessert. Â Best of all its good for you, so no beating yourself up for eating ice cream.
BTW, you don’t have to beat yourself up for enjoying treats. Â Budget for them and enjoy them! Â I talk more about Intentionally Eating and how I lost 125 lbs in my book Small Bites, Big Results: A Common Sense Guide to Weight Loss. Â Check it out if you want to break free from guilt dieting!
Chocolate Nice Cream
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 Ingredients for Chocolate
2 frozen bananas
1 Tbsp unsweetened cocoa
1/4 tsp vanilla
pinch of salt
Directions for Chocolate
Add all ingredients.
Blend, scraping down the sides until it resembles soft serve.
Top with nuts, coconut whipped topping, fruit, chocolate chips, etc.
Tip: Try adding a pinch of instant coffee for a mocha nice cream!
Chocolate Peanut Butter Nice Cream
Ingredients for Chocolate Peanut Butter                 Â
2 frozen bananas
2 Tbsp peanut butter (natural)
1 Tbsp unsweetened cocoa
1/4 tsp vanilla
pinch of salt
Directions for Chocolate Peanut Butter
 Add all ingredients.
Blend, scraping down sides until it resembles soft serve ice cream.
Top with peanuts or chocolate chips.
Tip: Â Try Peanut Butter Nice Cream by leaving out the cocoa! See the picture above.
Pina Colada Nice Cream
Ingredients for Pina Colada       Â
1 frozen banana
1/4 cup pineapple
1/4 cup coconut milk, canned (I suggest full fat to get the texture of ice cream)
Directions for Pina Colada
Blend banana until it resembles soft serve ice cream.
Add the rest of the ingredients and blend until just combined.
Top with unsweetened coconut, nuts, or coconut whipped topping.
Pumpkin Spice Nice Cream
Ingredients for Pumpkin Spice
2 frozen bananas
1/4 cup pure pumpkin
1/4 tsp pumpkin pie spice
Directions for Pumpkin Spice
Blend the frozen bananas until they resemble soft serve ice cream.
Add the rest of the ingredients and blend until just combined.
Top with nuts or coconut whipped topping.
If you don’t like bananas and you don’t want to try other fruits as the base, then you definitely want to try my
Remember to PIN these recipes if you don’t have your bananas frozen yet. Â Also, let me know how you like the Nice Cream. Â I would love to hear your creations!
Cindy Newland is the founder of Intentionally Eat and has been eating a whole food, plant-based alkaline diet since 2010. In that time she has lost 125 pounds, reversed high blood pressure she was diagnosed with before age 30, and has spent over 15 years cooking and refining plant-based meals in her own kitchen.
Cindy is not a registered dietitian. What she is is someone who has lived inside every frustration this way of eating can bring — the social awkwardness, the cravings, the meals that didn't work — and figured out what actually sticks for the long term. The recipes and meal plans on this site come from her real experience, not from textbooks.
She writes specifically for women over 40 who are tired of diets that require perfection and want a way of eating they can actually keep.
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