It is so hot here!
Can someone please invent the Ice Cream Diet?
Where you eat ice cream for breakfast, lunch, and dinner? A few of you told me there already is an ice cream diet. Why am I surprised? After all, there’s a grapefruit diet, a cabbage soup diet, even a No White Foods diet. So why not ice cream?
Why not, indeed.
Hey, it can still be a healthy diet.
After all, there’s always this: Spinach Ice Cream.
Yay! We can now follow an ice cream diet and be healthy at the same time. So go ahead and embrace your new healthy ice cream diet right away, by devouring a gigantic serving of the following recipe for healthy mint chocolate chip ice cream. I guarantee that, by the time you finish your serving, you won’t feel hot anymore.
And if it happens to be cold where you live… please send some of your cold weather to me in Texas. I’ll happily mail you our hot weather in return!
Maybe I wouldn’t want to be on an all-ice-cream diet. I’d miss my pancakes and oatmeal too much! Not to mention salads, beans, and even spaghetti. But if I were to eat ice cream all the time, mint chocolate chip—my favorite, as a kid–would probably be the flavor I’d consume most often.
Healthy Mint Chocolate Chip Ice Cream
(Makes 1 huge serving)
- 1/4 tsp pure vanilla extract
- scant 1/16 tsp salt – don’t omit
- pinch uncut stevia OR 1 tbsp sugar of choice
- 1 cup milk of choice – See note below
- 2 tbsp chocolate chips OR sugar-free chocolate chips (recipe on page 199 in the book)
- 3-6 drops pure peppermint extract, or as desired
- optional, I like to add 1 tsp cocoa powder
- optional pinch spirulina or natural food coloring
*This ice cream has a very light texture when made with almond milk. For a creamier texture that’s more like real ice cream, use coconut milk–the kind that is full-fat and comes in a can, not a carton–or cashew cream. To make it look like real ice cream, scoop out with an ice cream scoop.
Mix the ingredients together, and pour into ice cube trays or 2 shallow containers. Freeze. Once frozen, pop the blocks out of the container and blend in your Vitamix. (If you don’t have a vitamix for vitamix ice cream, you’ll probably have to thaw longer, but you can still get a yummy ice milk. Or try this healthy ice cream in your ice-cream maker.) Feel free to add more chocolate chips, post-blending. But be sure to add the 1-2 tbsp before blending!
View Mint Ice Cream Nutrition Facts
Serving suggestion: Serve with a side of fresh mint. And…
Accompany it with this recipe: Healthy Shamrock Shakes.
Milkshakes are allowed on the Ice Cream Diet, right? There’s spinach in this milkshake too!
I love this! It is one of my go to snacks. Mint chocolate chip was my favorite ice cream when I ate ice cream. As soon as I get an ice cream maker, I will try yours! In the meantime, this is delicious
how many calories?
I see you leave out the green food coloring when you make it to eat. Is there an all-natural (healthy) version of green food coloring?
Yes, try Whole Foods.
I made this recipe the other night and it was delicious!! I used unsweetened almond milk and dark chocolate chunks. Mmmmm I will definitely be making this again!!
These actually all exist! My fave is the chocolate diet.
They fall under mono diets and can help you drop up to 7 pounds in a week but you shouldn’t use it longer than a week. Basically the idea is that you eat one food and one food only for a week. I’m not sure if mint choco ice cream would work, you’re supposed to use as few additives as possible. i.e. The chocolate diet includes Hershey’s bars but not Reese’s cups.
What about adding in a small amount of spinach to make it green instead of food colouring. I’m made a banana based chocolate chip mint ice cream which has spinach in it and its delish. Can’t taste the spinach at all. Just got a Vitamix so definitely going to try this recipe thanks 😀
Hi, Katie!
I recently drove past a McDonald’s and saw their sign for the seasonal shamrock shake, which I used to loooooove when I was a kid. So I came to your site to find a yummy alternative and found this page.
Question: when you’re using your Vitamix to blend the frozen mixture, do you use your tamper? Or start on a low setting and blend it, and then increase the speed, or blend and then turn it off and scrape down the sides and blend some more, or …? I’m just wondering because I tried doing the blending part tonight and it got stuck under the blades very quickly. I’m new to the Vitamix so maybe I did it wrong? The taste is still VERY yummy, but I had trouble getting it to blend as nicely as yours looks. Instead it looked kind of “crumbly” if that makes any sense?
Any advice for how I can do it better next time?
Thanks! 😀
Yes, definitely use the tamper! And process on HIGH. It should definitely not get stuck, and if absolutely necessary you can turn the Vitamix off and use a spoon to mix it, then reblend until it is all processed in the machine. 🙂
These are delish Katie!! Thanks for the recipe!!
I love this stuff
Hi there. I am 50years old with a husband and 2 boys. I have followed a healthy lifestyle for most of my life, my family feels a little too rigid at times. I started following you about a year ago. Saving your recipes making them. Fooling friends and family. Most of my photos on my phone are of your recipes. The other day I asked myself what am I doing. I owe it to this beautiful young lady to purchase her book. It’s the least I can do. And so I did. It arrived. I love it.
My question to you is if all the recipes you post are from the book or are they new and do I need to continue clicking with my camera.
Thanks for doing what u do!!!!
Fondly,
Pamela
Aw hi Pamela! Thank you so incredibly much! Most of the recipes on the blog are different from the ones in the book to ensure people who buy the book get their money’s worth 🙂
My newer recipes have print options, and I’m working on a more user-friendly site so hopefully the old ones will soon have a print option too!