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 swear I want to get a VitaMix just to make all of your icecream recipes. This looks amazing!!! Mint chocolate chip was one of my favorite flavors growing up!
Awesome! Mint chocolate chip is one of my favorites as well!!!! And oreo…..and reeses pb cup…..hahahaha
Why don’t you invent the Ice Cream Diet :)?
Haha maybe I should. I mean, I’ve already done the Chocolate-Covered Diet…
If either of you ladies hear about an Ice Cream diet please notify me immediately! 🙂
Couldn’t you just freeze the liquid diet into sorbets and ice creams?
There already is a peanut butter diet, I think it’s through Prevention Magazine or something like that. I played with some of the recipes a couple years ago!
I have a question Katie…when you say to use coconut milk in recipes to make milkshakes and ice cream taste creamier, do you mean the kind in a can? I have been trying that trick with the coconut milk you buy in a half-gallon milk container in the refrigerated section and it doesn’t seem to make things any creamier than using any other kind of milk. Then it dawned on me that you probably mean the canned kind?
Yes, definitely the canned kind 🙂
I’m all for the new Chocolate Covered Ice Cream Diet where I can just eat everything on your blog & be healthy 😀
the Ice Cream Diet? Oh YES!!!!!! 😀
YUM!! Mmmm mint choc chip is HEAVEN! I bought proper coconut milk specially to make your ice creams 🙂
Haha I’m already ON the peanut butter/cookies/chocolate diet! I’m sure you knew that already 😉
P.S. Those last 3 cookies were gone by 10am this morning! 😛
A (gluten-free) pasta diet would be nice 🙂
I’d like to go on a tortilla chips/guacamole diet please!!!
I love mint choc chip ice cream, but cookies and cream is my favorite!
I am with Holly. Cookies n cream all the way! I knew I was in trouble when I found out Oreos are vegan!
After thinking about this, I think I like too many foods to have a “diet”! But I do love peanut butter. A lot. And coconut-flavored things. And dark chocolate. And vegan not-dark chocolate. And chick peas. And any beans. YIKES! See??
How about the “Everything” diet? 🙂
Sounds about right to me! Or the “everything good for you + once in awhile something not good for you diet”!