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!
Sigh. I need a Vitamix…
I’m not really a diet kinda girl! I don’t like giving myself rules to eat by but I have to follow some because of Alergies! Thankfully, ice cream is not off limits 🙂
Ummm… I need to eat this RIGHT NOW!!! Yum!
Just wanted to take a minute & say THANK YOU KATIE! I’m on a soy-free, sugar-free, corn-free “diet” (it’s not really a diet, it’s a way of life) so I pretty much cut out all desserts until I found your site! You are heaven-sent to someone like me, who otherwise, can’t have sweets.
Aww thank YOU, Amykinz, for SUCH a sweet comment!
Yum– mint chip ice cream sounds wonderful right about now, especially during this hot summer weather 🙂 I used your ice cream technique recently and made a raspberry- chocolate- peanut butter one; it was delicious!
I would have a smoothie or nut butter diet! 🙂
Oh that sounds awesome!!!
ummmmm mint chocolate chip is my favvvvvvv i want to make this asap!
why the salt tho? just wondering
and if they made a nut and nut butter diet…oh my lord id be in heavennnnn
A little salt actually brings out the sweetness in foods! I don’t know why this is, but it works! 🙂
Love the recipe and the photography is splendid, Katie! So clear and crisp and bright. The details are visible without being overdone. (Sometimes I just love to slide that ‘sharpening’ bar all the way to the right…haha) Perfect work!
What diet do you wish someone would invent? = the don’t worry about what your neighbor/friend/random person you dont know is doing and just focus on what YOU are doing diet 🙂
Everything in moderation. Desserts included. That’s my kinda ‘diet’. Or dietary path 🙂
Uhu, The popcorn and potato chips diet sounds HORRIBLE 😮 That is some of my very least favorit foods, I find them a little gross 😛
The chocolate diet on the other hand, Im aaall for 😀 And Im already on it, and I love it!
This ice cream sounds so good, Mint Chocolate chip is such a good combo!
I think I’d like to be on the breakfast diet. I could eat waffles, pancakes, oatmeal and cereal anytime!
Yum!! I am so obsessed with everything you make. You are unreal! How do you get your ideas and know what to use? Anyways, I would invent the ice cream and peanut butter diet. It’s the two foods I eat everyday of my life! If I don’t have them I f eel like kinda sad. They make me sooo happy! Good thing that running makes me happy too! Haha Kinda how chocolate makes you happy. 🙂
LOL I don’t always know something’s going to work… sometimes I get horrible experiment results! One of my brownie experiments was just AWFUL! 😕
I’m so going to try making this, just gotta get some mint extract!
Hmm the fruit diet? The french fry diet? The kettle chip diet? The sour patch kid diet?