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’m tellin’ ya, if you wrote a book and included all these recipes, you’d be a millionaire! (And a hero to so many, lol!)
Oh gosh, I hope so… because I am writing a book! Not that my motivation is money… but hey, I wouldn’t say no to millions. Who would? 😉
I’d never have to worry about the price of coconut butter again!
You’re writing a book?!?!?!?!?!?!
Wooooooo-Hooooooooo!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
I’ll buy copies for everyone I know. That might at least get you a couple of jars, lol!
Awww you are too sweet! And lol yes, but I haven’t actually even started the actual writing part. I was *just* asked if I’d be interested. Of course I responsed with a huge YES! Book authors might not make much money (well, aside from JK Rowling!), but it’s still a dream!
I would join the ice cream diet! Mint and chocolate are soo yummy together, I would say it’s my favorite ice cream, but I have soo many favorites.
Mmmm….icecream!!
I am so grateful to the person who invented vegan icecream. I think it was a turning point to becoming vegan when I was veggie, and I don’t even like icecream that much! I think I thought ‘oh if they can do icecream they can do anything!!’
Enjoy the hot weather, it’s been raining all day here.
Haha mine was soy whipped cream in a can! And now they even have vegan fried calamari… is there anything left?
Decent cheese!
Oh gosh I wish there was a peanut butter diet. Where you could eat a gallon of it a day and still not gain a pound!
Ugh, but even if you can eat all you want and not gain weight… there’s still the annoying nuisance of feeling physically sick. I wish you could eat as much as you want of your favorite foods and not have a tummy ache afterwards! 🙂
True that. I have experienced the agony of too much pb…. :/
Well, I’m currently on the leftover diet – whatever is leftover on my kids plates, I eat. I have successfully gained 3 pounds of french fries. Damn, they never leave me ICE CREAM!
LOL! Funniest comment ever!
Ice cream diet is totally feasable. For breakfast have a “banana soft serve” parfait! Got the idea from Angela @ Oh She Glows. You just have to puree frozen bananas with whatever add-ins you want! Add in all your fabulous recipes and others floating around… I don’t think we would have to repeat a meal for MONTHS! Haha!
OMG! You are my hero! Mint Chocolate Chip Ice Cream is my absolute favorite ice cream ever!!! I cannot wait to try this! 🙂 Agghhh so exited!
Yes! my fave ice cream flavour was created 🙂 sooo excited now!! haha um I would totally buy YOUR ice cream diet book ( if there was one…)
Great recipe here Katie! I say eat it all but in moderation. I am a cookie monster though hands down. I love cookies over everything. 🙂 Funny because there is a Cookie Diet out there…oh brother!
You just made my favorite ice cream flavor! And you MADE me very happy too!