Make 1/2 Cup of Ice Cream Seem Like More
Who here (raise your hand)thinks 1/2 cup of ice cream is a reasonable sized serving? I'm used to this amount as a serving but I'm guessing plenty of you out there think 1/2 cup is a joke, right? This is the size of a normal scoop of ice cream which is about the size of two large eggs.
Go ahead, find that 1/2 cup measuring cup and take a gander at what amount of ice cream this really translates into.
In case this doesn't seem like very much ice cream to you, we have ways of making 1/2 cup of ice cream seem like more:
* Serve your ice cream in a cute little dish (1/2 cup will fill it up fine)
* Top your ice cream with lots of fresh fruit like blueberries and sliced strawberries over vanilla or raspberries over chocolate ice cream.
* Enjoy your ice cream with an extra small spoon, so you are savoring each little bite and there will be more bites per dish than if you used a big spoon.
* Choose light ice creams that are truly satisfying! If it doesn't taste awesome, a small serving will not seem as satisfying.
* Precede or follow your small ice cream serving with a nice cup of hot or cold green tea or another no calorie beverage. The liquid in your stomach may help give you a feeling of fullness and taste satisfaction.
~~Elaine
Related Topics: Easy Ice Cream Sodas, Make It Yourself Frozen Treats
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Go ahead, find that 1/2 cup measuring cup and take a gander at what amount of ice cream this really translates into.
In case this doesn't seem like very much ice cream to you, we have ways of making 1/2 cup of ice cream seem like more:
* Serve your ice cream in a cute little dish (1/2 cup will fill it up fine)
* Top your ice cream with lots of fresh fruit like blueberries and sliced strawberries over vanilla or raspberries over chocolate ice cream.
* Enjoy your ice cream with an extra small spoon, so you are savoring each little bite and there will be more bites per dish than if you used a big spoon.
* Choose light ice creams that are truly satisfying! If it doesn't taste awesome, a small serving will not seem as satisfying.
* Precede or follow your small ice cream serving with a nice cup of hot or cold green tea or another no calorie beverage. The liquid in your stomach may help give you a feeling of fullness and taste satisfaction.
~~Elaine
Related Topics: Easy Ice Cream Sodas, Make It Yourself Frozen Treats
Technorati Tags: icecream, portionsize, servingsize, diettips
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14 Comments:
I'm vegan so I subsitute it with vanilla tofitti and top it with blueberries or bananas . I never knew one scoop could taste so good.
we started eating ice cream only out of coffee mugs...the handle keeps your hand from getting to cold and a small serving almost fills up the cup making it seem like more (just be careful of those mondo-huge starbucks mugs...they hold as much as a bowl!)
Hi Elaine,
You forgot the best option- serving the ice cream in a cake cone. Most of those are only about twenty calories, and it appears as if there is more ice cream than in actuality. Eating ice cream in a cone is also a lot more fun!
Tru drinking the tea or a glass of water before you eat the ice cream--you will already be partially full and the ice cream will be treat to finish it off with.
I make jello with no sugar added and when set I chop it up and partly melt the ice cream and stir it in together. For a treat I add something like a bit of pudding on each dish from one chocolate pudding cup or dusting the top with a small bit of bulk oreo cookie crumbs. Since I care for a person with serious weight problems right now it is the best way to make a desert that almost seems like something from Dairy queen for this person. A little ice cream goes a long way then. hope it works for someone.
Another way I have made a desert for this person I am caring for is to break a warmed bran muffin and add a small scoop of ice cream in the middle and again a small bit of pudding on top when it is really deserved for weight loss goals.
Guys a 1/2 cup is just that- Not enough Ice cream...
Let's be fair and honest, a 1/2 cup is just that.. Not enough Ice cream!
Since my gastric bypass surgery, more than 1/2 cup of ice cream makes me physically ill...Me, who used to eat Haagen Dazs chocolate chocolate chip at the rate of 4 pints a week!! Honest. No wonder I was 450 pounds.
However, I have found that my ice cream craving is completely satisfied by a blended hazelnut or mocha iced latte - even non-fat or low fat will do the trick for me!~
We eat ice cream out of martini glasses...not only do they look amazing topped with fresh fruit and a drizzle of chocolate, but they are so much fun to hold!
I brought a bunch of little plastic spoons home from Italy last year. Their gelato is famous, rich and creamy and served with the tiniest little shovels you've ever seen. I do like them for my low fat ice cream.
When we have guests for dinner, I make a dessert called 'Design Your Own Dessert'. I just put small slices of angel food cake, bananas, sliced strawberries, light whipped cream in a can, (or light cool whip) and a high quality vanilla frozen yogurt, on the table and let everyone make their own creation. My guests are delighted, and no one takes more than a 1/2 cup of 'ice cream' to top their fruity creations. A pretty dish makes this a real hit.
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Cutting up a banana and drizzling some fudge sauce over the ice cream and bananas works well for me--the banana tastes creamy like the ice cream and I don't feel deprived.
A half-cup of something great tasting though rich is better than a cup of soemthing less satisfying. Now that we all know more about nutrition we have to be creative while enjoying ourselves with less.
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