The Soda Fountain Gets a Makeover
What screams "ice cream social" or "American soda fountain favorite" more than a root beer float? With the awesome light vanilla ice creams out now and a couple of diet root beer sodas on the supermarket shelves, a totally cool but low cal root beer float is only a minute away. Here's how to put one together for only 100 Calories!
~~Elaine
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The 100-Calorie Root Beer Float
Ingredients:
1 1/4 cup (ice cold) diet root beer
1/2 cup scoop of light vanilla ice cream or low fat frozen yogurt
Directions:
- Pour ice cold diet root beer into a tall mug or glass (ice cold root beer so the vanilla ice cream won't melt as quickly).
- Plop in a scoop of light vanilla ice cream or frozen yogurt into the glass. Serve with a long spoon and/or a straw.
Yield: Makes 1 serving
Per serving: 100 calories, 2 g protein, 17 g carbohydrate, 3 g fat, 1.5 g
saturated fat, 10 mg cholesterol, 0 g fiber, 90 mg sodium. Calories from
fat: 27 percent calories from fat.
~~Elaine
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13 Comments:
Diet root beer. If only they made it without artificial sweeteners...
Coca-Cola and Cargill are looking into using the stevia plant as a zero-calorie sugar substitute. They're calling it "Rebiana."
http://www.latimes.com/business/la-ft-stevia6aug06,1,5224472.story?coll=la-headlines-business
Same thing with the ice cream. Sugar alcohols give me terrible gas.
Dairy...
If only I could buy foods other than cheese that are made from grass-fed raw milk, which is full of enzymes and can prevent arthritis and allergies. People who are lactose intolerant can actually have a glass of raw milk without any problems. Pasteurized milk, on the other hand, can cause allergies and lactose intolerance. It contains no digestive enzymes. If you feed a calf pasteurized milk, it will get stiff joints and die within three months. Raw milk is also more resistant than pasteurized milk to pathogens such as E. coli and salmonella due to its probiotic friendly bacteria. The only downside is that the source MUST be from HEALTHY cows, not the sick ones that are constantly given antibotics due to their unnatural high-grain diets and cramped living conditions.
http://www.karlloren.com/aajonus/p15.htm
It's too bad doctors refuse to believe that artificial sweeteners are not good for the body. I for one, would not make this root beer float because of the chemicals that are used to make the sweetener and also the root beer. Those of you who think this is a "healthy" drink better think twice because it is not. I will not drink a glass of chemicals.
WHAT ABOUT SOY SILK MILK, SOME SAY IT IS THE BEST AND SOME SAY IT CAUSES CANCER. PLEASE COMMIT
I'm not inviting people to drink buckets of alternatively sweetened soda here...this is the infrequent root beer float. There are all sort of diet sodas make with different alternative sweeteners too so you can choose which one works best for you. Again...this is not a recommendation for people to drink buckets of diet soda.
When it comes to light ice cream, there are lighter ice creams that aren't full of chemicals. You can now find light ice creams with mostly natural ingredients. There are ingredients that might sound "chemical" like guar gum (which is a soluble fiber that helps thicken the ice cream) but they aren't.
There are lots of choices out there.
I wonder if the person who made the comment about not drinking chemicals knows what is in all of the food she/he eats.
I do. If I can't pronounce it I don't buy it. If it has more than 5 ingredients, I don't buy it. I scratch cook with all fresh ingredients bought at the local Farmer's Markets, I don't use pasteurized or homogenized anything, only fresh whole milk products. I am 64 years old, I walk 5 miles everyday, I have muscles that a 20 year old would envy and I weigh 103 pounds, the same as I did in high school 48 years ago. I have energy for working in my gardens where I grow my fresh produce and flowers. So, yes, I do know what I put into my body and do not eat or drink chemicals. Try it, you'll like it!
Those of you who think you don't eat/drink chemicals are deceiving yourself. EVERYTHING, (once again that's EVERYTHING), you eat or drink is composed ENTIRELY, (once again that's ENTIRELY), of chemicals. Care for a glass of water? Oh wait, that's made of Hydrogen and Oxygen! Those are chemicals! Water must be bad for you! How about eliminating Chlorine from your diet? Uh-oh, Chlorine is a principal ingredient in salt, and while most of us could afford to cut down, if we don't consume any salts we will slowly die as a result. You don't eat or drink chemicals? No, you ONLY eat and drink chemicals. Everything you can eat, drink, breathe, pick up, look at, drive, and be is entirely made up of chemicals.
Hopefully I've convinced you by now that 'containing chemicals' is not by itself good enough to determine whether something is bad for you. Even more hopefully, now that you're thinking, you'll realize your ability to pronounce something also offers no actual evidence on whether or not that thing is good, bad, or neither for you. To do that, you need to specify exactly what the substance does to the body in what quantities. The effects at different quantities is an important point by the way. Remember, even water is toxic in large enough quantities. Ideally, this information about the effects of sweeteners would be compared to the effects of the quantity of sugar contained in similar amounts of food or drink.
Thank you Julio for your brilliant essay on chemicals, but I am well aware that everything on earth is made up of chemicals and other matter. What I am talking about is the "man-made" kind. Ideally, sweeteners cannot be compared to the sugars in a natural god-made product. Let's take a peach for instance, it has vitamins, fiber, etc. How many artificial sweeteners do you know about that has these? Which would you rather put in your body - a spoonful of artificial sweetener or a big juicy peach, filled with only natural sugars, grown without pesticides, herbicides and grown in organic soil free of man-made chemicals? It's not a difficult decision for me to make. Try some Stevia to sweeten your foods. It is all natural and good for you and no calories. And by the way, if you use a good quality sea salt there will be no chlorine, that is an added ingredient used to manufacture the so-called table salt and yes sea salt is a natural product without chlorine. But, you have your opinion and I have mine. I just choose to be as safe as I possibly can and take care of my body by avoiding all man-made stuff like that. I agree, some might get past me but I still think I am better off living this way. Thanks for listening.
If you do and consume everything in moderation, you will not suffer the anxieties of diseases and disabilities.
How can one truly know what is or is not safe? Anonymous mentioned stevia, but I have heard the FDA has not approved it. I tried some in my tea and it did tasted sweet, but there was an after taste to it, almost like peppermint or something. Does anyone know anything about agave? Dr. Oz talked about it on Oprah. Anyone tried it or know about its safety or taste? Thanks, Grammy
I'm sorry but I fail to see how even sea salt could be free of chlorine. Salt is NaCl. (yes I know, from a purely chemical point of view it can be pretty much any product of neutralized acid and bases). Edible common salt is a chlorine bonded to sodium. There might be trace amounts of other chlorine and alkali metal compounds, as well as some minerals but it also lacks necessary iodine. I think it just needs to be said that salt IS half-chlorine. As for artificial sweeteners... well, if it has the same molecular formula and molecular shape, it's the same whether it was made in a lab or by a plant. Also sugar is the result of a chemical reaction in plants. It doesn't just "exist" pre-made in the plant, it's formed by chemical reactions. So a chemical reaction in a plant or in a lab, it's all the same.
Please, chemical knowledgeable person: Most water in itself is not toxic. If you ran tests on it, there is nothing toxic" that would come out of it. However People die from drinking too much water because it flushes everything from your body. Everything that your body needs to function. More often than not I agree natural products are always better. But, not always available... To the healthy Senior: Kudos to you. Now, I am 42 year old Mother of 3, 5'8" weigh 145# same smoking hot body as I had in high school, ride my bike 5 miles everyday, work full time, in and out of my home eat what I want, when I want in moderation. Drink my 64 recommended 0z of water every day. My cholesterol is perfect, as are my triglycerides, blood pressure and body fat mass. And again, I drink and eat what I want when I want. In moderation. No, I don't eat artificial sweeteners (bad news even my Dr. says you are better off having a soda, with all the sugar vs diet) and as far as stevia, not all herbs are good for you. And sugar cane is just that sugar crystal inside the cane. It is not formed by chemical reaction.
I do eat a lot of veggies and fruit's because I like them. You are fortunate that you have the time and means to eat green 100% of the time. I do like to dine out. But my way doesn't make me less healthy. Moderation, regular exercise and common sense.
Actually, the chemist over here is right about all sugars being formed from a chemical reaction regardless of whether its in a lab or a plant. I know this because I just learned it from a text book in biology class two months ago.
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