Concerned about my spiralling obesity, the wife has been downloading healthy treats to try out.

She tried this simple recipe the other day, and I want to get some other opinions on it.

Here are the ingredients-

-3 frozen chopped bananas that you let ripen until they get brown spots first, then chopped and put in freezer
-average spoonful of almond butter or peanut butter
-2 spoonfuls of hersheys unsweetened cocoa

blend it till its smooth, and put in freezer.


The result is something that is remarkably close to chocolate ice cream in both taste and tactile feel. When she made it the other day, instead of almond butter, she used peanut butter, but the result seems similar. We also immediately ate it, and it was like soft serve.

Its the strangest thing to eat, it first tastes like bananas, but almost immediately the flavor changes to as if you ate chocolate ice cream, and its like the banana was always chocolate. I want to get some second opinions. You do not taste the peanut butter or almond butter at all.

This has opened a whole new activity with the wife of making banana based false ice creams.

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I'm on. Will go buy bananas in the next few days.

How "brown" do they have to get?

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Actually, You Only Need the Bananas

here are the variations

http://www.thekitchn.com/magic-one-ingredient-ice-cream-5-ways-peanut-butter-nutella-and-more-171618

I'll bet that would be great if you mixed in some heavy whipping cream.

No but hey, I might try it.

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If you are serious about losing weight get a blood glucose tester like a diabetic uses and test before and after you eat. Quit eating things that raise your glucose significantly. Weight gain requires glucose and insulin. Stop the cycle.

Try to fast for 16 hours a day. Keep your blood sugar stable the eight hours that you eat. You will lose weight.

Avoid processed food, sweeteners, flour, and vegetable oil.

You are such a bastard!

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Frozen blueberries and cream in the blender make great ice cream. Really great.

Pouring cream into a blender does not seem like a surefire way to make a diet food.

Is the relevance paradox getting me again?

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2 Samuel 12:13: "David said to Nathan, “I have sinned against the Lord.” And Nathan said to David, “The Lord also has put away your sin; you shall not die."

This time it is the propaganda machine, misinformation and disinformation. Atkin's diet might actually allow such a mixture, not sure.

I didn't say it was diet food, just that it was good.

I used to make fruit smoothies with frozen bananas and strawberries along with a bit of greek yogurt. Very very good, might want to give it a try.

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I ate some greek yogurt once. It made my breath smell like cat vomit. YMMV.

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1982 300SD -- 211k, Texas car, tranny issues ____ 1979 240D 4-speed 234k -- turbo and tuned IP, third world taxi hot rod

2 Samuel 12:13: "David said to Nathan, “I have sinned against the Lord.” And Nathan said to David, “The Lord also has put away your sin; you shall not die."

Thank you for not saying 'taste'

That is one of the drawbacks, but I hear it is good if you have any skin conditions.

No reason to make this complicated. If you want to lose weight, eat fewer calories than you burn. If you want to lose weight while maintaining muscle mass, keep your caloric intake above your basal metabolic rate (easily rough estimated by various online calculators) and do weight training while keeping your protein intake up. Not really hard. Even I do it twice a year before weigh ins.

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Lifting weights hurts a lot of people. It is good but many people must be very cautious. A lot of the weight lifting machines are pretty stupid designs too. That doesn't help. Kinda like food in our society, gotta be careful.

Calories are the basic unit but there are smarter ways to use your calories and pretty stupid ways to use your calories. Billions of dollars are spent every year to attempt to get people to make stupid choices.