My Favorite Sugar-Free Chocolate and Ice Cream
How come a self help blog features posts on sugar free ice cream and chocolate? Hey, come on! Both of these can be great mood boosters (if used wtih discretion).
If you’re trying to avoid sugar and love chocolate or ice cream, I’ve got some treats for you.
Chocolate first: Russell Stover comes through again! I love their Private Reserve Sugar Free Triple Chocolate Mousse (with 60% Cacao Dark Chocolate!)
Extremely good. They also have a caramel version of the same thing. Also excellent!
Of course, they also have a whole bunch of sugar free candy in green baggies, and those are good too, but the Private Reserve ones are more than a notch above.
And speaking of notch above: icecream! Oh my! My newest “addiction”/”wish I had never tried it”:
Edy’s Slow Churned Rich & Creamy No Sugar Added Coffee ice cream. Wow!
It’s the creamiest stuff I’ve had in a long time, and the perfect latte flavor. Incredible. It’s much like I remember Haagen-Daaz (sp?) coffee from way back when I used to still eat sugar.
Also, if you can still find them, the sugar free peeps are pretty good too if you like peeps. Almost as good as the real thing. And if they’re on sale, now that Easter is over, grab them. Last year they turned up on eBay for something like 4 bucks a pack that used to cost 99 cents in the store (this year $1.09).
I wish I had stocked up… This year, I bought a few. I think I’m trying to go easier on sweet stuff, ever since I read that book about the fact that sweet stuff makes our bodies think it’s time to fatten up. Can’t remember the book at the moment.
I’ll write about that later when I find it again. In the meantime though, it’s time to ratchet back down the sugar free chocolate thing… Once they’re THAT good, they can be seriously addictive too. I almost liked them better whent hey weren’t that good… Helped with portion control.
Ditto with the ice cream.
Have a fabulous day.
Elisabeth
P.S.: I think tomorrow I should write a little something about how sugar free goodies can be helpful for weaning you off sugar…
