A woman mentioned to me that she didn’t want to be a “stick in the mud” mom for not taking her kids to those frozen yogurt shops that are popping up on every corner. When I was a teenager, I mistakenly ate fat-free frozen yogurt for dessert thinking that it was a safe “diet” food. Nope, it isn’t! At one of the top frozen yogurt chains, the ingredients for vanilla yogurt powder are pure crystalline fructose, dextrose, maltodextrin, nonfat milk, yogurt powder, and micro-encapsulated probiotic (Lactobacillus sporogenes).
And have you seen the prices at those places?! I often get questions about the cost of the ingredients I recommend. I calculated the price of my ice cream recipe with top-notch ingredients like organic coconut oil and farm-fresh organic eggs. The result: $3.13 per pint. Not bad considering that Ben & Jerry’s costs about $4.00 a pint and Cold Stone Creamery’s costs $7.50 a pint—and it has 2 grams of trans fat! You can buy most of the ingredients used in my recipes in bulk and store them in a chest freezer to lower the cost even more. And ice cream tastes so much better when you make it fresh at home!