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We all have our guilty pleasures. I am to share these two with you today: Ice Cream and Jersey Shore. On the new season of Jersey Shore (am I really writing this?) the Shore kids hit up South Beach Miami and are put to work in an ice cream shop. Vinny, who I have learned has to keep a close cut due to his thick Sicilian hair, embraces the job he has been given scooping ice cream at the local gelato shop. Why? Because as he puts it, “Chicks dig ice cream”.
It’s so very true though isn’t it? I haven’t had proper ice cream in years. Dairy left my life about eight years ago now. I had one bowl of chocolate ice cream made from raw goat’s milk when I was in Dominica a few years ago, and I regularly whip up a batch of my coconut milk ice cream.
This past weekend I biked over to the Conscious Food Festival taking place at Toronto’s Fort York. I wanted to support the festival but sadly, was a little disappointed. There was a rather steep entry fee and the event seemed extremely meat and booze focussed. Despite emphasis on this meat and booze being local and sustainable, if I sampled all that was going around I was going to be anything but conscious by the end of the afternoon. I did have one great discovery though…
Ice Cream! Now, this was not the usual processed dairy ice cream. With one sample sized cone, Yogalicious, changed my life. Yogalicious is the most conscious ice cream there ever was and best of all- it was ice cream that didn’t send me running for the loo.
Their ice cream actually isn’t iced cream at all. It is frozen Kefir. Hello great bacteria! So delicous to be re-acquainted with ice cream in this way. Imagine- an ice cream-like whole food that actually helps promote the good bacteria balance in your body? And it tastes just like the processed unhealthy kind. All those kiddies who eat ice cream when they are sick and have their immune systems kicked to the ground by the mucous forming processed dairy and immune suppressing sugar have a health promoting and awesomely delicious alternative. You know who else has an alternative? All of us chicks who love ice cream but who may not be able to leave our homes after consuming it.
Yogalicious combines uniquely nutritious ingredients into a delightful taste experience. Using a fairy traditional method for fermenting the dairy, they add live active cultures- kind of like how yogurt is made. This probiotic culture blend enhances digestion and strengthens the immune system. Booya!
If you haven’t already heard, Kefir is a fermented milk product similar to yogurt, but contains more than three times the probiotics of yogurt. The kefir used for this frozen treat has 22 billion bacterial cultures per serving making for a happy and healthy digestive system.
Yogalicious recently signed on with one of Canada’s super powered health food distributors and so for your sake and mine, I do hope we find this awesomeliciousness in health food stores and supermarkets all the world over! Best thing you can do- go into your local and ask for them to get it.
Be sure to come on back over here next week where I have a special guest post coming on making coconut kefir. Fun times!
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That sounds so yummy. I wish they had something like this in Europe…well,one day hopefully.
By the way, Jersey Shore is my guilty pleasure as well. I find them thoroughly entertaining .
Make your own Monika! I have a post coming next week on making your own coconu kefir. It’s not hard at all!
She’s right Monika, kefir is quite easy to make. The problem is using it all!
ooooh def looking forward to that post! thanks meghan!
Unfortunately, I am a HUGE fan of Jersey Shore too. So is my bf. And we watch it religiously…and not in an ironic-hipster-watching-another-subculture-as-an-anthropological-study, but because we really, really love it and think it’s great tv.
I haven’t had ice cream yet this summer, but this looks like it could meet my criteria! Do you know if the Carrot is selling it?
They are Alex! Hope you’re having a great summer!
Tee hee hee. Magical ice cream! What else would result from using a “fairy traditional method”? Maybe that was the problem with my homemade kefir. I had way more than 2 people could consume. Must have been the fairies working their magic.
Great find Meghan. Can’t wait to see it here.
Thank you my dear sweet editor. Hope you are having a beautiful summer.
Working on it. Hope you are too!
Hate to admit I haven’t even heard of Jersey Shore! Can’t wait to see the Kefir show.
Oh, I do love some ice cream. I usually make banana soft-serve a la Gena @ Choosing Raw. I like Coconut Bliss, but the price keeps me away. I really want to make my own coconut ice cream but I still haven’t found a friend with an ice cream maker I can borrow! Even my aunt, who I thought for sure would have one, doesn’t. I think I might put out an ad, “Friend seeking friend with ice cream maker…”
Can’t wait for the homemade coconut kefir!!
Hey folks! who here likes creamsicles? OMG – I love them, but Yuk on the ingredients eh? I’ve discovered a fabulous alternative
RECIPE for – YOGALICIOUS CREAMSICLE:
1 cup organic orange juice
1 scoop Yogalicious
Blender it up and voila folks…
Worth mentioning here it’s organic, socially responsible, local kefir, 22 bilion cultures and 110 calories, 2 grams of fat and 4 impact carbs per 1/2 cup! Diabetic and lactose friendly folks! ENJOY – I do!
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