Home Made Ice Cream

[Yvonne Smith]

We now make our own ice cream with a Ninja Creami. It is something that I discovered that lot of low-carb people were doing to be able to enjoy an ice cream treat without all of the sugars and chemicals that go into commercial ice creams.
I just love the Ninja Creami, and making ice cream is simple. You just make the mix, pour it into the Creami container and freeze it overnight. The next day, put the container into the Ninja Creami, and it blends it into a rich ice cream dessert.

I have been making my low carb ice cream with cottage cheese, protein powder, SF pudding mix, a little milk to thin it, and any other flavoring that sounded good to me. We use natural cocoa powder for chocolate ice cream, and add peanut butter powder for the Reeses’ Bites flavor.
One of my favorites is butterscotch, so easy to make with just the pudding mix.
For fruit flavors, we add fruit (fresh or frozen) and sometimes I use SF jello mix.

I just started using yogurt instead of cottage cheese, and that turned out really delicious, too; so I think I will make frozen yogurt from now on, because of the beneficial probiotics in yogurt.
I have a yogurt maker and a gallon of milk is about $3, which is about the same price as a quart of store bought yogurt or cottage cheese; so it will be cheaper as well as healthier for me to make the frozen yogurt instead of the cottage cheese ice cream.

 

[Smithy]

I would love to make homemade ice cream, I've actually not thought of it until you have said this.

What did your homemade ice cream taste like, would you make it again?

 

[Yvonne Smith]

I would love to make homemade ice cream, I've actually not thought of it until you have said this.

What did your homemade ice cream taste like, would you make it again?

We have a ninja creami, and it makes homemade ice cream really easy. It is used by a lot of people who are avoiding sugar or on a low carb diet for diabetes, or some other reason. Basically, you just put the ingredients in your blender, and then pour it into the Ninja containers, freeze overnight, and the next day, you put the frozen container into the Ninja Creami machine, and in a few minutes, it is blended and whipped into a delicious ice cream, sherbet, milkshake, or whatever you want to make with it.
I use either cottage cheese or Greek yogurt, protein powder, SF pudding mix, and sometimes fruit or cocoa for flavoring, blend it all up freeze overnight, and the next day, we have healthy, delicious ice cream. We make it all the time, unless the weather is just too cold to have ice cream.

 

[Yvonne Smith]

Warm weather seems to be back again, so today I am making ice cream for tomorrow in the Ninja Creami. I love how simple it is !
A can of peaches, some Greek yogurt, scoop of whey protein powder, and enough milk for the right texture, blend, pour into the Ninja containers and freeze. Easy-peazy !
Tomorrow we have peach ice cream, all healthy, no sugar or chemicals, just food.

 

[Yvonne Smith]

Here is another good reason to have the Ninja Creami (or some kind of ice cream machine) and make your own homemade ice cream. There are so many different chemicals in commercial ice cream that it does not even actually melt. This guy left two different ones out in the yard for 3 days and this is how they looked afterwards.
It is like that McDonald’s hamburger that someone has had sitting out for months and it never goes bad, or maybe even worse, because you would think it would melt eventually and that bug s would want it.

 

[Hedi M]

We have our own recipe and we have tweaked it over the last 35 years. We make it more often here on Kansas because they do not seel Blue Bell in the part of the state at least. Ours is every bit as good as Blue Bell- if not even better
It is very fattening though

 

[Yvonne Smith]

We have our own recipe and we have tweaked it over the last 35 years. We make it more often here on Kansas because they do not seel Blue Bell in the part of the state at least. Ours is every bit as good as Blue Bell- if not even better
It is very fattening though

That is one of the great things why I like the Ninja Creami better than other regular ice cream makers. You can literally make it with whatever ingredients you want, and always know what is in the ice cream. Ours is fairly healthy , compared to regular ice cream, because we make it with a whey protein fitness drink, so it has vitamins, minerals, and extra protein in it, plus the good protein from the whey powder.
I use either cottage cheese or plain yogurt, and we do not add sugar, just natural fruit or raw coca for flavorings.

 

[Hedi M]

That is one of the great things why I like the Ninja Creami better than other regular ice cream makers. You can literally make it with whatever ingredients you want, and always know what is in the ice cream. Ours is fairly healthy , compared to regular ice cream, because we make it with a whey protein fitness drink, so it has vitamins, minerals, and extra protein in it, plus the good protein from the whey powder.
I use either cottage cheese or plain yogurt, and we do not add sugar, just natural fruit or raw coca for flavorinto each hi sown

that is not ice cream Yvonne. I mean to each his own, but I would not touch that crap..no offense

 

[Jacob Petersheim]

What's the most minimal recipe? Cottage cheese, fruit, a little milk? Would that be terrible, too lacking in sweetener?

What about something like date paste? Sugar of course, but fiber.

 

[Yvonne Smith]

I can see where our type of ice cream would not be for everyone, @Hedi M . We all pretty much grew up eating store-bought ice cream, and over the years it has been made with more and more chemical additives and not cream, eggs, and sugar that go in real old fashioned ice cream; but if you are just having a bowl now and then, that is not a big thing.

For me, I am an ice cream addict, and wanted it every day, and ate too much of it, so having an ice cream that I can eat every day if I want to, that is still a healthy food, is an awesome thing.
When I saw all of the low carb ice cream recipes that people were making with the Ninja Creami, I knew it might be the answer to my ice cream cravings. There is a lady on SF forum (Katlupe) who uses Keto Chow (a protein powder with all the vitamins added) and she has that as ice cream every day.

You can make regular ice cream , and the Ninja Creami comes with lots of recipes, but on YouTube, there are all sorts of recipes that are low carb, high protein, and no added sugar .
Using whey protein along with some cottage cheese or Greek yogurt makes a good base, and i add a little sugar free pudding mix or jello to help thicken it, so that is pretty minimal. I add just enough milk to make it the right consistancy, and sometimes use those sugar free syrups to add sweetness and flavoring. The Creami spins it into ice cream.
Dates would work great, @Jacob Petersheim ! I have used raisins in my “sour cream raisin” ice cream (which is raisins soaked in the sf rum flavored DaVinci syrup, yogurt, and cheesecake flavor pudding mix)
Canned, frozen, or fresh fruit works great , and you can also make kind of a sherbet with just fruit and a little liquid from the can of fruit. I have not done that, but there are recipes on YT for that.

 

[Axel Slingerland]

I couldn't find a photo of one like we had back in the 1960s, but it looked liked this. I absolutely hated that thing because I always got drafted to man boy the crank.

Can you believe they was $479 for that thing? It ain't even electric!

 

[Hedi M]

I can see where our type of ice cream would not be for everyone, @Hedi M . We all pretty much grew up eating store-bought ice cream, and over the years it has been made with more and more chemical additives and not cream, eggs, and sugar that go in real old fashioned ice cream; but if you are just having a bowl now and then, that is not a big thing.

For me, I am an ice cream addict, and wanted it every day, and ate too much of it, so having an ice cream that I can eat every day if I want to, that is still a healthy food, is an awesome thing.
When I saw all of the low carb ice cream recipes that people were making with the Ninja Creami, I knew it might be the answer to my ice cream cravings. There is a lady on SF forum (Katlupe) who uses Keto Chow (a protein powder with all the vitamins added) and she has that as ice cream every day.

You can make regular ice cream , and the Ninja Creami comes with lots of recipes, but on YouTube, there are all sorts of recipes that are low carb, high protein, and no added sugar .
Using whey protein along with some cottage cheese or Greek yogurt makes a good base, and i add a little sugar free pudding mix or jello to help thicken it, so that is pretty minimal. I add just enough milk to make it the right consistancy, and sometimes use those sugar free syrups to add sweetness and flavoring. The Creami spins it into ice cream.
Dates would work great, @Jacob Petersheim ! I have used raisins in my “sour cream raisin” ice cream (which is raisins soaked in the sf rum flavored DaVinci syrup, yogurt, and cheesecake flavor pudding mix)
Canned, frozen, or fresh fruit works great , and you can also make kind of a sherbet with just fruit and a little liquid from the can of fruit. I have not done that, but there are recipes on YT for that.

I hope you did not take offense Yvonne, was just being my usual truthful self.

 

[Yvonne Smith]

I hope you did not take offense Yvonne, was just being my usual truthful self.

Not at all, @Hedi M ! And you are totally correct, in that what we have is not technically ice cream. Basically, it is a frozen protein drink, with added flavorings, that just happens to taste a lot like ice cream. It is a part of my endeavoring to live a healthy life; but it certainly does not mean that it needs to be anyone else’s idea of that.
We all have our own ideas of what foods we want to eat, and that is how it should be.

 

[Yvonne Smith]

This video shows how easy it is to make kefir ice cream with the Ninja Creami. This is a new version of the creamy, where you can make the ice cream and then use it like a soft serve ice cream machine.
We can do the same thing with our Creami, except it just comes in the pint containers and not as a soft serve ice cream .