There are times in this world when it is necessary to have a chocolate malt. If you are one of the millions of people who has caught the shugga dye bead eaze, this does not relieve you of your chocolate malt consumption responsibilities.
You will, however, need to make some changes in ingredients and portion sizes.
This is my technique. You may have your own, which I hope you will share.
Note: Add all ingredients in the quantities you are accustomed to use.
In your blender, put in Breyer’s No Sugar Added Vanilla Ice Cream
(label poop: serving size 1/2 cup, 80 calories, 14 carbs, 4 grams sugar, 4 grams sugar alcohol, I can’t remember the rest)
Add Hershey’s Extra Dark Syrup and Carnation Chocolate Malt Powder
Organic 1% blue milk
Blend in blender, adjust ingredients to obtain the taste and consistency desired.
Pour about 2 and a half or 3 inches into a glass for yourself, give the rest to other people.
I advise having this either as a meal unto itself, or as an accompaniment to a meal that has no or few carbs or nets or grams, like a salad. I had it with a latke and sour cream, and the meter said 140 something. So the latke or the chocolate malt alone would have been OK but together was a bit much.
As katiebird says, every meal is a science experiment!
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This is good! I want this too. (don’t worry, it’s all pretend — there is no ice cream here. I ate it all weeks ago.)
I could not find the Skinny Cow that you mentioned, there are lots of options though, ice milk, frozen yogurt, I guess if you wanted to get really ambitious you could make your own with the 1% blue milk!
My first thought is this:
It has been my experience that after awhile, my cravings for certain things nearly go away IF (a big IF) I haven’t eaten them.
For instance, orange juice with lots of pulp was my drink of choice at all times of the day. I stopped drinking it like water because of the calories and now I don’t crave it anymore.
Another example was MacDonald’s sausage McMuffin with egg. I’m sure I would still enjoy one, but I don’t crave them anymore and they are definitely forbidden fruit now.
Are you being fair to yourself if you create a recipe that allows you to continue eating something that will make you continue to crave chocolate and sweets when they are hard for you to deal with?
Just wondering…..
That’s a fair question. For me, it is kind of like katiebird’s “baby steps.”
It would certainly be wonderful if I no longer desired this or that food that I used to consume in great quantities, and cannot now.
In fact, if I could liberate myself from all preference, like Peace Pilgrim or the Buddha, that would indeed make me a very transcendent human being.
However, I have to have diabetes with the DuctapeFatwa I’ve got, and I am very human, and not noticeably transcendent.
I can no longer have a big tall glass of chocolate malt made with heavy cream. If I were to do that, out of frustration, annoyance, or just plain orneriness, it would be bad for me.
However, if I have a small amount of chocolate malt made with the blue milk and reduced sugar ice cream, it will not be bad for me, and knowing that, and having it from time to time, can help me cope with the reality of what I can no longer have, and pre-empt the danger that I might, in a fall from grace, or what katiebird calls a “backslide,” have that big glass of chocolate malt made with heavy cream.
There is no need for me to do that. I can have a little glass of it made with the other stuff.
This might not be the answer, or helpful for everyone, but it is for me.
Of course I have more to say about this, maybe I can make it clearer.
And maybe I should make a distinction more between people who have an element of choice, for instance, in your situation, your doctor told you of problems. You made the choice to address those problems your way, by voluntarily making changes in your diet, from what you have told us, some pretty radical changes.
You could have gone back to the doctor, taken whatever pills they said, and maybe made some less radical changes. Maybe that would have produced as good a result, maybe not. I tend toward the belief that you know your body better than I do, and your emotions, and your mind, and better than the doctors do too!
For me, and for some others, there is no element of choice. One day we are sitting there with our coca cola classic and our chocolate covered cherries, and the next day we are one of those annoying old people who stand in your way in the grocery store aisle, changing glasses 3 times to try to read labels and figure out what in the hell we CAN eat.
If we are going to succeed, in the long term, we have to be realistic. We cannot box ourselves in and tell ourselves we can never again eat this or that, woe is me. This only leads to feeling deprived, oppressed, it is so unfair. And next thing you know we are on the road to perdition. And that road to perdition can kill us.
So we, or at least I, do our “science experiments” to learn ways that we can still enjoy our old favorites, modified, in moderation, some only occasionally, and even then in smaller quantities. If the day comes when I no longer desire chocolate malt, hooray!
But in the meaantime, that modified recipe for chocolate malt just might save my life.
Ummmm…malteds….
I used Carb Countdown milk. I live by it! The take out the milk sugar and sweeten with splenda. Oh, and raise the protein level.
Thanks 4today, I will look for it. I just discovered that Splenda does not suck.