Healthy Ice Cream

I had found a recipe for one ingredient ice cream.  All you need is bananas, that’s it! No salt or ice cream machine required for this.  To start you slice a couple bananas and put them in the freezer for about an hour. Once they are frozen you add them to a food processor or blender.

I only have a 4 cup mini-prep processor but we love this thing. We use it all the time for chopping and blending. I decided to add peanut butter and cocoa powder to my ice cream but it’s up to you want you want. 

As you blend the frozen bananas they start to thaw and become creamy.  That is when I added the peanut butter and cocoa.

It definitely has a banana flavor so if you don’t like bananas you probably wouldn’t like this too much.  But it has the same consistency of ice cream and I love that it’s more healthy than store bought ice cream and super easy to make!

Banana trick

I always have bananas in the house.  They are an easy fruit to eat and take with you on the go.  When Jake was starting solids I enjoyed the ease of feeding him a banana, but of course he couldn’t eat an entire one.  I would sometimes help him out, but I wished I could keep it for later. 

While browsing the stores I came across the Nana Saver.  You cut a banana in half and then place the Nana Saver on the cut end which would keep the end from getting all brown and gross. 

I used it for a while but it never really worked like it was supposed to.  But it was only a couple bucks so it wasn’t a huge disappointment.

Recently with all the Banana Yogurt Smoothies I’ve been making I use many bananas.  Sometimes it’s hard to find small bananas and I have to cut them in half or thirds and since I lost the Nana Saver (or more likely threw it away) I found a better way to save my bananas.

 

 

I learned that all you need to do is cut the banana with a sharp knife.  Yes, the end will get all brown and gross, but it creates a natural barrier for the rest of the banana.

 

 

I’m not sure how long it takes for it to get like this, but this is a day after cutting.

 

 

This layer is actually quite thin and you only need to cut a small layer away to get back to the good stuff. So there is no need to buy a banana keeper or throw out a perfectly good banana if you only want part of it.