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Ice Cream Diet
Aug. 2nd, 2008 08:08 amLast week, I have been on an ice cream diet. Here's how it works:
Have small breakfast.
Have a small snack.
Have a small lunch.
Have a small snack.
Have a reasonable dinner.
Have a small bowl of ice cream.
Have another small bowl of ice cream.
Perhaps have another small bowl of ice cream.
See, all day if I don't eat anything evil, I may have ice cream after dinner. And if I do have some other sort of dessert (like those two donuts that one day), then I don't get ice cream.
For me, it doesn't work just to have one big bowl of ice cream, because I still want a little more after I'm done.
It all started when someone said I simply must try HEB's Creamy Creations Poteet Strawberry Ice Cream. This is some sort of dreamy ice cream with real strawberries mixed into regular ice cream. It's only available during strawberry season. And it's only available in the half-gallon size and the full-fat version. I almost resisted. But then I didn't.
The strawberries are cut up into small enough pieces that they are easy to eat while frozen. And when I tasted it, I thought, "That's kind of good." And when I finished a bowl, I thought, "Hmm, I think I'd like a little more."
I googled Poteet strawberries and it turns out that Poteet is a small town in Texas that's south of San Antonio. I'd never heard of it. They have a strawberry festival each April, so apparently strawberry season lasts from April to at least July. And they have a lot of monuments to strawberries. For example, the top of their water tower is painted to look like a strawberry.
Does this diet work? My data from one week says yes. But as you know, a single week of this sort of data is not trustworthy.
I always have vanilla ice cream in the freezer. And that ice cream tastes just as good as this strawberry flavor. But I always forget that, and I always think to myself that I can have ice cream anytime, so I don't have to have it now. With this ice cream, it's a second container, hogging more than my fair share of freezer space. I don't know why this happened exactly, but it's been fun.
Have small breakfast.
Have a small snack.
Have a small lunch.
Have a small snack.
Have a reasonable dinner.
Have a small bowl of ice cream.
Have another small bowl of ice cream.
Perhaps have another small bowl of ice cream.
See, all day if I don't eat anything evil, I may have ice cream after dinner. And if I do have some other sort of dessert (like those two donuts that one day), then I don't get ice cream.
For me, it doesn't work just to have one big bowl of ice cream, because I still want a little more after I'm done.
It all started when someone said I simply must try HEB's Creamy Creations Poteet Strawberry Ice Cream. This is some sort of dreamy ice cream with real strawberries mixed into regular ice cream. It's only available during strawberry season. And it's only available in the half-gallon size and the full-fat version. I almost resisted. But then I didn't.
The strawberries are cut up into small enough pieces that they are easy to eat while frozen. And when I tasted it, I thought, "That's kind of good." And when I finished a bowl, I thought, "Hmm, I think I'd like a little more."
I googled Poteet strawberries and it turns out that Poteet is a small town in Texas that's south of San Antonio. I'd never heard of it. They have a strawberry festival each April, so apparently strawberry season lasts from April to at least July. And they have a lot of monuments to strawberries. For example, the top of their water tower is painted to look like a strawberry.
Does this diet work? My data from one week says yes. But as you know, a single week of this sort of data is not trustworthy.
I always have vanilla ice cream in the freezer. And that ice cream tastes just as good as this strawberry flavor. But I always forget that, and I always think to myself that I can have ice cream anytime, so I don't have to have it now. With this ice cream, it's a second container, hogging more than my fair share of freezer space. I don't know why this happened exactly, but it's been fun.