133 calories for a whole PINT of sorbet!!!!

Today I experimented with making my own strawberry sorbet, since I have a terrible sweet tooth and I have sadly run out of Skinny Cow sandwiches and won't be able to make a trip to the store for a few days.

Most delicious experiment ever!

I made it with strawberries to keep it low cal, but you can obviously experiment with whatever fruits you like. The entire recipe came out to four 1/2 cup servings...and I ate all of them, but for 133 calories who really cares?!

Here is my recipe and ingredient list, obviously you can tweak/modify things to your liking, and then just add up the calories for all the ingredients.

What you need:

2 cups strawberries (50 calories per cup)

1/2 cup 8th Continent Light Soymilk or Unsweetened Vanilla Almond Breeze (20-25 calories)

2 packets Splenda (4 calories per packet) 

Put all the ingredients together in a blender or food processor and blend until smooth. Pour mixture into ramekins depending on how many servings you need, or if you're like me, pour the entire thing into a Hello Kitty bowl, freeze, and devour!

It was a very refreshing after dinner treat and took me a while to eat...I felt like I was eating something I should feel guilty about, but I wasn't. Tomorrow I'm going to use a banana and throw in a handful of dark chocolate chips and walnuts so I can recreate Chunky Monkey ice cream...yum!

I made strawberry sorbet too! Isn't it great ^_^ definitely feels wrong but its so right :oP Let me know how the fake Chunky Monkey turns out - my experiments haven't been very successful...

Is the "8th Continent Light Soymilk or Unsweetened Vanilla Almond Breeze" an icecream?
Can I do it with milk?

Doris - I made the "chunky monkey" sorbet this morning and am waiting to eat it for dessert, i will definitely let you know how it turned out!

Arymiis - One of those is a soy milk and the other is almond milk. I used them to make it creamy because they are the most low-cal options I could find, I am very close to my goal weight and on 1200 calories a day, so I am trying to save cals wherever possible. You could probably definitely do this with regular milk (although I haven't tried it) and just up the calorie count by a little depending on what you use. Let me know if it turns out as tasty for you too!

thank you thank you thank youuuu! tryin this out right now :-P

EDIT: i tried this last night and it was AMAZING! i used 1 cup blueberries and 1 cup strawberries... i imagine as long as you use 2 cups of fruit you can try virtually anything! =)

That's great! Did you eat the entire two servings like I did?! I feel like I should have felt guilty about that but you don't even have to, it's so awesome!

haha yes i did! i was way under my cal intake so it was fine.. even so, it wasnt THAT much i felt like, but still really filling! i wanna try it with watermelon, or strawberry and kiwi next... mmhmm

Wow,..almond milk?
We don't have that here! xD Only regular milk for me!

tried another variation:

2 medium kiwis

1 cup strawberries

1/2 cup silk light vanilla soymilk

2 packets splenda

ABSOLUTELY AMAZING!! just thought i'd share =)

Why not use sugar.  I assume the packet of Splenda is a teaspoon so 2 tsps of sugar would only add 32 cals.  165 cals for the whole thing and you wouldn't have to use artifical sweetner.

Willin - that sounds delicious! I must try that immediately! I did a strawberry mango one yesterday and it was fantastic as well :-)

jackpot!

thanks so much!

this is definitely on my URGENT to-do list!

I made a raspberry-banana sorbet using 6 oz of raspberries and 1/2 a banana ..... yum yum yum. (13 grams of fiber!!!!)

Next time, instead of the unsweetened vanilla Almond Breeze (20 calories), I think I may substitute fat free Cool Whip (30 calories) to see if its creamier.

=^..^= MOLLY

Hi Molly,

I actually did that myself, except I just splurged on some extra calories and spread a layer of cool whip on top of my sorbet...it tasted super awesome, so let me know how it goes with it mixed in!

if you do the cool whip i wouldnt put it in the food processor, it may seperate, just mix it in. I just told my husband I can't wait to go grocery shopping now

Oh. My. God. 

I have found my safe food. The one I can go a little overboard with.

Thank you!

You can do this by using fat free frozen yogurt too -  or a mix of the yogurt and milk/soy mil.  I make my smoothies with that.   Helps make it creamy too.

sounds REALLY good! I know that the nutritionals would change, but could I use 2% milk? that's all that my mom will buy... I'm gonna give it a go! (and use Stevia, my go-to sweetner!)

This was posted ages ago but I'm glad I've found it because I have plenty of fresh strawberries to use, and it sounds delicious!

I do this with with greek yogurt, stevia and frozen fruit all the time.  Using frozen fruit you dont even have to bother putting it in the freezer... so refreshing! 

Haha I am glad I found this, sounds like a great treat to use all of my left over strawberries for XD

And my family has been dying for some kind of frozen dessert from me since I have been making their healthier meals~