I found these at the store today and I was wondering if they would be an acceptable dessert for any or all of the phases of South Beach.

Klondike Slim-a-Bear Reduced Fat and Calorie No Sugar Added
Artificially Flavored Vanilla Reduced Fat Ice Cream with Chocolate Flavored Coating Sweetened with Aspartame

Here are the ingredients:
nonfat milk, maltodextrin, polydextrose, glycerine, milkfat, mono-and diglycerides, pectin, guar gum, locust bean gum, polysorbate 80, aspartame, natural and artificial flavor, annatto (for color), citric acid, Vitamin A palmitate, vegetable oil (coconut, soybean), mannitol, nonfat dry milk, demineralized whey, cocoa, soy lecithin (an emulsifier), natural and artificial flavor, aspartame

1 bar has:
170 calories
9 g total fat (8 g saturated fat and 0 g trans fat)
5 mg cholesterol
65 mg sodium
21 g total carbohydrate (4 g dietary fiber, 7 g sugars, and 6 g sugar alcohol)
4 g protein

Thanks for any insight!

Kara

Kara, it's funny how all those artificial ingredients and chemicals can taste so good! We should really avoid all that Frankenfood on the Beach. I do buy them for an occasional treat, (it didn't help that Curves was giving out coupons for them!), but they should only be eaten as an occasional treat.

According to the SB "Good Fats, Good Carbs Guide," ice cream is not a part of the SB diet, "although you can enjoy a small amount as a very occasional treat." Low fat ice cream, even with no sugar added, is marked as "avoid" for P1 and P2 and "very limited" for P3 ("very limited" means once every 2 to 3 months). If I remember correctly, the reason is that (even with the limited sugar and fat) you're just not getting enough quality for the amount of calories you're taking in with stuff like that. Agatston actually recommends eating a small amount of real ice cream if you have to have it because you won't treat it like an everyday thing, but a special high calorie treat.

Reading the ingredients would turn me off! What is all that crud!

If you can get the no sugar added fudgesicles, I'd go with those...only 40 calories, so you could have them more often and it would satisfy that ice cream urge without so many calories.

I've also been getting the no sugar added tropical popsicles (15 calories) and they are really good on a hot day!

They don't have any no sugar added fudgesicles at the commissary, and goodness knows I'd have no way to read the ingredients if I shopped off base! There are Weight Watchers ones, but I think they have sugar in them.

Kara

NSA (no sugar added) fudgsciles will have sugar from the milk lactose

first of all the slim a bears are WAY over the 100 calorie per day allotment

my TREAT almost daily I admit is a healthy choice fudge pop.... 90 calories of pure bliss after dinner and before bed...

My DH has been stationed in Hawai'i and GA. All the various commissaries(TX, HI and GA) I've been to have had them. You should check with a manager or something to see if they carry it. They might just be disappearing off the shelves faster than they can stock them. Which tends to happen a lot in commissaries.

I was going to say the same thing... the commissaries in AK and UT have also carried them. I would definitely check with the manager. They make an excellent sweet treat.

We just moved from NE Fl to SE Ga and the commissary (tiny!) doesn't have them and either did the one in Fl. I always have to go to walmart for my fudgesicles and I don't think there's a walmart in Korea lol

No, no Walmart. No Trader Joe's. And no Wegmans.

I shall do my best.

Kara

Someday I want to live by a Whole Foods, Trader Joes, or some other good food place. I can't even find a farmers market here :P

I've never heard of Wegman's, I'm going to look it up.

Fl-mom I totally feel your pain I can't even find fish here that isn't previously frozen and that's both on and off base. I feel like I stepped into a time warp here in Augusta, GA. I miss the city.

hate me girls

i have trader joes 2 miles away
i have wegmans about 30 minutes away
i have a whole foods (not that i've ever been) about 20 minutes away
i have aldi's about 10 minutes away (cheap produce and a few good things like frozen fish, canned goods etc) so shop carefully

Ladybugnessa,

I'm lucky too! I live within five minutes of a Wild Oats AND a Fresh Market and Little Rock has an awesome Farmer's Market.