I bought this at Albertsons and love it! It's blood orange sorbet, no added sugars and I can eat the entire pint for only 7 points (I call it 8 because one serving is 2 points but if I input all four servings as one it comes up as 7 points) It feeds my need to binge every now an again while staying within points and staying (mostly) healthy
on a different note - I was beyond shocked to learn that the small regular Orange Julius with a banana that I drank earlier was a whopping 7 points! I could have drank a can of Mountain Dew for less points
I've been looking all over for that brand, with no luck.
I make my own sorbets and frozen slushes (which I think would be free on the new WW system) with just frozen fruit and no calorie liquid (and sweetener to taste).
I use diet lemonade (like Crystal Light) or diet Mountain Dew as my liquid (then I don't have to use any additional sweetener, but you can also use water and sweetener).
Just a little liquid makes sorbet, and more liquid makes a frozen daquiri style slushie. I made one this afternoon 210g of unsweetened frozen berry mix (blueberries, blackberries, and raspberries) and 3/4 can of diet Mountain Dew (1/4 to 1/3 of a cup of liquid makes a nice sorbet texture for most frozen fruits).
I use an exchange plan, so that was 2 fruit exchanges.
I'm not much of a milk drinker, so to get in my dairy, I'll add skim milk as my liquid (then it's 1 dairy, and 2 fruit).
I've made it in a food processor (kind of messy and hard to pour into a glass without spilling), a standard blender, and the personal blender (a knock off of the Magic Bullet).
The personal blenders are amazing, because your blender cup is also your serving cup, and the cups and blades are a lot easier to clean than a full sized blender. Also, since many come with multiple cups and blades, you don't have to wash dishes before making a second smoothie or batch of sorbet.
Another super cool kitchen gadget for low-calorie frozen treats is an ice shaver or snow cone maker. You can buy manual ones (good exercise) or electric (mine's electric, I'm lazy). You can buy sugar free snow cone syrups, but I make my own or use Torani and Davinci sugar free syrups. An easy way to make the syrups is to use sugar free drink packets (the single serving ones you use in water bottles) and dissolve it in 1/4 cup of water instead of the 16-20 ounces mentioned on the box- then pour it over the shaved ice).
And then of course there's frozen grapes, which are like tiny single serving drops of sorbet. They're wonderful plain, but they're also very good coated with sugar free jello straight from the package (about a tablespoon for two to four cups of grapes. Rinse the grapes, shak in a ziploc bag and then freeze).
Frozen bananas make their own ice cream too. You can freeze the banana and then use the blender to puree it into an ice-cream like snack or you can eat the frozen banana as is (I usually slice a banana and put it on a plate and eat it as soon as it's barely frozen. Or I'll peel the tiny fingerling bananas and freeze them and eat them whole).
kaplods. Try putting your recipe into the WW recipe builder, just to be sure it is 0 points. For some reason, fruit/vegetables is calculated differently, when its added to a recipe.
kaplods. Try putting your recipe into the WW recipe builder, just to be sure it is 0 points. For some reason, fruit/vegetables is calculated differently, when its added to a recipe.
As I said, I follow an exchange plan rather than WW, so I count it according to my plan. WW members will have to calculate it for themselves, using the ingredients they plan on using, using the method they're most comfortable with.
However, in the sorbet I mentioned, you don't have to add any ingredient other than water. That technically isn't a "recipe" it's just fruit. So if a particular fruit is zero, eating that fruit frozen and pureed would still be zero (as long as the only thing you've changed is the temperature. Cooking or juicing before freezing would change the point value).
The frozen grapes you don't have to do anything but freeze and eat (same with the bananas).
The banana ice cream also doesn't need any liquid (or so I'm told, I tend to make it as a shake and use part of my dairy allowance to use skim milk).
I would guess (and could be wrong) that if the ingredients are all truly unlimited foods (that is if the fruit being used, the artificial sweeteners and diet soft drinks and diet jello are all unlimited) then a recipe of all unlimited foods (and nothing else) would be an unlimited food.
If recipe builder still has the flaw that it used to, you can consider free + free = free (but only in the case of truly unlimited foods only), regardless of what recipe builder says. WW may have corrected this flaw (hope so, it was annoying) but I'd suggest WW members ask their leader or online customer support.
Concerning that, I don't know if it is still true (so ask your leader or on the WW website), but when I was in WW in the previous program, I noticed that if I put in a recipe of all free foods, or zero point foods, the recipe builder always gave a point value. For example, I typed in the ingredients on WW's zero point soup, and it gave a point value, then I typed in a recipe with just one ingredient (a free vegetable) in both cases the recipe builder came up with a point value. I asked my leader about it, and she said it was a weakness of recipe builder that in the recipe builder "nothing is free."
kaplods. Try putting your recipe into the WW recipe builder, just to be sure it is 0 points. For some reason, fruit/vegetables is calculated differently, when its added to a recipe.
The recipe calculator does not add items individually. It takes ALL the calories from the food added together, ALL the fat, ALL the carbs, ALL the fiber, ALL the protein and then comes up with the points.
It does not distinguish between fruit, veggies and other foods.
If a meal truly is just a few pieces of fruit or vegetables it's better to calculate it as a "meal" on the Points Tracker and not a recipe.
ETA: Kaplods that sounds really frickin' delicious. Thanks for sharing
The recipe calculator does not add items individually. It takes ALL the calories from the food added together, ALL the fat, ALL the carbs, ALL the fiber, ALL the protein and then comes up with the points.
It does not distinguish between fruit, veggies and other foods.
If a meal truly is just a few pieces of fruit or vegetables it's better to calculate it as a "meal" on the Points Tracker and not a recipe.
So, it still works the same as I remember then. There is no "free" in recipe builder.
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ETA: Kaplods that sounds really frickin' delicious. Thanks for sharing
Frozen grapes have a sorbet-like consistency!? I have to try that for sure!
I have done the banana trick with great results. I buy a bunch and ripen until it's a little spotty. Then I cut them up and freeze them individually in ziplock bags. When I want some, I let it thaw a little and then put it in a magic bullet with 1 tblspn FF SF vanilla creamer for a little flavor. It comes out like great banana ice cream. I was thinking about getting the Yonanas machine because sometimes it takes a while in the magic bullet to fully puree. It just seems a little crazy to spend $50 for a single purpose machine.
Anyway, thanks for those tips. Will definitely try some.
Sorbet I can "binge" on
(I call it 8 because one serving is 2 points but if I input all four servings as one it comes up as 7 points) It feeds my need to binge every now an again while staying within points and staying (mostly) healthy
