Ice cream!

Until recently, I wasn’t much of an ice cream person.  My ambivalence was all the more shocking because (a) my dad is a huge ice cream nut and (b) I’ve spent the last four years at a school which sells ice cream from its very own on-campus dairy.  But I recently had an operation on my mouth and, for three weeks, I was unable to eat hard foods.  My diet was limited to soups, nutritional drinks, very mushy macaroni and cheese, and, of course, ice cream.  Even though my diet’s back to normal now, I seem to have developed a permanent craving for ice cream.

When I went to Cold Stone Creamery a while back, I fell in love with their Cake Batter ice cream.  But, though it is delicious, I’d prefer to not pay an arm and a leg for my ice cream.  Thankfully, I’ve found a cheaper alternative: Blue Bunny’s Birthday Party Cake ice cream!  It’s cake-flavored ice cream with swirls of blue frosting and little candy confetti pieces mixed in.   A bowl of that makes for a perfect way to end the day.  Yum!

Cold Stone Creamery’s PB & C shake

Men’s Health recently described Cold Stone Creamery’s PB & C shake as the unhealthiest drink in America.  Being a huge fan of chocolate/peanut butter combinations, I naturally had to try it out for myself.

Not being suicidal, I ordered the shake in the smallest possible size.  That proved to be a wise choice because the PB & C is incredibly rich.  It’s so rich in fact that you have to drink it slowly, lest its leaden mass overwhelm your stomach.  Even then, it sits in your gut, giving you an unpleasant reminder of just how many calories you’ve ingested.

You would think that, for all those calories, the PB & C would at least be sinfully delicious, but that’s not the case.  It’s really too rich for its own good, which makes it a chore to drink.

If you’re looking for a chocolate/peanut butter treat, I suggest you skip Cold Stone and go to Jamba Juice and get the Peanut Butter Moo’d instead.  You’ll save a couple hundred calories and you won’t feel like you drank lead afterward.