Over the past month, I’ve experienced deep, troubling urges to go to Dairy Queen and get me a blizzard. Or a milkshake. ooohhh……I am salivating.
Luckily, I’ve pushed through my cravings because although I may “think” I want them, I know they probably wouldn’t do anything to satisfy a “craving” and in the end would just fill me up with empty calories. Sunday, I had another episode. So I decided I was going to allow myself to have something – for Pete’s sake, if I had been desiring to have it for the past month, I should not continue to deny myself…right?
So I pulled up the Dairy Queen website and found the nutritional information – HOLY CALORIC WASTELAND!!!! No lie, there were NO blizzards under 500 calories…not even the small size!
I decided I was going to have to find an alternative. And since I read so many other smart bloggers out there, it dawned on me I could figure out how to use the frozen banana’s in my freezer!
Enter the blender.
Add frozen banana’s.
Plus 2 tablespoons Better’n Peanut Butter
(A Christmas gift…Thanks Jen!)
A small handful of chocolate
chips and a splash of milk
Blended concoction.
Different angle.
Anxious, excited slurp.it.up face.
uh…not so much.
Thoughts: Well…back to the drawing board for me. It wasn’t BAD, just wasn’t AMAZING. Here’s the thing though – I didn’t measure anything and was literally just dumping things into the blender. Maybe I need to be more precise? Or maybe I didn’t like the taste of the Better’n Peanut Butter?
One positive: I saved a ton of calories on this version! My version was roughly about 300 calories vs. 500-900 calories in a small from Dairy Queen.
I bet ya’ll have a ton of idea’s! Anyone got a link to their favorite healthy frozen drink? I’m not much for adding protien powder to my drinks, so what other idea’s do you have?
Worth your attention:
- Check out who made #4 on Top Ten Minnesota Blogs to Read in 2010. (click here for article.)
- Missy Maintains is having a New Year Giveaway! Click to enter & win some of her favorite things!
- Shelley over at My Journey to Fit is having a “Cook Yourself Thin” giveaway! Click here to enter!
- Keep sending in your workout idea’s – cardio or weight routines are needed! (click here for original post.)
- I totally guilted Lindsay, another priorfatgirl into doing a personal trainer appointment with me last night. mwahahahahahaha…she may have problems getting up from the toilet today.
Stay tuned tomorrow for what else, more me!
