For the sauce: mix 1/2 cup roasted nut butter with 1/2 cup hot water, a pinch of sea salt, 1 tsp. vanilla extract, 1 to 2 tablespoons honey, and 1/4 teaspoon pure stevia extract powder or liquid. Chill the sauce in a jar in the fridge.

Take a container of frozen banana from the fridge, let thaw for 15 minutes, top with some of the sauce, stir and eat. It has a texture like ice cream.

Recipe from The Garden of Eating: A Produce Dominated Diet & Cookbook.

Chef Rachel’s last blog post..Dairy-Free Ranch Dressing

I haven’t made popsicles with our homemade ice cream yet…the ice cream always gets eaten right out of the maker!

I also plan to make popsicles out of the homemade ice cream I make. I make it with raw cream and sometimes I make it with coconut milk. I’ve made chocolate (with organic cocoa powder), vanilla, cherry, mango, and strawberry (the fruit flavors are made with fresh organic fruit).

You can get an ice cream maker for around $50 (less if it’s on sale or used).

I think ice cream and popsicles is the most wonderful way to get the good raw cream into the kids. I now consider ice cream to be a health food! (Of course we only sweeten it with honey or maple syrup and/or fruit juice).

My former nanny got an ice cream maker and makes her own now — and every time her toddler hears the ice cream man outside, she just whips out a healthy popsicle from the freezer.

Somewhere I saw a list of food colorings that have been banned in the past. If those were eventually found (even by the FDA) to be bad, maybe these will eventually be banned also.

I cannot give our youngest dessert after dinner or bedtime prep is a nightmare. I figured this out years ago and assumed it was the sugar. Maybe it was the food additives?? Now that we’re avoiding those I may try it again and see how she acts. Come to think of it – I gave her some homemade pudding last night at dinner and her behavior was fine.

Beth

The aforementioned Kombucha or lemonade could be frozen and shaved, or you could add fruit juice, etc. Definitely avoid the ready-made squeeze bottles of brightly-colored HFCS and artificial flavors that come with the shaver!