[MarkL]

Atkins has ice cream, and there is brand called LeCarb but not widely available. Although Atkins products and locarb food is gaining distribution, someone needs to make locarb frozen food. At least I need my market to carry them if they already exist.....

I don't understand how it's taking so long for low-carb ice cream to be widely available! I mean, what's in ice cream? Cream, egg, sweetener, flavorings!

I'd like to give it a try.

Mark

[diotima]

Its not that bad. It is also pretty easy to make your own, although I am far to busy lazy to make it myself.

[SamAdams76]

On the subject of ice cream (once one of my culinary favorites), I have had no desire for it since going low-carb. Even a low-carb ice cream would not necessarily appeal to me. Taking the place of ice cream is yogurt. Believe it or not, in the absence of sweets and other sugary junk, yogurt is now as delicious as ice cream to my palate. Especially the yogurts with fruit on the bottom (berries such as blueberries, raspberries, strawberries).

One does need to be careful however as many supermarket brands of yogurt are little better than ice cream sundaes with respect to sugar content. Look for the "all natural" brands and shun like the plague any yogurts with high fructose corn syrup and other junk like that. Also ensure that the yogurt has a "live cultures" seal on it. Without the live cultures, you might as well just eat plain ice cream. The live cultures is what makes yogurt so beneficial to you.

I brand that I like is Stonyfield Farms. Even though the owners have "Ben and Jerry" disease, it's a fine product that uses live cultures and real fruit. It does have 23g of carbs because they use real sugar. I justify that based on my 7-10 miles of walking I do each day. If I didn't exercise, I'd probably want to stay away from that much sugar and would eat plain yogurt instead. Another alternative would be to eat plain yogurt and sprinkle in a few blueberries or strawberries yourself.