The six most fattening ice creams

by Maggie Vink (Subscribe to Maggie Vink's posts)
May 30th 2008 11:00AM

Oh, ice cream ... heaven in a bowl. Now that the weather is getting warmer, a trip to the ice cream store is always a welcome treat. But that's exactly what ice cream should be ... a once in a while treat. Eat it too often and your hips (and butt, and stomach ... ) could pay the price. This decadent treat can pack a whopping calorie punch. Newsweek counts down the six biggest ice cream offenders (via Fitsugar).

Haagen-Dazs Chocolate Peanut Butter (360 calories, 24 grams of fat)
Ben and Jerry's Chubby Hubby (330 calories, 20 grams of fat)
Haagen-Dazs Butter Pecan (310 calories, 23 grams of fat)
Sheer Bliss Pomegranate with chocolate chips (320 calories, 20 grams of fat)
Ben and Jerry's Vermonty Python (300 calories, 19 grams of fat)
Coldstone Cookie Batter (300 calories, 19 grams of fat)

If you have to have your ice cream fix, search your grocery store freezer for lighter alternatives such as sherbet, sorbet, frozen yogurt, or light varieties of ice cream. (Be sure to check the label, though. Sometimes "light" isn't all it's cracked up to be.) And, if you're like me, you'll still indulge in a Coldstone "Like it" Cake Batter (with chucks of yellow cake and chocolate shavings) once in a while, because sometimes we all deserve a special treat!

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marcie0305 5-30-2008 @ 10:00PM

I say look for the more natural ice creams, which will contain more real cream for flavor instead of sugar. It's likely the sugar that is fattening, not the fat! I was also looking at Cold Stone's ingredients recently, lots and lots of chemicals in that stuff:

http://www.google.com/url?sa=t&ct=res&cd=2&url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.coldstonecreamery.com%2Fassets%2Fpdf%2Fnutrition%2FIngredients_Ice_Cream_Sorbet_08_04_06.pdf&ei=xqtASIC0CaSeiAGuw7GoAw&usg=AFQjCNFb5xq9KPRTxrerQwOI_MIa8jjWjA&sig2=nZtkfguxhzRgFmJ5q0EHEQ

Sorry to be the bearer of bad news :)

~Marcie
http://feedingblackmail.blogspot.com

Kathy Luebbe 5-31-2008 @ 2:17PM

Your choices are limited to nationwide choices. I would bet Graeter's ice cream in Cincinnati OH would be in the top six in several flavors. Each flavor contains 18% butterfat just for starts!

richard 5-31-2008 @ 8:42PM

Graeter's is awesome!!! I only lived in OH for a year and I still remember it as the best ice cream ever.

chole 5-31-2008 @ 4:56PM

if you are looking to have that "special treat"
then go to sweet sensations, its not too heavy and not too light. its just right, coldstone sucks :[

John Howell 5-31-2008 @ 4:56PM

Calling these products "offenders" is fantastically narrow-minded and the work of a pack of health Nazis. If you're not looking to watch the fat and calories, I'm sure they're all quite delicious.

Frank Tomei 5-31-2008 @ 4:55PM

We have reached the era of ''anything'' that taste good==is NOT good for you. I eat all that taste good, by pass any and all that does not suit my taste. as of this time of my life i am past 88 yrs and people think i am 70.
No secret, you put on weight when your intake is above your Daily movement. Keep moving and watch your excess disappear. It is not magic, its good sense. Try it you'll like it!===An old coger, GO !

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Judy, NYC 5-31-2008 @ 8:39PM

I, too finally realized that if you eat a normal amount of anything at all, and walk places you don't get fat. Ice cream, though, mmmm. I just have never been able to eat just a normal amount, so I don't buy pints or quarts (!!), just a serving maybe at Baskin Robbins. If it's in my freezer, put a fork in it.

Beegie 5-31-2008 @ 4:55PM

You should try Texas Blue Bell Ice Cream --YUMMMMM

skinnyminnie 5-31-2008 @ 4:55PM

IF I THOUGHT THAT I COULD GAIN 25 POUNDS EATING ICE CREAM, I'D HAVE IT FOR EVERY MEAL AND BETWEEN MEAL SNACKS!! IT ADDS NO WEIGHT TO ME!!! SO I BELIEVE THIS IDEA OF GAINING BY EATING ICE CREAM IS BALDERDASH!!!

Gary Olszewski 5-31-2008 @ 4:53PM

give it up!! Foods like ice cream, hot dogs, pizza, and others are not SUPPOSED to be healthy,as Madison Avenue and the food police would have us believe! They're supposed to make you FEEL GOOD!! regardless of their effect on your health! I once worked in a Walgreens store, as a checkout clerk, a man came to the counter with a number of items, including a container if ice cream labelled "fat-free" and "no sugar". I was almost ready to ring it up when he thought a moment and told me "Why am I getting this junk? Ice cream with no fat or sugear? I must be nuts! Wait a minute!" he went back to the freezer section and replaced it with the real stuff. True story.

enufs enuf 5-31-2008 @ 4:53PM

THERE IS NO BETTER ICE CREAM ON THE MARKET BETTER THAN TOASTED ALMOUND BY DREYERS ,BET YOU JUST CAN'T JUST EAT A SPOONFUL.

mtncatwoman 5-31-2008 @ 4:53PM

If you don't mind the calories, and have the time, you can't beat home made. Give me peach or strawberry homemade any day!

joan bezner 6-03-2008 @ 4:20AM

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