All-Bran & Ice Cream

So many times we find ourselves wanting something that is totally unhealthy for us and no matter what kind of excuses we come up with we seem to give in.  Yesterday was one of those days for me.  I love ice cream but not the normal chocolate, vanilla or strawberry flavors.  It has to have a little something else added for my taste.  I buy flavors such as black walnut, butter pecan, snickers, strawberry cheesecake and heath.  If it has nuts and/or caramel as an ingredient, it has to be good.  Well Saturday I spotted a flavor I hadn’t tried yet.  It’s Breyer’s Overload Fried Ice Cream.  This has a little caramel and a touch of honey and cinnamon.  Boy is it good! 

 

I decided to make myself a small bowl and started feeling guilty until I spotted a box of Kellogg’s All-Bran.  Kellogg’s sent me 3 boxes of their All-Bran cereal – flakes, buds, original, to try and see if I could utilize them as an ingredient in a dish other than breakfast cereal.  Well, I did it.  I came up with the perfect way to get your fiber through a healthy cereal and still indulge your sweet tooth.  A serving of their Original is a 1/2 cup and carries only 80 calories, 1 g Total Fat, 80 mg. sodium, 6 g sugar and 10 g fiber.  So here is what I did.  I sprinkled that 1/2 cup over my ice cream.  I hit the bull’s eye with this one.  The Original All-Bran doesn’t go soft so it gives you a little crunch in your ice cream, just as you would have if you were eating it from a sugar cone.  And that's exactly what it tasted like to me.. crumbled sugar cone in my ice cream.  Since this was so good I decided to give it a try with yogurt.  At lunch today I sprinkled my All-Bran Original over my strawberry yogurt.  It's just as good as being sprinkled over the ice cream. 

 

So, the next time you want to indulge in that bowl of ice cream, top it with All-Bran Original cereal and take away a little of the guilt or just sprinkle it over your yogurt and feel no guilt at all.