The Good Report Take 5

So today I'm not really in the mood to write a good report but I suppose the days that you don't want to be thankful are the ones that we really should try. Here goes!

• Ben got an unexpected day off today so it looks like we get to spend the day together! 
• The bassinet is set up and ready for a little baby, I can't believe that something is actually done!
• The weather is absolutely perfect today, 18 degrees and sunny with a nice breeze.
• My cousin found sugar free popsicles for me and they taste amazing! I've been indulging like crazy!
• It's almost JULY!
• The horrible humidity we had earlier on in the week seems to be gone, thank God! 
• Now that the humidity has subsided so has my swelling.
• I only have 9 more shifts of work left, I couldn't be more excited to be done.
• We have been down a vehicle for the past few days but my mom has been such a help with giving me rides.
• Still loving all the movement I get to feel throughout the day, what a treat.
• Starting to feel prepared now that we are full swing into our birth classes and we have appointments more often with either the midwife or our doula.
• So thankful for every good night sleep that I get! 

That's all I can muster for the day but it sure does help to focus on the good. I'm off to enjoy this beautiful day! 

Banana 'Ice Cream'

I've always somewhat scoffed at women who complain about pregnancy cravings. I always assumed these women just used pregnancy as an excuse to indulge in their every whim. Well, I can say that I've been humbled in the last two weeks. I feel like ever since I found out about my issues with blood sugar ALL I've wanted needed is ice cream! The problem is that ice cream is NOT the best thing to indulge in when you're trying to cut sugars out of your diet. I did get some 'diet' (low fat/low sugar) ice cream which I have allowed myself to have once, but I'm still hesitant to have it as many times as I 'need' i.e. every day. 

Getting to my point....I found a 'recipe' on pinterest the other day for 'ice cream' made entirely out of banana's! I say 'recipe' because it's not much of a recipe, it's just frozen banana in a food processor with organic peanut butter and cocoa powder. I thought it was worth a shot so today I made up a batch and IT'S GOOD! I'm so happy that I've discovered an alternative to dairy ice cream that is still palatable. And since the only ingredients are banana's, peanut butter and cocoa, it's diary free, sugar free, and a good source of protein! WIN...WIN...WIN!

Let me share with you my process....

I started with 8 banana's that I already had in the freezer. I found since the banana's had already been pretty over ripe when I put them in the freezer that the banana flavour in the 'ice cream' was very strong. You can cut up ripe banana's,put them in the freezer for an hour let them freeze and use them that way. This will also minimize the banana-ee flavour.

I would recommend cutting the banana's before they are frozen. Peeling those banana's and cutting them while they were frozen was a little difficult.





I used a Vitamix (heavy duty blender) to mix up my banana's but I hear a food processor should work just fine. It did not take long at all for the banana's to become that frozen ice creamy texture. I then added my peanut butter and cocoa.

I used chunky peanut butter which accounts for the crunchy texture of ice cream. Another thing to keep in mind is that the longer you leave it in the freezer the more the texture becomes like ice cream.

I'm not going to say that this is as good as regular ice cream by any means, but when you've got the pregnancy cravings working overtime, and you're trying your darndest to eat well this does hit the spot.

If anyone tries this please let me know how you like it and any ways to improve it!