Cold Stone Creamery is an ice cream store specializing in making your own ice cream creations. You pick the ice cream and they fold your choice of add-ins into the ice cream with two spades on a frozen granite stone. There are over 11 million possible combinations. You can make healthy choices at Cold Stone Creamery.
Instructions
1. Start out with Cold Stone Creamery's light ice cream. They have four flavors: chocolate, coffee, vanilla, and cake batter. The first three have 220 calories, 6g of fat and 35g of carbs for the small size (Like It size); 350 calories, 9g of fat and 56g of carbs for the medium size (Love It size); 530 calories, 14g of fat and 84g of carbs for the large size (Gotta Have It size); and the cake batter has about 20-30 calories more per serving. Stick with the small size to eat healthy.
2. Choose fruit for your add-in (not pie fillings which have more calories). Most of the fruit toppings range from 0 calories (strawberries) to 35 calories (raspberries). Cold Stone Creamery also has bananas, blueberries, blackberries, pineapple, and cherries. The fruit with the most calories are the bananas which have 60 calories and black cherries, which have 80 calories.
3. Skip the cone to save yourself 160 calories, 4g of fat and 29g of carbs in the waffle cone and 310 calories, 15g of fat and 46g of carbs in the dipped cone. Have your ice cream in a bowl instead.
4. Choose to have sorbet to eat the healthiest at Cold Stone Creamery. They have four flavors of sorbet: Green Apple Gummy Bear, Lemon Sorbet, Raspberry Sorbet and Watermelon Sorbet. The Like It size has 160 calories, the Love It size has 250 and the Gotta Have It size has 380 calories. All of the sorbet is fat free.
5. Enjoy a smoothie at Cold Stone Creamery instead of a shake. Their smoothies are made with either sorbet, yogurt or soy. The healthiest smoothie is the soy Berry Trinity, which has 270 calories, 3g of fat and 57g of carbs for the Like It Size and 460 calories, 3g of fat and 108g of carbs for the Love It size. The smoothie with the most calories is the fat-free Dew Iced Smoothie at 570 calories for the Like It size and 950 calories for the Love It size.
6. Order the Cake Batter Confetti cake if you need a cake for a special occasion. This cake has the least calories and fat at 350 calories, 17g of fat and 46g of carbs per slice. The Coffeehouse Crunch has the most with 530 calories, 31g of fat and 59g of carbs.
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