Review: Enlightened Mint Fudge Swirl Ice Cream Bar

I have found a semi-good-for-you ice cream that tastes good. These were given to me by a friend at work after she found out about my Keto diet. In doing my homework on the company, Enlightened (also on Facebook here), I was over the moon happy about these little treats. They're low in calories, they have fiber, they have protein, they're low in far, low in sugar, and they have calcium! Unfortunately, according to their store locator there isn't a store within 50 miles of my house that carries their products.

They come 4 to a box and all the details are on the front, which is nice. Unlike other companies who only show 'sugar free' or 'low in carbs' I still have to pull the box out of the freezer to read the nutritional label.

They're still pretty high in carbs, but the net carbs are only 11. I had a good day and didn't eat a lot of carbs, so I decided to treat myself to one of these today.

The bars themselves are a little smaller than a normal ice cream bar. The fudge swirls are pretty evenly dispersed throughout and the whole thing actually tastes good! It is very minty and leaves a nice minty after taste that's not unpleasant. It's actually kind of pretty for an ice cream bar, but does not look like what's on the box.

I really like these. According to Enlightened's website they're sold at Whole Foods and Publix, so I'm hoping that sometime before summer one of the stores around me will start carrying this brand because I really need to keep these in my life.

I have 2 other flavors that I'm going to review so check back soon so see them!

(Keto) Mug Cake w/ Ice Cream!

So I saw a mug-cake being passed around and I decided to give her a shot, while also finding a way to add a little ice cream. I didn't invent this recipe; but I sure as hell loved it!

Ingredients:

• Cooking spray
• 1 egg
• 2 tbsp cocoa powder
• 2 tablespoons Splenda
• Pinch salt
• 1 tbsp heavy cream/almond milk
• 1/2 tsp vanilla extract
• 1/4 tsp baking powder

In 2 separate bowls I did an egg and beat it. Then i put all the other ingredients in the other bowl and mixed.

Then I threw them all together in a bowl. 

Lesson learned: Maybe needed more splenda; could have been a tad sweeter.

Spray the mug with cooking spray (or rub butter in it) then place mixture into a mug, and then I microwaved for 1 minute 20 seconds; I wonder if it would have been more moist had I done it for slightly less and will experiment next time.

I found this pretty keto-friendly ice cream, and did half a serving of it!

And boom, I used the ice cream in conjunction with the cake to kind of moisten it up a little bit.

This entire dessert was 5 net carbs as per MyFitness pal, which doesn't add any carbs for Splenda for some reason, which probably was another 2 net carbs, for my guess of 7 net carbs. Not bad if you had a good day of not getting close to 20!

I do recommend trying it a few times and tweaking the sweetness and such; as mine could have used more sweetner even with the 2 tbls of Splenda!

Enjoy and tell me what ya think

-Freeze