Ice Cream for Breakfast

Smoothies and juices – both of which I love – are all the rage right now. What’s next? I think it’s ice cream for breakfast! Get ahead of the trend and start making whole fruit “ice cream” now. I’ll show you how. Won’t your kids think you’re beyond the greatest for feeding them ice cream for breakfast!?! Little will they know how absolutely good it is for them…and you!

You’ll need a food processor for these recipes and a colorful imagination. The fruit combinations are endless!

First, peel and freeze very ripe bananas. I use zip loc bags. The more ripe the better because they will be sweeter and you don’t want to eat unripe (green) bananas because they are constipating. Learn how to identify ripe bananas HERE. Freezing bananas is a GREAT way to salvage bananas that may be a little too soft or brown for your liking to eat fresh out of the peel.

If you have a small capacity food processor, it helps to cut up the rip bananas into small pieces before freezing them. The smaller processors chops through bite-sized chunks more easily.

I use 6 frozen bananas to make the base for two servings of breakfast ice cream. Here are those 6 frozen bananas broken in half in the food processor.

Now chop them up into small pieces like this:

Add another frozen fruit if you’d like. My local store carries perfectly sized bags of frozen organic fruit: blueberries, strawberries, raspberries, peaches and mango. I usually add one bag.

Here is what the frozen bananas and blueberries look like all processed together. You don’t have to do the bananas and other fruit sequentially. I did it this way this time so you could see the difference in the photos. Usually I put the frozen banana halves and a bag of frozen fruit in together and turn on the machine.

Now here is where you empty the dishwasher, fold some clothes, answer some emails or make a phone call. Let the frozen processed fruit sit in the processor for 45+ minutes to thaw. (TIP: to speed up this process, fill the sink partway with super hot water. Set the food processor container in the hot water for 10 minutes or so.)

After this interlude, scrape the edges of the food processor and get all the fruit piled over the blades. Start processing again and slowly the fruit will begin to cream together. Here is how the bananas and blueberries look blended:

And here’s the banana blueberry “ice cream” dished out in two servings. The one in the red metal cup I eat immediately and the blue metal lidded box I put in the freezer for tomorrow’s breakfast. This way I need to only do this routine every other day.

It’s nutritious, delicious, cold, creamy and totally guilt-free! The best part is…bananas are SO inexpensive! My store often puts over-ripe bananas on the sale shelf which means I can pick up a bunch for less than $1. ONE dollar! These are the best kinds of bananas because they are already perfectly ripe for freezing.

I usually have bananas in various stages of ripening around the kitchen.

Once peeled and frozen, the peels go into our compost bin. MANY peels are in there!

If organically grown bananas are available, I buy them. They are not that much more expensive than conventionally grown bananas. If organic are not available, I do not hesitate one moment to purchase conventional. Since the fruit must be peeled, bananas are not considered one of the Dirty Dozen fruits to avoid.

Here are some ice cream flavor varieties. The combinations are endless! Here’s banana and raspberry. Then the same topped with sliced fresh organic strawberries.

Here is banana and mango and then banana and strawberry:

And lastly, I often pair my ice cream with hot green matcha tea. They go together so well nutritionally & colorfully and it keeps me from getting too cold!

Starting the day with fruit and tea is an excellent way to “break the fast,” hydrate and fuel your cells with clean, natural fruit sugar for a strong, productive morning. Your physical body gets optimally fueled while your spiritual body (your soul) keeps its connection to your higher power as fruit, living food, is energetically pure and carries with it no energetic imprint that can block or leak energy from you. To learn more about this way of eating, check out The Healers Diet.

Let me know which fruit ice cream combinations are your favorite! Remember, you don’t have to load up your ice cream (or smoothies or juices for that matter) with 10+ different ingredients. Keep your Food Life as simple as you’d like your whole life to be. One, two or three ingredients is nutritionally ample and perfectly delicious.

Here is a short video series to walk you through the steps of making frozen fruit ice cream:

1. Step One – Freeze Bananas

2. Step Two – Start Processing

3. Step Three – Finish Processing

Additional Resources:

1. Matcha Green Tea, Oh How I LOVE Thee!

2. How to Know if Your Banana Measures Up

4. 7 Reasons to Love a Monomeal

5. The Problem with Fruit

6. The Healers Diet: fuel your physical body & energize your soul with optimal nutrition, compassionate living & energy medicine