Approaching Two Months and Sugar Free Icecream Recipe

I don't think I can think of a single person in my aquaintance who really, genuinely dislikes ice cream! Of course, since most ice cream contains things like sugar and processed milk, the stuff no longer enters this house. And yet I miss it, especially in Summer, and I'd like to be able to allow my kid(s) to partake someday.

This is a recipe for icecream that I won't mind offering my children in years to come, though very occasionally.

200ml raw milk
200ml organic cream
125g 100% organic maple syrup
yolks of 4 organic eggs

I used a stick blender to combine the yolks and maple syrup, then added this mixture to the milk and cream and blended some more, then poured it into the icecream maker to finish up.

The result was very light and fluffy. This time I added half a cup of sultanas I'd soaked in rum overnight, and a couple of teaspoons of cinnamon. My Man said he'd have preferred it without the sultanas, so I guess that was a miss!! However the container was empty within two days, so it can't have been all bad!

Next time I'll try using honey instead of maple syrup, and add more spices to get a sort of middle eastern flavour. Yum! Really looking forward to it! But I'll have to wait a while because maple syrup and honey aren't every day foods.

Meanwhile, it's almost two months since I quit sugar and I'm still losing weight, very slowly, and still feeling great. Increasingly I make it through the day to dinner time in one piece, and I'm even getting organised about things like our dinner, while previously it was all I could do to keep Antonio adequately fed! All up I'm really happy with how I feel. I don't crave sugar. I miss certain foods like cake and ice cream but I don't find them hard to turn down. In fact I even managed to avoid my favourite dessert of all time at a recent family birthday party; St Honore cake from Corica...oh my god that's good stuff. But I was unmovable. So proud!

In her fabulous ebook 'I Quit Sugar', Sarah Wilson describes how some folk meet the concept of quitting sugar with scorn or aggression. This hasn't happened for me as yet, everyone has been really supportive. I'm most grateful for this, because it's difficult enough at first without having to defend oneself.

It actually feels like this time I might just succeed in ridding my life of refined sugar for good.