Try It Tuesday

Once again I am writing about food for “Try It Tuesday”. See? I told you I love to eat. Anyone mentions “new product” and I immediately think of food. So, here we go again…..

This week’s food product is in the dessert family. I do love my sweets and, as my hips can attest, cakes, cookies, pies, candy, ice cream, etc. etc. are all very high on my list of favorites. I’m perfectly willing to eat “healthy” sweets but the reality is, generally speaking, no matter how much I try to tell myself otherwise, they just don’t taste as good. I love fruit, but not as much as chocolate cake. I adore sweet, creamy, low fat yogurts, but not as much as ice cream – REAL ice cream. I think Skinny Cow ice cream sandwiches are great, but not as great as a Haagen Daz bar…..You get the idea. I truly love sweets and the low fat, low calorie substitutes rarely satisfy me for long.

So, the other day I was shopping at Costco (I do LOVE that store) and I was wandering around in the frozen food section when I noticed this box:

I took it out of the frozen food case, eyeballed the calories and decided I would give it a try. I’m always TRYING to be good. It’s just so damn hard!

I truly do have a love affair with ice cream going on. Any type, any variety, any flavor and I’m there. I love it especially in the blazing heat of summer, and, since the average daily temperature where I live is 100°+ on a daily basis throughout the summer, there is lots of ice cream consumption going on around here. I not only love the sweet and creamy chocolates and vanillas and strawberries by the ½ gallon, I also like sherberts and sorbets, bars and cones, sandwiches and patties, and pretty much anything that qualifies as cold and sweet.

So when I picked up this box of sorbets I was intrigued on a couple of levels. First of all it’s in the ice cream family which means it’s cold and sweet; second it is quite low in calories; and then, to top off my interest, it has a “gimmick” in that the servings are presented to you in the shells of the fruit they represent. Coconut shell, pineapple husk, orange rind, mango skin, etc. So I bought it and brought it home.

My family was less than enthused ‘cause unless the ice cream carton says “caramel praline delight” or “oreo cookies and cream” or the like, they are not interested. However, I was very interested and proceeded to immediately open the box and try my first sorbet.

The first one came out of the box looking like this:


I was all ready to like it just because it’s so cute, but surprise! I liked it because it tasted so good! Rich and smooth and creamy with a great pineapple taste.

As I write this, I’m sitting here with a coconut shell in front of me and it’s filled with yet another smooth and creamy ice cream treat. This time it’s a wonderful coconut flavor that I am enjoying.

These treats are really tasty, very different, low in calories and fun to eat. Give them a try!!