Clean Ice Cream with Protein

So I keep seeing these "pins" in pinterest for banana ice cream. I looked at a few and thought I would try it myself. A lot of them added peanut butter. I love me some PB and it contains healthy fats, but too much healthy fats just become fats and who wants that? I took out the PB and added my vanilla soy protein powder instead, which is high in protein and low in sugar (1 gram of carbs). Here was the result:

Clean Ice Cream with Protein:

 

3 bananas sliced

1 scoop of protein powder

1 tbsp cocoa powder

I sliced the bananas two days ago and put them in the freezer. This afternoon, I piled all of them into my food processor. For the first little bit it looks sort of crunchy, but then it smooths out and it tastes like soft serve ice cream. I could probably just eat it like that! I added one scoop of vanilla protein powder and a tbsp of cocoa....the amount of bananas I used made a TON, so I probably could have added two scoops of protein. The awesome thing is I HAVE SOME FOR LATER!! Yummy!

Protein Powder Fun Fact:

When choosing a protein powder, most people tend to think any protein powder will do. This is not true. There are a lot of naughty companies out there that create protein powders that are FULL of protein, but to make them tasty them fill them with sugar. Point of all this? Read the labels!! Ingredients are always listed by weight on a nutrition label. Look to make sure that sugar hasn't found it's way in to your powder. Also, look at the carb and sugar content. Both of the powders that I use contain 1 gram of carbs per scoop. Your body burns carbohydrates for fuel and if you are taking in more then your are burning, the carbs go to your fat stores (aka straight to your ass). So, if you are pairing you carb loaded protein powder with another clean carb then you are getting way too many carbohydrates. It is all about servings and it is important to make sure you stay as far away from the "white poison" (sugar) as you can and have a balanced diet that includes equal amounts of both proteins and carbohydrates.