Healthy Snacks: Frozen Treats

By: Vanessa Greaves

Cool off the kids from the inside out with delicious low-fat frozen treats.

Sorbet Q and A

Sorbet or sherbet: what's the difference? Sorbets are traditionally made with fruit and contain no dairy, while sherbets often combine dairy with fruit.
Can I make sorbet without an ice cream maker? Yes--although the end result won't be as smooth. Pour the mixed ingredients into a baking pan (metal is recommended) and freeze until ice crystals start forming, about 1 hour. Stir with a whisk or a fork and return to the freezer. Stir again every 30 minutes for about 4 hours total. The more times you stir, the more air will be whipped in, and the fluffier the end product.
How can I scoop sorbet if it's frozen solid? Let it defrost slightly and try scooping again.

It's Cool to be Healthy

Although ice cream is a classic cooler, it comes loaded with fat and sugar. If you want to offer your family lighter and healthier alternatives, we have a freezer full of cool ideas for refreshing homemade sorbets, low-fat frozen yogurt, and good old-fashioned ice pops.

Another use for your ice cream maker

No ice cream maker? No problem!

Frozen yogurt

Hop on Pops

More chilly treats

Comments

Add a comment

Pantea

Jul. 1, 2009 8:31 pm

one of the greatest treats that is not only healthy but great for you and your family is plain fruit in its self! we forget that fruit is naturally sweet and is a great treat. you could mix it together or freez it even..with out anything else. your taste buds are used to eating sugar and adding sugar or some thing else...try it for a while, you will not only get use to it, as we are creature of habit, but you will love it and would'nt like all those treats made with so much sugar and all else that your body does not like! so go ahead and enjoy the wonderful fruits that summer has to offer by nature...if you like you could add some natural yogurt to it perhaps...or even blend it together.

Linda54494

Jul. 2, 2009 9:18 am

I like making ice creams and sorbets and pops and frozen fruit treats this will be great nutrition snzacks for the grand kids when old enough to eat them

StarTreker

Sep. 6, 2009 6:13 pm

We have tryed some of the recipies for the ice pops and they are great. My daughter also tryed some she found made with kool ade and jello. The unsweetened koolage and the lite jello is great. Also for a summer treat my grandson loves froZen grapes. We freeze them in single serving containers and when he wants a treat we just give him the container. Its great and no muss..

Add a comment