I have a banana ice cream recipe that uses coconut milk and no sugar...  Besides the fact that ice cream is not paleo anyway, all my ingredients are.  I created it after playing around with a few ice cream recipes and paleo substitutes.  It works best as a soft serve ice cream in the ice ream maker and eaten straight away, otherwise it gets too icy.:


Coconut-Banana Ice
cream
 
Ingredients
2 Egg yolks
2 Bananas
270mL Coconut Milk
 
Method
Blend all ingredients in a blender.  Transfer to pot and heat until custard-like
consistency.  Cool in refrigerator and
then follow instructions on ice cream maker.  (alternatively transfer to an ice cream container and freeze, stirring
contents regularly until frozen).



----- Original Message ----
From: Ro <[log in to unmask]>
To: [log in to unmask]
Sent: Thursday, August 21, 2008 3:35:46 AM
Subject: Re: strict adherence vs occasional non-paleo?

You have a recipe for the coconut milk ice cream?
best,
Ro

On Wed, Aug 20, 2008 at 11:47 AM, Ashley Moran <[log in to unmask]> wrote:

> On Aug 20, 2008, at 2:16 pm, Charlotte Williams wrote:
>
> > I'm debating whether I should aim to eat paleo 100% of the time or
> > allow
> > occasional non-paleo eating (such as a non-paleo meal every few days
> > as in
> > Cordain's book or a few bites of the family pizza or ice cream each
> > day).
> > I'm wondering what arguments are for and against strict adherence,
> > and what
> > other people's opinions are?
>
> I think I feel pretty much the same way as the other people that
> replied.  Here's where I stand:
>
> If you react severely to something, or get strong addictive urges on
> eating a small amount of something, you should *really* avoid it.
> It's tearing your body up, and the opiate-release "comfort food"
> effect doesn't change how bad it is for you.  Milk nearly destroyed my
> health, and I have made every effort to eliminate every trace of it
> from my diet (and despite finding it very addictive, I've managed that
> for 4 1/2 years now.)
>
> For foods you don't react noticeably to, I suggest allowing them only
> as trace elements in your food, and only occasionally.  For example, I
> don't react noticeably to wheat, sugar or potatoes.  So I do not
> fanatically avoid (that's not to say I don't avoid them, just that I
> wouldn't spill blood if I found someone sneaked some into my food):
> sauces thickened with wheat flour, foods sweetened with *small*
> amounts of sugar, and soups that contain potato (even though I avoid
> eating the potato itself).  On the other hand, I suggest strongly NOT
> eating things that are made primarily from these things, eg bread,
> cakes, sweets, chips, crisps.  The whole nature of these foods is
> wrong.  It's one thing binging on a paleo stir fry thickened with
> wheat, it's a whole other thing to stuff yourself with bread or cakes.
>
> I like to ask myself, "if the average person today replaced something
> in their diet with thing X in front of me, would they be healthier or
> sicker?".  Here are a few of my opinions (not based entirely on what I
> eat):
>
> Healthier                             Sicker
> Soup thickened with potato flour      Plate of mashed potato
> 85-100% cocoa organic chocolate       40% cocoa milk chocolate
> Coconut milk icecream w. some sugar   Mass produced dairy ice cream
> Stir fry flavoured with black beans   Tofuburger with tofu sausages
> Chicken salad with croutons           Chicken sandwich
> Steak fried in butter                 Steak in cheese sauce
>
> > I'm thinking that occasional non-paleo would be a more sustainable
> > diet
> > (feels less restrictive), however the longer I eat paleo, the fewer
> > cravings
> > I get.  Any thoughts?
>
> You got this half right :)  You're right in that the longer you eat
> paleo, the fewer cravings you get.  But that means that stricter paleo
> is *more* sustainable, not less.  My suggestion is to be as strict as
> you can, and if you do cheat, follow the sanity check above.
>
> It took me three or four years, but my taste has completely adapted to
> paleo now.  I have absolutely no desire to eat non-paleo foods, and
> only do so when an otherwise paleo meal (usually in a restaurant or
> takeaway, occasionally from a supermarket) is contaminated with
> neolithic foods.
>
> Ashley
>