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Some of my all time favorite things in the whole world are popsicles and slushy drinks. I seriously LOVE them!! When I was in high school my Calc teacher had popsicles in our class room and he nick named me the popsicle queen (because I was always eating them). I still love them, but I don’t love all the sugar and calories that come with them. I don’t want to eat that much sugar and I don’t want to feed my kids that much. So I came up with a few low calorie summer treats that you still have lots of flavor but not as many calories #FlavorForLess. It’s nice that we still can enjoy the popsicles and slushy drinks and still be healthier.
As a parent sometimes I forget how much sugar are in sugary drinks and just let my kids drink them. I love that now there are options that are still super yummy but barely any calories. I got several of the 2 liter bottles of pop that only had ten calories. I made a root beer float popsicle with A&W TEN and light ice cream.
I mixed up the ice cream and root beer. I did 2:1 ratio, root beer to ice cream. I used two cups of root beer and 1 cup of ice cream.
I then put the mixture into popsicle forms and put it into the freezer. After 30 minutes I put the sticks into it, so they would stand up.
I let them freeze for a couple hours and then ran the forms under hot water and pulled them out.
I then let my kids enjoy them! It was a fun treat and only 50 calories!
Using the Sunkist TEN, I did the exact same thing and made orange creamsicles.
The last treat that I made was my favorite because I love slush drinks and it only has 10 calories, woot woot!
I just added 3 cups of the 7-Up TEN and 1 packet of Crystal Light to the blender. I then put in half of the blender of ice.
I got all of the 2 liters of the pop at Safeway and it was only $.79, score! From 5-12 through 5-19 there is a digital coupon on the Just for U site and you can get a free 2 liter of any of their flavors (while supplies last) and then you can try out any of these yummy recipes.
Emily Thompson
oh that crystal light and 7up looks amazing!! Yummy! What a fun post! EMily
Stacy Harper
I just bought popsicle freezer thingies (highly technical term there!) this weekend. Great timing on this post for me!
Stacy
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Lisa Jorgensen
This is great. I've pinned this! I would love you to share this at our Saturday Dishes link party. It's all about kid-friendly drinks! http://www.pebblesandpiggytails.com/2014/06/saturday-dishes-mocktails-and-kid.html