Road Trip!!!

It is a common practice among US citizens to eat at fast food restaurants when on a road trip. It's fun, a chance to get out of the car, and pretty cheap (depending on your group size). But for PKU kids it can get pretty tiring to eat at fast food places (even if you don't repeat a single restaurant). Because in Fast Food places our typical choices are salad or fries. It's that way at McDonald's, Wendy's, Arby's, Artic Circle, Burger King, and other places like that. Some restaurants don't even HAVE good salads!!! So it's really refreshing to find something else we can have on the menu. With the Health Movement that's sweeping across the U.S. it's actually getting easier for us in some ways. Fruit is more common on the menu, which is a HUGE plus for me!!!! Usually at home I don't eat salads because I eat them so often on the road.

So fast food... it's fun right? Sure. But you want to know what's better? PICNICS!!!! I have a lot of fun on picnics! Especially when there's a playground nearby! If you want to stretch out your legs from sitting in the car, a nice playground will do the trick. Or a field with a ball if your too grown up for a playground. Exercise after eating is nice. Maybe they really do have a point in Elementary schools by having recess after lunch! Road trips are fun. Picnics are great. Too much fast food= repetition for PKU'ers. Do you get it??? :) I sure hope you do if not try reading it all over again but slower that usually does the trick for me.

Restaurant Review #2

Last night I had the opportunity to go to this Frozen Yogurt place with my family. It's called Yogurt Bliss and has this really unique atmosphere I really enjoy. Items on the menu? Frozen Yogurt, soda, water, SORBET, and waffles. Yes waffles, which in my opinion is a tad bit odd but cool at the same time. It's a self serving restaurant where you can grab a cup and find an ice cream flavor that you want. It's in a machine where you pull the lever and it comes spiraling out. They only have one sorbet at a time but what they have it extremely delicious. Then you head to the toppings cart. It's full of candy, hot fudge, fruit, Carmel, chocolate. They actually decide the price based on it's weight. (They weigh it on a scale). Which it a fantastic unique way of doing it because you can get the amount you want for a fair price. I had strawberry-kiwi sorbet with white chocolate chips, fresh strawberries, and kiwi on it. It was fantastic!!! I wished I could back and get some more to be honest. :)

Now on to the atmosphere... the walls were painted each of different color (green, purple pink, and white), the ceiling was purple, and the floor was white with squares of all the colors used. There were white tables with chairs all around so you could enjoy your treat there. AND there was a white couch. How many restaurants have you been to that has a couch. It was all very hip, and casual. The radio was playing on a good station with several songs I enjoy, but it wasn't too loud so we could talk. People came in and out constantly but it wasn't crowded.

When it comes to PKU friendliness though... I'm not going to lie. Out of all the flavors there PKU kids could have 1. Which is going to make me have to rate it 4 on the PKU Friendly Scale. The reason it gets a 4 is because the flavor changes constantly, and is very unique. But it really is a neat place that I enjoy. For anyone who isn't a PKU'er but health cautious it doesn't have ice cream it has frozen yogurt which is a healthier choice.

Have a great summer!

My favorite dessert in the world!!!!

Ice Cream. My favorite dessert in the world. (I also really like smoothies.) Sometimes I think I could live on it. I almost hear people, who have read my blog since I started, mumble in confusion. "Isn't ice cream dairy?" "Wasn't dairy one of the things she said she was allergic to?" *Checks 1st post* "So she's cheating on her diet??" "What?!" Don't worry I'm perfectly healthy and have not been cheating. It's true dairy is on the no-no list. I can't have average American cow-made ice cream but there are a lot of other types of ice cream I can have.
There's Rice Dream Ice Cream which is made with rice milk as opposed to cow milk. It's healthier for us but definitely not the healthiest. There's sherbet which has a little bit of cows milk but less than regular ice cream. Homemade ice cream is probably the creamiest while having no milk. You just make it using water and a powder (if you want the name just comment below and I'll find it and post it). Thanks to America's healthier food obsession there's Coconut ice cream too now.
Just so you know: A coconut is NOT a nut! (I get that comment a lot) It is either a legume, because it can be turned into oil, or a fruit. There seems to be a lot of debate about it, and I can't find a positive resource to confirm which one it is.
Anyway, coconut ice cream is one of the healthiest choices. But sorbet beats them all. Though it's not the creamiest sorbet is entirely fruit made.
My favorite??? I don't know I just like ice cream a lot. I would say whatever I'm eating at the current moment. But as I am not eating ice cream at this moment (merely dreaming of it) I cannot tell. But I do dare you to try one of these (PKU or not) just for fun. See what you think! Maybe you'll find a new favorite type of ice cream! If you do tell me all about it I want to hear!

*I'm not sure if these products are available outside of the USA. You can try to find them. I want to know if you found it and where!*