Halo Top ice cream - safe during pregnancy?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Why not just have Turkey Hill all natural ice cream? here's the ingredient list from the Mint chocolate chip
Cream, milk, sugar, chocolate chips, peppermint

B/C Turkey Hill's has 3x as many calories!

I'm guess I'm curious from a nutritional standpoint if its better to eat something "real" vs. artificial

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Why not just have Turkey Hill all natural ice cream? here's the ingredient list from the Mint chocolate chip
Cream, milk, sugar, chocolate chips, peppermint

B/C Turkey Hill's has 3x as many calories!

I'm guess I'm curious from a nutritional standpoint if its better to eat something "real" vs. artificial

Ask the booming margarine industry where the jury fell on that question.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Why not just have Turkey Hill all natural ice cream? here's the ingredient list from the Mint chocolate chip
Cream, milk, sugar, chocolate chips, peppermint

B/C Turkey Hill's has 3x as many calories!

I'm guess I'm curious from a nutritional standpoint if its better to eat something "real" vs. artificial

Any kind of refined sugar is artificial, extracting milk from a cow in any way other than a nursing calf is artificial, being able to freeze foods any time other than winter is artificial. We aren't talking real vs. artificial, we're talking traditional artificial versus modern artificial which does not impact the healthiness (or lack thereof) of a food.

[Anonymous]

Halo Top is not good. I was so excited to try it but it definitely tastes low calorie. I just eat regular ice cream, on an almost daily basis. If a pregnant woman can't enjoy some good old-fashioned ice cream, then the world is nuts LOL

[Anonymous]

Why not eat the real stuff in moderation like a normal person?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Why not eat the real stuff in moderation like a normal person?

Oh, kick rocks.

[Anonymous]

I went to law school with the president of Halo Top. I can vouch for the fact that I saw him in the gym all the time. They sell it at whole foods in Tenleytown.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Just have a scoop of real ice cream. Moderation is your friend.

can you stay on topic?

What, and turn down a golden opportunity to shame a pregnant woman for what she's eating? How could PP possibly pass that up?

It has nothing to do with her being pregnant. I'd everyone to avoid the diet stuff and eat the real thing. That is not shaming.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:There's no evidence whey protein is unsafe in pregnant women, it just hasn't been specifically studied to confirm its safety (just like pretty much everything else). My midwife told me to go ahead and have protein shakes if I wasn't feeling up for eating meat. I wouldn't think twice about eating something just because it might contain some amounts of whey protein.

On that same note I am pregnant with a boy and my husband is concerned about me having soy protein. Anyone been told it's not a good idea? I struggle to get enough protein in and like the Bolthouse protein shakes but they have soy in them so I have been avoiding them.

i drank soy milk every day when pregnant with my son. he is fine. organic soy is better than GMO.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Where is Halo Top sold? I keep seeing it advertised, too.

Whole foods.

I really like it. The trick is to let it soften a bit longer than regular ice cream before consuming.

Had never heard anything bad about whey protein and pregnancy. If that's true this baby is screwed.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Just have a scoop of real ice cream. Moderation is your friend.

can you stay on topic?

What, and turn down a golden opportunity to shame a pregnant woman for what she's eating? How could PP possibly pass that up?

It has nothing to do with her being pregnant. I'd everyone to avoid the diet stuff and eat the real thing. That is not shaming.

+1

It's not shaming to state one's opinion that it's better to eat a reasonable amount of the "real" food than a substitute engineered to resemble that real food. I'd rather have a scoop of real ice cream than a pint of something trying to be ice cream without the fat and calories. Does no one remember Snackwells?

[Anonymous]

Honestly that sounds pretty gross. But I do seem to be the only pregnant woman that isn't craving ice cream.

[Anonymous]

$6.99 for a pint of ice cream? That is just plain crazy.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Just have a scoop of real ice cream. Moderation is your friend.

can you stay on topic?

What, and turn down a golden opportunity to shame a pregnant woman for what she's eating? How could PP possibly pass that up?

It has nothing to do with her being pregnant. I'd everyone to avoid the diet stuff and eat the real thing. That is not shaming.

+1

It's not shaming to state one's opinion that it's better to eat a reasonable amount of the "real" food than a substitute engineered to resemble that real food. I'd rather have a scoop of real ice cream than a pint of something trying to be ice cream without the fat and calories. Does no one remember Snackwells?

did you read the ingredients? it's really nothing scary. so much fear-mongering over nothing.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Just have a scoop of real ice cream. Moderation is your friend.

can you stay on topic?

What, and turn down a golden opportunity to shame a pregnant woman for what she's eating? How could PP possibly pass that up?

It has nothing to do with her being pregnant. I'd everyone to avoid the diet stuff and eat the real thing. That is not shaming.

+1

It's not shaming to state one's opinion that it's better to eat a reasonable amount of the "real" food than a substitute engineered to resemble that real food. I'd rather have a scoop of real ice cream than a pint of something trying to be ice cream without the fat and calories. Does no one remember Snackwells?

did you read the ingredients? it's really nothing scary. so much fear-mongering over nothing.

NP, but I don't think PP is fear mongering. That recipe list looks like it makes something ice cream-ish, purely for the sake of marketing to "health" at twice the price, when there is nothing healthy about it. Pregnant or not, you really would be better served having a proper serving of good quality ice cream vs. This concoction.