How often do you go out for ice cream

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Anonymous wrote:Mcdonalds ice cream sundae with Carmel or got fudge = $1

I don't think that counts as ice cream.

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Anonymous wrote:When we're at the shore, at least once a day, occasionally twice -- seriously, they have the best ice cream place where we go. It is insane.

Back in the real world, it's more like once a month, maybe twice? Nothing's as good as our vacation place, so it's kind of a let down for the grownups (admittedly, our kids wouldn't care and would probably love ice cream daily!).

Where? Where??

This: http://www.springersicecream.com/

7-year-old son told me earlier this week that, once we get there, he's going to get butterscotch brickle for his first scoop of the trip. (We're not even going until WEEKS from now.)

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:Are you guys serious? 5 times a week? Apparently I am a loser and no fun. We go about 3 times every summer. Maybe.

I'm sad for your kids.

Seriously? Not pp, but the kids allowed to shovel ice cream in their mouths on a nearly daily basis are the ones to feel sorry for. American gluttony is disgusting. And I'm American.

Please. My family is not American and we eat dessert regularly. Ice cream in the summer almost daily. However, we will walk or ride our bikes a mile into town to get dessert and ride home.

It's not the dessert that's the problem, although your food has crappy ingredients, it's the fact that Americans drive everywhere.

[Anonymous]

We have ice cream in the freezer. We have cones in the pantry. We also have fudgesicles and Edy's popsicles in the freezer. Works for us.

When we're on vacation in the Finger Lakes in upstate NY we go more... like every other night. A small twist (which is huge, BTW) costs $2.50.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Wow...I never really thought about it until this thread, but we rarely go out for ice cream. I will buy ice cream bars or a half gallon for the kids and dh. I don't eat it very often, and when I do I usually make my own vegan ice cream. We might have to go out tonight as a special surprise.

We don't keep dessert in the house (which maybe why we go out for ice cream once a week). So we don't eat that junk at home.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:Mcdonalds ice cream sundae with Carmel or got fudge = $1

I don't think that counts as ice cream.

It's not even made with milk. I wouldn't allow that crap into my body.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:We have ice cream in the freezer. We have cones in the pantry. We also have fudgesicles and Edy's popsicles in the freezer. Works for us.

When we're on vacation in the Finger Lakes in upstate NY we go more... like every other night. A small twist (which is huge, BTW) costs $2.50.

Wow, that's a lot of dessert in your freezer. Are you the family of 4 kids?

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Are you guys serious? 5 times a week? Apparently I am a loser and no fun. We go about 3 times every summer. Maybe.

I'm sad for your kids.

Seriously? Not pp, but the kids allowed to shovel ice cream in their mouths on a nearly daily basis are the ones to feel sorry for. American gluttony is disgusting. And I'm American.

Please. My family is not American and we eat dessert regularly. Ice cream in the summer almost daily. However, we will walk or ride our bikes a mile into town to get dessert and ride home.

It's not the dessert that's the problem, although your food has crappy ingredients, it's the fact that Americans drive everywhere.

Excess calories are a huge problem in the US. Pun not intended, but I'll keep it.

[Anonymous]

While we are talking about it, Rocky Point Creamery in Point of Rocks MD is awesome! We go there on Sunday afternoons sometimes. It's a nice drive and the kids can play and visit the baby calf. The ice cream is good too.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:While we are talking about it, Rocky Point Creamery in Point of Rocks MD is awesome! We go there on Sunday afternoons sometimes. It's a nice drive and the kids can play and visit the baby calf. The ice cream is good too.

I drove through Point of Rocks last weekend after dropping my kid off at camp. I am incredibly sad I didn't know about Rocky Point Creamery.

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Anonymous wrote:While we are talking about it, Rocky Point Creamery in Point of Rocks MD is awesome! We go there on Sunday afternoons sometimes. It's a nice drive and the kids can play and visit the baby calf. The ice cream is good too.

I drove through Point of Rocks last weekend after dropping my kid off at camp. I am incredibly sad I didn't know about Rocky Point Creamery.

Go when you pick him up! It's about three miles down from the blue bridge.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Are you guys serious? 5 times a week? Apparently I am a loser and no fun. We go about 3 times every summer. Maybe.

I'm sad for your kids.

Seriously? Not pp, but the kids allowed to shovel ice cream in their mouths on a nearly daily basis are the ones to feel sorry for. American gluttony is disgusting. And I'm American.

Please. My family is not American and we eat dessert regularly. Ice cream in the summer almost daily. However, we will walk or ride our bikes a mile into town to get dessert and ride home.

It's not the dessert that's the problem, although your food has crappy ingredients, it's the fact that Americans drive everywhere.

This is a myth. You cannot out-exercise a bad diet. You certainly can't out-walk it.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Are you guys serious? 5 times a week? Apparently I am a loser and no fun. We go about 3 times every summer. Maybe.

I'm sad for your kids.

Seriously? Not pp, but the kids allowed to shovel ice cream in their mouths on a nearly daily basis are the ones to feel sorry for. American gluttony is disgusting. And I'm American.

Please. My family is not American and we eat dessert regularly. Ice cream in the summer almost daily. However, we will walk or ride our bikes a mile into town to get dessert and ride home.

It's not the dessert that's the problem, although your food has crappy ingredients, it's the fact that Americans drive everywhere.

This is a myth. You cannot out-exercise a bad diet. You certainly can't out-walk it.

Exactly. I'm a PP (that goes out for ice cream 3 or 4 times a year, with the 4 kids...)
I run at least 30 miles per week. Right now I'm training for a marathon so it's increased to 40-50 miles per week. I still don't run enough to warrant daily trips to the ice cream shop.

[Anonymous]

1-2x/month in the summer is plenty. Call me cheap but it ends up being about $5/person at the ice cream place, and there's no way I'm dropping a $20 multiple times in a week for ice cream. For me it is about cost. We tend to have ice cream half gallons at home during the summer and it takes about a month or more to use one up, so maybe we're just not into it?

Where exactly are you people finding "half gallons" in this era? A typical ice cream carton is 1.5 quarts.

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:When we're at the shore, at least once a day, occasionally twice -- seriously, they have the best ice cream place where we go. It is insane.

Back in the real world, it's more like once a month, maybe twice? Nothing's as good as our vacation place, so it's kind of a let down for the grownups (admittedly, our kids wouldn't care and would probably love ice cream daily!).

Where? Where??

This: http://www.springersicecream.com/

7-year-old son told me earlier this week that, once we get there, he's going to get butterscotch brickle for his first scoop of the trip. (We're not even going until WEEKS from now.)

I'm the one who asked. Thanks. We go to the Jersey Shore, so we'll check it out!