In my personal size Ice Cream Maker (from Bed, Bath & Beyond) I put fat free Greek Yogurt with Polaner’s All Fruit & let it mix for about 15 minutes. It turns into frozen yogurt without all the additives ! It’s a little tart (which I happen to like) but you can add Stevia or Truvia to sweeten it a little.

Placing 1 cup frozen berries, 6 oz. flavered berry yogurt in blender with sweetner, too turns into a frozen yogurt!! I will not be going to a yogurt any moore!!!ummmm

A personal size ice cream maker? I have to have one! :)

I have the 6 qt size ice cream maker, where you can make home made ice cream in 30 minutes, the only thing we put our ice cream in the freezer for a couple of hours after blending. I haven’t made any low fat ice cream or low fat yogurt yet tho.

I plan on doing it soon. I would probably use; 12 oz light or low fat sour cream, 12 oz nonfat plain yogurt, and 1 cup fruit. Divide it out into 6oz servings after its finished. That’s my ice cream, yogurt.

You can do this, but it won’t count towards your Probiotics as the freezing process destroys about 85% of the probiotic qualities of the yogurt.

Simmie

Wrong! Freezing does not kill the probiotics, freezing is bacteriostatic, not bacteriocidal- meaning the bacteria stop growing and will resume normal function when at body temperature again (aka- in your belly!).

Credentials: BSc in Microbiology

And i love frozen yogurt! and my ice cream maker.  

PS, Save all your egg yolks you cant eat, then make gelato (when you can eat gelato- or make it for the kids)!! which is 1/2 the fat of ice cream

Oh WOW….thank you megandupe SO VERY MUCH for that.  Someone who runs a FB group for the diet said that freezing yogurt (unless it’s flash frozen) kills off about 90% of the probiotic properties.  I can’t thank you enough for this information!

Flash freezing is ideal, b/c it will preserve the bugs for the longest (and it keeps the product at an optimal freshness) while normal freezers (-20 deg C) the bugs will slowly die off, we’re talking over a matter of months-years though.  

Another bug dapper is pulling them from the freezer, defrosting, then refreezing- bugs don’t like this (can’t blame them actually), and that will cause them to lose all their probiotic properties- aka death! So definitely never stick your yogurt in the microwave, thats instant bug death!   

i bought an “instant” ice cream maker, says it will make soft serve in 15 minutes…. well all it does it freeze whatever you put in it to the sides of the freezer bowl, while all the stuff in the middle does nothing. so if you buy a small ice cream maker, keep the receipt just incase so you can return it!

I’m just hearing that Ben and Jerry’s has a low/non fat frozen yogurt with live and active cultures. Sounds too good to be true. Is it?

Too good to be true? Yes.  I looked it up on MyFitnessPal and while it is only 2g of fat, it’s also 20g of sugar — that’s through the roof!  Most times when something is low or no fat, the sugars are high — it’s kind of a tradeoff.