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I get asked a lot of questions about making my own ice cream. Besides the fact that I love it and enjoy it, I have found over the years that there are many more reasons that I stopped buying and started making ice cream. Here they are. I hope I can help turn you into an ice cream maker.

1. Ok I love ice cream and so do my children. As a family we eat a lot of it even in winter. It’s costly to buy regularly. It all adds up. When I make it, I make it cheaper, so it saves on the food bill.

2. By making my own ice cream, I reduce my food miles. (embarrassingly my kids told me about that one). My children come home from school asking me what am I doing to save their planet. Well, making ice cream means that I am not using fancy packaging, tubs and useless cartons that it comes in, and I have not paid for it to travel from several hundred miles away to my door. Everything I put in my ice cream, I get locally. You can too.

3. I get to know exactly what is going into my kids mouths. There are no additives or preservative in my home made dessert. Only natural goodness no artificial rubbish.

4. I know so many people, my kids friends especially with allergies of all sorts. I can leave them out of the ice cream, so everyone get to enjoy it.

5. I bring my ice cream over to friends, or families houses for dinner. It beats spending a fortune on flowers. I bring along the dessert which we can all enjoy together.

6. I get the kids involved too. They love it and sometimes bring their friends over especially to make ice cream. It’s great on a rainy day when they are hanging around the house looking for trouble.

7. I can get the kids to eat more fruit too, by serving it on top or beside the ice cream. Add some good nuts, and maybe some oats sometimes and they don’t even know they are eating something really good for them. Result!

8. I try most of the time to make it lower fat than you buy. I use half and half or light cream instead. Great for the kids, but helps me and my diet out too.

There it is. My ice cream tastes great. Looks wonderful and costs less. I hope you start making yours too. It really is so much more rewarding than buying it.

If you are considering buying an ice cream machine, take some time to review them before choosing. You can read some interesting reviews from existing users here ElectricIceCreamMachines

This is a really cool thing to do, and my children love it. Actually so do my friends, it’s great fun at a dinner party, or barbecue too. But I know no better way on a rainy day, when baby sitting some children to get them entertained, involved and quite! This method makes just one serving.

What you need for this.

Milk about half a cup, cream is ok too, but I prefer to use milk, keeps it healthier.

1 tablespoon of sugar.

Chocolate syrup or cocoa power or vanilla extract. About a 1/4 teaspoon.

Ice. Fill up your ice trays the day before, or if you forget, just nip out and buy some, it’s cheap.

You will need either rock salt or table salt for this method. Either is fine, though I think rock salt may be cheaper to use.

2 plastic bags. I quart sized and 1 gallon sized. Remember you can improvise with this. It’s just a rough guide.

Some great dancing music.

So now let the games begin.

Take the sugar, flavoring that you have chosen and milk, and mix them all in a suitable bowl well. Then put them into the smallest bag. Seal up that bag well and good so that the mix will not under any circumstances escape.

Take your bigger bag, and place the ice and salt into it. It should now be about half full with ice and salt combo.

Now take the small bag and put it into the big bag. The most important thing here is to make sure that both bags are are sealed really well as you don’t want them mixing together. You can use tape if needed, that’s fine.

Now put on some great music and shake those bags, shake them and agitate them and massage them, (be careful not to split them). You can do this for between 10 – 15 minutes. In this time your mixture will have turned into solid ice cream. Magic! Now eat and enjoy!