Pediasure Ice Cream

Hi y'all...I'm excited to share with you, a delicious, healthy treat I made for my kids. 

Pediasure Ice Cream!  

Every time we went shopping at Wal-Mart, my 6 year old would beg me for Pediasure.  They had never tried it before, but the flavors and cute little giraffe on the bottle appealed to them, enough for her to beg me for weeks to buy some.  I finally gave in...and what do you know...they hated them.  Of course.

Pediasure is expensive (to my family, anyway)!  They sat in my fridge for a few days; a sad waste of money that would be poured down the drain if I opened one for them to try again.

I finally remembered the easy recipe for "ice cream in a bag".  The ingredients needed: milk, sugar, vanilla, salt, ice and ziplock bags. 

So I tried the recipe with Pediasure instead of milk.  

They ate EVERY BITE.  They never once mentioned that their new ice cream treat tasted yucky like they had told me just an hour before at the dinner table.

I used one can of pediasure in place of the milk.  One can of Pediasure is a little bit more than a cup.  All the recipes I saw called for a cup of milk....and the little bit extra didn't seem to bother the recipe at all.

- One can Pediasure 

(I used one chocolate can, then did again with one strawberry)

- 2 tbsp sugar

- 1/2 tsp vanilla

- 2-3 cups ice

-1/4 cup salt 

(most recipes call for rock salt. I used table salt and this still worked for me!)

In a quart size ziplock bag, pour your sugar and vanilla, then add your can of Pediasure.

Shake!

Put your 2-3 cups of ice in a gallon size zip lock bag.

Add your pediasure/sugar bag to the gallon bag.

SHAKE!

Shake for 5 minutes.

(Wear pot holders or mittens.  It gets COLD!)

You'll start to notice the ice cream hardening.

(I had two quart size bags of Pediasure mixture. One chocolate, one strawberry.)

Let the Pediasure/ice cream mixture sit in the ice for another 5 minutes.

Open bags and scoop out ice cream into bowl.  I noticed my strawberry was much softer than the chocolate, because I had put it in the bag a few minutes after I started the chocolate one.  So I set our bowl of ice cream in the freezer for 30 minutes.  It could have stayed in the freezer for an hour and been just fine, also.

Both were soft serve, ready to be devoured by the kids!

Mom WIN!!  ;-)

P.S. We had some extra left over, so I covered the leftovers and froze overnight.  This did NOT work.  It was rock hard, like ice.  I couldn't get it to melt to the right "ice cream "consistency.  So plan on this being a one time snack.  If you figure out a way to save any left overs, please comment and let me know!