Ice Cream!!!!!

One of the things Superman and I love is ice cream, unfortunately for our attempts to eat healthy it is also hard to stop at one serving if we are scooping it at that moment. HOWEVER, we have a solution! It isn't those oh-so-yummy single serve cups that can be bought for between $1-$4 at the grocery store. Since we are trying to reduce our grocery spending we were trying to figure out the best way to continue to have ice cream without having to worry about remembering the serving size when our brains are screaming "ICE CREAM" at us.  So my solution.....

Yup, it's really that simple. We got more of the GLAD 1/2 cup tuperware and got ready to make our own single serving of ice cream cups! It really wasn't that time consuming, it took maybe half an hour. Though, I don't suggest doing this if you are having a major craving for ice cream, you'll find that a bite for each container gets eaten. So we started with basically 2 sets of  8 of the GLAD 1/2 cup containers and a 1.5 qt carton of ice cream. On a side note, this ice cream, Turkey Hill's limited edition Chunky Peanut Butter, is delicious! We ended up with about 9 individual containers of ice cream. If you go with the lowest of the single serve ice cream containers that $9 worth of ice cream. However, since we scooped it out ourselves and our 1.5 qt of ice cream was $2.99 that is 33 cents per single serve cup. I'd that that is a considerable amount of savings.Granted, you have to buy the containers, and we picked these up for $3.49 but since they can be reused over and over and over again I would say it is completely worth it. This is also one of the few times I'd actually say go with the name brand containers. The store brand containers of similar size tend to crack when you take the lid off trying to get to your ice cream, I've yet to have a GLAD lid crack on me. 

I'm loving this idea. Next time we're going to buy a big container of plain vanilla ice cream and then add our own "fillers"- like pineapple, or strawberries and peanut butter, etc. We're not sure if that will make a huge price difference or not- but it sounds fun! But anyway, like I said, super easy and cheap!

Our ice cream cups all lined up, waiting to be devoured (some already were).