NutritionDoc

This is for Nurse Bernie in pre op: Remember when it was a big deal to walk out of your local ice cream shoppe with a scoop of butter pecan or fudge ripple in your sugar cone with sprinles on top? With half a day's sat fat, it was a splurge. But a least you could get away with 300 calories.

 

Then came waffle cones ( 160 calories) and chocolate dipped waffle cones ( 320 calories) that looked silly without a least two scoops of ice cream ( 600 calories). But 1000 calories and a day's sat fat soon seemed run of the mill to some folks.

 

Enter Cold Stone Creamery, where you choose which combination of more than 30 candies, cookie pieces, and other morsels gets mixed into your ice cream and scooped into a choco dipped waffle bowl.

 

Take a Gotta Have It Founder's Favorite. Into your waffle bowl goes not just a 14 oz softball sized mound of ice cream, but pecans, brownie pieces, fudge and caramel. What ? No Oreos, Reese's Pieces, or Gummi Bears?

 

The tab: a startling 1740 calories, 48 grams of sat fat and 4 grams of trans fat. That is roughly what you would get if you polished off 5 single scoop ice cream cones.

 

Gottta Have It now . . . Gotta Lose It next week.