Jackson A. of New Bloomfield, PA: “Can a person live on nothing but ice cream?”
Good question. I once knew a guy who insisted that there were enough vitamins and nutrients in Guinness beer to live on it for a week. His friends dared him to do it and he did! He made it through the week, but I can’t say that he was in very good shape when those seven days were over.
As for ice cream, perhaps a few of our readers would be willing to test the scenario with a little real life ice cream diet? Actually, there’s no need for that, because I think I have the answer without having to binge on Rocky Road and Moose Tracks (sorry guys).
While most Turkey Hill ice cream contains some protein, vitamin A and calcium, it’s not likely that you’d get enough of those essential nutrients from ice cream alone. Let suppose you ate two servings of premium ice cream for breakfast, three for lunch, three for dinner and two more for dessert. That adds up to 1,500 calories per day (the average adult needs between 2,000 and 2,500 per day), 40 percent of your daily recommended Vitamin A and 60 percent of your Calcuim.
Unfortunately, you wouldn’t be getting any iron or consuming the recommended servings of cereals, grains, fruits and vegetables with that ice cream (though I guess if it were strawberry ice cream, you might get some fruit).
The bottom line is, while you could probably live on ice cream in theory, you can’t really live on it if you want to adhere to the USDA guidelines for dietary requirements. Besides, would you really want to eat ice cream for breakfast, lunch and dinner? Actually, don’t answer that. Personally, I find ice cream much more enjoyable when it’s one nice big bowl at the end of a long day!
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I LOVE ALL flavors of TURKEY HILL ice cream. Turkey Hill has always been my favorite.
Ice cream–an extremely important food group!
Happy times today, going food shopping and picking up my two containers of Turkey Hill Ice Cream. One will be Chocolate Chip Mint, the other Chocolate Marshmallow.
Late night dinner when my wife is working really late is a bowl full of Turkey Hill Ice Cream. It’s a meal I’m always satisfied with.
I know man can’t live on love alone. Ice cream??? Maybe.
My daughter moved to Lancaster, PA 7 yrs ago and my family was introduced to Turkey Hill ice cream. We fell in love with it. I was sorry that we could not find it in Pittsburgh. But shortly there after, the Turkey Hill cow came to town. He traveled everywhere.The local grocery store began to carry the products and our long distance romance with Turkey Hill ice cream changed and we are always able have it in our freezer It is a love affair forever and the miles will no longer keep us apart.
We just love turkey hill ice cream at my house 3 kids all like different flavors so its an ice cream smorgasbord at my house…happy ice cream month!!
Turkey Hill Dairy is one of this state’s greatest assets… the rest of the country doesn’t know (yet ) what they are missing out on….ok turkey hill lovers let’s unite & get the word out !!!!!!!!
Best “diet” I’ve ever heard of. Everything in moderation I say!
I would imagine one could live on TH ice cream. After all they have fruit and dairy products. One can live without meat and vegetables!
Not only do we love Turkey Hill Dairy ice cream because it tastes so good, we’re crazy about the unique name of the company. It has a historical and catchy name making it fun to reveal the container while it’s being served whenever we entertain!!
Not only do we love Turkey Hill Dairy ice cream for it’s great taste, we love the name of the company too. The name is unique, historical and catchy making it a “must” to reveal the container while serving the ice cream to our guests whenever we entertain!!