Before we went to DQ, I didn't stop to review the nutritional information, but chose my favorite of all time, a small chocolate chip cookie dough blizzard. Love this! After my indulgence, I just had to take the time at home to "assess the damage" and found that my favorite treat holds 710 calories and 28 grams of fat. I could just feel my thighs getting bigger as I typed that :)
Since we tend to treat ourselves and stop at DQ more often than we should, I took the time to compile a little mental list of the healthier (and not so healthy) options for ice cream at DQ and here they are:
- Any of the DQ plain cones (chocolate, vanilla or chocolate dipped cone) fall below 300 calories, even for a large
- Small or medium sundaes are great choices, in a dish, not a waffle bowl
- Chocolate dilly bar- 240 calories, with most dilly bars about the same calorie leve
- Fudge bar- 50 calories
- DQ ice cream sandwich- 190 calories
- Blizzards, shakes, or malts= poor choice with lots of calories, up to 1450 calories for a Georgia Mud large blizzard and even 400 calories for most mini blizzards
- DQ cakes- 440 calories for 1/8th of an 8 inch cake
Happy Spring and welcome the ice cream season!
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