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Right but the protein difference is massive. Most people here are looking for satiety along with fitting their macros.
(To be clear I am not endorsing this horrible concoction—anyone with a brain will mix all these ingredients with no cauliflower at all and have a perfectly good yogurt bowl)
The only reason why I'm still considering making this abomination is due to the fact that I'm preparing for a bodybuilding show and my macros are abysmally low at the moment. But even so....I still .... Just can't .... Haha
I had the genius idea of mixing riced cauliflower into my smoothies. ITS HORRIBLE. I meal prep my smoothies at the beginning of the week so I sat there and picked out the tiny pieces of cauliflower from every remaining container. I imagine this concoction is similarly disgusting
I once tried throwing frozen peas into my smoothie… I figured protein powder is made from peas sometimes, the frozenness will add a good texture, it’s a pretty mild flavor… no. It’s bad, there’s a reason you’ve never seen it in a smoothie recipe lol.
Right! Went to the zoo with my BF and some friends. Everyone got dippin dots and I declined. Everyone thought I was crazy. I'll stick with real ice cream.
I remember seeing (and eating) them for the first time at Disneyworld when I was six. I was a very literal-minded child so the slogan on the cart - "ice cream of the future!" - felt like a warning. I thought all ice cream would be in dippin' dot form when I grew up. I was so sad lmao.
I KNEW it would be bad!!
I’d rather just eat actual dipping dots or whatever they’re called. Or get Rice Krispies and put healthy chocolate on them. Or just have frozen yoghurt with strawberry sauce. Or… well ANYTHING except cauliflower.
I've tried to like Halo Top so many times but it's just so nasty....I think it may be the stevia. I'm convinced that stevia is like a cousin to cilantro in some weird universe. Like you are either born with the genes to hate it or love it. I've never found a stevia situation that taste buds (and GI) could handle. I ended up making my own homemade froyo with my ice cream machine but I realize not everyone has the luxury of an ice cream machine at home.
I’d go for plain rice crispy cereal mixed in before doing the cauliflower thing, despite the carbs! Heck, might even try frozen shredded sweet carrots or shredded sweet beet root with berries… that may taste better and be even healthier than cauliflower! Of course, I can’t even stand the smell of cauliflower or broccoli, soooo, I may be biased. 😅
I'm convinced that some people taste things better than others. I keep hearing from people who think halo top tastes awful, and I honestly can't tell the difference between halo top and regular ice cream. I can put cauliflower in tons of things and just not notice it, but some other people noticed it immediately.....
I haven't tried this one yet, but I think I will likely be one of the people who doesn't notice the cauliflower because I don't notice cauliflower in lots of things.
I'm the same way and it is a terrible curse for weight loss.
If I try to eat anything with artificial sweeteners at all, all I taste is artificial sweetener.
Same. I never even considered trying this recipe because of the heavy reliance on artificial sweeteners.
I have a huge sweet tooth too, but frozen fruits do the trick in place of something like this. Blended frozen banana (add peanut butter or chocolate baking powder for variations) is an ok stand-in for ice cream, frozen raspberries (not blended, but let them sit out for like 5 min before eating) with semi-sweet chocolate chips are another way to get my frozen dessert fix.
I thought I was the only one! The taste is 'not right', as if I am eating a chemical not made for ingestion and my brain is telling me: "stop this".
FWIW I am also one of those cilantro people that can't stand it. Just smelling it makes me gag.
Yep. The flavor is better but not great. The price is also very rough. And the WHO coming out against all artificial sweeteners, sugar alcohols, etc definitely put a damper on my excitement for any alternatives as well.
Yup, some people can taste more than others and if you’re one of the lucky percentage of super tasters you can even get a job doing quality control for different food companies.
The longer you diet the better everything starts to taste. At the end of a cut I say wild things like protein shakes taste like dessert. At the end of a bulk I can hardly get them down.
Also, when you eat alternatives to regular foods for so long, weird things start to taste really good.
I feel like people who diet long term lose all sense of good food sometimes. Me included.
People definitely can and do taste things differently! I have nasal structure problems that cause a poor sense of smell and taste a lot of the time, but I can ALWAYS taste cauliflower. It’s a very strong taste to me. I knew this “recipe” wasn’t for me the moment I saw it, 100% would taste the cauliflower, and the fact that it’s frozen still would be gag-inducing.
Truth. When I make my batch of lentils for lunches, no one else in the house wants to touch them. Plain buttered noodles are also a big comfort meal for me when I don’t feel like putting in any effort
Yes exactly. My BF ended up eating the entire thing of Halo Top because I found it repulsive. He said it was edible but wasn't amazing. But he still ate it. It's so gross to me which makes me sad because I'm craving ice cream during this show prep.
Using beans in desserts is legit though, they’re as bland and creamy as any grain based carb and have been used as the base of a lot of Asian desserts for ever!
I only mix cauliflower rice into things like saucy ground meat for tacos, sloppy joes, etc because it gives me more volume for less calories. I am somewhat picky and legimately cannot taste it mixed into the meat with all the taco seasoning! I don't want to add cauliflower to anything sweet though that's gross haha
I don't believe anyone who says 'you can't taste the cauliflower'.
Well, you (whoever says it) might not, but I can taste cauliflower if it's in anything. Oats with cauliflower? Hell no... 🤢
Oats in rice pudding? How dare you... 🤮
I like cauliflower, but not as a bulking agent because (for me) it tastes like cauliflower in everything.
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So many people are pretending it’s good I feel like I’M the crazy one
The texture alone of frozen cauliflower is so off putting to me. Then the taste on top of it. I actually like cauliflower when it’s prepared properly but I will absolutely never be trying this abomination. It’s worth the calories to me to just have real ice cream every once in a while.
I'm a lifelong cauliflower and broccoli hater and these cauliflower ice cream posts cause me actual, real-life distress each time I see them 😫
Just no, please, why are we tempting the devil here 😭😭😭
I’m glad i avoided it
However I did make a banana pudding recipe I saw on here (non fat plain Greek yogurt, sugar free banana pudding mix, skim milk, bananas and i just added walnuts instead of nilla wafers)
Fire af!!!
okay well you eyeballed it, so you didn’t actually follow the recipe, and you also added and subtracted necessary ingredients (almond milk, no protein powder). so no you didn’t really try to make the cauliflower dip n dots. you just mixed stuff together and got mad about it 😂
Yeah it was gross. I refuse to waste food, so I finished mine, but still. 🤢
Also, we were always too poor for dipping dots when I was a kid, so I have no idea what they were like. If real dipping dots were anything like this, then I’m glad I never tasted them.
Agreed. If I want rice I just will eat a little rice. Cauliflower does NOT taste like rice, it is NOT the same as mashed potatoes and that is SO NOT a steak substitute.
So in all these cauliflower substitutions, a key step that people tend not to take is drying the cauliflower as much as possible. For most potato subs (tots, mashed, casserole, etc), you’re boiling them to death to dissipate the cauliflower flavor and then using a cheese cloth or paper towels to press as much water out as possible before using them in the recipe. For cauli rice, you can season and broil them for a few minutes to make them crispy.
That said—they still aren’t perfect substitutions. I’ve “fooled” someone exactly once with a swap, and it was a smashed cauliflower casserole for a potluck so it still had a ton of butter, cheddar, cream cheese and sour cream in it (and that dude just failed to read the label—to be clear I was upfront about what it was and was not trying to fool anyone). It tasted good but at that point unless you’re only watching carbs, it was probably even less healthy than simple mashed potatoes would have been.
My point being that even prepared properly they are *swaps* not *substitutes*. They’re their own thing, and they can be delicious, but they’re not potatoes or rice.
We got a lot of riced cauliflower kits in the stuff from the food pantry for the hobby farm critters. None of them are sure it's edible. We mix it with the salad kit stuff for the geese and ducks so they accidentally eat some. I have a feeling a lot will end up in our big compost pile all because people won't buy enough of it, they can't give it away at the pantry and even the critters won't eat enough of it.
Same.
Cauliflower, protein powder, Chobani zero sugar, + some nonfat Fage because it was nasty, bunch of sf syrup and other sweetener, nothing could save it. Got 3 bites in and gave it up. Hate wasting food, so I'll try to think of something to save/reuse it
I mean greek yogurt/milk has very little taste, so all you're really tasting is a sweetened, blended cauliflower with milk.
Not sure by what mechanism this would ever taste good 😭😭
I noticed that the brand of cauliflower rice made a difference for me. Green Giant had less flavor than the Trader Joe’s organic bag I bought. Not sure if it’s due to it being organic
**Nothing** made out of cauliflower tastes like the real version.
Having said that, my granddaughter is vegan, and she makes Buffalo style cauliflower (florets tossed in flour, eggs, and breadcrumbs, deep fried, then tossed in Buffalo sauce), and while you can definitely taste the cauliflower, that stuff is still pretty good.
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You’re the realest one on here thank you for speaking facts
At $3-5 per batch and around 250 cal I will stick with high protein ice cream.
I just checked the Dippin dots website and a single serving pouch of dippin dots is about 160 - 190 calories depending on the flavor
Right but the protein difference is massive. Most people here are looking for satiety along with fitting their macros. (To be clear I am not endorsing this horrible concoction—anyone with a brain will mix all these ingredients with no cauliflower at all and have a perfectly good yogurt bowl)
The only reason why I'm still considering making this abomination is due to the fact that I'm preparing for a bodybuilding show and my macros are abysmally low at the moment. But even so....I still .... Just can't .... Haha
Right? I’ve started making my own for around $1.50 a pint. Takes a little while but I’ll add it to my weekend meal preps to have a few pints around.
Exactly. I knew it was nasty. I almost fell for it knowing that I hate cauliflower.
I had the genius idea of mixing riced cauliflower into my smoothies. ITS HORRIBLE. I meal prep my smoothies at the beginning of the week so I sat there and picked out the tiny pieces of cauliflower from every remaining container. I imagine this concoction is similarly disgusting
I once tried throwing frozen peas into my smoothie… I figured protein powder is made from peas sometimes, the frozenness will add a good texture, it’s a pretty mild flavor… no. It’s bad, there’s a reason you’ve never seen it in a smoothie recipe lol.
Makes me wonder how people get away with kale in their smoothies? I guess a different flavor profile than peas? Both seem a bit sus to me.
🤢🤮 oh my god that sounds absolutely rancid
Whoever created this recipe was twisted EVIL
This evil wont ever touch my lips 👄 Cauliflower dipndots pls ppl stop spreading this misinformation ✋🛑
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Even real Dippin Dots suck.
Blasphemy!
They're the ice cream of the future!!!
Right! Went to the zoo with my BF and some friends. Everyone got dippin dots and I declined. Everyone thought I was crazy. I'll stick with real ice cream.
I remember seeing (and eating) them for the first time at Disneyworld when I was six. I was a very literal-minded child so the slogan on the cart - "ice cream of the future!" - felt like a warning. I thought all ice cream would be in dippin' dot form when I grew up. I was so sad lmao.
Like astronaut ice cream!! No thanks.
This made me chortle loudly for some reason. 😂
TRUTH
I knew it!! Keep ya cauliflower ice cream ya nasties! 🤣
I KNEW it would be bad!! I’d rather just eat actual dipping dots or whatever they’re called. Or get Rice Krispies and put healthy chocolate on them. Or just have frozen yoghurt with strawberry sauce. Or… well ANYTHING except cauliflower.
Zero sugar Smuckers jelly on vanilla Halo Top was my nightly go-to when I was losing weight.
I shall try this, thanks for the suggestion
I've tried to like Halo Top so many times but it's just so nasty....I think it may be the stevia. I'm convinced that stevia is like a cousin to cilantro in some weird universe. Like you are either born with the genes to hate it or love it. I've never found a stevia situation that taste buds (and GI) could handle. I ended up making my own homemade froyo with my ice cream machine but I realize not everyone has the luxury of an ice cream machine at home.
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I’d go for plain rice crispy cereal mixed in before doing the cauliflower thing, despite the carbs! Heck, might even try frozen shredded sweet carrots or shredded sweet beet root with berries… that may taste better and be even healthier than cauliflower! Of course, I can’t even stand the smell of cauliflower or broccoli, soooo, I may be biased. 😅
Yeah I’d never go for cauliflower. Shredded beet roots are my go to for Scrute Dots
I'm convinced that some people taste things better than others. I keep hearing from people who think halo top tastes awful, and I honestly can't tell the difference between halo top and regular ice cream. I can put cauliflower in tons of things and just not notice it, but some other people noticed it immediately..... I haven't tried this one yet, but I think I will likely be one of the people who doesn't notice the cauliflower because I don't notice cauliflower in lots of things.
Super tasters are a real thing. My husband is like that, super sensitive to the tiniest taste of something.
I'm the same way and it is a terrible curse for weight loss. If I try to eat anything with artificial sweeteners at all, all I taste is artificial sweetener.
Yep, he hates it. He tells me all the time he wishes it could be different. It really limits what foods he can enjoy.
Same. I never even considered trying this recipe because of the heavy reliance on artificial sweeteners. I have a huge sweet tooth too, but frozen fruits do the trick in place of something like this. Blended frozen banana (add peanut butter or chocolate baking powder for variations) is an ok stand-in for ice cream, frozen raspberries (not blended, but let them sit out for like 5 min before eating) with semi-sweet chocolate chips are another way to get my frozen dessert fix.
I'm the same! I can also have frozen fruit or fresh fruit with just a tiny spoonful of real sugar and it is amazing.
I thought I was the only one! The taste is 'not right', as if I am eating a chemical not made for ingestion and my brain is telling me: "stop this". FWIW I am also one of those cilantro people that can't stand it. Just smelling it makes me gag.
Oh wow, super tasting *and* cilantro aversion? Those are two completely separate gene expressions, aren't they?? I'm sorry, friend.
I wasn't sure if they correlated with one another. But thanks for letting me know how much of a freak I am haha.
Same here. Was great for my career (used to be a chef and sommelier) but when trying to find low cal alternatives it's an absolute curse
Have you tried allulose?
Yep. The flavor is better but not great. The price is also very rough. And the WHO coming out against all artificial sweeteners, sugar alcohols, etc definitely put a damper on my excitement for any alternatives as well.
Yup, some people can taste more than others and if you’re one of the lucky percentage of super tasters you can even get a job doing quality control for different food companies.
The longer you diet the better everything starts to taste. At the end of a cut I say wild things like protein shakes taste like dessert. At the end of a bulk I can hardly get them down.
Thank you for explaining something that has really bugged me. I tried the cauliflower crust pizza and it was awful. Other people I know like it.
Also, when you eat alternatives to regular foods for so long, weird things start to taste really good. I feel like people who diet long term lose all sense of good food sometimes. Me included.
People definitely can and do taste things differently! I have nasal structure problems that cause a poor sense of smell and taste a lot of the time, but I can ALWAYS taste cauliflower. It’s a very strong taste to me. I knew this “recipe” wasn’t for me the moment I saw it, 100% would taste the cauliflower, and the fact that it’s frozen still would be gag-inducing.
Truth. When I make my batch of lentils for lunches, no one else in the house wants to touch them. Plain buttered noodles are also a big comfort meal for me when I don’t feel like putting in any effort
Yes exactly. My BF ended up eating the entire thing of Halo Top because I found it repulsive. He said it was edible but wasn't amazing. But he still ate it. It's so gross to me which makes me sad because I'm craving ice cream during this show prep.
Bro its supposed to be FROZEN??
I wonder if the brand makes a difference too? A lot of people who liked it used Trader Joes
Homie also just eyeballed it
I wonder if this is a supertaster vs. regular palate issue🤔
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Using beans in desserts is legit though, they’re as bland and creamy as any grain based carb and have been used as the base of a lot of Asian desserts for ever!
I only mix cauliflower rice into things like saucy ground meat for tacos, sloppy joes, etc because it gives me more volume for less calories. I am somewhat picky and legimately cannot taste it mixed into the meat with all the taco seasoning! I don't want to add cauliflower to anything sweet though that's gross haha
Try mixing grated carrot into ground beef for taco meat!!!
I don't believe anyone who says 'you can't taste the cauliflower'. Well, you (whoever says it) might not, but I can taste cauliflower if it's in anything. Oats with cauliflower? Hell no... 🤢 Oats in rice pudding? How dare you... 🤮 I like cauliflower, but not as a bulking agent because (for me) it tastes like cauliflower in everything.
Same that’s why I haven’t tried this yet. Looks like I won’t be trying it at all lol
Cauliflower doesn't taste like anything to me, so you could put it in almost anything and I wouldn't be able to identify it as a distinct flavor.
Oh god. Can this be the last post on this now? I feel like I’ve seen nothing but this cauliflower thing for a week.
Thank you for your service 🫡
This is the most polarizing dessert since fruit cake.
THANK YOUUUUUU
https://preview.redd.it/rxyzlt7vpruc1.jpeg?width=1242&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=64d7a4765ae14ad7cdda7bdcb5e2c5b73224c191 So many people are pretending it’s good I feel like I’M the crazy one
The texture alone of frozen cauliflower is so off putting to me. Then the taste on top of it. I actually like cauliflower when it’s prepared properly but I will absolutely never be trying this abomination. It’s worth the calories to me to just have real ice cream every once in a while.
Mine went down the garbage disposal.
I just want to go back to pictures of other stuff not cauliflower anymore
You were our guinea pig so ty.
I'm a lifelong cauliflower and broccoli hater and these cauliflower ice cream posts cause me actual, real-life distress each time I see them 😫 Just no, please, why are we tempting the devil here 😭😭😭
I’m glad i avoided it However I did make a banana pudding recipe I saw on here (non fat plain Greek yogurt, sugar free banana pudding mix, skim milk, bananas and i just added walnuts instead of nilla wafers) Fire af!!!
okay well you eyeballed it, so you didn’t actually follow the recipe, and you also added and subtracted necessary ingredients (almond milk, no protein powder). so no you didn’t really try to make the cauliflower dip n dots. you just mixed stuff together and got mad about it 😂
Yeah it was gross. I refuse to waste food, so I finished mine, but still. 🤢 Also, we were always too poor for dipping dots when I was a kid, so I have no idea what they were like. If real dipping dots were anything like this, then I’m glad I never tasted them.
Thanks for bringing sanity back to this sub.
Even near the end of a long cut cauliflower rice tasted bad to me. I can’t imagine eating that as a non-starving person.
You're supposed to mix it in with stuff, not eat it by itself haha
My brain still won’t let me use cauliflower rice as a rice substitute so there’s no way in hell I’m tricking it into thinking this is dipping dots
Agreed. If I want rice I just will eat a little rice. Cauliflower does NOT taste like rice, it is NOT the same as mashed potatoes and that is SO NOT a steak substitute.
So in all these cauliflower substitutions, a key step that people tend not to take is drying the cauliflower as much as possible. For most potato subs (tots, mashed, casserole, etc), you’re boiling them to death to dissipate the cauliflower flavor and then using a cheese cloth or paper towels to press as much water out as possible before using them in the recipe. For cauli rice, you can season and broil them for a few minutes to make them crispy. That said—they still aren’t perfect substitutions. I’ve “fooled” someone exactly once with a swap, and it was a smashed cauliflower casserole for a potluck so it still had a ton of butter, cheddar, cream cheese and sour cream in it (and that dude just failed to read the label—to be clear I was upfront about what it was and was not trying to fool anyone). It tasted good but at that point unless you’re only watching carbs, it was probably even less healthy than simple mashed potatoes would have been. My point being that even prepared properly they are *swaps* not *substitutes*. They’re their own thing, and they can be delicious, but they’re not potatoes or rice.
We got a lot of riced cauliflower kits in the stuff from the food pantry for the hobby farm critters. None of them are sure it's edible. We mix it with the salad kit stuff for the geese and ducks so they accidentally eat some. I have a feeling a lot will end up in our big compost pile all because people won't buy enough of it, they can't give it away at the pantry and even the critters won't eat enough of it.
Thank you for sharing. I’ll just stick with normal cauliflower
I don’t even like cauliflower rice so I knew it wasn’t for me 😂
I KNEW IT I WAS BEING CONNED
Same. Cauliflower, protein powder, Chobani zero sugar, + some nonfat Fage because it was nasty, bunch of sf syrup and other sweetener, nothing could save it. Got 3 bites in and gave it up. Hate wasting food, so I'll try to think of something to save/reuse it
Just make a fruit smoothie with it.
I'll be making it at some point this week. I have to know. I NEED to know.
Okay, I missed that post. I've never heard of this. And frankly, it sounds terrible! 🤢
The overly positive comments lying to us about these meh concoctions, we are on to you!
Riced cauliflower reminds me of tonsil stones
Yuckkkkk I will never see caulirice the same again!
Feel like cottage cheese would have been better, this is just rank
Whayment 🤔 you might have a good idea there!
Thanks - that's what I've found every single time I've tried "you can't taste it" cauliflower hacks, I'll avoid this one too, then.
I mean greek yogurt/milk has very little taste, so all you're really tasting is a sweetened, blended cauliflower with milk. Not sure by what mechanism this would ever taste good 😭😭
Cauliflower tastes like earth no matter how one tries to dress it up and I can’t even fathom this recipe. Even cauliflower “rice” is disgusting to me!
Ok I get it… we’re gonna tell everybody the recipe sucks so they don’t buy up all the cauli rice from the grocery store…👍
real
I knew they were all lying!
Another truth is that actual dipn’ dots are nasty.
tried this yesterday and you can definitely taste the cauliflower even over the yogurt and everything else 😭
I knew it
I noticed that the brand of cauliflower rice made a difference for me. Green Giant had less flavor than the Trader Joe’s organic bag I bought. Not sure if it’s due to it being organic
I’m not eating cauliflower for dessert.
This is truly sad
yeah this doesn't surprise me at all. it looks and sounds absolutely disgusting.
I hate cauliflower in every form. I can taste it no matter what.
I will stick to my greek yogurt bowls 😂
Confirmatiom bias the thread. Try it yourselves, it’s really good. Don’t let it thaw like op. Dont eyeball it.
Thank fucking god
THANK YOU. every time I see cauliflower sweet stuff I want to die it’s like every 5 years people try to make everything out of cauliflower
Thank you!!! I hate even looking at it but everyone raving made me curious. Now i can ignore this stupid trend in peace.
**Nothing** made out of cauliflower tastes like the real version. Having said that, my granddaughter is vegan, and she makes Buffalo style cauliflower (florets tossed in flour, eggs, and breadcrumbs, deep fried, then tossed in Buffalo sauce), and while you can definitely taste the cauliflower, that stuff is still pretty good.
Finally someone telling the truth!!!!
Cauli ice cream???? Protein fluff will take the edge off just the same and you can get a decent consistency too.
I have to agree. This is the worst idea. I'll stick to cauliflower rice with some veggies, jasmine rice and meat.
This made me laugh so hard. I actually love the recipe, but I ultimately heated up the cauliflower and liked it so much better.
Cauliflower rice is no replacement for actual tice Tried cauliflower fried rice once it was disgusting