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Admission: I’m an ice-cream fiend. I love it all year round, but when the weather heats up, those cartons in my freezer really call my name. Mint chocolate chip, mmm. But while it’s delicious, this quintessential summer treat can also be full of fat and calories, especially if, like me, you have trouble stopping at one scoop. Which is why I like to enjoy ice cream as an occasional treat and relish its lower-calorie cousin, popsicles, more frequently. Pops are just as refreshing, yet they’re often significantly lower in fat and calories, especially if you make them yourself, which is easy to do. Plus, a lick on a stick offers built-in portion control—no spooning extra helpings out of the carton!

Read more here: 100-Calorie Frozen Desserts

My partner Demián and I live in the desert in Baja California Sur, Mexico. This time of year the heat is rising and the humidity is heavy. Two of our favorite ways to cool off is to crank up the blender for frosty libations and to pull out the vintage Tupperware popsicle sets for adult ice pops.

Read more here: Frozen Fun — LeNell it All

Every year about this time my neighbor Pat comes by with a bag of fresh Bing cherries from her tree and a plea to come pick more before the birds get them. That’s the thing about cherry season, the trees seem to ripen all at once and for a week or two you have bucketloads.

This spring the season is kind of funky. The cherries have come late, and with all the rain, they’re not lasting long. Last week I made cherry ice cream and this week cherry frozen yogurt.

What I love about the frozen yogurt is that the yogurt is naturally tart. Bing cherries are sweet and they need something tart to intensify their flavor (which is why you typically use sour cherries for cherry pie).

Also frozen yogurt is a lot easier to make than custard-based ice creams, but can still be quite creamy and smooth. This frozen yogurt will last several days in the freezer without getting too hard (which happens often with homemade ice creams).

Read more here: Cherry Frozen Yogurt

The frozen foods aisle houses a lot of convenient and nutritious time-savers like frozen veggies and healthy frozen meals—but it also gives refuge to some of the saltiest, most fattening foods in the grocery store. Here’s my list of foods to snag and foods to skip in the freezer case.

Read more here: Best and Worst Frozen Foods