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Recipes, tips, and wellness for ice cream lovers.

Person holding a burger and fries at a meal, representing high-fat fast food as one of the bad foods to eat before bed Caption: High-fat, heavy meals close to bedtime keep your digestive system working when it should be winding down.

7 Bad Foods to Eat Before Bed to Cut Tonight

Most bad foods to eat before bed don't keep you awake in any obvious way. You fall asleep fine.  The problem is what happens to your sleep quality after you go down.  Blood sugar spikes, cortisol responses, and digestive disruption all reduce the amount of time your body spends in deep, restorati...

Willpower works better when you're not fighting your food. Eating meals you actually enjoy makes it easier to stay consistent.

How to Have More Willpower With Food?

Most advice about how to have more willpower with food starts from a wrong assumption: that willpower is a fixed character trait that some people have more of than others. It's not.  Willpower is a resource. It depletes throughout the day, it gets drained faster by certain conditions, and trying ...

If you're eating but not actually hungry, your brain might just be looking for something to do.

How to Stop Eating Out of Habit for Good?

Figuring out how to stop eating out of habit is harder than stopping eating out of hunger, because habit eating doesn't involve a decision. You're not choosing to eat... you're just eating! The bag is empty before you realized you opened it. The snack is gone before you tasted it. That's what mak...

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Why You Eat When You're Bored (It's Not Hunger)

You're not hungry. You ate an hour ago. But there you are, standing in front of the fridge with the door open, looking for something.  The answer to the question, “Why you eat when you're bored”, has nothing to do with your stomach and everything to do with your brain. Once you understand what's ...

Mix-Ins

Turn your CRUSHS base into something new every night. From Bananas Foster to Peanut Butter Cup, we've got step-by-step recipes for your Ninja Creami, ice cream maker, or blender.

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Why Do We Eat Junk Food When Stressed, Really?

Stress hits and suddenly all you want is something salty, something sweet, or something fried.  Ever wonder why do we eat junk food when stressed instead of, say, a salad?  It's not a character flaw. It's biology. Your body is doing exactly what it evolved to do under pressure, and unfortunately ...

Feeling good this summer is less about looking a certain way and more about having the energy to actually enjoy it.

How to Feel Good This Summer (And Actually Keep It Up)

Knowing how to feel good this summer isn't about doing everything perfectly.  It's about doing a few things consistently that actually make you feel better. Not the things that sound virtuous. The things that genuinely work.  Here's the full picture and how to keep it up for a whole season.

Fairlife 2% milk bottle next to a bag of CRUSHS protein ice cream mix on a wooden surface

What Milk Works Best with CRUSHS? (And What To Avoid)

So you picked up CRUSHS ice cream mix, you're ready to make your first pint, and you're staring at the fridge wondering: does it actually matter what milk works best? It does. More than you'd think. Here's something most people don't know: CRUSHS already has dairy in the formula. Milk protein iso...