The family with eight kids could perhaps afford to buy ice cream only half as often as the one with four.

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So recently, when my husband and I took the kids to an ice cream shop, I ordered one puritanical kiddie scoop of ice cream and only ate half, to teach them about self-restraint.

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The other half was plain cream cheese.

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The other half just had cream cheese.

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In the first half of 2004 ice cream and other frozen foods were off, too.

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When I was a kid, my mom would go to the store to pick up a half gallon of ice cream.

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Fill each jalapeno half with about 1 tablespoon cream cheese.

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Up to half the volume of ice cream is air.

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He raced to the grocery store and bought half a gallon of chocolate ice cream.

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To assemble your tart, spread the mustard cream over the center of the shell and sprinkle half the cheese on top.

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In the example above, 255 calories is equivalent to a half cup of Haagen-Daz vanilla ice cream or a hot dog.

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