It's ok to have ice cream as long as you stick to vanilla, have an unsugared conrnet, and count as part of your carbs. 50 yr diabetics says so and my mom always let me eat occasionally as a child. The ice cream van is a no-no but the use to have something that was a small ice cream-sherbet combination when I was a child that I could eat about once a week. It counts as a fat and a fruit and they give you ice cream in hospital,