Are there any good store-brand ice creams these days? (ingredients, freezer, coffee)
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We don’t eat much ice cream but we usually had Kroger brand vanilla in the freezer to serve as a side with pies and desserts, or an occasional cone. For years their ice cream was reasonably good and sold at a fair price. That all changed when we bought a carton last month and discovered a completely different product inside. I guess it shouldn’t be a surprise because the price and quantity were the same, so they obviously lowered the quality of the ingredients.
We’ve tried the Safeway (Lucerne) and Walmart store brands and found them equally awful. Are there any other store brands of ice cream worth trying?
I love Blue Bunny ice cream and their products (ice cream bars, ice cream sundaes).. these taste really good, the texture is like soft serve. The ice cream sundaes taste like those you get from the ice cream truck. The ice cream bars have chunks of chocolate and other things in it and it adds a real nice texture and taste.
I also got some Hagaan daaz ice cream cones and the chocolate is delicious!
I'm still buying Tillamook, but first they reduced the percentage of cream, then they made the cartons smaller. Then they raised the price. Next they started fluffing the ice cream up with air. And now they are reducing the quality and amount of the added goodies. And raised the price again.
I'm still buying it occasionally, because I haven't found anything better. All the ice cream seems to have had the same changes.
I just had a little carton of Safeway Select French Vanilla, and that was pretty good. Their double chocolate moose tracks is decent, although it tastes a bit of cocoa powder which means at least it tastes like there is chocolate in there.. The mocha chip tases good. I like coffee ice cream, and theirs has good coffee flavor, but it is icy textured. The good creamy coffee ice creams have gotten so light in flavor that I can no longer taste coffee. A really big pass on their lemon cheese cake flavor. It's yucky. (They had a good sale and I had company coming, so I bought several cartons and tried different flavors.)
For awhile here, Costco had a marvelous vanilla ice cream, quite high priced, but worth the money. But they replaced it with their own Kirkland brand, same size carton, same price, not nearly the same ice cream, so I don't buy that any longer.
I'm sorry I can't remember the name of the company that made the ice cream. It contained lots of high quality cream and genuine vanilla, not imitation vanillas extract. They were locate in California on the coast somewhere and they are probably still there making ice cream.
I'm still buying Tillamook, but first they reduced the percentage of cream, then they made the cartons smaller. Then they raised the price. Next they started fluffing the ice cream up with air. And now they are reducing the quality and amount of the added goodies. And raised the price again.
I'm still buying it occasionally, because I haven't found anything better. All the ice cream seems to have had the same changes.
I just had a little carton of Safeway Select French Vanilla, and that was pretty good. Their double chocolate moose tracks is decent, although it tastes a bit of cocoa powder which means at least it tastes like there is chocolate in there.. The mocha chip tases good. I like coffee ice cream, and theirs has good coffee flavor, but it is icy textured. The good creamy coffee ice creams have gotten so light in flavor that I can no longer taste coffee. A really big pass on their lemon cheese cake flavor. It's yucky. (They had a good sale and I had company coming, so I bought several cartons and tried different flavors.)
We just found Tillamook within the last 6 months. It is light years better than any of the other mainstream grocery brands (Breyers/Edy's/Turkey Hill). If you are saying this is the "watered-down" version of it, then I can only imagine what it used to taste like.
Lidl Chocolate was a staple in the house during the pandemic. Of course, only available at Lidl.
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