taste test

Non-dairy frozen desserts -
So far, I have tried a few brands to try to quell the cravings for ice cream. It's not even that I normally want a lot of ice cream, but we discovered the dairy allergy in the middle of the summer shortly after stocking the house w/ heavily discounted ben and jerry's that I now couldn't eat. Well, technically I could eat it, but both my son and I would suffer for it - him by being itchy and uncomfortable, me because he would never let me forget that he's itchy and uncomfortable, especially at 3am.

Tofutti vanilla ice cream - thumbs down. The texture is actually ok but the vanilla flavor is very artificial and tastes more like chemicals than vanilla. Being a soy product, it doesn't have the tofu aftertaste, but that may be masked by the funky vanilla flavor.

So Delicious Chocolate Peanut butter - thumbs up. Overall, it was decent and I would eat it again. This product is soy-based which probably accounts for a number of its characteristics. It's texture is on par w/ light ice cream, though one complaint was that it freezes rock hard which is difficult to scoop, but then melts quickly once scooped. While frozen solid, I have to admit it visually resembles peanut butter playdoh. The flavors were decent though and the soy aftertaste wasn't strong.

Coconut bliss Cherry Amaretto - two thumbs up! Made w/ coconut milk, the texture and mouthfeel were much richer than their soy counterparts. Of course it was also calorically on par w/ the forbidden Ben and jerry's. The amaretto flavor was good but a little weak and there was a coconut undertone to the flavor but I happen to like coconut.

There are still more brands to try so I'll have to decide if I test out some others or stick to the Coconut Bliss.