Comments on: Keeping Cool with Ice Cream: How to Save, What to Buy (Part 1)

By: Organic and Green Mom Blog | It’s Finally Here! Ice Cream for Breakfast Day! And This May Be the Last Year to Make it Organic! at Organic Mania

Sat, 05 Feb 2011 19:26:32 +0000

[...] Why the concern about GMOs? Where to start? The risks – to autism, allergies, infertility and more – are so well documented that surveys going back five years or more show that most Americans would prefer to avoid GMOs if given the choice. But since GMOs are not labeled in this country, the only sure way to avoid them is to buy organic – one of the main reasons I buy organic, as I’ve blogged here here and here. [...]

By: Organic and Green Mom Blog | Power Outage: What Would You Save From Your Fridge? at Organic Mania

Sat, 14 Aug 2010 02:40:49 +0000

[...] As luck would have it, I had just bought enough organic, natural and rGBH-free ice cream to last the summer. “Savings!” I told my husband. “I stocked up! And I’ll blog about it!” [...]

By: Lisa @Retro Housewife Goes Green

Lisa @Retro Housewife Goes Green — Tue, 27 Jul 2010 04:03:35 +0000

I love Alden’s! I have some vanilla in the freeze at all times. Ben & Jerry’s is good too, love that they are going fair trade and use mostly real ingredients.

By: Lynn

Lynn — Sun, 25 Jul 2010 22:39:29 +0000

Lori & Annie, thanks for your comments! Looks like I won’t have that follow-up post up for a while since we’ve lost power due to a huge storm! I just had a street party to eat all the ice cream (typing this on my iPhone!)

NOW I may gladly accept rebate coupons for ice cream since my entire summer stock and “organic savings” just got eaten up at the block party!

Last time there was an outage this big, people went without power for a week!

By: Lynn

Lynn — Sun, 25 Jul 2010 20:28:58 +0000

We just lost power due to huge storm in DC. Thinking of a block party with ice cream!

By: Annie @ PhD in Parenting

Annie @ PhD in Parenting — Sun, 25 Jul 2010 08:14:27 +0000

Nestle owns so many ice cream brands. I bet there are a lot of people who think they are avoiding Nestle, but end up buying it because they don’t know. Their ice cream brands include Nestle, Dreyer’s, Edy’s, Häagen-Dazs, Movenpick, Skinny Cow and more.

While in Berlin this summer, we’ve been enjoying the large selection of organic ice cream places at very reasonable prices. Back to reality soon….
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By: Lori

Lori — Sun, 25 Jul 2010 02:35:20 +0000

Thanks for the great post. It has been a hot summer in the Boston area so we are eating a lot of ice cream. We do buy organic but we tend to mix it up a little. I like Breyers All Natural flavors. Breyers All Natural has very few ingredients: Milk, Cream, Sugar, Natural Tara Gum, Natural Vanilla Flavor.

By: Enya

Enya — Sun, 25 Jul 2010 02:16:39 +0000

The organic stuff is usually made old school. The conventional ice creams are usually pumped full of air. This way they have to use less material to fill the container. Less material equals more profit since they are sold by volume not weight. When you pick out ice cream, you should compare the weight of two different brands with the same volume. You’ll see a difference in weight. This might explain why you eat “less” of the good stuff.
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By: Lynn

Lynn — Sun, 25 Jul 2010 01:44:12 +0000

Yes, and I’ve also noticed that if you eat “real” ice cream, you don’t need as much as if you eat the kind with either artificial flavors or zero fat. Sometimes a little bit of something great goes a long way! Thanks for your comment, Wendy!

By: Lynn

Lynn — Sun, 25 Jul 2010 01:42:45 +0000

Hi Enya, thanks for the comment! My boys are crazy for Alden’s…as for me, I love Julie’s Organic which turns out to be a brand by the same firm (the Mother made Julie’s and her son started Alden’s). The flavors are more adult-like. Some really great fruit flavors! I’m with ya on B&J’s, but why do they only come in those little pints?