Lactaid Strawberry Cheesecake Ice Cream

[New for 2023] In my never ending desire to find some kind of acceptable mainstream ice cream to stock in my freezer, I gave in and picked up this limited edition flavor.

Lactaid Strawberry Cheesecake Ice Cream

(strawberry cheesecake ice cream with a graham swirl)

Beckon Sea Salt Chocolate Chip Ice Cream

I like to set up my reviews of something new with a bit of background info, but I want to just jump ahead and say I don't like this ice cream. When you only have a few pints in your line up, why risk making one of them too salty? Ok, I'm really just mad at myself for not noticing the "sea salt" in the flavor name. Keep in mind that, in general, salty things tend to taste extra salty to me.

Beckon Sea Salt Chocolate Chip Ice Cream

"subtly" salted vanilla base with dark chocolate chips

Perry's Lactose Free Cookie Dough Ice Cream

[New for 2017] So Perry's sent over free samples of several new 2017 products and one of them happens to be lactose free (aka mixed with Lactase enzyme). The thing is, I don't think I've had the regular version so I won't be comparing the two.

Perry's Lactose Free Cookie Dough Ice Cream

99% lactose free cookie dough ice cream
with chunks of cookie dough and fudge chips

Lactaid Berry Chocolate Crumble Ice Cream

[New for 2015] I've been meaning to try Lactaid for awhile now just to satisfy my own curiosity about how it stacks up to both regular ice creams and something like Breyers lactose free ice cream (aka dairy product with added lactase enzyme). I wasn't really sure what to buy on my last trip to Price Chopper. I look around for a bit and then I saw that this quart had a sale tag on it and it's still rocking the "NEW" label, so let's take a scoop of.....

Lactaid Berry Chocolate Crumble Ice Cream

"Ripe pureed berries and rich chocolate crumble,
together in a lactose free ice cream"

North Star Lactose Free Raspberry & Vanilla Chocolate Dipped Ice Cream Bars

[New for 2016] I don't think we've covered a North Star treat here on the blog yet. North Star is a part of the Prairie Farms Dairy family (the people behind Peeps Milk) and I can only really find a decent selection of their stuff at Wegmans (though a few things have been popping up at Market Basket). I'll admit that they have an air of "budget friendly" to their packaging and their stuff seems pretty standard fair, the same kinds of things we might see from Good Humor or Blue Bunny, but something caught my eye on my last trip and I decided to give them a try.

North Star Lactose Free Raspberry & Vanilla Chocolate Dipped Ice Cream Bars

Breyers Lactose Free* Vanilla Light Ice Cream

There are two things people like to talk about on the Breyers facebook page:

1) their immense hatred of frozen dairy desserts.
2) the fact that a giant ice cream company makes two flavors of lactose free ice cream.

I'm usually more than happy to harp on #1, but tonight let's focus on #2 (pfffftttt)

Breyers lactose free* light vanilla ice cream

(the * means it's technically 99% lactose free)