Friday night as I was waiting to get off my plane I was scrolling through my Instagram feed. I came across a video from one of the few celebrities I follow (Heidi Powell). She was doing a review of some healthy ice cream!! She raved about the strawberry flavor she was trying, and even had her son try a bite and he said it was good too... kid approved "healthy ice cream??
I was a bit skeptical because she is a health and fitness trainer and surely she wouldn't have normal taste buds right? Well I was still interested enough to do some of my own research on reviews and then try some out for myself.
I looked up the website for this so called delicious healthy ice cream... and tried to figure out if any stores near me actually carried it. The website said that pretty much every Kroger near me had some. I went to my nearest Kroger and looked both in the "hippie" section and the normal ice cream section and didn't find it anywhere.
This morning I had a dermatology appointment near a different Kroger so after getting my skin poked, prodded, and scrapped I decided I needed some ice cream and went to find some of this Halo ice cream. After checking the "hippie" section first I finally found it in the regular ice cream section. I was beyond excited because they had 3 of the 5 flavors I wanted to try.
They had 4 flavors in total at the store, chocolate, mint, birthday cake, and lemon cake. The other 3 flavors they make are vanilla bean, strawberry, and chocolate mocha chip.
Pretty much birthday cake flavored anything is my favorite and I was worried I wouldn't be able to find it because from all the reviews I read this was the hardest flavor to find. I have no interest in the lemon cake, because lemon flavored things are just not my taste, and I don't drink or like the taste of coffee, mocha flavored things so I'll pass on trying that flavor.
From Heidi Powell's review, and a few others I had read vanilla bean is the best flavor, I still haven't tried it so I can't verify. The biggest problem everyone seemed to have with mint was that there weren't enough chocolate chips in it, the rest of the flavors seemed to get good reviews. However Heidi Powell said the lemon cake tasted like lysol to her, so she said if you like cleaning product flavored ice cream it is perfect for you... so again I will pass on this flavor!
My personal review of the three flavors I found:
Birthday Cake:
Like I mentioned before birthday cake flavored anything is almost always my favorite. This was the first spoonful I tried, and the first bite honestly had me a little underwhelmed. I thought there was too strong of a buttery type flavor, and it was really rich. However after lunch I gave it another try and really liked it... maybe not my favorite but it is really good. I think I might mix this with the chocolate because that sounds like it would be good. Also it was so fun to have little sprinkles mixed in!!
Mint Chip:
My biggest complaint is the one I read about over and over, and that is there are no chocolate chips... I think I counted all of 3 in the serving size I ate. However if you can think of it more as a mint ice cream and not mint chip it is AMAZING!! I LOVED that it wasn't dyed an artificial green color, because that always really weirds me out. The flavor is absolutely perfect and it is just so creamy. This is another one I think would be good mixed with the chocolate ice cream.
Chocolate:
Ok so I wasn't expecting much from this flavor, I'm not much of a chocolate ice cream person, I totally prefer vanilla over chocolate, but this ice cream blew me out of the water!! I had read that it has a weird after taste, but I didn't notice one at all. To me this ice cream tasted like a delicious fudge-cicle. I almost couldn't stop myself from eating this ice cream to give the others a fair taste. This is a good stand alone flavor, or like I mentioned above would be delicious mixed with some of the other flavors.
I still haven't tried strawberry and vanilla which I would like to try, but even if it takes awhile to find those flavors I will be content with the three that I did find.
These are a bit expensive, at $4.99 a pint, and while I'll be on the lookout for sales and coupons, I'm willing to buy these at full price if need be. The macros on this ice cream are amazing... check out their website they have a fun comparison between their product and some of the more popular ice cream brands... you could eat this entire pint of ice cream for the same amount of calories that a half cup serving of Ben and Jerry's has!! That just blows my mind!
Also let's not forget to mention an entire pint of this ice cream has 24 grams of protein and only 14-16 grams of net carbs!! Holy smokes I'm so excited about this ice cream because now I won't feel guilty indulging in a treat after dinner now!!
If you are looking to eat healthy but still have an indulgent treat run out and buy some of this ice cream now!! Trust me you won't regret it!!
What are some of your favorite healthy finds??
