Its Hot! How About Some Ice Cream?

As I left drill last Saturday, I was like, "Oh man, it's hot." It was 100 degrees at the bank and 113 in my car.  Naturally, I was also hungry at 4:00 in the afternoon, and I had run 4 miles for PT that morning; so I thought, "I deserve ice cream." Vegan ice cream of course.

I don't eat vegan ice cream often. Don't get me wrong, its delicious - which is why I try to avoid it.

When I got to the local grocery store, I found these little bites of heaven (right):

Rice Dream Bites. I've never tried these before but they were thrown in the basket, along with a pint of Tofutti brand Butter Pecan.

The Rice Dream Bites didn't all make it home. [I'm aware, my nails did not meet the standards of AR 670-1 that drill weekend -- which consisted of  me and four other dudes doing PT and mandatory online training].

Rice Dream Bites are 1 inch bites of "ice rice-cream" covered in chocolate - like itty bitty chocolate-covered ice cream nugget on a stick, minus the stick.

And they were glorious. 

Creamy melting ice cream centers covered in chocolate shells exactly hit the spot. Didn't taste like fake anything, and the ice cream didn't taste like frozen ice water.

Nutrition Info
1 Serving = 15 pieces (67g) = 220 calories
15 grams, 23 % total fat
10 grams, 50%  saturated fat
0 mg Cholesterol
1 gram protein

-- First time in a LONG time I've seen any amount of saturated fat on anything I eat! Yikes! It likely mostely comes from the coconut oil in the yummy chocolate coating though.


I have never tried the Rice Dream before but do LOVE the Soy Dream brand -- absolute best soy ice cream I've ever had.  My parents served Soy Dream Strawberry Swirl at my high school grad party and I served it to my non-vegan friends for my Quarter Century Crisis Birthday party -- and it was a huge hit.

My all time favorite ice cream flavor is Butter Pecan - and Soy Dream makes a fantastic one.  Soy Dream brand seems to be (erroneously) slowly disappearing from the stores so last Saturday at the store I came face to face with a pint of Tofutti Butter Pecan.

Again, having run 4 miles in 90 degree heat that morning, I justified the purchase.

Tofutti "Better Pecan," as its called, looked smelled, scooped fantastically like real ice cream.  It's butter pecan flavor is fantastic. Its creamy, melts nicely.

Nutrition Info

1 serving = 250 calories for 1/2 cup. 

4servings per container

15 grams or 23 % of your daily allowance of fat; 

3 grams or 15 % of your daily saturated fat

23 grams sugar  

2 grams protein

0 mg cholesterol (its vegan!)

However, it had just a hint of that sort of gummy, sea-weed collagen taste-texture.

My only recent comparison, is again, Soy Dream, which is a thoroughly creamy-ice cream taste and texture through and through.

Two days later however, and the Tofutti "Better Pecan" is gone. And not because the trash guy came today.

In conclusion, the Rice Dream Bites were indeed dreamy, and the Tofutti ice cream was OK but not may favorite.