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[cambri]

it can be regular ice cream, vegan ice cream, frozen yogurt, sherbet/sorbet, gelato, frozen yogurt, popsicles, or anything similar!

which brands and flavors do you recommend? which ones are bad? what are they like? any kind of discussion is allowed as long as it’s about low calorie frozen treats!

[cambri]

so I’m going to talk about halo top! the website says they’re 280-380 calories per pint, but I know the strawberry is 270 calories and I’m not really sure which one is 380, the higher calorie ones seem to mostly be 360. the pints aren’t like a small, single serving container, they’re an actual full pint.

this is a bit long and it’s my personal review of some of the flavors, so I’m going to put it under a spoiler.

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my favorite is the key lime pie, but I haven’t seen it in a really long time. it reminds me of the lime skittles kind of (which they stopped making a long ass time ago lol) but it’s a lighter flavor. there’s also little pieces of pie crust in it, and they’re really good. it’s better than actual pie imo, although I also love key lime pie.

then I also really like the strawberry flavor, it tastes like a strawberry milkshake and I imagine it would make a really good milkshake, although I’ve never tried.

the birthday cake is definitely one of the best too, it tastes like other birthday cake ice creams besides the fact that it doesn’t have any kind of frosting or anything in it.

the chocolate chip cookie dough made with coconut milk is also rlly good, it’s kinda coconut-y and it enhances the flavor a lot. I’ve had other vegan ice creams from other brands and they just taste watery sometimes, but this definitely doesn’t.

the red velvet gets an honorable mention too, it tastes like chocolate and cherries and it’s just really yummy.


then, some of the ones that didn’t rlly blow me away were the rainbow swirl, chocolate covered banana, and green tea mochi.

the rainbow swirl is orange, raspberry, and lime. it was good, but the orange is rlly sweet and it made me feel kinda sick. the flavor is nice, but I wouldn’t buy it again just because it seemed way too sweet.

the chocolate covered banana is just really plain. it doesn’t actually taste like chocolate, the banana flavor is overpowering and it just tasted like banana laffy taffy.

the green tea mochi was pretty flavorless. it didn’t taste much like green tea, and the mochi gave it a weird texture imo.

[cambri]

another low cal brand is arctic zero. it ranges 160-320 calories per pint (full pint) but it’s just really... bad. it tastes so artificial and gross imo.

the two I had were cookie shake and chocolate brownie. they tasted pretty much the same, it was artificial as hell and didn’t taste like the actual flavor, but the cookie shake was supposed to be a cookies and cream type ice cream I’m pretty sure?

[activecheesecake]

For my dear Canadian friends, 

Cool way is 500ml a tub of ice cream and only 320 calories for the mint chocolate chip, chocolate chocolate chip, toasted coconut chocolate chip (the coconut one actually sucks despite me loving coconut flavors) It's better than Halo top imo. The plain vanilla is only 280 cals, but I've never tried it so I can't recommend it. It's kind of difficult to mess up vanilla though lol. They also sell popsicles for 80 cals per bar. They sell other flavors, but they're higher calorie like 340-360cals per tub. 

[Hidingunicorn]

I like to freeze So Delicious’s coco whip. It’s like a coconut whip cream but frozen it’s like an ice cream. It is 30 cal/2 tbsp so it’s 120 calories for a 1/2 cup or 240 for a cup. It tastes really good and is pretty filling


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[amen&goodbye]

I love Yasso frozen greek yogurt bars. Most are around 80-120cals and they taste so good. Better texture in my opinion than a lot of the other diet ice creams. They also have chocolate dipped bars that are a little higher in calories (~150). I like how I can just grab one already portioned out and don’t have to worry about measuring servings.