Fun With Your Food

Turtle Mountain sent me a BUNCH of product to try. I’ll admit, I haven’t gotten through even half of it yet but it’s not for lack of effort

When the box arrived at my work I announced a mini ice cream party in the kitchen but by the end of the day I was walking around and handing ice cream bars to everyone in my department.

I must say, it was fantastic to be popular for a day.

Honestly, I was curious what regular omnivores would think of this “crazy” vegan ice cream.
Nope, I didn’t tell them it was vegan (I didn’t lie either). All I said was this is ice cream made with coconut milk. That didn’t freak them out too much.
Everyone liked the bars but all said they could taste the coconut flavor, which wasn’t a bad thing.
The woman who sits next to me mentioned her husband was lactose intolerant but made himself sick with ice cream all the time because he missed it. *hint hint* I told her he could eat this and not get sick.
Now they have a new treat in their house and only 2 complaints
1) It’s a little pricey for a pint of ice cream (around 5 bucks)
2) Her son eats the vegan ice cream that’s for his father instead of eating his regular stuff. haha

Anywho, this is my favorite flavor so far. I was tempted to save it for last because I knew I’d love it.

This is a close second favorite. Note that you can’t really taste much coconut in either of these flavors.

Mint chip is my coworkers family favorite so far.

And these seem to be everyone’s favorite bar. I ran out of them at the office on the first day during my mini ice cream party

I already was a fan of using coconut milk in vegan ice cream because of the texture it provides but the variety of flavors in this line is fantastic. Be prepared for a coconut-y flavor in most of them as well as a higher price tag.

The chocolate peanut butter swirl is DEFINITELY worth it though.

Teddy

In going along with experiencing Austin I’ve been trying new Austin products and I’ve already discovered a favorite.

NadaMoo.

Over the summer I went on a little bit of an vegan ice cream making kick (although I didn’t post on here). My trials with vegan ice cream brands have been very hit-or-miss and about 1% of the time I actually love the brand. Thus, my thinking this summer “I could do this and make it better!”
My brilliant idea: use coconut milk for creaminess and natural sweeteners. Well, NadaMoo does this already! They’ve beaten me to it (although I will say my peanut butter chocolate version of ice cream was pretty darn tasty). NadaMoo also one upped this idea by making everything organic. Right now this great vegan treat is pretty much only available here in Austin but if you go to their site (http://www.nadamoo.com), you can request a store near you to get it. If you can try it, DO! I forgot to take any pictures of the actual ice cream but I’m sure I’ll be talking about this again- to show off haha! I decided to try the chocolate version first but I already know that next week I’m trying the coconut flavor.
I’m excited to have this delish company so close by. Hope some of you can give it a taste too!

Teddy
* note- no one at NadaMoo even knows I’m writing about them so this isn’t a shameless promo for them. I actually love this product