To all of my friends who know me, I LOVE ice cream. I honestly used to have a scoop of Edy's slow churned ice cream on a daily basis. I've since tried to become a little healthier and now refrain from this daily indulgence. However, I still feel a scoop of ice cream or frozen yogurt every once in a while does a body good!
A friend recently told me about this Ben & Jerry's greek frozen yogurt. I always like to try new food products and thought I'd give this one a whirl. I've so far tried three of their flavors: peanut butter & banana, strawberry shortbread and vanilla honey caramel. The peanut butter & banana wins hands down, but then again, I am somewhat obsessed with anything peanut butter and banana! The other two flavors I've tried were good runners-up. The calories and fat content comes in somewhere between Edy's slow churned ice cream and Ben & Jerry's (full fat) ice cream flavors - between 180-210 calories and 5-8 grams fat per 1/2 cup serving. The flavors have a slight yogurt "twang," similiar to some of the new yogurt shops popping up all over the place lately. The peanut butter and banana had a salty and crunchy peanut butter trail going through the banana yogurt and to me it was absolute heaven. I've only been able to find that flavor at our local Target though. The strawberry had decent sized strawberry chunks in a strawberry yogurt and small shortbread pieces running throughout. The vanilla tasted a lot more like a traditional, fuller fat ice cream than the Edy's low fat version and had a nice ribbon of caramel and honey running through it. Vanilla might seem too plain to some, but I thought it had a really nice, clean vanilla flavor.
Overall, for about $4.99/pint and a few hundred calories, I'd say this new product by Ben and Jerry's is a winner! Considering this new greek yogurt and frozen yogurt trend, I think it'll be around for a while to come. I know I'll be a repeat customer!
xoxo Melissa
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