Well, the only icecream I liked is now an ‘ice confection’. No longer gonna get it. Any recommendations for actual icecream?
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Well, the only icecream I liked is now an ‘ice confection’. No longer gonna get it. Any recommendations for actual icecream?
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Golden North
Bulla, connoisseur and the aldi connoisseur knock off.
Bulla is still the real deal. Also a shoutout to Norco, a new Australian brand we stumbled across at Woolies the other week. Low fat but it felt creamy and we could actually taste vanilla.
Get a ninja creami.
Make all the lactose free ice cream you want
Aldi Vanilla is still Ice Cream.
Can’t legally call it ‘ice cream’ when it contains no actual dairy.
Did they change the recipe? If not, why would the name bother you that much?
That being said, coconut ice cream is a great alternative to dairy ones. The Pana Organic mint choc chip is my go to. That or the Aldi brand one.
Get Haagen Dazs, its vanilla ice cream only had 6 ingredients: fresh cream 39%, skim milk, sugar, water, egg yolk, vanilla extract. It has no emulsifiers or vegetable oil but actual cream.
ETA: you can take lacteeze tablets which is lactase enzyme so you are not restricted to lactose free ice cream
Bulla and some Lacteez
I hear great things about Golden North ice cream , but cant find it on the shelves.
It needs a % milk fat (like 10% or so) to be considered an ice cream.
For this product, they would need to drop the vegetable oil and replace with cream to get the milk fat % up high enough for the product to be called ice cream.
Oh that’s shit.
Don’t know of any other lactose free ones that aren’t vegan.
Which are fine – but don’t hit quite the same as a diary product.
Need to crack out the Creami more..
Mungalli Dairy if you have access to it! I’m fairly certain all of their ice creams are lactose free, but they are honestly the best ice creams around 🤤 Banana choc chip is my fave.
It’s from Far North Queensland.
This was my favourite (and also the only) tub of lactose free ice cream available in my local stores. This is devastating 😭
I wrote an email to the a few months back.
Response was:
We thank you for supporting Peters Lactose Free and we are sorry to hear you are finding this product unpalatable.
Over the last couple of years, the world has faced significant changes, and sourcing certain ingredients has become more challenging. To continue bringing you the delicious products you love, we’ve refined some of our recipes. Quality remains our top priority, and any changes we’ve made are designed to either maintain or enhance your experience.
Please be assured we will pass your feedback onto our Marketing and Product Development Teams.
Bulla Murray St Vanilla Bean ice cream is by far the best vanilla ice cream I’ve ever had! I highly recommend you try it. 😁
Looks like they’ve replaced cream with vegetable oil. It used to contain 26% cream according to the pics on the woolies site
https://www.woolworths.com.au/shop/productdetails/000000000000121116
I hate how this has been happening to so many brands of (what was once) ice cream. It is getting to the point where I have to closely check the ice creams that I am buying just in case they decided to become iced confectionery…
Can’t call it ice cream if it doesn’t come from the Ice Cream region of France.
Fellow lactose intolerant ice cream addict here, as you can see in the ingredient list there isn’t anything special about the lactose free ice cream other than lactase. Why not just buy regular ice cream and take lactase (Lacteeze) tablets?
If you can find it, I highly recommend Mungalli. It’s actually lactose-free, unlike most of the other suggestions here! You just might have to hunt a bit as it’s not sold in any of the major supermarket chains. I found a tub of their mint choc chip recently in a local organic grocer. You may also be able to find it online. It is a bit pricey, given the organic label, but good quality and appropriately creamy.
It’s not an icecream, but I love plant based golden gaytime. It tastes like the real deal. I don’t look at its ingredients list.
I make my own. Get a compressor machine and you can make any flavours you want
As I am interested in making my own home made ice cream, I put together some info about models available in Australia and comparative prices, that may be useful
|**Brand & Model**|**Type**|**Approx. Price**|**Key Function**|
|:-|:-|:-|:-|
|**Breville The Smart Scoop**|Compressor|$400 – $530|Self-freezing; 12 hardness settings; keep-cool function.|
|**Cuisinart Compressor**|Compressor|$500 – $660|Self-freezing; 1.5L capacity; simple touchpad controls.|
|**Ninja CREAMi (NC300)**|Processor|$300 – $450|Shaves frozen blocks; 7 programs; ideal for protein/healthy bases.|
|**KitchenAid Attachment**|Mixer Accessory|$145 – $210|Attaches to existing stand mixer; requires pre-freezing bowl.|
|**Tefal Dolci**|All-in-One|$250 – $350|Multi-purpose; makes slushies, milkshakes, and cocktails too.|
|**Davis & Waddell Digital**|Freezer Bowl|$80 – $130|Budget-friendly; requires 8+ hours pre-freezing.|
Also an explanation on what is the difference between a Compressor & Processor type
|**Feature**|**Compressor Machine**|**Processor (e.g., Ninja CREAMi)**|
|:-|:-|:-|
|**How it works**|Uses a built-in cooling unit to freeze the liquid base while it churns.|Shaves and blends a pre-frozen solid block of base.|
|**Preparation**|No pre-freezing needed; ready to use immediately.|Requires freezing your base in specific tubs for 24 hours.|
|**Best for**|Making traditional custard/ice cream and consecutive batches.|Making high-protein, low-calorie, or dairy-free treats.|
|**Texture**|Produces classic, creamy “churned” ice cream.|Produces a very smooth, dense, soft-serve style texture.|
|**Planning**|Low (spontaneous).|High (must plan 24 hours ahead).|
I bought the no sugar one. Ate too much of it and was shitting and had insane cramps for a night. Apparently in the sugar free, it has an ingredient if you eat too much it causes a laxative response
I absolutely love haagen dazs. It’s genuine ice cream, has very few ingredients and absolutely no stabilisers, colours or gums etc
Love love love
Still pissed off to discover it contains gluten when pretty much all other ice cream doesn’t!
I’m lactose intolerant- but daughter is coeliac! So I had to give up my “ice confection”
This shit was the bomb nooooo
Ha! Don’t even get me started on Greek Yoghurt. What the fuck is Greek Style Yoghurt?