Halo Top

nicsflyingcircus
nicsflyingcircus Posts: 2,858 Member
in Health and Weight Loss
I see that brand discussed a good bit on this site, so when I saw them on a good sale at my local grocery today, I decided to pick some up. I got cookie dough, cookies and cream, mint chip, caramel macchiato and chocolate mocha chip. I'd 100% have picked up the lemon cake if there had been any.

Tried the cookie dough tonight. First bite was little overly sweet, but otherwise, it was good. Let it sit on the counter for about 5 min before scooping. It managed to be creamy, loads of chocolate chips and the little balls of dough were tasty. I can honestly say I liked it. Is it high end, hand scooped, ice cream? No, but it was better than pretty much any low-fat or reduced sugar "ice cream" I've tried.

Any experienced halo top eater have a reccomendation for the next flavor to try? Thinking one of the coffee ones.
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  • Teabythesea_
    Teabythesea_ Posts: 559 Member
    My favorite flavor used to be peanut butter cup and oatmeal cookie but I haven't bought any in quite some time. The calorie content has been steadily creeping up and the amount of fillings has gone down. I buy chilly cow and breyer's delights now. They're cheaper and taste much better IMO.
  • jdog022
    jdog022 Posts: 693 Member
    Teabythesea_ wrote: »
    My favorite flavor used to be peanut butter cup and oatmeal cookie but I haven't bought any in quite some time. The calorie content has been steadily creeping up and the amount of fillings has gone down. I buy chilly cow and breyer's delights now. They're cheaper and taste much better IMO.

    I agree. Chilly cow brownie batter is great. I still can’t figure out how halo top mint chip went from 240-280. Tastes no different to me. Same with vanilla
  • RunnerGrl1982
    RunnerGrl1982 Posts: 412 Member
    I love oatmeal cookie and red velvet. My top 2. I tried the cookies and cream and found it wasn't worth it. Tasted pretty bland in my opinion. The mint chip is pretty decent though! Haven't tried the others you listed except the cookie dough one, which you've had. :smile:

  • DomesticKat
    DomesticKat Posts: 565 Member
    Peanut butter cup and oatmeal cookie are my two favorites. Lemon cake was too cakey and not enough lemon for me. I like the Target brand (Market Pantry) low calorie pints and have been eating those more lately.
  • blujp
    blujp Posts: 30 Member
    My favorite is strawberry - the others are good but I'd pick strawberry over them any time.
  • nicsflyingcircus
    nicsflyingcircus Posts: 2,858 Member
    I didn't see Chilly Cow or the Breyer's one it my store. Will have to look. We did have something branded "Enlightened", but the nutritional info looked about the same as Halo Top and when I picked up the Enlightened, and lightly squeezed it, it felt crunchy, for lack of a better term, so halo Top it was, lol.

    I don't eat ice cream that often, but am always open to a good taste to calories option.
  • nicnz
    nicnz Posts: 159 Member
    It's a brand only been in stores down-under here in new zealand since September last year so flavour options are a bit limited - am enjoying candy bar, peanut butter & seasalt caramel. Already been through a whole tub in a day on a couple occasions ;)
    The only other brand know of that is similar is isocream.nz - but found it rather tasteless and icy on it's own.
  • Lillymoo01
    Lillymoo01 Posts: 2,865 Member
    nicnz wrote: »
    It's a brand only been in stores down-under here in new zealand since September last year so flavour options are a bit limited - am enjoying candy bar, peanut butter & seasalt caramel. Already been through a whole tub in a day on a couple occasions ;)
    The only other brand know of that is similar is isocream.nz - but found it rather tasteless and icy on it's own.

    In Australia, there is also Fropro which is similar and Peter's do no added sugar vanilla and salted caramel. All have very similar calories.
  • KetoLula
    KetoLula Posts: 29 Member
    I've only tried the lemon cake when they first came to my store. It was good, but I'm not much of an ice cream person (I like soft serve over frozen tubs). So I haven't tried any of the other flavors.
  • Chef_Barbell
    Chef_Barbell Posts: 6,644 Member
    I like the chocolate flavor... rich and creamy to me. Gotta let it sit on the counter before eating it.
  • SummerSkier
    SummerSkier Posts: 5,136 Member
    vanilla is the best!
  • nicsflyingcircus
    nicsflyingcircus Posts: 2,858 Member
    Update:

    Chocolate Mocha Chip is noticeably better that he chocolate chip cookie dough. In fact if someone had served it to me as regular ice cream, I would not have batted an eye.
  • OneRatGirl
    OneRatGirl Posts: 124 Member
    A friend on slimming world has it, the mint chocolate chip tastes the same as any other to me! I'm going to buy some when I remember. I can budget a whole tub if needed for period comfort food. The birthday cake looked nice too, they liked the peanut butter one too.

    Not quite as good as Ben and Jerry's for me, for a standard treat when I have any sense of portion control I'd probably buy B&J still, but the high cream content does up the calories a lot.
  • New_Heavens_Earth
    New_Heavens_Earth Posts: 610 Member
    I like the dairy Pancakes and Waffles and Candy Bar flavors. The rainbow was awful and the Oatmeal Cookie tasted like sand. I prefer Enlightened because it's chunky and has actual swirls in it.

  • nicsflyingcircus
    nicsflyingcircus Posts: 2,858 Member
    RunnerGrl1982 wrote: »
    DarianJP wrote: »
    Oatmeal cookie is the bees knees. But I prefer Enlightened low calorie ice cream. The peanut butter chocolate flavor is the best, it’s chocolate ice cream with chunky peanut butter swirls. 360 calories for the pint, 90 calories a serving.

    Agreed. Holy toledo that Enlightened PB Chocolate is THE JAM. Love that stuff.

    I don't really like chocolate peanut butter combo. I don't mind like mini cups sprinkled in ice cream (moose tracks style) but the idea of peanut butter swirled through chocolate ice cream doesn't do it for me.
  • anl90
    anl90 Posts: 928 Member
    I loooooove Cookies & Cream! I also recently tried Cinnamon Roll, and it was actually pretty good as well, so if that is something you are interested in I would recommend it. :)
  • endermako
    endermako Posts: 785 Member
    get the candy bar flavor. It's my favorite.
  • clicketykeys
    clicketykeys Posts: 6,579 Member
    Right now pancakes and waffles is my favorite; I'm a sucker for maple flavored just about anything! They also have seasonal flavors - I think right now it's pumpkin pie still, which seems weird. I think of that as a fall thing. But it's tasty!
  • Teabythesea_
    Teabythesea_ Posts: 559 Member
    clicketykeys wrote: »
    Right now pancakes and waffles is my favorite; I'm a sucker for maple flavored just about anything! They also have seasonal flavors - I think right now it's pumpkin pie still, which seems weird. I think of that as a fall thing. But it's tasty!

    They also had a fall flavor that was vanilla maple. I could only find it at Lidl, it had a much stronger syrup taste but no swirls like the pancakes and waffles. I tried so hard to find their gingerbread house seasonal flavor with no luck. 😔
  • Phirrgus
    Phirrgus Posts: 1,894 Member
    Teabythesea_ wrote: »
    clicketykeys wrote: »
    Right now pancakes and waffles is my favorite; I'm a sucker for maple flavored just about anything! They also have seasonal flavors - I think right now it's pumpkin pie still, which seems weird. I think of that as a fall thing. But it's tasty!

    They also had a fall flavor that was vanilla maple. I could only find it at Lidl, it had a much stronger syrup taste but no swirls like the pancakes and waffles. I tried so hard to find their gingerbread house seasonal flavor with no luck. 😔

    Vanilla Maple? I need to try that, as well as the pancakes and waffles. Whole tub. One spoon. One sitting. :D Maybe not, but it's surely better than no ice cream at all.
  • SummerSkier
    SummerSkier Posts: 5,136 Member
    Honestly regular ice cream just tastes too salty to me and gives me night sweats due to the sugar in it. I am in maintenance and have tried both options - small servings of bluebell vs Halotop. HANDS down the bang for the calories is much better with the Halotop. I mean a pint of bb is almost 900 cals and a pint of halo top is 280. If I was tall and my maintenance was higher maybe but for me the trade off - just like PB 2 is worth it. Enlighten and Yasso frozen yogurt are also good.
  • New_Heavens_Earth
    New_Heavens_Earth Posts: 610 Member
    Teabythesea_ wrote: »
    clicketykeys wrote: »
    Right now pancakes and waffles is my favorite; I'm a sucker for maple flavored just about anything! They also have seasonal flavors - I think right now it's pumpkin pie still, which seems weird. I think of that as a fall thing. But it's tasty!

    They also had a fall flavor that was vanilla maple. I could only find it at Lidl, it had a much stronger syrup taste but no swirls like the pancakes and waffles. I tried so hard to find their gingerbread house seasonal flavor with no luck. 😔

    Gingerbread house was like egg nog with gingerbread crumbs throughout. Very tasty, as well as the pumkin pie and peaches and cream flavors. That one had actual peach slices in it.
  • Danp
    Danp Posts: 1,561 Member
    I just noticed they started stocking this in the supermarket near my house.

    It definitely helped me to reduce my calorie intake as when I saw how much they were charging for the stuff I suddenly didn't feel like ice cream anymore.
  • Mistizoom
    Mistizoom Posts: 578 Member
    I also prefer Enlightened over Halo Top, just tried Chilly Cow for the first time though and it was pretty good also.

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