June 22, 2018
Once a month the local senior center collectively celebrates everyone’s birthday that falls in that month. When the center lost their birthday ice cream donor, we volunteered to fill that role. So once a month we trek off to Aldi to buy 4 of these (assorted flavors) for the senior center. At a total cost around $10, it’s no big deal.
The birthday celebration takes place during the senior lunch at the center. Since I’m never present for the senior lunch, one day it occurred to me that I’ve never actually had any of this ice cream. To rectify that obvious problem, here’s a review.
No one would ever confuse this ice cream with something like Ben & Jerry’s, but it’s still pretty good on its own. While the first ingredient on the label is cream, it’s not the creamiest ice cream I’ve ever had. But it’s still creamy enough to make the mouth feel good. The sweetness is just about right, neither too sweet, nor not sweet enough. The flavor is spot on for butter pecan. The pecans are to go nuts for. Plentiful and big, if the pecans were removed from the ice cream, and sold alone as a bag of nuts, you’d come close to paying the same price.
When compared with a store brand on sale from a local full-service supermarket, this is much better. The store brand was $4 on sale. But the real problem was the lack of quality. This is good. The major supermarket brand was not.
Calories 170 per half cup serving (67g)
Price $2.39 per 1.5 quarts (1.4L), 12 servings per container
Disclaimer:
This is an independent review of a product purchased from ALDI. The author(s) are customers of ALDI and have no business or other relationship with ALDI. If you have an issue with the product and desire to contact ALDI, either see your local store manager or use the ALDI customer contact URL immediately below to send a message to ALDI.
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Tags: aldi, belmont, butter pecan, calories, food, ice cream, nutrition, price, review
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02/01/2019 at 14:41 |
I suggest you get pecans from another company. I could not enjoy the ice cream because of picking bad pecans from your butter pecan ice cream.
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06/23/2018 at 15:37 |
How absolutely lovely you do this for the seniors. What a treat for them Steveo.
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06/23/2018 at 17:28 |
Thanks. It’s really not much. Now, if they asked me to also bring a few bottles of wine, I’d probably find a way to stay for lunch.
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06/26/2018 at 22:40
My view too. Ha ha.
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06/22/2018 at 12:19 |
Serving size is one-half cup. I don’t anyone (excluding those on a restricted diet) who eats ice cream and limits their serving to one-half cup. But then, like me, most of my friends are hearty eaters.
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06/22/2018 at 13:18 |
Yeah, many of the serving sizes on most food seems to be unrealistic. There must be some labeling requirement to standardize a serving size for comparison between brands.
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06/24/2018 at 17:58
I think I saw or heard something a few months ago about an attempt to make serving sizes more realistic. The cynic in me says it will be years, if ever, til this happens. All the various food councils will fight tooth and nail to block it from happening.
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06/24/2018 at 21:16
I’m with you, especially with something like this where it’s up to the person to decide what the serving size is. A slice of bread is easy. This, forget about it.
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