Ice Cream Prices are too high?

Ice cream is NOT a food essential. It's a treat that B and I buy once or twice in a month, and only one small 1 liter tub, which is enough for two dishes each, for the 2 of us. That size costs about $5 CDN. About $3 USD. JIM.
 

We were just talking about this today with 4th of July nearing. Is it more economical to go out and buy an ice cream machine or just buy it at our local Scoops? We've decided to buy it. Scoops is advertising peach ice cream w/fresh pieces of peach in it. That's what we'll be having. 🍑
 

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I stock up when ice cream is on sale. If I run out and there isn't a sale, I still buy it, just not as much.

I must have ice cream!
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I eat it almost every day, so I need to know it's in the freezer when I want it.

Life without ice cream… I don't even want to think about it! 😟🥺😩😭
 
After my Safeway Signature brand macaroni salad main course for dinner, since its Sunday, went on a sweets binge this evening. Two packages of Swiss Miss hot chocolate consumed as dry powder. Maybe 5 ounces of a very colorful, very creamy frosted, 8 ounce Safeway cake. A few caramel candies. A $1.29 frosted old fashion donut. And ate the below $2.99 on sale whole pint (473ml) of this salted caramel ice cream, vanilla ice cream with salted caramel bands and chocolate cubes.

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I don't know where you live. It's not in your profile. Anyhow in Ohio at Aldi's it's not that bad. I got a box of ice cream drumsticks, 8 of them, for less than 6.00 so Aldi's is a good place to get it.

I don't go to Dairy Queen anymore and haven't in a long time because my car is not so good. I'm not sure what they are charging now but it's probably a lot more than 7 or 10 years ago.
 
Up until the last two months, prices were only slightly above where they were when they put it in smaller packaging while raising the prices to boot.
 
Tommy said:
The four basic food groups: Sugar, Salt, Fat, and Preservatives! Ice cream certainly has two of those covered!!! :LOL::ROFLMAO:
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Don't forget emulsifiers. I used to think the dairy products used in ice cream offered a bit of nutritional value to a pleasurable, if not fattening desert.

I've always read nutritional labels since I was in high school, and I'm sure I read the nutritional contents of ice cream, but then I didn't read a label on ice cream for years because I thought I had a ball park understanding in my head. But a couple of months ago, I read the label to refresh my memory. There is basically nothing there worth the calories involved, the protein content was so little that I basically put the health value of ice cream at zero.

The first thing that occurred to me is that they might be using emulsifiers to mock what dairy products used to add to ice cream. Milk is still indicated in the contents, but I've been suspicious about how much is really there. Back in my teens they proved that they could make passable tasting ice cream using Dairy Queen technology. And the fast food industry when nuts over the stuff.
 
I bought a box of ice cream yesterday at Aldi. $4-ish. 3 year old grandson is in an ice cream phase and I was nearly out. My tolerance for dairy is low, so I eat a little sherbet and non-dairy (usually oat milk based) ice cream now and then. I dislike ice cream made from coconut milk/cream though.

When eating ice cream, its nutritional value isn't uppermost in my mind.
 
I picked up a dozen Great Value waffle cones at Walmart and I really like them. Sometimes I buy GV ice cream for under three dollars. I like the Neapolitan and can skip the chocolate section late in the day to limit caffeine. I also like to doctor up vanilla with additions or sauces.
 
I do like certain flavors of ice cream. Black Raspberry and Peach are my favorites. I generally stop along the highway at an ice cream stand and buy a small cone. I’m in Florida so I have to eat it quickly.
 
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