It's Yellow!

We don't exactly eat healthy here at the Burrage residence. Lately, we've had grilled cheese and soup for dinner once a night every weekend. Vegetables only happen like twice a month (and I can only partly blame that on Joe and his veggie aversion.) Occasionally, for a special, simple, casual sort of date night, we'll have bacon & cheese fries for dinner - romance straight out of a bag of processed potatoes! Honestly, my healthy meals are sporadically sprinkled in among my quick & easy meals like the occasional nickel or dime among the pennies in my picked-over change jar.

Despite the lack of balanced nutrition, we do take some pride in our (most of the time) avoidance of cookies, cakes & candy. We don't keep the cabinets stocked with Chips Ahoy and brownie mix. Usually, the freezer is completely full of NOTHING INTERESTING, because there's hardly ever any ice cream in there. (There are currently three types of soda in the fridge, but we'll pretend that doesn't count as junk.)

But...yesterday, we went to the Commissary. Since Joe's been on the night schedule for school, he's had more free time, and has taken me to the grocery store a couple of times. (He's romantic and gallant that way, and it makes me super happy because even grocery shopping is so fun with him.) We ignored the candy aisle (even though I didn't want to because I'm kind of addicted to candy at the moment because it was so readily available at Christmas) and skipped the cookie aisle. But then we went down the cereal aisle and I fell prey to boxed evil in the form of chocolate Lucky Charms - perfect for snacking on during late-night weekend video game marathons. Then...Joe asked if I wanted to buy ice cream...and how could I say no to that?

Since we only get ice cream like four or five times a year, I wanted to make this purchase count, and I took my time looking at everything they had before deciding what to get. I thought two sample sizes would be awesome, 'cause then I could have variety without spending too much money. So I got two things of Blue Bell ice cream. And THAT is what I wanted to tell you about.

One of my things of ice cream was of the flavor Banana Pudding, which I knew I had to buy as soon as I saw it. I'd never heard of banana pudding flavored ice cream before. I actually wasn't sure it would be good. But it called to me and I said okay sure you can come home with me. And it did. And I tried some. And guess what!

It's yellow! Well, only some of it. The banana-ey part. The other part is white 'cause it's vanilla. and there are chunks of vanilla wafers in it! And it tastes like cold banana pudding!

Maybe normal grocery stores don't have this stuff, only Commissaries (as is the case with the Sara Lee coffee cake my family likes.) But if your store does have it and if you can eat an entire batch of banana pudding all by yourself so every time you make it you actually have to make two batches so other people can get some, this ice cream is for you.

Also, their chocolate chip cookie dough ice cream is bangin'. The chocolate chip cookie dough actually tastes like chocolate chip cookie dough, and it's soft and mushy like it should be.

But mostly...WOW! BANANA PUDDING IN ICE CREAM FORM! YAY!

P.S.: That's my one of my mom's kitchen towels in the background. I accidentally brought home like two towels and a kitchen cloth when we left after Christmas. (Sorry, mom.) But it's actually really nice to have them. It's like having a little piece of home. To dry my hands on.