The Big Muddy Ice Cream Blog

After eating, then later reviewing, Mountain House's Freeze Dried Neapolitan Ice Cream on my backpacking trip this July, Mountain House sent me 3 of their Freeze Dried Ice Cream sandwiches to try for free! My first free product from a food company! So exciting!! On first glance, this treat looks like a shrunken ice cream sandwich. I guess freeze drying will do that. First, bite, crunchy, chalky, and light, similar to the freeze dried ice cream. However, the chocolate cookie wafers were extra crunchy and hard. Taste wise, this treat tasted exactly like its frozen counter part. However, something about the artificial vanilla flavoring in, chalky, airy, freeze dried form reminded me of a marshmallow. In addition, something about this treat, probably the way the chocolate cookie wafer freeze dries, didn't remind me as much of ice cream as the plain freeze dried ice cream did. It was almost like some weird marshmallow-y ice cream-y candy bar. An enjoyable, but strange candy ba...

Alert! Weirdest ice cream blog post you have ever read ahead! If any of you thought that I could actually survive five days without ice cream while backpacking, ha! Wrong. That's why there is freeze dried ice cream, also know as astronaut ice cream. Two of my friends I was backpacking with and I bought ourselves some freeze dried ice cream to bring along on our trip for a treat one night. Each packet of freeze dried ice cream is a single serving. We had a couple of different flavors, and I opted for the neapolitan flavor, a childhood favorite of mine, over mint chocolate chip. Before this instance I had never eaten freeze dried ice cream, which other members of our backpacking group thought was strange. Apparently, astronaut ice cream sandwiches had a moment back when we were kids and I totally missed out on the trend. I guess I was too busy eating real ice cream or something. Thus, opening the package, I had no idea what to expect. I was greeted with a little square of...