Häagen-Dazs® – Made Like No Other

Tweet Did you know that honey bees play a key role in creating the ingredients used in nearly 40% of the Häagen-Dazs ice cream flavors? Right now they have a limited edition ice cream flavor – Vanilla Honey Bee – that I am just dying to try. our vanilla honey bee ice cream blends creamy [...]

chunky, chewy, rich and gooey

Tweet The great folks at Blue Bunny found out that I love coffee ice cream (I may have mentioned somewhere that it’s my favorite when mixed with a Heath Bar), so just the other day we received 5 cartons of this creamy coffee goodness! I didn’t know much about Blue Bunny ice cream before, so [...]

Homemade ice cream IS the best!

Tweet I remember mixing together the ingredients for fresh ice cream, as a little girl, and enjoying a big bowl after the agonizing wait … There is just something about homemade ice cream on a hot summer day, especially if it’s made with fresh strawberries! I think every family should experience the joy of creating [...]

Screamin’ Winners

Tweet There are 30 people who are about to win some scrumptious prizes, and I am so excited! Ready? Here are the winners*… 25 Baskin-Robbins winners, each to receive $4 in gift checks: CrystalGB Sweetpeas Mindy windycindy Silly Lilly & Family – Marybeth I. Kathleen Bakersdozen janetfaye hsb suzanne Rick Bucich Sheila Jenn mamikaze Deb [...]

BlogHer ’08, here we are!

Tweet Boy, has it been a rough few days! Ray and I both ended up getting sick (as did Ethan-the last of the kiddos), we had issues with what to do with the baby (last minute), and we didn’t make it to the city in time for most anything on Thursday… Ah well, we’re here! [...]

Baskin-Robbins Goodness

Tweet I am silly excited about the fact that Baskin-Robbins is joining us this week! When I was in high school, the owners of a Baskin-Robbins store close to us was a home school family, and my mom tutored their two children in English. In exchange for her time, my sister and I learned how [...]

Unusual Flavors

Tweet Yesterday Sara left us the following bit of trivia: Among the most unusual flavors of ice cream ever manufactured are avocado, garlic, azuki bean, jalapeno, and pumpkin. Perhaps the weirdest of all: dill pickle ice cream , which was marketed to expectant mothers. Sales were disappointing. As much as I love avocados, I’m not [...]

Scoop It, Baby!

Tweet My all-time favorite ice cream creation is not very fancy. I can eat a bowl of coffee ice cream with Heath Bar chips in it any day! What about you? Perhaps you are a milk shake kind of person? Would you rather indulge in a banana split or a sundae? Or, maybe you’re like [...]

I Scream, You Scream…

Tweet We all scream for ICE CREAM!! Welcome to the From Dates to Diapers Ice Cream Cyber-Social! I have some fun things planned for this week… We’ll be playing games, meeting new friends and, of course, there will be lots of ice cream related prizes to be won! Do you know why Ice Cream gives [...]

A Good Excuse to Eat Ice Cream

Tweet July is National Ice Cream Month! Who do you think declared July as such?A) Ben & JerryB) Baskin RobbinsC) Ronald ReaganD) The International Ice Cream Association (yes, there is such a group!)? Ronald Reagan is the correct answer! In 1984, President Ronald Reagan declared July as National Ice Cream Month and the third Sunday [...]