Skinny Cow - more like mad cow (The Skinny Cow Cookies 'n Cream Ice Cream)

Member Name: deb10

Product:	The Skinny Cow Cookies 'n Cream Ice Cream
Date:	09/06/05 (1296 review reads)
Rating:

Advantages: Less calories

Disadvantages: Tastes yuk

Skinny cow cookies and cream sticks:
I must apologise to the manufacturer of these new ice cream lollies. I am sorry if the following opinion offends you but I am writing this review being open and honest. I also apologise to the other writers of Skinny Cow Ice Cream whom seem to praise this item up. Sorry, but I’m not with you on this one. However much I tried to like them, I couldn’t.
There’s no point in me praising up something so vile and disgusting, especially as I have wasted nearly £4 with this purchase of two packets of lollie sticks.

So what is Skinny Cow?
It’s a new variety of ice cream for people on a low calorie diet, though my husband tried one and he has a smaller rear end than me, so enough said there. However he is an expert on ice cream and he binned his after two licks.

Skinny Cow is reduced fat ice cream and comes in a small variety of flavours, very berry and chocolate fudge and of course chocolate chip cookie being the one I bought today. It’s a new concept so I presume they aim to expand the range of flavours. They come in tubs and lollies. The tubs resemble Ben and Jerries ice cream but no where as good.
I haven’t and probably will not try the others so cannot comment on how they taste.

Let’s rewind to the beginning:
I bought this box of four lollies from Asda today. I’m on a diet having joined Slimming World last week and I just need that sweet fix each day to get me through. I saw the advert for Skinny Cow products in one of my weekly mags and made a mental note of trying them.
I did a large internet shop from Tesco last night and they didn’t list Skinny Cow on their ice cream list. So in desperation for something chocolaty I took a quick drive to Asda and bought a pack of four for £1.98. Infact Asda had a lot of the ice cream there which surprised me, a whole freezer shelf to be exact.

The journey home:
Well today of all days its hot. The 15 minutes it took from the checkout to my front door and all eight sticks were a mangled mess. I put them back in the freezer (not sure if I was supposed to but took a chance) and three hours later they were solid again but all an odd shape.

The wrapper:
The wrapper is black and white with Friesians all over the place, very easy to open. Not sure if the wrapper is made from re-cyclable materials though, it doesn’t say it is.

First Appearances:
A bit smaller than a Feast. Looks like a naked skinny Magnum. Good sized stick, enough to grip with without getting sticky fingers.

The First Bite:
Very soft and the texture felt like cotton wool. There is no chocolate covering so don’t expect that “magnum” moment when you bite into it. Your teeth sink in quite easily but then you ate left with what feels like a wedge of A4 paper shoved up to the roof of your mouth. It even tastes like paper and the aroma ( Im being polite here) passes up through to your nostrils. It’s revolting.
As for the cookies n cream bit, forget it, more like fragments of pencil when you have just done some sharpening.
It looks synthetic and with a taste to match.
I was expecting something like Hagen Daz Cookies n Cream which is just orgasmic on the tongue and taste buds. Yes I know the calories are just a fraction of Hagen Daz but the reason is because you can’t finish it. You take one bite, bin it in disgust and consume only 25 calories. Great ice cream!

What is the claim?
Less than 2% fat and 89 calories a stick.

Who makes it?
Manufactured under licence by Richmond Ice Cream Ltd.

Skinny Cow
Richmond Ice Cream
Manston Lane
Leeds LS15 8SX

www.skinnycow.co.uk

What’s inside?
Skimmed Milk Powder (more like babies SMA )
Sugar
Cookie Pieces (I find that hard to believe and even harder to digest)
Cocoa Powder
Wheat Flour
And a host of chemicals I cant even pronounce. However I didn’t see the dreaded word “Aspartame” which is a bonus.

The ingredient list is so small that I didn’t think about reading it before I bought the ice cream. All I had in my mind was devouring this delicious low fat ice cream stick. I’m not one for additives and wouldn’t have even picked the box up if I knew beforehand what was in it.

If you are still willing to give it a try, then it does contain traces of nuts, so be careful if you have a nut allergy.

Nutrition:
As Paul Daniels would say “Not a lot”. Here’s a few facts and figures.
Energy – 89 k cals
Protein - 3.2 g
Fibre – 1.0g
Sodium – 0.06g
Carbs – 16.9 g t

These are all based on one lollie stick, not eating the box!

Conclusion:
Well sorry Richmond Ice Creams, I will not be buying this ever again. I am angry that I wasted £4 when I could have had two packets of chocolate hob nobs. Walls don’t panic, this company won’t be putting you out of business.
Out of the seven sticks eaten here , I rate it 1/10, my mum gives it –3/10, my son aged 7 said errrrrh and binned it after one lick, my middle child aged 5 didn’t even bother taking it out of the wrapper, my hubby with a smaller waist than me gives it 1/10 because he liked the wrapper and my baby threw hers. Enough said.


Take care X

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