Categories: Food & Wine

Ben and Jerry’s Half Baked Ice Cream

Many things in life are half baked. Think about all the crazy schemes you have come up with that never went through to fruition. Have you ever tried to get out of doing homework by coming up with some crazy idea on how to get out of class or distract the teacher only to find out that the homework is unimportant and passing the pop quiz is what matters? Whenever you find that one of your half baked schemes comes up short and you find yourself in a rut go out to your local grocery store and pick up a pint of Ben and Jerry’s Half Baked Ice Cream to make yourself feel better.

We all know that ice cream needs to be enjoyed in moderation. What makes Ben and Jerry’s Half Baked Ice Cream so great is that you can be moderate about your ice cream intake while eating two flavors! Who knew that Ben and Jerry would be so bold as to fuse two flavors together in one glorious pint to offer your ice cream heaven in a single scoop? You can dip your spoon in and get chocolate and vanilla ice cream with a bit of fudge brownie and a bit of cookie dough. That is a mouthful of happiness.

Do be certain to exercise some will power and not to turn a glorious thing like a bit of fun ice cream into a half baked scheme and finish the entire container. If you eat it all at once you will blow your recommended daily values and make your stomach mad. There are 270 calories in a container of Ben and Jerry’s Half Baked Ice Cream with 120 calories from fat resulting in 20% of your daily value of fat coming from your spoon. There are 45mg of cholesterol at 16% daily value. There are 85mg of sodium at 4% of your daily value. Calcium only racks up 10% of your daily value from this serving of Ben and Jerry’s so make sure you have milk with dinner.