I scream you scream we ALL scream for vegan ice cream. Fortunately for vegans and the healthy oriented, ice cream can now be had without the guilt.

Let’s look at five delicious vegan ice cream choices…

Rice Dream

That’s right, this one is made of rice!  Entirely vegan, rice dream comes in both organic and standard varieties.

My personal favorite — Organic Mint Carob Chip

Purely Decadent

Purely Decadent, a Turtle Mountain brand, offers a large soy-based ice cream lineup, as well as a smaller lineup of coconut-milk based ice creams.  Both are entirely vegan and made largely with organic ingredients (the sugar isn’t organic).

The coconut is a bit richer tasting as it has more saturated fat, while the soy milk is a bit leaner tasting, but still a very tasty treat.

Flavor I’ve been dying to try– Coconut Milk Cookie Dough

Organic Rice Divine

I would call organic rice divine one of my top three favorite ice creams.  It has a lot of really yummy flavors that redefine ice cream into an almost gourmet experience.

Like the others, it’s organic and 100 percent vegan.  And for old fashioned types, it comes in vanilla and chocolate, as well as more exotic entries.

My personal favorite – Organic Carrot Cake (warning, this flavor may make you think you’ve died and gone to heaven)

It’s Soy Delicious

Also by Turtle Mountain (see Purely Decadent, above), this dessert is a bit different in that it’s (partially) fruit sweetened.  Personally, I think the flavors are a bit more creative than Purely Decadent’s, though fruit sweeteners take a bit getting used to.

This ice cream is vegan and dairy free.  It uses rice and tapioca sweeteners as well as fruit juice (instead of sugar in purely decadent) — so don’t get confused and think there’s no sugary syrups added.

Personal Favorite – Green Tea

Larry and Luna’s Coconut Bliss

This Oregon-based ice cream is vegan and delicious!  And if you’re looking for a 100 percent organic ice cream, this is the only one on the list.

And for socially conscious sorts, the ingredients such as vanilla which come from tropical regions are all fair trade, preserving local economies and ecosystems.

My personal favorite – Dark Chocolate

That’s our round up of some of the BEST VEGAN ICE CREAMS on the market. Did we miss something?  Let us know your favorite vegan ice cream brand or flavor!!

EDITOS NOTE: Happy TFIG! WeeHoo………ice cream in my coffee….wtf?

Friday Five: Vegan Ice Cream is from groovy vegetarian

1.  Vegetarian Times

Vegetarian Times magazine is a fun read, and a terrific resource for everyone from starting vegetarians, to long time healthy-eaters.  The recipes section of their website is quite spectacular.

They have so many recipes they had to include a full featured, intuitive search which includes categories such as your diet type (vegetarian, vegan, etc.), the appliance you’re cooking with, the season, and even special categories to select a holiday.  If that’s not enough to get you drooling, users can rate recipes, so you’re sure to find good ones.

Check it out here:
http://www.vegetariantimes.com/recipes/

2. VegCooking.com

What better place to find vegetarian recipes than a site entirely devoted to it?  While Vegetarian Times may be slightly quicker and more intuitive for quick recipes, VegCooking is more full featured, with shopping and dining guides, and more.

When it comes to recipes, the site has some delicious ones.  Check out their seasonal article on making a vegetarian Thanksgiving feast.  You won’t be disappointed!!

http://www.vegcooking.com/

3. VegWeb

VegWeb is much more organic in format to most other recipe locations.  Users submit recipes and photos and other users submit reviews.  The recipes here include delicious entries like “Double Chocolate Oatmeal Banana Cookies” and “Vegan Banana Pancakes”.  Strengths are its grassroots nature and the fact that it caters to a variety of diet types.

http://vegweb.com/

4. Savvy Vegetarian

This site has a lot of recipes.  If you can get past a garrish color scheme (at least on my browser) and are willing to dig into the less-intuitive (or at least less graphically pleasing) menus, you should find some good stuff here.

Categories of recipes include bread, beverages, vegan desserts, pastas, salads, soups, and tofu recipes.

http://www.savvyvegetarian.com/vegetarian-recipes/index.php

5. Simply Recipes

Simply recipes is a blog headed by Elise Bauer.  It has a massive list of neatly laid out recipes.  When looking for a random recipes the layout works very well.  Looking for a specific recipe might be slightly harder.  Still, there’s just so many good recipes here, with attractive pictures, that its hard not to love this site.

The site employs several culinary bloggers, so there’s lots of fresh creativity as well.

http://www.elise.com/recipes/archives/vegetarian/

6. BBC Good Kitchen’s Vegetarian Section

BBC?  Like the British news station?  Yep!  The British Broadcasting Company, interestingly has a massive culinary page filled with recipes of all kinds.  To go along with Europe’s Vegetarian-friendliness, BBC Good Food indeed has a full page of vegetarian recipes filled with beautiful pictures.

The recipes are split into Dessert, Dinner Party, Main Course, Starter, and Vegan dishes.  More recipes can also be found under Occasions and Cuisines, but these are not purely Vegetarian, so beware.

http://www.bbcgoodfood.com/content/recipes/vegetarian/

7. The Food Network

I admit, I’ve been a bit of an addict of The Food Network at times.  Even if you don’t find cooking TV shows fun, its hard to deny their eye-catching website’s appeal.  Why do I rank it this low?  Well there’s pictures of meat entrees everywhere, which may turn off some.  And while there’s many vegetarian recipes, including a large soy section, there’s less than some places and they’re less sensitive to special diets like veganism.

Still it’s worth checking out, in my opinion:

http://www.foodnetwork.com/healthy-eating/index.html#tab3

8. Veg Kitchen

Veg Kitchen has an attractive website, easy to follow recipes and a lot of them.  The only thing that I was not a big fan of, and this is pretty subjective, is the lack of images to accompany the dishes.  I liked how some of the sites included tempting pictures to motivate you to embark on your culinary adventure.

Still this site is a treasure trove of some great vegetarian (and vegan) recipes.

http://vegkitchen.com/

9. 101 Vegetarian Recipes

The site “101 Vegetarian Recipes” is slightly deceptively named as it actually has more than 101 vegetarian recipes.  The site has no pictures, but has many good recipes, most of which are Vegan.

One minor note is the site pops up recipes in a new tab, which I suppose can be good or bad depending on your browsing preferences.

http://www.101vegetarianrecipes.com/

10. VegNews

This site wins points for creative appetizing recipes with beautiful color images.  Navigation is easy as well. The only drawback that makes it less than tantalizing, is that there’s only a small rotating selection of recipes and it’s hard to navigate to past recipes.

http://vegnews.com/ (recipes)

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