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Mountain House Vanilla Ice Cream Sandwich | Freeze Dried Backpacking & Camping Food

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Flavor Ice Cream Sandwich
Brand Mountain House
Item Weight 1.6 ounces
Package Weight 0.05 Kilograms
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  • Delicious vanilla ice cream in a chocolate cookie sandwich
  • Plan Easier. Travel Lighter. No Mess. Enjoy Anywhere
  • 1 Serving
  • Allergens: Milk, Soy, Wheat
  • 2 year taste guarantee
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Mountain House, Ice Cream Sandwich— Pouch

A layer of delicious vanilla ice cream sandwiched between two chocolate cookie wafers. A perfect sweet treat with no refrigeration required! This no drip fix is the perfect solution for ice cream on the go. Take it with you backpacking, fishing, or on your next camping trip.

● Contains 1 serving

● 2 year shelf life

Who is Mountain House?

For nearly 50 years, Mountain House adventure meals have consistently been the premier choice of campers, backpackers, and survival experts. Born out of freeze dried meals we make for the United States Special Forces, Mountain House food has a proven history of reliability and most importantly, delicious flavor.

With just-add-water preparation and no-mess cleanup, Mountain House is not only the perfect camping or backpacking food, but also perfect for keeping on hand just in case of an emergency.

From the bottom of the deepest ocean, to the tops of the tallest mountains, to the battlefield and back, Mountain House is the food people trust when failure is not an option. Consistently chosen as the best tasting food among outdoor and survival brands, Mountain House is the best camping, backpacking and survival food money can buy.

Mountain House Meals are Perfect for:

  • Emergency Preparedness
  • Camping
  • Backpacking
  • Hunting
  • Fishing
  • Travel
  • Occasional Everyday Use

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Product Description

Delicious vanilla ice cream in a chocolate cookie sandwich.

From the Manufacturer

Enjoy real vanilla ice cream sandwiched between 2 chocolate cookies anytime, no matter the weather. Ingredients: ice cream: milkfat, sugar, nonfat milk, corn syrup, whey, mono and diglycerides, guar gum, cellulose gum, carrageenan, artificial flavor, and annatto color. chocolate wafers: bleached wheat flour, sugar, carmel color, dextrose, partially hydrogenated soybean oil, corn flour, and contains 2% or less of cocoa, high fructose corn syrup, corn syrup, modified corn starch, baking soda, salt, mono and diglycerides, soy lecithin. Allergens: milk,soy, wheat.

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340 global ratings

Customers say

Customers like the versatility and ease of use of the dairy based ice cream. They say it's a great treat on the trail, a good snack for camping trips, and a fun dessert on hikes. Customers also like the taste, saying it tastes like a wonderful crispy icecream sandwich. However, some customers have reported that the product comes broken into pieces. Opinions are mixed on texture, value, and temperature.

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93 customers mention82 positive11 negative

Customers like the taste of the freeze-dried ice cream sandwich. They mention it tastes like a wonderful crispy icecream sandwich, is sweet, but not cloyingly so, and has a sweet melody of vanilla and chocolate. Some say it looks like an ice-cream sandwich and is a cool dessert that won't melt.

"...It looks terrible but imo tastes pretty darn good. Especially if your fortify it with a little bourbon...." Read more

"Super tasty! It came packaged in the bag seen in the image, and was wrapped in the same white paper as the frozen versions are...." Read more

"Great for camping and it tastes great for a freeze dried product...." Read more

"Product arrived as crumbs. The crumbs tasted good, but wouldn't have known it was an ice cream sandwich with out being labeled as such...." Read more

25 customers mention22 positive3 negative

Customers like the quality of the outdoor recreation product. They mention it's a great buy, excellent, and high quality. Some say it'll be a perfect stocking stuffer and a flawless transaction.

"The Neapolitan was excellent. I downgraded the ice cream sandwich as it seems more cookie than ice cream...." Read more

"...She tried a bite and told me that it was pretty good!..." Read more

"It's very good! I ordered one of these to see if it was worth getting more, definitely is...." Read more

"...Reminding me a little bit of an oreo cookie taste. They are really good...." Read more

21 customers mention21 positive0 negative

Customers find the product versatile and a great treat on the trail, camping trips, and long hikes. They also say it's a fun dessert and if good for a quick snack.

"Great for camping and it tastes great for a freeze dried product...." Read more

"...This is a good addition to camping backpacking food or to short term prepper food storage." Read more

"...Great novelty item but wouldn't buy it for a home treat, perhaps beach or park treat." Read more

"...The price wasn't bad 2.50 or so. Nice add-on Item. Will order again. This will be in my survival kit.... Gotta have something yummy in an emergency!" Read more

8 customers mention8 positive0 negative

Customers find the product fun to try and a great Easter basket treat for kids. They also say it has an odd texture but is a neat experience.

"These were fun to try. Our group of kids enjoyed the novelty, but weren't sold on it...." Read more

"...It would be a great Easter basket treat for kids or take away treats for kids parties. I don't think I would purchase it again though." Read more

"...Overall if you are looking for a fun and tasty snack on some kind of camping trip, this is perfect." Read more

"Fun snack for the kids to try. Must cheaper than NASA. Please note that ice cream was smashed when received, but that did not affect the quality." Read more

13 customers mention8 positive5 negative

Customers are mixed about the temperature of the outdoor recreation product. Some mention it doesn't melt, while others say it's not cold, wet, or anything like ice.

"...It quickly melts in your mouth after taling a bite...." Read more

"It's not freeze-dried ice cream, it's meringue between two slabs of chocolate cookie...." Read more

"...Parts do break off as you eat, so even though there are no drips from melting ice cream, you definitely will get crunchy crumbs and chocolate wafer..." Read more

"...Every single bar bought was broken up. So there is no melting mess but the crumbly mess sure makes up for it...." Read more

12 customers mention7 positive5 negative

Customers are mixed about the texture of the outdoor recreation product. Some mention that drying gave it a crispy, crunchy texture in every bite, and they love the texture and how it melts on the desert. Others say that the texture is weird, like soft chalk, and there are crumbs falling everywhere.

"...The result of freeze drying gave it a crispy, crunchy texture in every bite...." Read more

"Tastes like a dry ice cream sandwich. The texture is like soft chalk but the flavor is spot on and it's a lot less messy than the regular frozen kind." Read more

"...They are crunchy and have great flavor" Read more

"...Texture is a little different, but hey..how many people can pack along ice-cream inside their pockets?..." Read more

9 customers mention4 positive5 negative

Customers are mixed about the value of the outdoor recreation product. Some mention it's a good buy at a reasonable price, while others say it'll be expensive.

"...I feel it's a little over priced but I bet it would be a real treat at the end of a day's hiking...." Read more

"Got them for a good price. Nice backpacking treat." Read more

"A good product, but too pricey!" Read more

"Fun snack for the kids to try. Must cheaper than NASA. Please note that ice cream was smashed when received, but that did not affect the quality." Read more

15 customers mention0 positive15 negative

Customers are dissatisfied with the smashability of the dairy based ice cream. They mention that it comes in pieces and is crumbly.

"...Parts do break off as you eat, so even though there are no drips from melting ice cream, you definitely will get crunchy crumbs and chocolate wafer..." Read more

"...It's very tasty but a bit brittle so don't expect it to come out of the packaging in one piece...." Read more

"...They were completely smashed The taste however is fairly similar to that of an ice cream sandwich but biting into it I thought I was eating a piece..." Read more

"...Came broken, but I was kind of expecting that. Not as messy as others have claimed." Read more

Great product, great company
5 Stars
Great product, great company
Already wrapped the sandwich for my husband's stocking! The shipping speed and communication was great, and this awesome little card was included, which I thought was super cool. 100% would buy again!
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A. Reader
5.0 out of 5 stars Its not real ice cream... obviously?
Reviewed in the United States on November 12, 2014
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After watching the video of the frozen walmart ice cream sandwiches that don't really melt even in direct sunlight, I might try those if weight isn't an issue... ;) But barring that these are a great alternative. I mean you gotta keep in mind what your eating. Theres no way a freeze dried ice cream sandwich can ever compare to the real thing, and anybody comparing it anything not freeze dried is really being unfair. Its apples and oranges. If your reaching for one of these instead of going into your freezer you will be sorely disappointed. But I once ate one of these in front of a small fire in 20 degree temps after a 10 miles of hiking in the snow on the 3rd day of a trip... I had forgotten I had packed one and was warming up some coffee... It sticks with me as one of the best meals I ever ate. Location Location Location. I think an astronaut would feel the same way about its deliciousness. Also pro tip: If they're crushed, and sometimes I crush em, I put em in a cup and add a little hot water to it and stir. It looks terrible but imo tastes pretty darn good. Especially if your fortify it with a little bourbon. But it takes practice to get the mixture just right. And you can always add the crumbles to oatmeal.
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Evan
5.0 out of 5 stars Super tasty! It came packaged in the bag seen ...
Reviewed in the United States on December 26, 2017
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Super tasty! It came packaged in the bag seen in the image, and was wrapped in the same white paper as the frozen versions are. It tasted just like a regular ice cream sandwich, and all that was really different was the texture. The cookies are crunchy, but not overly hard, and the ice cream itself is similar to meringue cookies but softer, not having quite as much resistance when you bite into it. It quickly melts in your mouth after taling a bite. I wouldn't quite call this completely mess free, since the ice cream has a tendency of crumbling into dust and little crumbs when you take a bite. However, it's much easier to brush those off than it is to wash up after an ice cream sandwich gone wrong. Overall, I really really enjoyed this freeze dried ice cream for a change of pace (it was my first time trying anything like it) and if not for the price (since the taste is the same as other ice cream sandwiches anyways) I'd probably buy a ton of these just so I could store them in my room whenever I get a hackering for something sweet and creamy without the worry of ice cream drippings, haha! I'll probably buy more of these at some point, and I'm very excited to try othee varies of freeze dried ice cream now as well.
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Elle-Elle
4.0 out of 5 stars Pretty good...many crumbs!
Reviewed in the United States on June 27, 2016
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These were fun to try. Our group of kids enjoyed the novelty, but weren't sold on it. After the second bite, they do taste pretty much like an ice cream sandwich, but I prefer the Mtn House neopolitan over the sandwich. Parts do break off as you eat, so even though there are no drips from melting ice cream, you definitely will get crunchy crumbs and chocolate wafer parts falling off, so don't feed these to a group of kids indoors unless you follow them with a vacuum! :)
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Sammie OK
5.0 out of 5 stars Great for camping and it tastes great for a freeze ...
Reviewed in the United States on June 9, 2016
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Great for camping and it tastes great for a freeze dried product. If you buy this thinking it will be the like the real thing, you might be disappointed. If you buy this product taking into consideration that it is freeze dried, you will not be disappointed. I believe most of the negative comments on this product is due to the fact that the people purchasing it do not have much experience with freeze dried food and were expecting it to be more like a real ice cream sandwich. I've tried other brands of freeze dried ice cream sandwiches and Mountain House has by far the best one.
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Kindle Customer
2.0 out of 5 stars Arrived as icecream dust and crumbs, still tasted good
Reviewed in the United States on February 4, 2020
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Product arrived as crumbs. The crumbs tasted good, but wouldn't have known it was an ice cream sandwich with out being labeled as such. Needs better packaging for delivery. My cat liked the crumbs too as quite a few fell on the floor opening the package.
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HikerBiker
3.0 out of 5 stars Meringue and chocolate cookie
Reviewed in the United States on February 16, 2020
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It's not freeze-dried ice cream, it's meringue between two slabs of chocolate cookie. It's very tasty but a bit brittle so don't expect it to come out of the packaging in one piece. I feel it's a little over priced but I bet it would be a real treat at the end of a day's hiking.

Just imagine a regular chocolate and vanilla ice cream bar but with meringue instead of ice cream. I think the mint one tastes better.
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Ceckho
1.0 out of 5 stars glad I didn't chip a tooth I will definitely not ...
Reviewed in the United States on April 15, 2015
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being a big fan of other Mountain House products, I ordered 4 of these ice cream sandwiches. They all arrived broken. not just broken in half but as if someone had beat them with a hammer. They were completely smashed The taste however is fairly similar to that of an ice cream sandwich but biting into it I thought I was eating a piece of hard candy. glad I didn't chip a tooth I will definitely not order this again and I do not recommend this product.
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Jessica H
5.0 out of 5 stars but they tend to sell out pretty quickly. I decided to check on amazon to ...
Reviewed in the United States on October 26, 2015
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These are delicious! My brother gets these at walmart for when he goes kayaking in the summertime, but they tend to sell out pretty quickly. I decided to check on amazon to see if they had them and was pleasantly surprised. There are other brands of the freeze dried ice creams, but they are more expensive, and have less product per pouch. This brand is $0.02 more expensive (per pouch) to buy on amazon, as opposed to walmart, but they were delivered to my door less than 24 hours after I ordered them, and they have almost double the creamy deliciousness of the astronaut brand. My SO preferred the neapolitan flavour and was hesitant about the sandwich type; however as soon as he tried it he decided they were just as delicious.

Since they are an add on product I actually just ordered a whole dozen of them, so that I wouldn't have to wait for them to be attached to a qualifying order.
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