Or make your own. This weekend, I'm gonna make vanilla custard and honey custard. Yay for ice cream season!

For readers who care, Temptation Soy Ice Cream from Chicago Soy Dairy is wonderful, as is Good Karma "rice" cream.  I've also heard great things about the new hemp-based "ice cream" from Living Harvest called Tempt.

For vegans and lactose-intolerant folks, Coconut Bliss is where it's at: http://www.coconutbliss.com/

Personally, I prefer vanilla ice cream recipes that do not have eggs in them because I think the egginess interferes with the crisp, clean vanilla taste. My favorite of those you tested is Stonyfield's Gotta Have Vanilla, but by far my favorite organic vanilla frozen dessert of all time was Howler brand Organic Vanilla Bean Gelato. It was made with Mexican vanilla extract and vanilla bean specks, giving it the most wonderful clean, strong vanilla taste. It also had a luscious dense texture because no air is whipped into gelato. Unfortunately, Howler Products went out of business 4-5 years ago. Howler donated 1% of its profits to Conservation International to fund rainforest preservation, too, all the more reason to bemoan their demise. Their other gelato flavors included Mayan Blackberries & Cream, Chocolate Hazelnut, Dark Forest Chocolate, Mocha Chocolate Chip, Aztec Cappucino, and Chocolate Orange Passion, and they made multiple sorbet flavors, too. Man, I miss that Vanilla Bean Gelato. I've tried other vanilla bean flavored gelatos at gelato shops but none of them lived up to my memory of the Howler recipe, and none of them were organic, either.

Stonyfield Farm's Gotta Have Vanilla is the only organic vanilla ice cream I know of that's not made with eggs, which must explain why I prefer its flavor over the other brands.

I also wonder whether the execs at B&J's and/or Unilever (B&J's parent company) were uncomfortable with selling organic ice creams, fearing that this drew unwanted attention from committed organic buyers to the fact that the great majority of B&J's flavors are conventional.