SonomaCrisps Gala Apple with Cinnamon

Price: $2.49
Serving: 1 pouch, .78oz
Calories: 80 per serving
  Calories from Fat: 0
Fat: 0%, 0g
  Saturated Fat: 0%, 0g
  Trans Fat: 0%, 0g
Cholesterol: 0%, 0mg
Sodium: 0%, 0mg
Protein: 0g
Carbohydrates: 7%, 20g
Fiber: 12%, 3g
Sugar: 16g
Weight Watchers Points: 1 Point

SonomaCrisps says: Natural and Baked Slowly Cooked Crunchy Apple

Abi says: I’m a sucker for these baked fruit snacks. They’re stupidly expensive and yet I cannot stop eating them. I could get an ounce of caviar for less than this! Okay, maybe not an ounce of caviar, but certainly an ounce of other things.

Like chocolate.

Each crisp is like an old, under-developed french fry. You know – the ones that you find under the car seat when you decide to undertake that once-yearly vehicle vacuuming session. Yes, these fries crisps aren’t rock-hard and gross. They’re dry and crunchy, but not scary-dry, suck-all-the-spit-from-your-mouth dry like the . The cinnamon adds a bit of spice without overpowering the sweetness of the apple. If you’re rich and you really, really want to eat a bag of Cool Ranch Doritos, but you’re also on a diet, give these crispy apple straws a try.

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Posted on December 9, 2008
Categories: All Natural, Cholesterol Free, Dried Fruit, Fat Free, Freeze Dried Fruit, Healthy Snacks, No Added Sugar, No Coloring, One Point, Saturated Fat Free, Sodium Free, Vegan, Vegetarian

Trader Joe's 100% All Fruit Pineapple Bar

Price: $0.59
Serving: 0.7oz., 1 bar
Calories: 60 per serving
Fat: 0%, 0g
Cholesterol: 0%, 0mg
Sodium: 0%, 10mg
Protein: 0g
Carbohydrates: 4%, 13g
Fiber: 14%, 3g
Sugar: 6g
Weight Watchers Points: 1 point per bar

Trader Joe’s says: Trader Joe's 100% Pineapple Fruit Bar contains nothing other than 100% sweet, ripe pineapple which is ground into a paste and made into a delicious dried fruit treat. No flavors or fillers of any kind have been added.

We say: Trader Joe’s 100% All Fruit Pineapple Fruit Bar is a good snack. It isn’t super filling, but it provides plenty of flavor. It tastes more like canned pineapple than fresh pineapple, but I like canned pineapple. It is surprisingly tart and makes me gleek on my keyboard at least once every time I eat one. (Gleeking is accidental spitting. I’m not sure how well known this word is, but it is on Wikipedia, so I am going to use it even though the spell check says it doesn’t exist.) I appreciate that the fruit bar is 100% fruit and preservative free. Rather than reaching for a peanut butter cup out of my colleagues’ snack drawer, I’m going to try to stick to fruit bars.

Abi just informed me that it is only one Weight Watchers point. This means that if I was on the Weight Watchers program I could eat 20 of them a day (and nothing else). I don’t think that would satisfy me, but I’m not sure that any 20 Weight Watchers points would satisfy me, so I won’t dock any points for this.

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Posted on September 25, 2007
Categories: Dried Fruit, Four Stars, One Point, Pineapple, Trader Joe's