Reviews Filed Under 'Two Stars'
Price: 3 for $1.00 (sale price!)
Serving: 2 bars, 1.19oz.
Calories: 150 per package (2 bars)
Fat: 8%, 5g
Cholesterol: 0%, 0mg
Sodium: 9%, 210mg
Protein: 3g
Carbs: 8%, 24g
Fiber: 7%, 2g
Sugar: 8g
Weight Watchers Points: 3
Quaker Oats says: Quaker® Sweet & Salty Crunch Granola Bars are the wholesome sweet & salty bar that will satisfy your cravings. Enjoy flavor combinations like the sweetness of honey combined with the crunch of salty nuts and toasted oats!
Abi says: I bought a set of three Quaker Crunch Granola bars because they were on sale. I prefer my granola bars chewy and when a granola bar has “Crunch” in its name, I do not expect my teeth to have a fine time. These bars are not well-balanced in their sweet and salty duality. The ’sweet’ definitely takes over the entire bar experience, overpowering any potential nutty savoriness with a quick kick of sugar and corn syrup.
First Five Ingredients:
- Whole grain rolled oats
- Sugar
- Crisp Rice (rice flour, sugar, salt, dextrose, corn syrup solids, malted barley flour)
- Corn Syrup
- Cashew Splits
The Verdict: Honey comes after sugar, corn syrup, and artificial flavors on the ingredients list. Yikes! We’ll be looking to satisfy our sweet and salty cravings elsewhere.
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Posted on November 6, 2007
Categories: Cashew, Granola Bars, Quaker, Three Points, Two Stars
Price: $1.39
Serving: 1 bar, 1.7oz.
Info below for entire bag
Calories: 210 per bar
Fat: 19%, 12g
Cholesterol: 0%, 0mg
Sodium: 0%, 0mg
Protein: 6g
Carbs: 8%, 23g
Fiber: 12%, 3g
Sugar: 14g
Weight Watchers Points: 5 per bar
Lara says: Two ingredients, one incredible flavor! The unprocessed, creamy cashews are rich in iron, zinc and B Vitamins. The chewy dates have more potassium than bananas. Together they form a bar rich in fiber with 2 grams of heart-healthy Omega-6 fatty acids and 15 essential vitamins and minerals. So much sustaining nourishment in such a simple recipe.
Abi says: The energy bar section of Trader Joe’s is always good for an interesting snack or two. Tired of searching for the elusive Fiberful Bar and refusing to toss half a package of Fiberful ends and pieces, I decided to take a chance on the Larabar.
After scanning the shelves and seeing the words “Cashew” and “Cookie” I knew I’d found my perfect energy bar match.
Or had I?
Initially looks were promising: the bar was studded with cashew pieces and featured a distinctly cookie-like appearance and texture. Mmmmm, cookies. But looks aren’t everything. I’d learned that lesson the hard way in Italy, realizing that while Italian bakers made some pretty incredible tarts, they uniformly sucked at producing delicious cookies.
But this isn’t a cookie, it is a energy bar masquerading under the name ‘cookie’. I’m used to it by now, the bars with ‘cookie’ and ‘pie’ in the names. I’m just waiting for Belgian Waffle and New York Cheesecake flavored bars. They probably already make those flavors and carry them at my local GNC alongside enormous tubs of what amount to legal steroids. And I avoid GNC like the plague.
SnackLounge.com isn’t about body building or poorly informed supplement salesmen. Rather, we are all about helping you avoid about an energy bar that tastes like an old brown couch. You know, one of those dismal ones in a Craigslist ad that is updated every day for two weeks before the owner realizes that nobody is going to buy that couch and finally it appears in the free section.
My mouth was not happy. First, this bar contains only dates and cashews. While I like those things and understand that they can be part of a delicious and healthy energy bar, on their own they DO NOT EQUAL CASHEW COOKIE. In fact, they’re sort of like those no-bake cookies that you make once in awhile because you forget that they’re just not that great. Yeah, like that but with even less flavor. I suppose that if the folks at Larabar added a dash of salt and a drop of vanilla to this snack then it would finally approach flavorful cookiedom. Until then, we’re sticking with Clif Chocolate Chip Cookie ZBars when we want an actual, cookie-like energy bar.
P.S. We have since then tried a couple of other LARABARs that are tasty and delicious (and not boring, like this one) and we’ll report on those in November.
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Posted on October 25, 2007
Categories: All Natural, Cashew, Contains Nuts, Dried Fruit, Energy Bars, Five Points, Healthy Snacks, Larabar, Two Stars, Vegan, Vegetarian
Price: 75¢
Serving: 1.9oz., 4 cookies
Calories: 250
Fat: 15%, 10g
Cholesterol: 0%, 0mg
Sodium: 9%, 210mg
Protein: 4g
Carbohydrates: 3%, 8g
Fiber: 12%, 3g
Sugar: 15g
Weight Watchers Points: 6 points
Nutter Butters says: Peanut Butter sandwich cookies made with real peanut butter.
Abi says: Nutter Butters are a one note cookie. Sure, they provide a layer of crisp cookie and a creamy filling, but both layers taste like off-brand peanut butter. I’m not sure why I even got excited about eating these. I love peanut butter, but it would have been much more satisfying to have the real thing rather than these cookie imitators.
Nutter Butters are much better in my memory than they are in real life. Sure, the peanut shaped cookies are adorable. But you can’t eat adorable.
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Posted on October 3, 2007
Categories: Cookies, Kraft, Peanut Butter, Six Points, Two Stars, Vegan, Vegetarian
Price: $0.99
Serving: 1oz.
Servings Per Container: 2.5
Calories: 150 per serving
Fat: 12%, 8g
Cholesterol: 0%, 0mg
Sodium: 11%, 270mg
Protein: 2g
Carbohydrates: 6%, 17g
Fiber: 4%, 1g
Sugar: 1g
Weight Watchers Points: 3 Per Serving
Frito Lay says: With 2 BOLD flavors in 1 bag, you control the ultimate DORITOS flavor combination. What COLLISIONS combo will you unleash? Also try HOT WINGS & BLUE CHEESE flavors.
We say: We’re supposed to get these because they offer a choice? A choice between the two types of Doritos that come in one bag? Somehow, that doesn’t feel like a choice so much as a damning declaration that we will be stuck with half a bag of unsatisfactory chips.
Snack Lounge has a not-so-secret love of Doritos. Knowing this, we don’t buy them. For one, we enjoy self-denial. And two? We like fitting into our pants. This means that all Dorito enjoyment takes place at barbecues. But with Labor Day approaching, DC’s barbecue season will end and we’ll have to resist the corn chip siren call emanating from every convenience store.
Fortunately, this bag of Doritos Collisions has cured us of liking at least one flavor in the Doritos clan. Our suspicions were originally placed on the Chipotle Ranch. Regular ranch is terrific (mmmm, powdered buttermilk), so do we really want spicy ranch? No. We hate change. Also, we love tacos, so Spicy Taco was a perfect match for our vaguely Hispanic heritage.
Oh how wrong we were. The Chipotle Ranch offered just slightly more zip than regular Ranch flavored (our favorite) Doritos. However, the Spicy Taco chips featured such astrigency that during the time elapse of chewing the second chip we were consumed with the pain one feels from a million canker sores.
Okay, not a million. Maybe four or five canker sores. But really, do you want to feel like you have mouth sores because these Doritos are both strongly flavored and a bit scrapey? No, you don’t and neither do we. In an act of utter out-of-characterness, we picked out the non-Chipotley Chipotle Ranch version and tossed the Spicy Taco Doritos in the trash.
What a depressing way to begin the holiday weekend.
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Posted on August 31, 2007
Categories: Chipotle, Corn Chips, Doritos, Frito Lay, Ranch, Taco, Three Points, Two Stars
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