Reviews Filed Under 'Dried Fruit'
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
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: $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
Price: $2.49
Serving: 1.5oz.
Servings Per Container: About 6
Calories: 120 per serving
Fat: 0%, 1g
Cholesterol: 0%, 0mg
Sodium: 0%, 10mg
Protein: 2g
Carbohydrates: 10%, 28g
Fiber: 48%, 12g
Sugar: 16g
Weight Watchers Points: 2 Per Serving
Trader Joe’s says: Trader Joe's Fiberful Ends & Pieces are completely handmade which results in somewhat uneven sheets of the delicious dried fruit snack. In order to have nice clean edge on the bars, the large sheets must be neatly trimmed. In this bag are cut sheets of delicious, high fiber fruit snacks.
We say: Several months ago Fiberful fruit bars made an appearance at the DC Trader Joe's. Snack Lounge rejoiced in those delicious, semi-filling fruit bars, both for their taste and their promise of regularity.
Then, one humid summer day, in an event that occurs daily in Trader Joe's stores across the country, the bars disappeared. This phenomena, which was been documented with the tragic half-year loss of Chicken Gyoza Potstickers, creates a constant, consumptive fear in the hearts of avid Trader Joe's shoppers.
The bars still aren't available in the DC store, which makes the appearance of this bag of ends and pieces all the more strange. Where are the ends and pieces coming from? Has Trader Joe's been storing them up for months? Are they switching to an 'ends and pieces' only business model? We don't know the answers to these questions. We do know that the ends and pieces cost about one-fifth as much (by weight) as the individual bars.
So, if we're such Fiberful bar lovers and these are even cheaper, why did they get just two stars? It turns out that half of each bad bag is inedible.
Each package contains an assortment of fruit bar chunks. Only some of these are the delightful apricot version. The others are completely unidentifiable. They taste like dried fruit bars, but they don't taste like fruit. Yes, this sounds odd, but imagine that you've just had a piece of the apricot bar. You've enjoyed the mellow, rich, compounded flavor of dried apricots. You didn't notice the 'fiber' part at all. There is peace and harmony in the world.
Then you reach into the bag and pull out another piece. But this time, instead of the fruity flavor you've come to expect, you're greeted with a bland, disappointing, unidentifiable chunk of dried fruit mush. Ick. If Trader Joe's allowed us to select flavors, then these bags would come close to replacing our need for the bars. However, with the sad surprise of detastified fruit, we won't be buying these again.
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Posted on August 30, 2007
Categories: Dried Fruit, Mixed Fruit, Trader Joe's, Two Points, Two Stars
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