Review: JELL-O Mix-Ins German Chocolate Cake Pudding

German Chocolate Cake is just about the definition of decadence in my mind.  Chocolate galore, pecans, almonds, coconut, etc., it's all there.  It's just about as rich as you could imagine and frankly, it's delicious.  When I was in Meijer and saw that JELL-O was going to try to re-create that decadence in pudding form, I knew I was due for another JELL-O Mix-Ins review with this review of the JELL-O Mix-Ins German Chocolate Cake Pudding.  I picked up this two pack at a bargain basement sale price of $1.25 and each pudding cup is roughly 3.4 ounces and 150 calories.

Review: Nature Valley Peanut Butter Granola Thins Crispy Squares

Not sure why, but my local Dollar Tree has been stocking a lot of Nature Valley products lately.  I've already reviewed one of those products that I picked up there but since they had multiple variations, I picked up a box of these Nature Valley Peanut Butter Granola Thins Crispy Squares for $1.00, naturally.  Obviously these are not $1.00 in the "wild" of the grocery store, so I would anticipate that you could grab these in the $3.00 range typically.  Each box contains 10 individually wrapped squares and each square is 0.6 ounces has 90 calories with a one lone gram of protein.

Review: Muller Greek Corner Lowfat Yogurt with Blackberry & Raspberry

Due to a new product introduction of Muller products at my local grocery stores, I exhausted myself on a series of Muller reviews.  Despite my exhaustion, my foolish personality sees fit to continue to review product until the end of time, so that leads me to another review of a Muller Greek Corner product with this review of the Muller Greek Corner Lowfat Yogurt with Blackberry & Raspberry single serving cup.  I picked this one up at an even more special 11/$10 sale at Kroger, so the unit price is about $0.91.  Each cup is 5.3 ounces and has 140 calories with nine grams of protein.

Review: Nabisco SnackWell's Cinnamon Raisin Cereal Bar

In my continuing voyage through the incredibly competitive cereal bar market, which is mystifying to me by the way, I've got another review of a bar that I've received via my favorite time of the day...company snack time!  Naturally, I didn't pay for this (my hard work did), so I can't identify a cost.  What I can identify is that this Nabisco SnackWell's Cinnamon Raisin Cereal Bar is 1.23 ounces with 140 calories and a surprising eight grams of protein.  It's my first ever review of a SnackWell's product, which is one the huge list of mass marketing product manufacturers, so we'll see how this goes.

Review: NuGo Organic Dark Chocolate Pomegranate Bar

As I've come to find out writing reviews for this blog over time, dark chocolate can be kind of hit or miss.  Sometimes it's really good and other times it's awful.  It's been the same hit or miss proposition for me in previous NuGo reviews and being that I was armed with one last free product coupon that NuGo had so graciously sent me, I picked up this NuGo Organic Dark Chocolate Pomegranate Bar on a trip to Kroger to try out.  It's 1.76 ounces, 190 calories and has ten grams of protein.  The wrapper on this bar made a big production of how this was enrobed in "REAL" dark chocolate instead of a chocolate flavored vegetable oil, so I guess that's encouraging...or something.

Review: Hunt's Snack Pack Bakery Shop Apple Pie A La Mode Pudding

I've shared details of my completely absurd love of all things pudding on this blog before and as I mentioned in my prior Snack Pack reviews, I picked up a few of these special Bakery Shop flavors at Meijer one day and that leads me to the last of that group of purchases with this review of the Hunt's Snack Pack Bakery Shop Apple Pie A La Mode Pudding.  Like the others, I got a four pack of these puddings for $1.00 and each pudding cup is 3.25 ounces and contains the calcium of one whole eight ounce glass of milk.  In the case of these, each pudding cup comes in at 100 calories.

Review: Odwalla Berries GoMega Superfood Bar

It's been a while since I've done a review of an Odwalla product, so doing one today is my early Christmas present to you.  I've just had no desire to pick one up because nothing about them has ever screamed "Buy Me" in my mind.  Maybe sheer boredom had set in and desperation for something to do had set in on a recent trip to the store because I actually saw the Odwalla products and stopped to take a look.  It was that stop that led me to pick up this Odwalla Berries GoMega Superfood Bar at Meijer for $1.09.  It comes in at a decent-sized 2.0 ounces and has 210 calories and five grams of protein.

Review: Larabar Uber Roasted Nut Roll Fruit & Nut Bar

While I haven't had a lot of success with Larabar products in general, I have had success with their Uber line of products.  With that, I've got to say that I was anxious to dig into this upcoming Uber product because everything about it sounded like a recipe for deliciousness to me.  So, that delicious sounding recipe for awesomeness (Uber) leads me to this review of the Larabar Uber Roasted Nut Roll Fruit & Nut Bar that I picked up at Kroger for $1.00.  It comes in at 1.42 ounces, is 220 calories and contains only five grams of protein.  For a product filled with nuts, that seems like a abnormally low amount of protein to me, but I'm no biochemist, so what the heck do I know?

Review: Blue Bunny 24 karat Carrot Cake Ice Cream

Kroger has been running some absurd sales on Blue Bunny products recently and after staying away from them for the longest time because I felt their products were too expensive, I've been snatching these up at their discounted price left and right and have already done some reviews.  That sale was still going on a recent trip to my Kroger recently, so I grabbed another one of the Duff Goldman creations in this 1.75 quart container of this Blue Bunny 24 karat Carrot Cake Ice Cream on sale for $2.49.  Yes, it was $2.49 (it was part of a discount sale that added up to extra discounts) when it regularly goes for at least $5.49, so that's some monster savings.  Anyway, each serving is 130 calories and since it is a bigger container than the typical ice cream container, it has fourteen half-cup servings.  Carrot cake is something that I've come to later in life after hating it as a child.  I love it now and because of that, I was anxious for this review.

Review: Fiber One Strawberry PB&J Chewy Bar

A common memory of nearly everyone's childhoods are eating countless peanut butter and jelly sandwiches. The only thing that may have differed from some people's memories are the flavors of jelly that they used on their sandwiches.  In my house, it was always grape.  In some houses though, strawberry sometimes made it into the equation.  It's that peanut butter and strawberry combination that Fiber One is trying to re-create with this Fiber One Strawberry PB&J Chewy Bar that adds to my growing Fiber One review series.  I picked up a box of six of these at Kroger on sale for $2.99 and each bar in the box is one ounces and 110 calories with two grams of protein.  Each bar also contains 10% of your daily calcium intake and 20% of your daily fiber intake (based on a 2,000 calorie diet), so it's packing quite a powerful punch.

Review: Nature Valley Sweet & Salty Nut Almond Granola Bar

I haven't talked about it in a while, so I'll bring it up here again...I LOVE The Dollar Tree.  If you are bored and looking for something to do, it is definitely an amusing way to waste thirty minutes as you can meander through the aisles looking at all the stupid and funny stuff that they have in stock.  Most of the time, the stuff that you see is trash, but occasionally you encounter a treasure and a recent trip, I encountered one of those treasures to add to my Nature Valley product review catalog with this review of the Nature Valley Sweet & Salty Nut Almond Granola Bar.  Since I was at the The Dollar Tree, this obviously cost me a $1.00, but I'd imagine that it would go in the $3.00 range in a normal store.  Each box contains five 1.2 ounce bars and each bar has 160 calories and a minimal three grams of protein.

Review: Blue Bell Krazy Kookie Dough Ice Cream

Every time that I see that Blue Bell is the number two ice cream manufacturer in America, it amazes me.  The reason this amazes me is because we did not have Blue Bell in my area until a few years ago and it's not like I live in the middle of nowhere...I live in the metropolitan area of one of America's fifteen largest city.  So, the fact that it took so long before it was available here is odd.  Anyway, I've been working my way through Blue Bell products here on the blog and I'm now led to a review of this cutely misspelled pint of Blue Bell Krazy Kookie Dough Ice Cream that I picked up at my local Marsh for $2.35.  Each pint contains the typical four half-cup servings and each serving is 200 calories.

Review: KIND Plus Walnut Macadamia + Protein with Peanuts Bar

My predisposition to free stuff seems to rear its ugly head most often in reference to KIND products.  Of all the KIND reviews I've posted on this blog, I think I've only actually paid for maybe two of them at most.  I've gotten the rest of them through KINDING Missions (this one) or via a free add-on to an order that I made on Amazon.com.  So, armed with another freebie, I was ready to dive into another KIND review with this KIND Plus Walnut Macadamia + Protein with Peanuts Bar.  This bar comes in at 1.4 ounces and has 190 calories and ten grams of protein.  It's all natural, gluten free, wheat free, etc.

Review: JELL-O Mix-Ins Strawberry Shortcake Pudding

It's been quite a while since I've done a JELL-O review here on the blog.  I raced out and did a whole bunch of them when the blog was first starting since I'm obsessed with pudding and then only did a sporadic one or two since then as they introduced new flavors.  Within the past few months or so, JELL-O introduced a new product line called "Mix-Ins" where the whole premise of the cup is as the name implies.  It's pudding and then you mix in some other ingredients.  I had always stayed away because the flavors seemed boring to me, but armed with the great equalizer (coupons), I decided to pick up a bunch of these on a recent trip to my local Meijer to try out.  It's that trip that led me to pick up this JELL-O Mix-Ins Strawberry Shortcake Pudding two-pack on sale for $1.25.  Each pudding cup is 3.4 ounces, which is smaller than a typical JELL-O pudding cup, and has 140 calories per cup.

Review: Saffron Road Bombay Spice Crunchy Chickpeas

One of the benefits of writing a highly respected blog (I say that dripping with sarcasm) is that publicity agents from food manufacturers contact you from time to time offering you free products.  It's nice because often times the products you get contacted about is stuff that you would NEVER think to buy and that's definitely the case with the subject of this review with this bag of Saffron Road Bombay Spice Crunchy Chickpeas.  Chickpeas have never really been my thing as I find them to be particularly boring, so that's why I'd have never bought these, but I do love free products, so it's worth a shot.  The resealable bag is 6.0 ounces and contains six servings at one ounce per piece.  Yep, I'm a math genius.  Each serving is 120 calories and is fairly high in protein for a snack at six grams of protein per serving.  These chickpeas are gluten free and also Certified Halal (something I had no prior knowledge of, so I've linked it for those who don't know what that means either).  The front of the bag also had a temperature scale to indicate spice and this one was classified as "Hot", so I had to prepare myself for an adventure.

Review: Balance Bar Bare Sweet & Salty Peanut Butter Bar

I can't tell you how happy I am to right this review.  Why am I happy?  Well, this is the last review out of the gigantic box of sample bars that Balance Bar sent me to try out.  There have been some good ones and bad ones in the reviews, but it certainly has been an interesting journey.  I thought I'd never run out of these, but I finally reached the end point and that leads me to this review of the Balance Bar Bare Sweet & Salty Peanut Butter Bar.  This one has all the standard measurements of a Balance Bar in that it comes in at 1.76 ounces with 200 calories.  The only difference is that it has fifteen grams of protein instead of fourteen grams and as I've been able to discern from all these reviews, the one gram difference is because of the peanut butter.  Other than that, it's all the same.

Review: Patak's Original Dopaiza Curry Simmer Sauce

One of the things that I intended on doing when I started this blog was reviewing ethnic foods.  Fifteen months later, I haven't reviewed a single one (I don't consider frozen food enchiladas to be that) so that FINALLY leads me to my first review of an ethnic food, in this case Indian, with this review of Patak's Original Dopaiza Curry Simmer Sauce that I picked up at Kroger for $2.99.  I'll be the first to admit that I'm not an expert when it comes to Indian food.  I've tasted a lot of it and I've liked a lot of it, but if a person were to ask me what my favorite dish in Indian cuisine was, I would have no idea how to answer.  I just don't have the knowledge.  That said, I do have the knowledge to determine whether I think something is good or not and to somewhat accurately describe the way something tastes, so that's how we'll approach this review.  It's as much of a learning experience for me as it is for you.  By the way, this jar was fifteen ounces and has three half-cup servings at 140 calories per serving.

Review: Quaker Chewy School Days! Best Berry Granola Bar

Writing this review of another Quaker Chewy bar makes me feel kind of like Michael Corleone's quote "Just when I thought I was out, they pull me right back in" from The Godfather, Part 3.  I thought I had reviewed gotten all the Quaker Chewy bars, but little did I know that there was another group of iterations of their Chewy bar line in the stores with this School Days! offshoot.  Curiosity killed the cat and it will eventually kill me as well, so with that curiosity in mind, I picked up a box of Quaker Chewy School Days! Best Berry Granola Bars at Target (it's a Target exclusive product) for $2.29.  Each box contains eight bars and each bar is 0.91 ounces with 100 calories.  What make these bars "School Days!" is that they are specifically angled toward being a healthy snack to put in to your kids' lunch boxes.  They couldn't be more blatant about that intent based on the design of the box, eh?

Review: Zone Perfect Perfectly Simple Toasted Coconut Nutrition Bar

One of the funny things about writing reviews for this blog is that often after I post a review, I hear from the company that was the source of the review with them offering to send me free products, information, etc.  Whether they are just being nice or attempting to buy me off is open to interpretation, but that's a discussion for another day.  It's after a previous review of Zone Perfect's Perfectly Simple products that Zone Perfect contacted me and offered to send me a couple of free samples in that product line to try out, so that leads me to this review of the Zone Perfect Perfectly Simple Toasted Coconut Nutrition Bar.  This one comes in at 1.58 ounces and has 200 calories with ten grams of protein.  It has only eight ingredients, thus the focus on simplicity in the name of the product line.

Review: Muller FrutUp Luscious Lemon Lowfat Yogurt with Fruit Mousse

So my massive Muller review series ends with this review.  Well, it ends at least for now.  I'm sure I'll pick up more flavors in the future, but for now, I'm a little worn out.  So, with the finish line in site, it's time to take a look at this Muller FrutUp Luscious Lemon Lowfat Yogurt with Fruit Mousse.  Like a lot of the others, I picked this up during the Kroger debut sale for $1.00.  Out of all the yogurts I've reviewed, it's the most calorie heavy with 130 calories and six grams of protein packed into the typical 5.3 ounce cup, which look like a Dairy Queen Peanut Buster Parfait cup to me (MMMM...Dairy Queen).

Review: Good 'n Natural Mixed Berry Bar

I mostly thought I was done reviewing Good 'n Natural products, but on a recent trip to Kroger, I noticed that they have a new(ish) flavor that has popped up and that leads me to this review of their Good 'n Natural Mixed Berry Bar.  Being the bargain shopper that I am, I waited a week or two until this was on sale and then grabbed it for $0.99.  The bar pertinent statistics are that it is 2.0 ounces, 230 calories and has ten grams of protein.  It also could be considered edible for just about every person on the planet (except those with nut allergies) as it is gluten free, dairy free, vegan, etc.  Sounds pretty healthy, eh?

Review: Body Fortress Energy Peanut Butter Caramel Protein Bar

It's not often that I stroll into the meathead section of my local Kroger as I mostly stay in the section with the normal protein/nutrition bars like CLIF, etc.  In the meathead section is where you find the hardcore stuff like MET-Rx and something that I found recently in this Body Fortress Energy Peanut Butter Caramel Protein Bar.  When I went to their website, I saw that this was a new product, so that would obviously explain why I have never seen this before in my infrequent trips into the section.  Ever curious, I picked up this bar for $1.25 and it comes in at 1.52 ounces, has 180 calories and also ten grams of protein.

Review: Blue Bunny Bordeaux Cherry Chocolate Ice Cream

As I write this, I've tried to stop keeping ice cream in my house because as you can probably tell from this blog, I eat a lot of it and have kind of gotten out of control.  Still, despite my best efforts, I occasionally break down and see a good deal in the store or see a new flavor that piques my curiosity and I trick myself into picking a container up.  That was the case with this Blue Bunny Bordeaux Cherry Chocolate Ice Cream that I saw at Kroger for the unreal sale price of $2.99 (I also had a $1.00 coupon via their Kroger iPhone app, so what a deal!).  The container is a little bit larger than usual 1.75 quarts (two extra scoops) and each half-cup serving has 160 calories.  Being that this does have those two extra scoops, there's about fourteen servings per container.  I've tried Blue Bunny before and I'm certainly hoping this flavor turns out to be less boring than the last.

Review: Simple Truth Fudge Graham Nutrition Bar

Since my last Simple Truth review, I've come to find out that Simple Truth is just a version of Kroger's private label house brand of nutrition bars.  Those sneaky Kroger people got one past my goalie and duped me into thinking this was a new manufacturer and not them specifically.  Jerks.  But, since I bought a couple of these in my initial purpose, I might as well finish out the reviews and give this Simple Truth Fudge Graham Nutrition Bar to see how it tastes.  Like the last, this one was on sale for $0.79 and it comes in at 1.94 ounces with 230 calories and fifteen grams of protein.  It's organic and naturally flavored, so to quote (and truncate) the great John McClane, "Yippee-ki-yay..."

Review: Dannon Light & Fit Blueberry Greek Yogurt

It seemingly took forever for my local grocery stores to get Dannon's Light & Fit Greek yogurt products into their refrigerator cases.  Once they started stocking them though, I didn't hesitate to start picking them up for review.  I've previously reviewed the Cherry flavor and loved it, so I was especially anxious to try out the next flavor in the product line with this look at the Dannon Light & Fit Blueberry Greek Yogurt.  I got this one at Kroger on sale for $3.49 for a four container pack.  Each container is 5.3 ounces and 80 calories with twelve grams of protein.  Like I said last time, I'm not sure how they limit this to a very manageable eight calories, but I'm glad that they do.

Review: Edy's (Dreyer's) Slow Churned Egg Nog Light Ice Cream

To add on to this morning's review of one of Edy's seasonal limited time offerings, I've got this afternoon post of another one of these offerings with this review of Edy's Slow Churned Egg Nog Light Ice Cream as opposed to the multiple review that I've seen of the full power version of this.  I do this because I'm at least attempting to continue the guise of this being a somewhat healthy-ish blog.  Like the last, I picked this up at Marsh on sale for $2.50 for a 1.5 quart container.  Since it is light ice cream, it has a relatively modest 100 calories per serving and there's twelve servings per container.  One thing to note about this Egg Nog ice cream is that I personally despised Egg Nog when I was a kid, so the kid in my dreads this review.  When I got older and was introduced to Egg Nog with alcohol in it, well, let's just say that my opinion of Egg Nog changed, so the adult in me is very much looking forward to this review.

Review: Edy's (Dreyer's) Slow Churned Peppermint Light Ice Cream

I think I've mentioned on this blog before that I used to keep a bag of peppermint candies in my desk and I would go through about a bag a week since I was so addicted to them.  Despite my love of peppermint candies, I've oddly never been a huge fan of peppermint flavored food products.  I know, that's strange.  Regardless, I've seen a lot of people reviewing the full power version of this seasonal, limited time offering, so I decided to add another review of an Edy's product with a slightly different spin in that I'll be reviewing the light ice cream version of the seasonal offering with this review of the Edy's Slow Churned Peppermint Light Ice Cream that I picked up on sale at Marsh for $2.50 for a 1.5 quart container.  Edy's (or Dreyer's in your area perhaps) Slow Churned line is half the fat and one third the calories of the full power ice creams, so this checks in at a fairly decent 100 calories per half-cup serving (twelve per container).  It's almost as if you aren't even eating dessert.  Okay, well maybe not.

Review: Walden Farms Alfredo Pasta Sauce

In the world of pasta sauces, I chose tomato (red) sauce over Alfredo (white) sauce about 98 times out of 100.  Just my personal preference, but after one of my many Walden Farms reviews where I reviewed their abysmal Walden Farms Tomato & Basil Pasta Sauce (posted yesterday), I decided I'd give their Walden Farms Alfredo Pasta Sauce a try even though I wasn't expecting a lot based on my prior review.  Like the last, I picked this up at Kroger for $3.69 and it's twelve ounces.  Like all Walden Farms products it's sugar free, calorie free, fat free, gluten free, etc.  As always, it's a miracle of science.

Review: Fiber One 90 Calorie Chocolate Fudge Brownie

The most absurd part of my work day is when 3:00 rolls around each day and my office has "Snack Time" in the break room.  I've discussed it before and most of the time, the snack is just fresh popped popcorn (which I pass on), but on occasion, there's something in there that is worth grabbing and that's what leads me up to this review of the Fiber One 90 Calorie Chocolate Fudge Brownie.  I obviously didn't pay for this, but I have seen boxes of them in the store where they cost roughly $3.00 or so for six brownies.  This brownie itself is 90 calories (DUH, it's in the name!) and comes in at 0.89 ounces.  Being that fiber is the aim here, the brownie also supposedly accounts for 20% of your daily fiber if you are on a 2,000 calorie diet, so it can definitely help you down in the nether regions.

Review: Walden Farms Tomato & Basil Pasta Sauce

Of all the Walden Farms reviews that I've done on this blog, I think my favorite was my review of their Walden Farms Tomato Ketchup.  It wasn't my favorite because it was so good, but instead because it was so awful and it caused me to write a post loaded with vitriol and disdain for the product.  I don't think I've ever hated something as much as I hated that, so I was hoping that this review of the Walden Farms Tomato & Basil Pasta Sauce would save me from thinking that all Walden Farms products modeled after tomato based on products suck.  I picked this one up on sale at my local Kroger for $3.69 and it's twelve ounces, zero calories, sugar free, etc.

Review: Arctic Zero Vanilla Maple Frozen Dessert

To say my last Arctic Zero review was underwhelming would be an accurate statement.  I think these hyper low calorie frozen desserts are an awesome idea, but they can get a little pricey.  If the product has good flavor though, that price is worth it in order to save some calories (some of the Walden Farms products, for example).  Since I picked up a couple of pints on my trip, it's time to take a look at this Arctic Zero Vanilla Maple Frozen Dessert that I picked up on the same trip to Kroger for $4.99 (sale price).  It's 150 calories per pint and like most pints of ice cream, it contains four half-cup servings.

Review: Muscle Milk Strawberries 'N Creme Protein Nutrition Shake

In previous Muscle Milk reviews, I've been pleasantly surprised each time by how much I liked their protein nutrition shakes.  I went in each time with low expectations and each time, they far exceeded those expectations to make a quality product.  Expecting that experience again, I figured I would dive into another Muscle Milk product with this review of their Muscle Milk Strawberries 'N Creme Protein Nutrition Shake.  As with all of these, I picked it up at Thornton's in a free promotion and in an occurrence of hilarity (in my mind), this one has sat in my refrigerator for eight months and still has a comfortable amount of time before its shelf life expires.  Wow, these dairy free products (translation: pure chemicals) are amazing.  Anyway, a fourteen fluid ounce container of this shake is 220 calories and has 25 grams of protein.