Review: Haagen-Dazs Cappuccino Gelato

First things first, coffee...good.  Coffe-flavored ice cream...the jury is still out on that one.  In my continuing quest to have to buy an entire new wardrobe due to eating ice cream, I'm led to yet another Haagen-Dazs gelato review with this review of their Haagen-Dazs Cappuccino Gelato.  After taking a look at that link to their site, I came to the humorous recognition that I've reviewed nearly every single flavor they have after this review (as of this writing; that flavor list could and will probably grow in the future).  Knowing that, I was eager to dive into this fourteen ounce container that I picked up on sale at Kroger for $2.49.  Each container contains the customary 3.5 half-cup servings and each serving clocks in at an economical (for Haagen-Dazs) 230 calories.

Review: Kashi Trail Mix Chewy Granola Bar

Office snack time hit up the Kashi bars again, so it's time for another Kashi review.  It's getting to be a broken record at the office...one day Kashi bars and the next day is popcorn.  It continues in that endless loop for ever and yes, I am whining about free snacks.  Yes, I am aware that I really need to get a life.  Anyway, a recent snack time opened my eyes to the Kashi Trail Mix Chewy Granola Bar.  This bar comes in at 1.2 ounces and has 140 calories and six grams of protein.  It's also all natural and is primarily made up of Kashi's seven whole grains mix mixed with whatever the add-ins of choice are and since this is a bar based on trail mix, there's a plethora of them.

Review: Kashi Blackberry Graham Soft-Baked Cereal Bar

Money doesn't grow on trees and neither do reviews, so any time that I'm able to pick up a new food for a review at my company's daily snack time, my wallet certainly appreciates it. With that, I'm led to another Kashi review with this snack time inspired review of this Kashi Blackberry Graham Soft-Baked Cereal Bar. This all natural bar comes in at 1.2 ounces and has 120 calories with a teensy two grams of protein.

Review: Nature's Bakery Stone Ground Whole Wheat Raspberry Fig Bar

After my last Nature's Bakery review, Nature's Bakery itself responded via my Twitter feed that I need to try out their vanilla raspberry bar and while this Nature's Bakery Stone Ground Whole Wheat Raspberry Fig Bar isn't exactly that, it is close and here we are with another review of one of their products.  Actually, I had already purchased this, so I planned on trying another flavor anyway, but it was nice of them to interact via Twitter and give me a (biased) recommendation.  This package, just like the last, is made up of two separate fig bars and the entire contents have a combined weight of 2.0 ounces.  Each  bar in the package is 110 calories and has two grams of protein.

Review: MorningStar Farms Mediterranean Chickpea Veggie Burgers

I've eaten my fair share of MorningStar Farms products for the blog, but the funny thing is that I rarely think to purchase them when I am at the store, so I don't eat them at all except when I do reviews. I guess I don't get them often because they are at the opposite end of the freezer case (let's call it the Netherworld) from where I usually frequent. Recently, I just happened to be strolling thought the Netherworld and I glanced in and saw the "NEW" label on these MorningStar Farms Mediterranean Chickpea Veggie Burgers and being that I'm a sucker for new stuff, I hurriedly reached in and grabbed a box. This box set me back $2.99 at Kroger and each box contains four frozen veggie burgers. Each burger is 2.36 ounces and has 110 calories with 10 grams of protein.

Review: Turkey Hill All Natural Salted Caramel Ice Cream

It has been a while since I've taken a look at a Turkey Hill product.  I guess it's because their recent limited edition flavors haven't really piqued my curiosity much.  One thing that has piqued my curiosity but I have been late in getting to a review is their introduction of their All Natural line of ice creams which has happened within the past few months.  This ice cream is All Natural because, well, it uses all natural ingredients and it also uses a limited number of ingredients.  Once I've finally gotten off my rear and stopped being lazy (I will admit have a $1.00 off coupon kind of "coached" me to it), I grapped a 1.5 quart container of this Turkey Hill All Natural Salted Caramel Ice Cream at Kroger on sale for $3.99.  Each container has twelve half-cup sized servings and each serving is an economical 160 calories.  Before I go into the review, I have a bit of an aside about Turkey Hill...while some of their flavors are misses, they have a good catalog of flavors overall.  Also, once thing I very much appreciate is that they keep their calorie counts down to reasonable levels and if you devour ice cream in a moronic fashion like I do, that is a good thing.

Review: thinkThin Crunch White Chocolate Dipped Mixed Nuts Bar

Previously on the blog (Did that read like a television show intro to "Lost" or something like that?  That's the way it sounded in my head.), I've tried a couple of thinkThin bars and found them to be average or boring and was in no rush to review some of the other favors in my local Kroger. But on a recent visit, I saw an entire new product line named "Crunch" and based on appearance alone, these looked right up my alley as they were filled with nuts, thus Crunch (DUH!). My love of crunch caused me to snatch a couple of these up for reviews and that leads to this review of the thinkThin Crunch White Chocolate Dipped Mixed Nuts Bar. This was $1.25, 1.41 ounces, 190 calories and had eight grams of protein. The wrapper dubbed this as "Wholesome Abundance", which means it was heavy on fiber, etc.

Review: YoCrunch Yopa! Vanilla Toasted Almonds Greek Yogurt

All I've ever seen at my stores from YoCrunch are yogurt cups that either have fruit, nuts or candy mixed in with regular yogurt. On a recent trip to Kroger, I saw something different with their new Yopa! line of products as they are now messing with their traditional formula as they are now incorporating Greek yogurt as the base to go along with the nuts. I guess it was only a matter of time before this happened though since Greek yogurt is taking over the world. The Greek economy, on the other hand, that's a different story. Anyway, this 5.3 ounce cup of YoCrunch Yopa! Vanilla Toasted Almonds Greek Yogurt was on sale for $1.00. Each cup is made up of 110 calories of Greek yogurt and 90 calories of toasted almonds. The total package is a hefty fifteen grams of protein.

Review: Haagen-Dazs Limoncello Gelato

As this week has shown, there have been some incredible Haagen-Dazs sales at my local stores this week and I've been picking up containers of their various products left and right.  So, I'm led to another product out of their new gelato line of desserts with this Haagen-Dazs Limoncello Gelato.  This was on sale at $2.49 for the fourteen ounce container and each container contains 3.5 half-cup servings at 240 calories per serving.  The great thing about this is that Limoncello is just not lemon gelato...not even close.  Well, it is close, but the other primary ingredient is something I'm a very large fan of...VODKA.  Oh boy...

Review: Haagen-Dazs Black Cherry Amaretto Gelato

Haagen-Dazs has been doing no favors to my waistline, but in honor of my dear readers (that's you), I'm plodding on with yet another review to add to this week's theme.  As with before, I picked up this fourteen ounce container of Haagen-Dazs Black Cherry Amaretto Gelato at a ridicuously awesome sale price at Kroger for $2.49.  As usual, this container has 3.5 half-cup sized servings and each serving of gelato checks in at 240 calories.  For those of you that are unaware what Amaretto is, it's an almond-flavored Italian liqueur.  Almonds...yum.

Review: Haagen-Dazs Peanut Butter Pie Ice Cream

I must have lived a sheltered childhood because up until about five years ago, I had never heard of Peanut Butter Pie in my life, which is strange.  It's strange because as this blog has shown, I am all about EVERYTHING regarding peanut butter.  When I found out about Peanut Butter Pie though,  it was almost as if I had been opened up into a whole new and wonderful world.  I ended trying some, making some and basically becoming addicted to them.  When I learned via several blog reviews that there was a limited edition Haagen-Dazs Peanut Butter Pie Ice Cream, I knew I had to get my hands on a container once I saw it in the store.  Luckily, my local Marsh started carrying it, so on my way home from the gym one day (hilarious that I'd pick this up after that and you'll see why), I picked up a fourteen ounce container of this in a buy two, get one free sale for $4.25 to add to this week's growing list of reviews.  Each container is the usual 3.5 half-cup servings and what makes the fact that I bought this after the gym amusing is that each of those servings is a very gym-negating 310 calories.

Review: Haagen-Dazs Stracciatella Gelato

Haagen-Dazs week continues with another review to add to the collection.  I'll be the first to admit that prior to seeing news of this gelato on the internet, I had never heard of Stracciatella in my life.  Based on the news of this new flavor introduction, my quest to try new things and ultimately also by the fact that I want more pageviews for the blog (read:  more income), I picked up this fourteen ounce container of Haagen-Dazs Stracciatella Gelato at Kroger on sale for $2.49.  Each container has 3.5 half-cup sized servings and each serving is a fairly robust 270 calories.

Review: Haagen-Dazs White Chocolate Raspberry Truffle Ice Cream

In my previous Haagen-Dazs reviews, I dug into their limited edition and gelato flavors.  In this review, I'm going to hit up one of their core flavors for the first time in my entire life as I take a look at this container of Haagen-Dazs White Chocolate Raspberry Truffle Ice Cream.  White chocolate?  Um, yes please.  I love, love, love white chocolate, so I'm hoping this is right in my wheelhouse.  I picked this up in a buy two, get one free sale, but it would ordinarily retail in the ballpark of $5.00 per container.  As for the container itself, it's fourteen ounces, which equates to 3.5 half-cup servings.  Each serving is a robust 280 calories.

Review: Haagen-Dazs Sea Salt Caramel Gelato

After staying away from Haagen-Dazs for the longest time, I've been all over them recently. I've written some reviews, some of which have not been posted yet and will be later this week (I'm going to use this week as a Haagen-Dazs week to bombard a long ignored produc)t.  For the sake of posting relevant and recent content (Google's search engine rankings love me for that), this review of the new-ish Haagen-Dazs Sea Salt Caramel Gelato jumps to the head of the line. Gelato is a new thing for Haagen-Dazs and by putting this out there, they have joined a very small list of gelato competitors to what I'll call the Talenti dynasty. I often complain about Haagen-Dazs' prices, but this tiny 1.8 ounce cup was the perfect price for me: $1.00! Now, I'm not getting a whole lot of gelato for a buck, but it's still enough for me to at least sample whether this is a good flavor or not. What is hilarious about this though is that in this tiny container, there is still a gut busting 240 calories. Gelato or ice cream, Haagen-Dazs is always decadent.

Review: Kellogg's Nutri-Grain Raspberry Cereal Bars

I'm at a conundrum here, dear readers.  I've reviewed so many things that I'm finding myself at a crossroads of reviewing things that I know what they are going to taste like even prior to tasting them.  It kind of sucks that things are so predictable and sometimes I wonder why I even bother to review them, yet like a little kid that keeps putting his hand on the hot burner even though they've been told not to, I continue to do it.  With that, I'm led to a review of another Kellogg's Nutri-Grain bar with this review of the basic Kellogg's Nutri-Grain Raspberry Cereal Bars.  I picked up a box of eight of these on sale at Marsh for a ridiculously low 50% off price of $1.74.  Each bar in the box is 1.3 ounces and has 120 calories and a puny two grams of protein.

Review: Nature's Bakery Stone Ground Whole Wheat Apple Cinnamon Fig Bar

I've been having a lot of "what the heck?!" Moments on my visits to the grocery stores lately. Maybe I've just been oblivious the entire time, but it seems to me that there are more and more odd products making it to the store shelves. Maybe consumers are revolting against the basic products of yore and manufacturers are battling that by going more off the grid with their products, so to speak. On a recent trip to Kroger, I found what I deemed to be an odd product with this Nature's Bakery Stone Ground Whole Wheat Apple Cinnamon Fig Bar that I picked up for $1.25. Wow, try that name on for size! Each package contains two 1.0 ounce bars and each bar is 110 calories and has two grams of protein. It's also all natural, dairy free, kosher, etc. As for the stone ground part of the bar, I'll leave that up to my imagination because I'm too lazy to look it up.

Review: Quaker Real Medleys Peach Almond Oatmeal +

Anyone can admit that oatmeal in its most basic form is not the most exciting food.  It can be fine, at times, but for the most part, it is one of those foods that absolutely needs add-ins in order to give it some flavor.  I've spent a lot of time on Quaker products here on the site and that just continues with this review of the Quaker Real Medleys Peach Almond Oatmeal + that I picked up at Marsh on sale for $1.25.  This is obviously another attempt by Quaker to take it's staple product and transform it into a flavor packed single serving container, which I am more than fine with because it saves me from having to do all the legwork of adding things in (you could infer that I'm lazy and you might be right).  This single serving container is 2.64 ounces with 290 calories and eight grams of protein.

Review: Patak's Original Korma Curry Simmer Sauce

I've got to say, I've had some real successful experiences with Patak's products here on the blog. Some have been better than others, but as a whole, they've been quite good. It's those positive experiences that led me to pick up this twelve ounce jar of Patak's Original Korma Curry Simmer Sauce at Kroger for $2.99. I like reviewing these not only because I've had good experiences, but also because they help me expand my culinary experiences with Indian food, which is a cuisine that I had zero interaction with for my entire life up until these past few tears. Since this curry is cream based, it's a little higher up on the calorie scale compared to some of its brethren at 280 calories per half cup serving, but that's fine in the grand scheme of things.  If the heat of Indian food scares you, there's not much to fear here as this one score's as "Mild" on Patak's heat scale that they conveniently place on all their jars.

Review: Kashi Pumpkin Spice Flax Crunchy Granola Bar

Whoever is responsible for buying snacks at my office must have fallen in love with Kashi products because I've been seeing them around the office a lot lately and being the freebie freak that I am, I've been snatching them up for reviews. It's that trolling of the office snacks yet again that leads me to this review of the Kashi Pumpkin Spice Flax Crunchy Granola Bar. This is a two granola bar pack (didn't expect that) and each pack is 1.4 ounces at 170 calories and five grams of protein. Divide those in half and you've obviously got the measurements for each all natural bar.

Review: Haagen-Dazs Spiced Caramel Biscuit Ice Cream

I don't know why, but I've always stayed away from reviewing Haagen-Dazs products for the blog.  Actually, I don't even buy them at the store either and I'm not sure why.  Maybe it's because I'm angry that their "pints" are only fourteen ounces or that it costs an arm and a leg to buy one (it's probably the latter).  My local Marsh ran a sale recently where it was buy two containers and get a third free, so finally with a deal like that, I was able to get these down to a range where I wouldn't have to take a bank loan just to purchase one.  So, I took the leap and that leads me to this limited edition product review of the Haagen-Dazs Spiced Caramel Biscuit Ice Cream.  Each container is fourteen ounces, which equates to 3.5 half-cup servings.  Each serving itself had a robust and completely unhealthy (par for the course with Haagen-Dazs) 290 calories per serving.  This may be off the shelves in your area by now as my Marsh usually keeps things too long (looking at some of their expiration dates is sometimes an adventure), but I'll just go ahead and add my thoughts to the long list of online reviews already done on this (links at the end of this post).

Review: Kellogg's Nutri-Grain Apple Cinnamon Cereal Bars

Sometimes I feel silly doing reviews like this one of products that have been in the market forever and are just the standard bearer of certain product lines.  As I've professed many times before though, I do want to be all-encompassing, so that leads me to another Kellogg's Nutri-Grain review with this review of the Kellogg's Nutri-Grain Apple Cinnamon Cereal Bars.  They handed this one out for free at work but I typically see a box of eight of these at the store on sale for around $3.50 or so.  Each bar is 1.3 ounces and has 120 calories and two grams of protein.  Apples and cinnamon are a wonderful flavor combination, so one would think this would be a hard bar to screw up.

Review: Fage fruyo Strawberry Greek Nonfat Yogurt

When this blog first started, I spent a lot of time reviewing Greek yogurt products, including those of Fage.  Since that initial surge, my Greek yogurt reviews have slowed down because my local stores haven't really stocked a lot of new products.  That said, I was cruising through my local Meijer recently when I encountered a Fage product that I had never seen before with this Fage fruyo Strawberry Greek Nonfat Yogurt cup that I picked up on sale for $1.00.  This one's so new, I guess, that they don't even have a spot for it on their website, so I guess I feel special.  For nutritional purposes, this six ounce cup of nonfat yogurt clocks in at 160 calories and since it is Greek yogurt, it's protein heavy at thirteen grams.

Review: Honey P. Nutty Espresso PB Bar

On the blog so far, I've been delighted that Honey P. Nutty sought me out to send me some products to try for reviews since I've very much enjoyed their honey and peanut based products.  That enjoyment led me to give a shot to one of the odder flavors that were sent to me (although not the oddest) with this review of the Honey P. Nutty Espresso PB Bar.  This one clocks in at 1.8 ounces with a robust 251 calories and seven grams of protein.  As with the other bars, it's handmade in Santa Fe, New Mexico and is also gluten free.

Review: JELL-O Live Active Milk Chocolate Bliss Pudding

Sometimes I let my ego get the best of me and think that I've seen it all.  I am often put in my place and that was the case in one of my recent visits to Walmart as I found a JELL-O pudding product that I had NEVER seen before and I thought I'd seen them all.  In this case it was a four pack of the JELL-O Live Active Milk Chocolate Bliss Pudding.  It's Live Active because it's good for digestive health, but that's not what I was really interested in.  What I was truly interested in was the fact that this was a flavor that I had never seen before that sounded really, really good.  So, armed with two whole dollars, I grabbed this four pack of cups, threw it in my cart to bring home to try and that leads me to this review.  Each cup is 3.75 ounces and has 60 calories.

Review: Corazona's Cranberry Flax Oatmeal Square

Have you ever taken a DISC Assessment?  My work (outside of this blog obviously) is a big supporter of DISC assessments and when I take mine, I always end up as an extreme "C".  That means many things, but for the purposes of this blog, I'll point out that C's are generally resistant to change, which is why I personally find it amusing that I continually try and branch out and try out new products for this blog because it seems completely out of character if you believe the assessment.  It's that attempt to branch out that leads me to this second Corazona's review with this Corazona's Cranberry Flax Oatmeal Square that I picked up on sale at Kroger for $1.00.  It's 1.76 ounces, has 180 calories, six grams of protein and six grams of fiber.  Unlike a C, this one is all over the board.

Review: Magnum Gold?! Ice Cream Bars

It's April Fool's Day, so I can think of no better way to celebrate with a review of something that I initially thought was a joke.  Before I get to that though, I will be the first to admit that Magnum bars are not the first thing I think of when I want an ice cream treat. That's despite the fact that I've had some very positive experiences with them on the blog.  A little while back, I saw what I at first thought was a joke based on the name of the product with a review of these new Magnum Gold?! Ice Cream Bars on the wonderful blog On Second Scoop and after reading the review, I was absolutely certain that I had to get my hands on these for a review. It was that quest that led me to pick up a box of these at Kroger on sale for $3.00. Each box contains three 3.38'fluid ounce bars and each bar is a fairly robust 290 calories.