Review: fullbar Cranberry Almond Bar with a FREE GIVEAWAY!!

**KEEP READING FOR AN EXTREMELY GRACIOUS FREE GIVEAWAY CONTEST AT THE END OF THIS POST!!**

I've done some fullbar reviews on this site and one of those reviews (a negative one) drew the attention of fullbar itself and they contacted me to let me know that they had changed the recipe for their bars and were curious to know whether I would be interested in trying their new bars that use Slendesta in the mix.  I replied back and said I would be interested, so they graciously sent me quite a few bars to try out (you'll be seeing those reviews in the future).  In case you were unaware, like me, Slendesta is an all natural hunger block chemical that is supposed to help make you feel full.  Like I've said here before, being a scientist is not something I do in my spare time, so I'll take their word for it.  As for the Cranberry Almond bar itself, it comes in at 1.59 ounces and contains 150 calories and five grams of protein.

Tearing open the packaging on this, the use of Slendesta certainly didn't change the standard appearance of one of these bars, although I will admit that if you look closely enough, there is a lot going on here.  In the puffed wheat cereal mix, there are almonds, cranberries, walnuts, cashews, pecans and hazelnuts.  Whew, that's a lot and it's all held together by a mix of honey, which makes the bar quite sticky to the touch, that has cinnamon included.  If they want to win an award for most ingredients in what should be a fairly simple bar, fullbar takes the prize here.  That mix sits on top of a layer what I'll call vanilla "icing" and is then topped by a designer-like swirl of even more vanilla icing, although it is very thin.  With all that's going on in this bar, I'm almost afraid to eat it because it seems like I'd be eating someone's art project.  Still, I'm the destructive type, so I'll happily dig in.

As I bit into this, it was just like any of the other fullbars that I've reviewed in that the puffed wheat cereal mix that makes up the majority of the bar was airy, soft and had little-to-no crunch.  One thing it did have though was a definite strong cinnamon flavor and as a professed lover of cinnamon, I very much liked that.  Also a big part of the flavor of the bar was the vanilla icing on the top and bottom.  It was sweet and cooling and did a good job providing a nice counterbalance to the heat of the cinnamon.  The two things that did not succeed in this bar were the namesakes as the both the cranberries and almonds had minimal flavor and did not really do much for the bar at all.  The nuts added very minimal crunch and the cranberries themselves got cancelled out by the flavor of the icing.  Still, even without the cranberry taste, this bar was very pleasing and I enjoyed it.

Buy It or Fly By It?  Despite the fact that I said that the two primary flavors did not deliver, this was still a good tasting bar (I'm not just saying that because it was free) and I would definitely say BUY IT.  If you like cinnamon and like a cooling vanilla icing, then this bar is right up your alley.  I don't know whether Slendesta was a factor here, but this was definitely a bar worth eating.

BUY IT!!

Free Giveaway Contest:  Like I said in the beginning of this post, fullbar contacted me and agreed to sponsor an extremely gracious free giveaway of their products.  They'll be giving away five free gift packs and each gift pack will include:

*3 boxes of fullbar

*1 bottle of fullbar Gummies

*1 Five pack of fullbar Gum

*2 Four packs of fullbar Shake

*Total retail value = $89.99. 

In order to win this contest, just leave a comment on the bottom of this post about which fullbar product you'd like to try the most and then I'll randomly pick five winners out of all the people that have entered and contact those winners through the comments section below, so make sure you leave your e-mail address and check back!  Deadline for entry is Wednesday, March 28th at 6:00 p.m. Eastern Daylight Time.  Good luck and for those of you that win, I hope you enjoy your gift packs!

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