Review: Chobani Pear 0% Greek Yogurt

As I've read in my several business and financial magazines that I read, business is booming at Chobani as they are one of the first companies to take advantage of the Greek yogurt craze.  As a way to differentiate themselves, they've introduced several new products in order to expand their profile.  Still, it's sometimes helpful to remember the products that brought you to the dance and today's review of this Chobani Pear 0% Greek Yogurt is one of those products.  I've stayed away from this flavor on the blog for some reason, but today is as good of a day as any to round out some of those core flavors (I'll be hitting on another later). I got this 6.0 ounces cup at Meijer on sale for $1.00 and each cup is 130 calories, has fourteen grams of protein and is made with all natural ingredients.

Review: Better Oats Oat revolution! Apple Crisp Chewy Granola Bar

Erroneously or not, I always consider Quaker Chewy bars to be the market leader in snack size granola bars and end up comparing everything to them.  I did that in my first Better Oats review and I'll be doing the same here when I take a look at this Better Oats Oat revolution! Apple Crisp Chewy Granola bar, which as I learned from Better Oats via Twitter after my last review, is part of a "top secret" test of new granola bar products and are only available in certain markets.  Quaker Chewy has a similar flavor to this in its Target-exclusive School Days line, but it's not part of the standard line of bars that you would find at most grocery stores.  I picked this up at snack time at work, so I don't have a particular cost to attach to it, but I do know it is 1.23 ounces, has 130 calories and is made with chia.  Every time I see that ingredient, I think of the awesome Chia Pet, which has no relevance to this review at all.  Anyway, I digress...

Review: Chobani flip Key Lime Crumble Greek Yogurt

In my last Chobani review of one of their new flip products, a reader recommended that I try the subject of today's review with this Chobani flip Key Lime Crumble Greek Yogurt.  She raved about how good it was, so with that kind of recommendation, I knew I had to try it out.  On a trip to Kroger soon after that, I saw Chobani products on sale for $1.00, so I went ahead and grabbed one to try.  This comes in a 5.3 ounces container and is 180 calories with eleven grams of protein.

Review: KIND Nuts & Spices Maple Glazed Pecan & Sea Salt Bar

There is no better feeling as a blog writer to know that the companies that you are writing reviews about have noticed you.  Granted, sometimes those reviews are extremely negative and it's probably not good for that company to notice you, but other times, it can be kind of fun.  Whether the interaction comes via Twitter, Facebook or directly by e-mail, it's always an affirmation that at least someone is reading.  From time to time, as I've mentioned before, companies are gracious enough to forward on samples of their products for me to try out for the blog that is the case with this KIND Nuts & Spices Maple Glazed Pecan & Sea Salt Bar that will add to my collection of previous reviews.  The bar itself is 1.4 ounces with 210 calories and six grams of protein.

Review: Thrive Chocolate Fudge Frozen Nutrition

I had never heard of Thrive in my life until one day when I was perusing the digital coupons app of Meijer.  I saw a digital coupon for their products, so I figured I'd "clip" the coupon and save it for my next trip to the store.  On that next trip, I finally found it in the ice cream aisle, which makes the product name of Thrive Chocolate Fudge Frozen Nutrition all that much more amusing to me.  Everyone knows this is ice cream (even their website), but why is it called frozen nutrition on the product packaging?  Odd.  Anyway, a two pack of these six ounce single serve cups ran the regular price of $3.99, but with  my digital coupon, I got this for $2.99.  Each cup is 250 calories and since this is frozen nutrition, I'll go ahead and list that it has nine grams of protein as well.  The packaging lists this as comparable to ENSURE and since ENSURE is just basically nutrition drinks, I guess the fact that this labeled as frozen nutrition begins to make sense.

Review: Caveman Nuts Almond Cashew Bar

On very rare occasions, I actually laugh out loud when I'm walking through the grocery store looking at the products on the shelves.  Usually it's about products that celebrities/athletes endorse (Detroit Tigers pitcher Justin Verlander's cereal "Fastball Flakes" are my favorite), but on a rare occasion, it's about a product that is actually trying to be serious in its marketing with this Caveman Nuts Almond Cashew Bar that I laughably found on the shelves of Meijer for $1.29.  This pre-historic (like the tie-in?  I'm so creative...not) bar weighs in at 1.4 ounces, has 210 calories and six grams of protein.

Review: Kashi GOLEAN Crunchy! (Crisp!) Cinnamon Coffee Cake Bar

Throughout my childhood, my family went to church every Sunday morning.  We'd get there early, go to Sunday School and partake in the fellowship opportunities before and sometimes after church.  Our church was no different than a lot of churches in America in the respect that these fellowship events included a truckload of coffee and pastries, including coffee cake.  To say that I've eaten my fair share of pastries because of those fellowship events would be an understatement, so when I saw this Kashi GOLEAN Crunchy! Cinnamon Coffee Cake Bar (Kashi has now changed the name and look, but not the flavor, of these to the Crisp! line of bars, so this particular packaging is a dying breed) in the nutrition bar section for $1.33 in my local Kroger, I was incredibly intrigued by how Kashi could possibly turn the delicious pastry into a nutrition bar, so I immediately snatched it up to add to my catalog of Kashi reviews.  The bar itself comes in at 1.59 ounces and is 160 calories with eight grams of protein and five grams of fiber.  It's all natural bar and also contains Kashi's proprietary mix of seven whole grains.

Review: Rise Crunchy Honey Walnut Breakfast Bar

As a kid, one of the worst things that I can remember hearing was "rise and shine" coming from my mom's mouth.  I wanted to sleep and I didn't want to wake up, dammit!  Why couldn't she understand that?!  Okay, I say that in jest, but when I saw these Rise Crunchy Honey Walnut Breakfast Bars pop up in my local Meijer for $1.25, I was taken back to those moments from my childhood.  Each of these bars comes in at 1.4 ounces with 160 calories and four grams of protein.  Rise also promotes them via the wrapper as "hearty chunks of fruit and nuts to fuel your morning" and then adds in another nugget via their website that states "Honey—a quick start for hour one. Fruit—big chunks to digest slower for hour two. Nuts—sustained energy for hour three."  Wow, they've really put a lot of thought into their story behind this baby.

Review: Fruttare Peach and Milk Frozen Fruit & Milk Dessert Bars

I can't say enough positive things about my previous Fruttare experiences.  Each time, I expected to go in and be bored by what I was eating and each time, I was left far from bored after I tried each bar out.  In fact, I thoroughly enjoyed each flavor and product line, so armed with another free product voucher, I grabbed this box of Fruttare Peach and Milk Frozen Fruit & Milk Dessert Bars off the shelf at my local Meijer and dove right in with high expectations.  Each box of these bars contains four separate bars and typically runs in the $4.00 range in my area.  Each bar is 2.7 fluid ounces and is 110 calories, so it's a fairly economical treat.

Review: Fiber One 90 Calories Lemon Bars

Keeping up with all the new product that flood the market, seemingly at once, can be exhausting.  Yes, I signed up for this "burden" when I created a food review blog, but sometimes it's hard to maintain the motivation to keep posting and seeking out new thing.  But, as a service to you (but primarily a way to increase my income; sorry, I do this for the revenue), I do my best to keep the content fresh and relevant.  It's that effort that leads me to churn out another Fiber One review with this review of their new Fiber One 90 Calories Lemon Bars.  I picked up a box of six of these at Meijer in a crazy sale for the bargain basement price of $1.99.  Each bar (or brownie as the Fiber One website refers to them as) is 0.89 ounces and is of course 90 calories.  It's got less than a gram of protein, but it does have 20% of your recommended fiber intake in just this little package.

Review: Kellogg's Special K Cookies & Creme Pastry Crisps

There's an old saying that says something along the lines of if it looks, swims and quacks like a duck, then it is probably a duck.  When I grabbed this box Kellogg's Special K Cookies & Creme Pastry Crisps on sale at Marsh for $2.99 and closely reviewed the box and then the crisps themselves, I was reminded of that saying and I'll get to it more in this review of yet another new Kellogg's Special K product.  Like all the boxes of pastry crisps, there are five pouches of crisps per box and each pouch contains two individual crisps.  Each pouch is 0.88 ounces and has 100 calories with less than one gram of protein (LOL), so if you divide that in half, you obviously get the numbers for each individual crisp itself.

Review: Yoplait Original Mountain Blueberry Low Fat Frozen Yogurt

Yoplait seems to be really pushing their low fat frozen yogurt line over the past few months.  It seems like every time I log on to one of my digital coupons websites or into my iPhone grocery store apps, I see a new coupon for Yoplait low fat frozen yogurt.  I've tried several of their flavors, but occasionally, one pops up that I haven't grabbed yet (I'll never grab those that include banana, sorry) and that leads me to today's review of this pint of Yoplait Original Mountain Blueberry Low Fat Frozen Yogurt that I grabbed on sale (before the coupon) at Kroger for $2.50.  Each pint is the typical four half-cup servings and each serving is a rather budgetary 110 calories.

Review: Cascadian Farm Organic Sweet & Salty Peanut Pretzel Chewy Granola Bars

As I've mentioned before, Cascadian Farm's marketing to me by sending me free products for reviews worked.  I've bought and reviewed several of their products on my own based on those positive reviews and another sale at my local Kroger led me to pick up a box of five of these Cascadian Farm Organic Sweet & Salty Peanut Pretzel Chewy Granola Bars for $2.49.  Each bar in the box is 1.2 ounces and has 160 calories with three grams of protein.  Obviously, based on the name, they are trying to play up what can sometimes be an overplayed flavor combination with the sweet and salty mix, so it'll be interesting to see how it turns because I'm always reticent of products that make that claim.

Review: Blue Bunny No Sugar Added Brownie Sundae Ice Cream

I've mentioned several times on the blog that I'm like an old maid when it comes to coupon clipping.  I'm not a nut about it like some of those people on those television shows, but I will say that I do legitimately enjoy finding coupons for products that I would typically buy (or consider buying) and then using those coupons at the store.  Blue Bunny products are one of those products that I don't typically buy, but when I see a coupon for them, I will buy them and that's led to a few reviews here.  Armed with another coupon on a recent trip to Walmart, I decided to grab a 1.75 quart container (two extra scoops!) of this Blue Bunny No Sugar Added Brownie Sundae Ice Cream for $2.75 after my coupon (normal price of $3.50).  There are fourteen scoops (servings) in a container and each serving is a half-cup and has 80 calories, so this one really is budget conscious on the calorie scale.  The ice cream is also fat free, so bonus!

Review: Better Oats Oat revolution! Peanut Butter Chocolate Chewy Granola Bar

Today's review is another review spurred on by the snack time fairy here at the office.  Since there are so many of us, the snack time purchasers often buy huge boxes of particular snack bars and that's the case with this Better Oats Oat revolution! Peanut Butter Chocolate Chewy Granola Bar that was part of a giant box of multiple flavors, some of which you'll see here in the future.  These are apparently a secret product because Better Oats does not mention them on their website and there's very little mention of them on the web, but what I was able to glean from the box is that these are 1.23 ounces and 140 calories each.  They are also not for individual resale, so the snack people here better not get any tricky ideas unless they want to run afoul of the law.

Review: Designer Whey Peanut Butter Crunch Protein Bar

Today's review is of another product that snuck up on me in the store in the nutrition bar aisle.  As I've said before, I often peruse the nutrition section hoping to get snuck up on because that means that I've got sources for new reviews.  This Designer Whey Peanut Butter Crunch Protein Bar definitely fits that bill as I saw it hiding on sale for $1.00 on the bottom shelf of the section.  There were originally two flavors, but one was completely out (perhaps this was a clearance sale?), so I snatched up this one remaining flavor to try out.  This bar itself comes in at 1.41 ounces and has 160 calories and ten grams of protein.  Based on the name, I'm going to guess they whey in this bar is quite fancy as well.  I do know, based on the wrapper, that its naturally flavored and sweetened, so I guess it has got that going for it.

Review: YoCrunch Yopa! Strawberries with Whole Grain Granola Greek Yogurt

I've mentioned in my previous YoCrunch reviews that I bought a bunch of these Yopa! Greek yogurt cups all in one flurry of a purchase.  Because of that, I had a refrigerator with several different flavors.  At this point, I've gotten so tired of reviewing these that I can barely stand it, so when I saw that this YoCrunch Yopa! Strawberries with Whole Grain Granola Greek Yogurt was the last one out of that flurry of purchases that I made, I was almost relieved.  This is a traditional and boring flavor, but sometimes you find out that traditional and/or boring can be really good or really bad, so that's why I hammer out these reviews.  This cup, like the others, came in at 5.3 ounces and was picked up on sale for $1.00.  It has 110 calories without the granola mixed and and is 190 calories with the granola mixed in.  The total package has thirteen grams of protein.

Review: SOYJOY Cranberry Baked Whole Soy & Fruit Bar

It's been a while since I've reviewed a SOYJOY bar (early last fall to be precise).  I thought I had covered all the flavors in my stores (minus Pineapple; not going to even attempt that one), but then this SOYJOY Cranberry Baked Whole Soy & Fruit Bar popped up on me during a recent visit to my local Marsh.  This is a new flavor, so I had never had it, thus I wanted to try it and when I saw it was on sale for $0.99, I was even more pleased.  The bar itself is all natural and consists of 140 calories and four grams of protein packed into 1.05 ounces of joy.  Like my plan on words there?  Yeah, I didn't figure you would...I think I'm more clever than I actually am most of the time.  Anyway, onto the review...

Review: Haagen-Dazs Orchard Peach Sorbet

So this has been quite a week.  Not only have I been focusing on Haagen-Dazs products for the first time, but today's review is a type of food that I've never reviewed on this blog in my life...sorbet.  That's right, the frozen dessert that has no eggs, milk, cream, whatever.  No dairy.  Just sugar, water and fruit.  It's going to be different, but hey, I'm willing to try new things and that leads me to this container of Haagen-Dazs Orchard Peach Sorbet that I picked up on sale at Kroger for $2.49 for a fourteen ounce container.  Each container has 3.5 half-cup servings and each serving is 130 calories.

Review: Kellogg's Special K Chocolatey Caramel Pastry Crisps

While recently perusing my favorite food-related blogs, I happened upon a post on The Impulsive Buy showing that Kellogg's had released even more products from its pastry crisps line.  I've already hammered on a lot of these and after looking for quite some time to find them in stores, I was finally able to find a box of these Kellogg's Special K Chocolatey Caramel Pastry Crisps on sale at Marsh for $2.99.  Each box has five pouches of crisps and each pouch has two crisps and comes in at 0.88 ounces with 100 calories and an almost comical one gram of protein.

Review: Fruttare Strawberry Ice Bars

So, I'm two-for-two (including this one) on getting Fruttare products for free and with another review coming in the future, I'll be a perfect three-for-three.  This review of the Fruttare Strawberry Ice Bars comes compliments of the public relations agency that is putting out the word for these new bars.  Ordinarily, this would cost anywhere in the $4.00 range for a box of six bars, but since I'm a lucky guy, I didn't get dinged with that.  Each bar in the box is two fluid ounces and is a very, very economical 60 calories.

Review: YoCrunch Yopa! Blueberries with Whole Grain Granola Greek Yogurt

When you look at different flavor variations of the same basic product, reviews can get kind of boring.  I've already touched on one of these YoCrunch Yopa! products before, but my desire to add content to the blog (who doesn't love content?) leads me to review this YoCrunch Yopa! Blueberries with Whole Grain Granola Greek Yogurt, despite the fact that there is very little difference from the previous review in that we are trading out only one flavor.  The rest is the same.  Anyway, this cup was picked up at Kroger for $1.00 and it's 5.3 ounces, 180 calories with the granola included (110 without) and has thirteen grams of protein.  It's whole grain granola and really, isn't whole grain the best?  Actually, I don't really care...I'm just being a smart ass.

Review: Nature Valley Cinnamon Brown Sugar Soft-Baked Oatmeal Squares

It's not exactly a dirty little secret that companies like to copy each other, especially in the food industry.  If one company finds a recipe for success, so to speak, then another company will copy it and market it under their own label.  It appears as if that is what General Mills is doing with this Nature Valley Cinnamon Brown Sugar Soft-Baked Oatmeal Squares obviously being a clone of the Quaker line of soft-baked oatmeal squares.  It's funny actually, because who knew that oatmeal squares were something that the market was just so desperate for?  Clearly I didn't, but the snack time people at my work must have known as this was another free product offering.  This square bar itself comes in at 1.24 ounces and has 150 calories and two grams of protein.

Review: Kellogg's Special K Nourish Maple Brown Sugar Crunch Hot Cereal

So apparently Kellogg's has had enough of Quaker hogging the single serve oatmeal cup market and has finally gotten their own product to market to compete in the great oatmeal wars (a creation of my imagination).  That new product introduction leads me to another Kellogg's review as I take a look at this Kellogg's Special K Nourish Maple Brown Sugar Crunch Hot Cereal cup. I got a two-pack on sale at Kroger for $2.99 and each cup in the pack is 1.83 ounces with 190 calories, eight grams of protein and five grams of fiber. It's also a multi-grain blend with quinoa, so that's exciting...not.

Review: Kashi Berry Muffin Soft n' Chewy Bar

So I've finally reached the bottom of my office snack time Kashi stockpile (for now).  You've seen lots of reviews of these Kashi products that I've picked up already, but I'm going to bore (or perhaps inform) you with another today with my review of this Kashi Berry Muffin Soft n' Chewy Bar.  I'm sure this comes in a box of five or six for around $4.00, but since I got it at the office, I don't have an official price to attach to it. The bar itself is 1.4 ounces, has 130 calories and three grams of protein.