Review: Mediterra Yogurt & Oat Bar with Apricot & Pistachio

I'm trying to steadily plow through my last few purchases from my Fresh Thyme shopping splurge a while back and as I work my way though, I'll be hitting on another Mediterra review today.  I had some nice success with them in my first review, so I was anxious to dive into this Mediterra Yogurt & Oat Bar with Apricot & Pistachio that I picked up for $1.99.  The bar itself is 1.6 ounces, 180 calories and has seven grams of protein packed in.  It's all natural and gluten free, so it does have those healthy taglines slapped onto it as well.

Review: Earnest Eats Almond Trail Mix Baked Whole Food Bar

Sorry folks, but this blog has been a little Fresh Thyme heavy recently.  Unfortunately, that's mostly going to continue for a while because I made a HUGE splurge there and probably will go back again.  The positive is that it's freshened up (get it?) the content a bit here and given me some new products to review.  Today is the second look at an Earnest Eats product as I grabbed this Earnest Eats Almond Trail Mix Baked Whole Food Bar for $1.69.  It's 1.9 ounces and has 210 calories with six grams of protein.  It's also organic, vegan and wheat free.

Review: Earnest Eats Cran Lemon Zest Baked Whole Food Bar

Today's product is doubly new for me.  Firstly, I picked this up at Fresh Thyme, which is a store that I had never been to until then (nice store, by the way).  Secondly, with a new store bring a new product manufacturer and this is the first time that Earnest Eats has ever made an appearance on the blog with their Earnest Eats Cran Lemon Zest Baked Whole Food Bar that I was able to pick up for $1.69.  Each bar is 1.9 ounces and has 210 calories with five grams of protein.  It's also organic, wheat-free and vegan, so there's those additional health benefits (or life choices) as well.

Review: belVita Soft Baked Oats & Chocolate Breakfast Biscuits

I wish I had done a better job of categorizing Free Friday Download posts because it seems like the Kroger promotion is starting to account for a fair amount of reviews.  Today's review is another one of those instances as a recent coupon promotion allowed me to pick up a box of these belVita Soft Baked Oats & Chocolate Breakfast Biscuits at of course no cost to me to add to my modest belVita collection.  Within each box are five soft baked biscuits and each biscuit clocks in at 1.76 ounces and has 200 calories and 3 grams of protein, in addition to some "Nutritious Morning Energy."

Review: Chef Robert Irvine's FortiFX Fit Crunch Cookies and Cream Protein Bar

I've mentioned many times on this blog that I really like the Food Network and on that network, one of my favorite chefs is Robert Irvine.  Not because he's necessarily the world's greatest chef, but because he's a charismatic and engaging personality and his shows are generally pretty good.  I took a look at one of his bars long ago and I liked it quite a bit, but I've had difficulty finding them since then, thus the absence.  On a recent sojourn to the Walmart Neighborhood Market, I was finally able to stumble upon a different flavor in this Chef Robert Irvine's FortiFX Fit Crunch Cookies and Cream Protein Bar that I grabbed for $1.99.  This one clocks in at 1.62 ounces with 190 calories and sixteen grams of protein, by the way.

Review: Green Giant Original Baked Sweet Potato Fries

I typically try to stay away from "portable" snacks because I have a really bad habit of devouring them at record paces.  That means that I TRY to stay away from Chex Mix, Doritos and also Green Giant snack products.  As this blog has shown in prior reviews though, I still end up buying these Green Giant products from time-to-time, despite my best intentions.  It's a failure of those efforts that lead me to pick up a bag of these Green Giant Original Baked Sweet Potato Fries on sale at Kroger for $0.99 and each bag is 4.6 ounces   Each serving in the bag is roughly one ounce, which basically equates to 28 fries, and carries 130 calories.  Basically, they aren't totally unhealthy, but eating a lot of them is probably not going to do you (or I) any favors.

Review: Quaker Protein Peanut Butter Chocolate Baked Bars

The Quaker machine keeps on trucking.  Quaker Oats has been the manufacturer in the second most amount of my reviews at this point (Kellogg's is first) and due to that, it's only fitting that I add in another review in order to keep their history on this blog going.  In Meijer recently, I saw a box of five of these Quaker Protein Peanut Butter Chocolate Baked Bars on sale for $2.50 and being that these are a new product (they are so new that they don't even have a presence on the Quaker website yet) and also yet another entrant into the growing protein bar foray, I knew that these had a Crazy Food Dude Review written all over them.  Each bar in this box is 1.65 ounces has 190 calories with ten grams of protein.

Review: Harvest Snaps Lightly Salted Snapea Crisps

I've had these laying around my house for a bit and I can honestly say that I haven't been too excited to review them, thus them laying around for a while.  It eventually got to the point that I figured I should review these (especially since I wanted to eat them before the "Best By" date), so today's review is of this snack sized bag of Harvest Snaps Lightly Salted Snapea Crisps that I picked up for free somewhere (perhaps work?).  Each bag is 0.75 ounces and has 100 calories, so it's a light snack in terms of physical amount and calorie count.

Review: HannahMax All Natural Dark Chocolate Chocolate Chip Crunchy Cookie Chips

As I continue to plow my way through free products with another HannahMax review, I'm lead to another review out of their so far pleasant all natural baked cookie chips line with this review of the HannahMax All Natural Dark Chocolate Chocolate Chip Crunchy Cookie Chips.  As with the others, this is a 6.0 ounce bag and each bag contains six servings of about five cookies per serving.  Each of those servings clocks in at 120 calories, by the way.

Review: HannahMax All Natural Sea Salted Peanut Butter Crunchy Cookie Chips

I mentioned in my first HannahMax review that they sent me a box full of free product to try out and review here on the blog and that box of free products leads me to today's review of this bag of HannahMax All Natural Sea Salted Peanut Butter Crunchy Cookie Chips.  This bag itself was 6.0 ounces and each bag has six servings (about five cookies) and each serving is 130 calories of all natural goodness.

Review: HannahMax All Natural Cinnamon Sugar Crunchy Cookie Chips

I love it when product manufacturers contact me and ask me to review their new product offerings.  I'm a big freebie guy and while not all freebies are good, I always do love getting them.  Today's freebie leads me to review this bag of HannahMax All Natural Cinnamon Sugar Cookie Crunchy Chips that was shipped to me along with several other bags (some basic flavors, some interesting flavors) to give shots to for reviews.  This bag itself weighs in at 6.0 ounces and each bag has six servings and each serving is roughly five cookies and 130 calories.

Review: 180 Snacks Cranberry Pomegranate Trail Mix Crunch

The delightful and magical time known as company-provided snack time it me again at the office recently and the treat of choice on this day was this single serving size bag of 180 Snacks Cranberry Pomegranate Trail Mix Crunch.  I'm sure the company picked this up as part of a megabox from Costco or some wholesaler, so I don't have a price.  What I do have is that this bag came in at 1.25 ounces and had 150 calories per serving.  In a tricky math switcheroo, this 1.25 ounce bag was actually 1.25 servings.  That means that the bag was roughly 188 calories.  I've obviously seen packaging with multiple servings before, I don't think I've ever seen something this small packaged so specially with multiple servings before.  There's a first time for everything, I guess.

Review: SOYJOY Berry Baked Whole Soy & Fruit Bar

I'll dispense with the ridiculous play on words introduction that I used in my last SOYJOY post and just get right to it.  I've had some success with SOYJOY products before, despite the fact that the general idea of them seems so disgusting.  A soy snack bar?  So weird.  Anyway, with those positive experiences in mind, I was ready to dive into this SOYJOY Berry Baked Whole Soy & Fruit Bar that I picked up on sale at Marsh for $1.00.  The bar itself is 1.05 ounces and has 130 calories and four grams of protein.

Review: SOYJOY Dark Chocolate Cherry Baked Whole Soy & Fruit Bar

When some people here the word soy, it certainly does not bring them joy.  For me, it's not so bad.  I sometimes get joy from soy and I've done that before in some of my SOYJOY reviews.  Okay, okay...I know that was corny, lame, awful or whatever other adjective you want to use to describe that opening.  I should be ashamed of something like that, but since I have no shame, I'm okay with it.  Shamelessness aside, I picked up this new SOYJOY Dark Chocolate Cherry Baked Whole Soy & Fruit Bar on sale at my local Marsh for $1.00 and each bar is 1.05 ounces with 140 calories and five 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: Kellogg's Special K Sweet & Salty Popcorn Chips

A while back during Special K week, I had a request from a reader to review a Special K product that I had not done yet and frankly, the thought of it bored me.  But, I do like to fulfill requests from my loyal readers, so that leads me to this review of the Kellogg's Special K Sweet & Salty Popcorn Chips.  I picked up a box of these at Kroger for $2.49 and the first thing of note is that this box contains more product than the cracker chip boxes as it contains 4.5 ounces of Popcorn Chips as opposed to the 3.5 in the other flavors.  Since this is a bigger box, there are more servings in this box at 4.5 and each serving is 120 calories.  For reference, a serving size is about 28 chips.

Review: Kellogg's Special K Cheddar Cracker Chips

I had previously reviewed some of Kellogg's Special K Cracker Chips before and had found them to be quite good, in an interesting way.  Since my local Meijer has basically been giving these Special K products away (as you'll be see this week with reviews), I picked up a box of these Kellogg's Special K Cheddar Cracker Chips on sale for $2.50.  You know, using cheese as your flavor seems like it is the easiest and oldest product development trick in the book.  I can just see these development putting all their heads together trying to come up with flavors and then ultimately settling on the ultimate fallback flavor, cheddar cheese.  There's absolutely nothing wrong with that as there are some outstanding cheddar flavored products out there, but it does amuse me that everything seems to have a variation of that flavor.  For nutritional purposes, these cracker chips have 110 calories per serving (27 chips per serving) and there's roughly 3.5 servings in the 4.0 ounce box.  One hilarious aspect, at least to me, was that these come in a HUGE box and when I looked and saw that the contents were only 4.0 ounces, it kind of made me chuckle.

Review: Kellogg's Special K Southwest Ranch Cracker Chips

Just like most people, especially food bloggers, I'm a schmuck for products that have the "NEW" tag on them.  Working in marketing myself outside this blog, I know it is a tried and true way to draw attention to your product and let general human curiosity takeover so that the consumer will buy your product.  It's that tried and true method that caused me to dive into another one of Kellogg's Special K products and pick up this new product in the Kellogg's Special K Southwest Ranch Cracker Chips on a recent trip to my local Meijer.  A four ounce box of these cost me $3.00 and each box contains roughly 3.5 servings at 110 calories per serving.  How big is a serving?  Well, I'm glad I asked myself that because the back of the box proudly displays that a serving is 27 chips.

Review: SOYJOY Apple Walnut Baked Soy & Fruit Bar

It's funny how your entire perception of a product can change.  In the past, I was terrified of SOYJOY products.  In my reviews for this blog, I've found that I like their products and have been anxious to try out new flavors.  It's that urge that led me to pick up another flavor of their baked soy & fruit bars with this Apple Walnut version and give it a try for the blog.  I picked it up at Marsh for $1.00 and it comes it at 1.05 ounces with 140 calories and four grams of protein.

Review: Udi's Gluten Free Blueberry Muffins

Gluten Free seems to be all the rage these days as I constantly see gluten free products in the store.  Thankfully, I don't have a gluten allergy, but the fact that I don't have the allergy doesn't mean that I can try out gluten free products and that leads me to try out these samples that I received in the Udi's Gluten Free Blueberry Muffins.  Each muffin container comes with four muffins and each muffin itself is three ounces.  Each muffin has 240 calories and is of course, gluten free and also dairy, nut and soy free.  It's also whole grain, so woo-hoo!  What a "healthy" treat!