Review: thinkThin Chocolate Peanut Butter Toffee Protein + Fiber Bar

Thinking back to the beginning of this blog and how naive/dumb I am, I'm reminded of one of the misconceptions that I had when this blog first launched.  I believed that thinkThin products were available only in Kroger and were their store brand under a different name.  I don't know why I thought that, but that continued on for several reviews until I started seeing these pop up in different stores.  It was in one of those different stores (Marsh) that I picked up this new flavor and product line thinkThin Chocolate Peanut Butter Toffee Protein + Fiber Bar for $1.79.  It comes in at 1.76 ounces and has 180 calories and thirteen grams of protein.  As an aside, my uncle always brings toffee to our Christmas gatherings because he knows that none of us can keep our hands off of it.  It's the thought of that toffee that excites me every time I see a product with toffee in the name, so that correlation had me pretty excited about this one when it popped up on the shelf.

Review: Kellogg's Special K Butter Popcorn Chips

I've drilled on the Kellogg's Special K chips line many times before and today's review is of a product that I think may have been out for a while, but it is "NEW" because of the inclusion of real butter taste (or so they say).  Anyway, I picked up this box of Kellogg's Special K Butter Popcorn Chips at Kroger on sale for $2.99 and each box weighs in 4.5 ounces and has about 4.5 servings per box (about 28 chips) at 120 calories a serving.  Basically that means that this is a low calorie and "guilt free" (or less guilt) type of snack.

Review: Private Selection Pecan Pie Ice Cream

The Private Selection procession continues (like that rhyme?) with today's review adding to my review collection that was caused by an absurd sale at Kroger where I made a binge purchase of these pints of Private Selection ice cream.  These pints typically sell in the $3.00 range, but the mega sale at Kroger allowed me to get this pint of Private Selection Pecan Pie Ice Cream for a bargain basement price of $0.99.  The pint consists of the obvious four half-cup servings of ice cream and each serving comes in at 230 calories of goodness that reminds me of my favorite part of Thanksgiving and the year-end holiday season.

Review: Kellogg's Nutri-Grain Toffee Crunch Chocolatey Toffee Granola Bars

I have an admission to make...I love toffee and I don't know why.  For some reason, any time that I'm near toffee, I can't keep my hands off of it, especially when that toffee is mixed with chocolate.  Knowing that, diving into another Kellogg's Nutri-Grain review with today's new product review of these Kellogg's Nutri-Grain Toffee Crunch Chocolatey Toffee Granola Bars would seem to be right up my alley.  I picked up this box of ten bars (five pouches with two bars each actually) on sale at Meijer for $3.00.  Each pouch is a combined 1.48 ounces with 190 calories and three grams of protein with 25% of your daily fiber value.  I'll leave it up you if you want to do the math to come up with the per bar values.

Review: Turkey Hill All Natural Butter Almond & Chocolate Ice Cream

In the past, I've touched on several Turkey Hill products but have only gone to the All Natural well once.  Seeing that this was on sale for what I deemed to be a semi-manageable price of $3.49, I decided to grab a 1.5 quart container of this Turkey Hill All Natural Butter Almond & Chocolate Ice Cream in a big sale event at Kroger.  Each container has twelve half-cup servings and each serving is 170 calories of all natural joy (or ice cream).

Review: Ben & Jerry's Vanilla Heath Bar Crunch Ice Cream

I was reading an article in my local Indianapolis paper recently about how a local bakery was starting to make its own ice cream to sell at their stores.  The owner was going through the process of how long it took them to make their own flavors and said that the hardest flavor for him to come up with a recipe for was vanilla.  He said this one took him the longest because all ice creams manufacturers are judged by how good their vanilla ice cream is because not only is it the most popular flavor of ice cream there is, but also because it is the base for so many other flavor combinations.  I was reminded of that when I picked up this pint of Ben & Jerry's Vanilla Heath Bar Crunch Ice Cream at Meijer for $2.50 to add to my Ben & Jerry's collection.  This is a basic flavor that has been out for quite a long time, but it's one I've never looked at on the blog and since I've never really had the chance to review what is essentially their unaltered vanilla-flavored ice cream before, I feel this review is very fitting.  The pint is the typical four half-cup servings of ice cream and each serving is 280 calories.

Review: Talenti Southern Butter Pecan Gelato

In the early days of the blog, I hit up Talenti products for reviews quite a bit.  Since then, I've mostly stayed away (it's been almost a year; WOW) for a couple of reasons.  First of which is that my stores just don't change out their varieties very often.  Second, and perhaps most important though, is that that they are seemingly never on sale and their regular prices are just not something I want to pay for a pint of any dessert, no matter how good it may or not be.  So, on a recent trip to Kroger, both of my excuses were blown out of the water as I noticed that for the first time in quite a while, my Kroger had switched out its flavors and added this Talenti Southern Butter Pecan Gelato to the collection as this was a flavor introduced the world this past March.  The sale price for this pint was $3.50 and with four half-cup servings inside, each serving measured in at 210 calories.  It's also all natural, gluten free and kosher, so it's got all sorts of goodness going for it.

Review: Van de Kamp's ParchmentBake Garlic Butter Tilapia

I've mentioned before on the blog that I did not become a fan of seafood, specifically fish, until later in life.  For the purposes of this blog, I've only reviewed Gorton's frozen fish products and I've even reviewed the same flavor as this Van de Kamp's ParchmentBake Garlic Butter Tilapia.  Because of that, I'll be able to draw a comparison as to which company puts out a better product in this flavor.  For the price and nutrition hounds out there, I picked up this box at Meijer on sale for $3.99. There are two frozen fillets per box and each fillet comes in at roughly 3.6 ounces with 80 calories and fourteen grams of protein.

Review: Gorton's Grilled Fillets Lemon Pepper Fillets

Because of this blog, there are a lot of types of foods out there that I either didn't like or had never tried before that I have tried as part of my exploration into new foods and things.  One of those things, for example is Greek yogurt.  Another thing that I never liked before but have now made a habit of trying is seafood products.  Because of this, I've done several reviews of Gorton's Grilled Fillet products and that leads me to another review of one of those products with this review of the Gorton's Grilled Fillets Lemon Pepper Fillets.  I picked up this box of fillets at Meijer on sale for $3.00 and each box includes two 3.8 ounce fillets that clock in with 90 calories and sixteen grams of protein per fillet.  The box does not give a good indication of what this is a fillet of, but when you look at the ingredients, you'll come to find out that this is Alaskan Pollock.

Review: Walden Farms Apple Butter Fruit Spread

On my Walden Farms Caramel Dip post, a commenter mentioned that they run a health food store where they allow customers to try out Walden Farms products prior to buying them so that they can determine whether they want to fork over the cash for the sometimes costly products.  Personally, I think that is a great idea, but since not everyone has access to those kind of well run stores, my goal is to review as many Walden Farms products as possible on this blog and that leads me to the Apple Butter Fruit Spread that I picked up via Amazon.com (they were the re-seller for VitaCost.com) for $3.75.  I LOVE apple butter, so after I made my order and received it on my door step, I was VERY anxious to try this one out.  This container is twelve ounces and like all Walden Farms products, it is both sugar and calorie free.

Review: Gorton's Grilled Tilapia Roasted Garlic & Butter Fillets

For someone who has not liked fish for most of their life, I've got to admit that I'm starting to like these Gorton's products.  I've had more hits than misses and I had a big hit on my last Grilled Tilapia review, so I was anxious to try out another variation of Gorton's frozen seafood (and tilapia) products with these Grilled Tilapia Roasted Garlic & Butter fillets.  As you can tell, this is the same product as last time, except they are using a different preparation method as the fillets are coated with butter and roasted garlic.  I picked this up on sale at Meijer for $3.99 and each box includes two 3.1 ounce fillets.  Each fillet comes in at 80 calories and has fourteen grams of protein.