Review: Promax Nutty Butter Crisp Protein Bar

I've been remiss in adding more product to my Promax review collection.  What makes that really pathetic is that I was given a batch of free samples and it has taken me forever to get through them.  Well, today is another addition to that collection (only one more free sample to go) as I take a look at this Promax Nutty Butter Crisp Protein Bar, which is one of Promax's original flavors.  Hooray for that, I suppose.  It's also a bulky protein bar that clocks in at 2.64 ounces and has 300 calories with twenty grams of protein.  It's also gluten free, kosher and vegetarian, so it could be eaten by a wide variety of audiences (I'm trying to spin as much as I can to being positive today).

Review: Kellogg's Special K Red Velvet Pastry Crisps

I'll admit that I have a love/hate relationship with products that are red velvet flavored and it's because of no real reason other than my stupidity.  For the longest time, I though red velvet was its own thing.  Not until later in life, while watching a Bobby Flay show on the Food Network, did I learn that red velvet is basically just chocolate dyed red.  Somehow, I felt cheated by that.  Yep, I'm a moron.  Anyway, Kellogg's Special K has decided to add to their review history on this blog with another variation flavor of their Pasty Crisps line with this box of Kellogg's Special K Red Velvet Pastry Crisps that I was able to pick up on a very nice sale at Kroger for $1.99.  Each box contains five packages of two crisps and each bar clocks in at 0.88 ounces with 100 calories and one gram of protein.

Review: Chobani Simply 100 Crunch Mango Cone Crisp Greek Yogurt

So here we go.  The empire of Chobani continues to expand.  I've mentioned it before, but it never ceases to amaze me...when I started this blog, Chobani was a cute little upstart.  In that 4+ years, they've become a powerhouse with multiple product lines spanning the yogurt section of the refrigerator at the grocery store.  It's also helped make Greek yogurt mainstream and there's so much Greek yogurt out there now compared to four years ago that it's insane when I really step back and think about it.  Today's Chobani Simply 100 Crunch Mango Cone Crisp Greek Yogurt is the product of one of those new product lines.  It's a smallish 4.2 ounces and has 100 calories and ten grams of protein.  As with all Chobani products, it's also all natural.

Review: Nature Valley Salted Caramel Peanut Nut Crisp Bars

I love me some coupons.  Digital, cut out of the paper, whatever...just give me my savings.  It's that undying love of savings that giddily caused me to "clip" a digital coupon to buy today's review subject to add to my constantly growing Nature Valley review collection.  This digital coupon was "clipped" via the Meijer iPhone app and I grabbed this box of six Nature Valley Salted Caramel Peanut Nut Crisp Bars on sale for $2.99 (plus a coupon for an additional $0.50 off).  It's a new product, so of course I was doubly giddy to mix that with a coupon (yeah, I'm a dork).  Anyway, each bar in this box is 0.89 ounces and comes in at 140 calories with four grams of protein.

Review: CLIF Blueberry Crisp Bar

I've nailed through a ton of CLIF bars on this blog in previous reviews, so it always surprises me when I see a flavor pop up that I've never tried before, it always comes as a surprise to me.  That was definitely the case when I saw this CLIF Blueberry Crisp Bar laying on the shelves of my local Kroger with a price of $1.00.  The bar itself is the classic CLIF weight of 2.4 ounces and has 250 calories and ten grams of protein.

Review: Premier Protein Crisp Chocolate Mint Crunchy Protein Bar

For some odd reason, my Kroger keeps the nutrition bars in two separate areas of the store.  They keep the mainstream bars like CLIF, KIND, etc. near the actual food and then they keep some of the hardcore bars in the pharmacy.  I'm not sure why they do that, but on the rare occasion that I do patrol the pharmacy, I always manage to see a couple of new bars on each visit.  That's certainly the case with this Premier Protein Crisp Chocolate Mint Crunchy Protein Bar that I was able to pick up on sale for $1.33.  Each bar is 1.83 ounces and 190 calories with fifteen grams of protein.  Interestingly, despite the fact that this bar appears entirely manufactured, it is gluten free which seems kind of out of place all things considered.  Perhaps it's just me that feels that way though since I'm a little goofy.

Review: Atkins Daybreak Chocolate Chip Crisp Bars

I spend an awful amount of time lamenting about the cost of products on this blog, especially when I consider Atkins products.  Funny thing is that it took me close to two years to start comparing products bought in bulk at a cost per bar basis so that I can get an accurate gauge of how it compares to other like bars and maybe that way, some of my complaint will go by the wayside.  For example, this box of five Atkins Daybreak Chocolate Chip Crisp Bars set me back $5.50 at Kroger.  Ordinarily, I'd be complaining about five bars costing that much, but when I look at them at a unit price basis, it's not really that bad.  Frankly, I'm ashamed that it took me this long to make the correlation, especially since I've worked in finance/accounting for nearly my entire professional career.  What a joke.  Anyway, a single unit comes in at 1.2 ounces with 140 calories and ten grams of protein.  Atkins markets these as a morning snack and/or a light breakfast, so with those measurements, these definitely fit the bill.

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: 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: 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: Kashi GOLEAN Crisp! Chocolate Caramel Bar

Kashi and I haven't been the greatest of friends on this blog, but I'm a sucker for a sale and since I saw Kashi bars on sale at Kroger recently for $1.00, I knew I had to grab a couple of bars to try out, despite some of my past experiences with the bar.  This bar, the Kashi GOLEAN Crisp! Chocolate Caramel Bar, comes in at 1.59 ounces with 150 calories and eight grams of protein.  It's also got a cute tagline on the wrapper with a disclaimer that states "Stay Full Longer*"  I work for a company that LOVES disclaimers, so anytime I see one, I always chuckle.  In this case, the Kashi disclaimer says that they intend for you to stay full longer by providing a mix of protein and fiber, but that doesn't necessarily mean that you will stay full longer.  Ah, lawyers...gotta love 'em, eh?

Review: Nature Valley Crunchy Apple Crisp Granola Bars

For the most part, Nature Valley granola products are very simple.  They take their standard granola mix, add in a few different flavor components and call it a day.  Some might think that makes their products all the same, but there are subtle differences and that's why I do reviews on them, which leads me to this review of the Nature Valley Crunchy Apple Crisp Granola Bars.  I picked up a box of these for $2.99 on sale at Meijer and each box contains six packs of bars, in which there are two bars per pack.  Each pack is 1.5 ounces, 160 calories and has three grams of protein and sixteen grams of whole grain, so you can do the math to figure out the specifics per each individual bar if you are so inclined.

Review: Kellogg's Special K Berry Streusel Pastry Crisps

I always think I've reached the end of the line on a certain product line, but then the manufacturers pull me right back in by introducing yet another new flavor.  That's what happened here with this box of Kellogg's Special K Berry Streusel Pastry Crisps that I picked up on sale in a box of five pouches at Marsh for $2.49 to add to my growing Special K review series.  Each pouch contains two thin pastry crisp bars that weigh 0.44 ounces each and each have 50 calories.

Review: Body Fortress Energy Chocolate Cookie Crisp Protein Bar

While I was less than impressed, but not repulsed, by my first Body Fortress protein bar review, I figure that another review is in order since I picked up two of these in the meathead section of my local Kroger and I hate to waste money/food by just throwing things out without giving them a chance.  So, I picked up this Body Fortress Energy Chocolate Cookie Crisp Protein Bar for $1.25 and the bar itself is 1.52 ounces with 170 calories and eight grams of protein.  Like the last bar, there is no indication as to what this bar is going to be like on the wrapper other than the name of the flavor, so any sort of pre-conceived notions that I may have about this truly are guesses.  But hey, verifying or disproving those guesses is why I do reviews!

Review: Kellogg's Special K Blueberry Pastry Crisps

As Special K week continues, it's time to dive into my third review of their Pastry Crisps line.  In previous reviews, I've had some positive experiences with this breakfast-like snack.  Some of the other flavors have been decadent sweets and/or chocolate, but this time I'll be diving into a more traditional flavor with this review of the Kellogg's Special K Blueberry Pastry Crisps.  I picked this up in the mega Special K sale at Meijer for $2.50 and as with all of these, it contains five pouches of crisps (two crisps per pouch) per box and each package is a combined 0.88 ounces and 100 calories.

Review: Kellogg's Special K Chocolatey Delight Pastry Crisps

Kicking off Special K week and adding to my collection of Special K reviews, I'll start with a product that basically just jumped from the shelf at Meijer into my car since it used the oldest and easiest trick in the book of "NEW" on the box to rope me, a complete rube, into making the purchase.  I've had one of these pastry crisps before and thoroughly enjoyed it, so I was hoping that enjoyment would carry over into this Kellogg's Special K Chocolatey Delight Pastry Crisps that I picked up on sale for $2.50.  Each box contains five pasty crisps packages (two crisps per package) and each package comes in at 0.88 ounces and 100 calories.  That's for both pastry crisps, so the math geniuses of the world can divide that in half to figure out the weight and calorie load of each pastry crisp.

Review: Kellogg's Special K Brown Sugar Cinnamon Pastry Crisps

I don't often post these reviews in the order that I review them, so you'll just have to take my word for it that I've been on a big Special K binge lately since they've been introducing so many new products.  It seems like I've been eating them like crazy and I've still got more in my cabinets at home to knock out as well.  So, with that binge, I'm led to this review of the Kellogg's Special K Brown Sugar Cinnamon Pastry Crisps.  I picked up these "treats" at Meijer for around $2.50 for a box of ten.  Well, there's ten crisps spread into five pouch, so obviously there's two crisps per pouch.  Yep, that's me, Crazy Food Mathematician Dude.  Each package of two is 0.88 ounces and 100 calories, so to do some more math, each crisp is 0.44 ounces and 50 calories.  Yep, I'm a regular John Nash.

Review: PowerBar Recovery Peanut Butter Caramel Crisp with Chocolatey Coating Bar

It was post workout and I was tired and sore.  What better way to help yourself than by eating a recovery bar?  Well, that led me to the PowerBar Peanut Butter Caramel Crisp with Chocolatey Coating bar.  Have you ever seen a more descriptive name of a product in your life?  I'm not sure that I have.  LOL, anyway, I picked this one up on sale at Kroger for $0.99.  It contains 260 calories, twelve grams of protein and is a fairly robust bar in size/weight at nearly two ounces.