Review: JELL-O Thick & Rich Chocolate Milkshake Pudding Snacks

JELL-O pudding intrigues me, as you could probably tell if you've seen how frequently I've reviewed it here on the blog.  What really intrigues me about it is how they seem to hold certain flavors for certain stores.  For example, I've never seen the Boston Cream Pie flavor at any other store buy Meijer.  Today's review is another one of those instances where I can only find it at one store locally (so far, it is a Limited Edition after all).  So, on a recent trip to Marsh, I picked up this seemingly exclusive four pack of JELL-O Thick & Rich Chocolate Milkshake Pudding Snacks for $2.39.  These are so limited and so exclusive that JELL-O doesn't even have room for them on their site.  Anyway, each cup is 3.875 ounces and packs in 110 calories per cup.

Review: JELL-O Fudge Brownie Pudding Snacks

I know you can't tell from the flow of reviews on the blog because I keep such a backlog of reviews (at least I did before; that backlog is pretty thin now), but today's review is the first review that I've typed up in over a week and I'm finding it hard to get back into the swing of things as I enjoyed my "vacation" too much.  Despite that enjoyment, I was recently strolling through my neighborhood Marsh and I saw something on the shelf that just popped out at me and made me decided "VACATION OVER" as I wanted to give this four pack of JELL-O Fudge Brownie Pudding Snacks a review for the blog.  This is a limited edition product that adds to the plethora of JELL-O reviews that I've done already.  This four pack set me back $2.39 and each container is an oddly sized 3.875 ounces with 120 calories.

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: JELL-O Pumpkin Spice Cheescake Snacks

I've said it before in reviews, but I'll say it again:  I absolutely LOVE pudding and little snack packs of the like.  I've reviewed many pudding-type products on the blog throughout the three years of its existence and I've spent a lot of those reviews looking at the seemingly never ending (thankfully) line of JELL-O products.  So, it was with great delight that I noticed in a recent trip to Kroger that JELL-O has rolled out a limited edition version of a seasonal treat that happens to be one of my favorite seasonal flavors with this four pack of JELL-O Pumpkin Spice Cheescake Snacks.  This one cost me $2.00 and each cup within the pack is 4.25 ounces and has 130 calories.  Just to be specific, these are technically pudding snacks as you can see above since the package is clearly labeled "Cheesecake Snacks."  It doesn't really matter to me because I was very anxious to dive in.

Review: belVita Cinnamon Brown Sugar Breakfast Biscuits

I've touched on belVita's breakfast biscuits once before on this blog and while I believe they are best eaten when dipped in coffee or tea (they are British after all), I try to eat them "naked" for the purposes of keeping a "pure" review.  I know that's a silly idea, but hey, I am the Crazy Food Dude after all.  Anyway, I was standing in line at my local Marsh grocery store recently and I saw a four pack of these belVita Cinnamon Brown Sugar Breakfast Biscuits sitting on the rack just begging me to make an impulse purchase and being the impulsive goof that I am, I fell victim to the trick and forked over the $1.00 for these.  The entire package of four biscuits ways in at 1.76 ounces and has 230 calories and four grams of protein, so some simple math will help you get the per biscuit values.

Review: belVita Blueberry Breakfast Biscuits

When belVita products came out in America well over a year ago, they were reviewed ad nausea throughout the blogosphere, so I stayed away.  Plus, at the time, buying a box of these at the grocery store didn't really interest me all that much.  Recently though, I became interested in doing a review on these belVita Blueberry Breakfast Biscuits because I saw a single pack of these on sale at Kroger for $1.00.  Each pack has four biscuits and the total statistics for the entire four pack are 1.76 ounces, 230 calories and four grams of protein.

Review: JELL-O Live Active Milk Chocolate Bliss Pudding

Sometimes I let my ego get the best of me and think that I've seen it all.  I am often put in my place and that was the case in one of my recent visits to Walmart as I found a JELL-O pudding product that I had NEVER seen before and I thought I'd seen them all.  In this case it was a four pack of the JELL-O Live Active Milk Chocolate Bliss Pudding.  It's Live Active because it's good for digestive health, but that's not what I was really interested in.  What I was truly interested in was the fact that this was a flavor that I had never seen before that sounded really, really good.  So, armed with two whole dollars, I grabbed this four pack of cups, threw it in my cart to bring home to try and that leads me to this review.  Each cup is 3.75 ounces and has 60 calories.

Review: JELL-O Temptations Key Lime Pie Pudding

I've shared the fact that I'm addicted to JELL-O pudding in the plethora of prior reviews here on the blog.  On the other hand, I'm not so addicted to their Temptations products and those have been kind of hit or miss in my book. Seeing a new (to me) flavor of the Temptations line in the store recently prompted me to pick up this four pack of JELL-O Temptations Key Lime Pudding that was on sale at Kroger for $2.49.  Each pudding cup is  four ounces and also 80 calories.  Now, I'll be the first to admit that while I find Key Lime Pie to be alright, it's not one of my favorite things in the world, but I'm almost always willing to try out new things because sometimes thing surprise me with how good then end up being.  Hopefully that'll be the case with this pudding cup.

Review: Kraft MilkBite Mixed Berry Milk & Granola Bar

Today's review leads me to finally blast through all the Kraft MilkBite flavors with this review of the last of their currently available flavors.  I'm sure that will change in the future when they inevitably add more flavors, but for now, this Kraft MilkBite Mixed Berry Milk & Granola Bar review is the end of the line.  Like some of the others, I picked up a box of five of these bars at Marsh for $2.50.  Each bar is 1.23 ounces and has 140 calories with five grams of protein.  It's also got 30% of your daily calcium intake, which is basically the equivalent of an eight ounce glass of milk.  I have to admit, that's pretty impressive to pack that much calcium into this smallish bar.

Review: JELL-O Mix-Ins Oreo Dirt Cup Pudding

A lot of times when I decide what order to review products after buying a big batch of them at the store is to look at the expiration date.  Once I figure out that I'm not in danger from dying from a rapidly approaching expiration date (thus urgency for a review), I then base my decision on which product sounds the most interesting.  It was on a recent trip to Meijer that I picked up a lot of JELL-O Mix-Ins products for reviews and one of those products that I picked up was this JELL-O Mix-Ins Oreo Dirt Cup Pudding.  I've held this one for a quite a while because, quite frankly, I was pretty bored by what this entails.  Still, sometimes things that I perceive as boring end up surprising me in the end, so for that reason, I still end up reviewing them.  This two-pack of Mix-Ins pudding cups was on sale for $1.25 and each cups is roughly 3.4 ounces and has 130 calories.  It's made with real milk too!

Review: Kraft MilkBite Oatmeal Raisin Milk & Granola Bar

I've been barreling through these MilkBite bars recently.  After typing up one of my recent reviews, I saw on the Kraft website that there were a couple of new flavors available that I had not yet seen.  After seeing that, I filed it away in my head to start looking and on a recent trip to one of my local Marsh stores, I finally found a box of these Kraft MilkBite Oatmeal Raisin Milk & Granola Bars on sale for $2.50 for a box of five bars.  Each bar is 1.23 ounces, has 130 calories and also five grams of protein.  Oatmeal raisin is one of my tried and true favorite flavor combinations, so I was very anxious to dive into this one.

Review: Kraft MilkBite Strawberry Milk & Granola Bar

These Kraft MilkBite bars are brilliant in their simplicity.  The pick one flavor, mix it with milk and that's it.  I've already touched on a couple of flavors previously, but as I also mentioned before, I picked up a couple of flavors at the same time and that leads me to this review of the Kraft MilkBite Strawberry Milk & Granola Bar.  Like the other, I picked this one up on sale at Meijer in a box of five bars on sale for $2.99.  Each bar is 1.23 ounces and has 140 calories and five grams of protein.  It's also a fifth of your daily calcium intake, so hooray for bone health!

Review: Kraft MilkBite Chocolate Milk & Granola Bar

This past fall, I took a belated look at what had been a new product release that had occurred several months prior to my review.  Despite the fact that I found that particular MilkBite bar to be downright delicious, I'd stayed away from these bars until recently when I picked up a couple of boxes of five bars consisting of different flavors on sale at Meijer for $2.99.  In this review, I'll take a look at the Kraft MilkBite Chocolate Milk & Granola Bars.  Each bar in this box comes in at 1.23 ounces and has 140 calories with five grams of protein.  It's listed as a good source of fiber and also proclaims to contain 30% of your daily calcium intake.  That's quite some whallop for in a small package.  Since it contains milk, it needs to be stored in the refrigerator.

Review: Nabisco SnackWell's Cinnamon Raisin Cereal Bar

In my continuing voyage through the incredibly competitive cereal bar market, which is mystifying to me by the way, I've got another review of a bar that I've received via my favorite time of the day...company snack time!  Naturally, I didn't pay for this (my hard work did), so I can't identify a cost.  What I can identify is that this Nabisco SnackWell's Cinnamon Raisin Cereal Bar is 1.23 ounces with 140 calories and a surprising eight grams of protein.  It's my first ever review of a SnackWell's product, which is one the huge list of mass marketing product manufacturers, so we'll see how this goes.

Review: JELL-O Mix-Ins Strawberry Shortcake Pudding

It's been quite a while since I've done a JELL-O review here on the blog.  I raced out and did a whole bunch of them when the blog was first starting since I'm obsessed with pudding and then only did a sporadic one or two since then as they introduced new flavors.  Within the past few months or so, JELL-O introduced a new product line called "Mix-Ins" where the whole premise of the cup is as the name implies.  It's pudding and then you mix in some other ingredients.  I had always stayed away because the flavors seemed boring to me, but armed with the great equalizer (coupons), I decided to pick up a bunch of these on a recent trip to my local Meijer to try out.  It's that trip that led me to pick up this JELL-O Mix-Ins Strawberry Shortcake Pudding two-pack on sale for $1.25.  Each pudding cup is 3.4 ounces, which is smaller than a typical JELL-O pudding cup, and has 140 calories per cup.

Review: Planters NUT-rition Energy Mix Berry Nut Peanut Butter

Armed with another freebie that this time was provided by the My Coke Rewards program, I headed out to my local Kroger to grab another sample from the Planters NUT-rition peanut butter line with this jar of Planters NUT-rition Energy Mix Berry Nut Peanut Butter.  My last Planters review of the NUT-rition peanut butter line was met with very high expectations that were ultimately let down, so I was a bit more subdued as I head into this review.  Before I get started, I better cover the nutritional information, so this one has 180 calories per two tablespoon serving and there's about ten servings per twelve ounce jar.

Review: Planters NUT-rition Energy Mix Cinnamon Raisin Granola Peanut Butter

For regular readers of the blog, I think I've conveyed my thoughts on peanut butter many times before.  For newer visitors that have not visited the site before, I'll spell it out for you:  I LOVE peanut butter.  I can't control myself around it and have in fact placed it on my personal "do not buy" list.  That said, I found my way to a Planters Facebook promotion where they were giving out samples of their new NUT-rition Peanut Butter products and being the whore for free products that I am, I of course grabbed up a free product voucher.  Planters sent me my voucher a couple weeks later and I trudged to my local Meijer to pick up my free jar of this Planters NUT-rition Cinnamon Raisin Granola Peanut Butter, which they've deemed as part of their Energy Mix portion of NUT-rition products.  I've reviewed several Planters bars before, but this was my first foray into their other products.  It's twelve ounces and each jar contains about ten servings of this "healthy" peanut butter and each two tablespoon serving is 180 calories.

Review: Kraft MilkBite Peanut Butter Milk & Granola Bar

Kraft debuted their MilkBite line of milk and granola bars quite some time ago to much fanfare, but for some reason, I had stayed away from them for the longest time.  I really wish I could figure out why too because it's like I have some sort of vendetta against them.  In fact, everything about them sounds appealing to me because I love milk, I love granola and I love snack bars.  Yet, I still stayed away.  Finally after looking at them in the store countless times, I decided to take the plunge and pick up a box of these Kraft MilkBite Peanut Butter Milk & Granola Bars on sale at Meijer for $2.00.  Each box contains five bars and each bar comes in at 1.23 ounces.  Each bar is also 140 calories and contains five grams of protein.  What makes these bars unique from other bars on the market is that since they contain real milk, they have to be kept in the refrigerator in order to preserve them for time.  For me, that's not a big deal since I prefer my granola bars to be kept in the refrigerator anyway, but actually having a manufacturer tell you to do that is quite a change.

Review: Planters NUT-rition Digestive Health Bar

Well, I now have something to brag about...I'm faster than Mr. Peanut and his webmaster.  I've done Planters reviews before, so when I went searching for a product information page for this new bar (check the box), I logically went to the Planters website and found absolutely nothing.  I found a link to the actual mixed nut mix, but not to the bar itself.  So, I guess this Planters NUT-rition Digestive Health Bar is so new that not even the Planters team can keep up.  Lucky me.  Anyway, I picked up a box of five of these bars on sale at Meijer for $2.50 and each bar is 1.23 ounces and 150 calories with four grams of protein.  It's also high in dietary fiber, so the bar is obviously designed to help you down there, if you know what I mean.

Review: Planters Triple Nut Big Nut Bar

Mr. Peanut has quite a track record on this blog.  I've had a couple of his bars and have liked all of them.  While this Triple Nut Big Nut bar technically is not a "health" bar, but instead a snack bar, it doesn't truly fit the mission of the blog (at least health wise), so I'll classify this one as comfort food in that it's a high sugar and unhealthy treat.  Although, nuts in moderation are healthy, so it's somewhere in between ice cream and a Planters Antioxidant bar that I've reviewed before.  Anyway, I was on the road for a convention in San Jose (thus the different look in the pictures), so I picked this one up at the Marriott gift shop at my hotel, so the $1.49 price is probably not relevant to the outside world, although I was presently surprised that it was that low.  The remainder of the statistics on the bar include 1.62 ounces, 220 calories and seven grams of protein.