Review: Van's Blissfully Berry Gluten Free Cereals

So I mentioned in my previous Van's review that someone in their public relations firm (or perhaps department) was kind enough to ship me a couple of boxes of their gluten free cereals for review.  I already looked at one, so today's reviews leads me to take a look a the other box that was shipped to me as I examine this box of Van's Blissfully Berry Gluten Free Cereals.  This box has nine three-quarter cup servings contained within it and each serving comes in at 110 calories.  It's gluten free of course and also hits you up with all sorts of fiber and whole grains, so hooray for that if that is the way that you like to start your day.  The tagline says that you can start your day with a "Blissful Breakfast", so if you are in to fiber and whole grains like this has got, perhaps that is blissful for you.  I'm not really into starting my day at all as I'd rather stay in bed, but to each their own.

Review: Van's Cocoa Sensations Gluten Free Cereals

I am proud to say that I've never paid for a Van's product that I've reviewed on this blog.  Wait a minute...why am I proud of that?  I don't know that I should be ashamed of it, but I should be grateful that Van's has been so generous to me to keep sending me free samples to review.  Granted, they are getting some benefit by putting out word of mouth for their product, but they are also giving me content and saving me a few bucks.  Anyway, today's free sample is the first time I've tried one of their cereal products as I'll take a look at this ten ounce box of Van's Cocoa Sensations Gluten Free Cereals.  Not sure on the exact price, but I'm guessing each box could be priced anywhere from $3.00-$5.00 depending on the store.  Each of the nine servings in this box is three-quarters of a cup and comes in at 110 calories.  As the name would also point out, it's also gluten free.  The tagline states that this cereal is "Sweet Sensations by the Spoonful" but I think I'm going to have to be the judge of that!

Review: thinkThin Brownie Crunch High Protein Bar

In my last thinkThin review, I was decidedly unimpressed by what sounded like an awesome bar based on the product name.  In that same trip, I picked up another bar of what sounded like an awesome name to review and that leads me to this thinkThin Brownie Crunch High Protein Bar.  Since I got this one on the same shopping trip to Kroger, it set me back $1.25.  It comes in at a dense 2.1 ounces and is 230 calories with twenty grams of protein, thus making it a "High Protein" bar.

Review: thinkThin Caramel Fudge High Protein Bar

For better or worse, there is a lot of variety in the nutrition bar aisle at Kroger.  Several months ago, I spotted these thinkThin bars popping up in the aisle and put them on my to-do list for bars to review but kept putting it off in favor of doing countless variations of the same product manufacturers.  Finally on a recent trip to the store, I picked up a couple of these bars to review for $1.25 each and today's review of the thinkThin Caramel Fudge High Protein Bar is the first in that series.  This bar itself comes in at a robust 2.1 ounces (not at all thin) and has 240 calories with a solid twenty grams of protein.  It's also gluten free, sugar free and professes on the label that it is natural, so it's got a lot of good thing going for it.

Review: CLIF CRUNCH White Chocolate Macadamia Granola Bar

I've reviewed a lot of CLIF products here on the blog (both LUNA and CLIF), but I haven't really gotten outside of their seasonal flavors very often, so that leads me to one of their standard product offerings in the CLIF CRUNCH White Chocolate Macadamia Granola Bar.  They bill this as an all natural granola bar and I bought this as part of a five bar box on sale at Kroger for about $4.00.  It weighs 1.5 ounces and contains 190 calories with four grams of protein.