Review: Good2Go Almond Fruit Nut Protein Bars

Several months ago, I received a four boxes of a variety of bars from Good2Go.  Well, it's taken me several months, but I am FINALLY ready to wrap up the reviews of what all I received in those boxes as I take a dive into this review of the Good2Go Almond Fruit Nut Protein Bars.  As you can see from above, there are eight bars per box and each bar clocks in at 2.47 ounces.  What you can't see is that each bar has 298 calories and a fairly robust 18 grams of protein.  It's also gluten free, so it's got that going for it.

Review: Quaker Quinoa Chocolate Nut Medley Granola Bars

I don't know what it is about these Quaker Quinoa bars and Marsh.  In the last review, I also found that flavor on clearance and once again in a visit to the clearance section, I found this box of Quaker Quinoa Chocolate Nut Medley Granola Bars on clearance as well.  Not sure if Marsh can't sell them or they just can't sell in general, but it seems odd to me.  Either way, a box of these contains five bars and each bar is 1.23 ounces with 150 calories and two grams of protein.

Review: Quaker Quinoa Yogurt, Fruit & Nut Granola Bars

I'll admit that I've been a little slow to get this new (it was at one time) Quaker product into my review catalog.  I've got a pretty good reason though...they've never been at what I feel is a fair price.  So, on a recent trip to Marsh, I found them at a very fair price (on clearance) and I know I had to snatch up a five of these Quaker Quinoa Yogurt, Fruit & Nut Granola Bars for a much delayed review.  Typically, these run in the $3.00-$4.00 range for a box (at Kroger), but let's just say that I got these at a price substantially lower than that, as the remnants of the clearance tag on the front of the box will infer.  Anyway, each bar in the box is 1.23 ounces and has 150 calories and two grams of protein.  These bars are designed to be snacks, so they aren't large from a calorie, weight or protein perspective.

Review: Nature Valley Almond Crunch Roasted Nut Crunch Bars

I already went into a long, drawn out spiel about how I loved nuts.  It was a crude and ridiculous attempt at humor, so I'll spare going through that again.  It was armed with that pre-existing nut love that I decided to grab a box of six of these Nature Valley Almond Crunch Roasted Nut Crunch Bars Close off the shelves of Meijer for $2.50 to add to my growing Nature Valley review collection.  Each bar in the box is 1.2 ounces and has 190 calories and six grams of protein.  It's also gluten free, so that should apply to our gluten sensitive readers as well.  Judging by the number of people that I hear talking about how they are gluten free now, that's probably a pretty large portion of this blog's readership.

Review: Balance Bar Bare Mixed Berry Nut Bar

At the rate I'm going, I could almost solicit a sponsorship for this blog from Kroger as their Free Friday Download program continues to grow the number of reviews on this blog.  What I do like about that program (other than the free stuff, of course) is that it forces me to look in sections of the store that I've been away from for a while and looking in those sections allows me to find new products that I have never seen before, as is the case with today's review of this Balance Bar Bare Mixed Berry Nut Bar that I can add to the already expansive collection of Balance Bar reviews.  It's a 1.19 ounce bar and it has 160 calories and four grams of protein.  It's also dairy free, gluten free and soy free if that floats any of your boats.

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: Balance Bar Bare Sea Salt Caramel Nut Bar

Balance Bar is a product that I hit a lot in the early days of the blog and then it went a year before I reviewed it again.  I was thinking that prior to today that it had been at least eighteen months since I looked at one, but much to my surprise, I did a couple of reviews earlier this year.  Either way, review of Balance Bars have been few and far between since 2012.  So, today they make a return to the blog (again) as I take a look at this Balance Bar Bare Sea Salt Caramel Nut Bar that I was able to pick up at Meijer for $1.00.  The bar itself is 1.19 ounces and has 160 calories and five grams of protein.  It's also gluten and soy free, if you are interested in that kind of thing.

Review: Bear Naked Maple Nut Real Nut Energy Bar

It sometimes amazes me how products can vary from store to store in the same grocery store chain.  For example, I usually traffic two-to-three different Kroger stores in my area, so I typically see the same stuff over and over.  This past weekend, I was in a Kroger that out of my ordinary area and upon perusing the nutrition bar section, I saw some bars pop up that I've never seen in my normal stores, so I snatched a few up and that leads me to today's review of this Bear Naked Maple Nut Real Nut Energy Bar that I grabbed for $1.25.  I've seen the Bear Naked granola cereals in several stores, but this is my first time seeing the actual bars.  This particular bar came it at 2.0 ounces with 260 calories and eight grams of protein.

Review: KIND Almond & Coconut Fruit & Nut Bar

Every now and then, I'll be wandering through the store and a bar will pop up on me that I'm absolutely dumbfounded that I've never seen before because it seems like such a basic flavor combination.  On a recent visit to Walmart, this happened to me as I was trolling around and saw this KIND Almond & Coconut Fruit & Nut Bar that I'm going to add to my review collection today.  It was on sale for $1.39 and the bar itself comes in at 1.4 ounces with 190 calories and three grams of protein.  It's gluten free, non-GMO and all that jazz too, if you are into that type of thing.

Review: Kellogg's Special K Nourish Dark Chocolate Nut Delight Bar

With each passing day, it amuses me even more that the mainstream companies are entering the foray of the "nutrition" bar market.  Kellogg's Special K has several bars already out there that I've hit on in reviews, but they've started pushing their "Nourish" line of products and by expanding upon that line, they've introduced this Kellogg's Special K Nourish Dark Chocolate Nut Delight Bar that I picked up at Kroger for $1.25.  It checks in at 1.58 ounces with 180 calories and eight grams of protein.

Review: Nature Valley Salted Caramel Nut Protein Chewy Bar

Have you ever been to Nature Valley?  Yeah, neither have I and yes, that was probably one of the worst introductions that you've ever read and I apologize.  When the megacompany General Mills keeps spurning out products for it's Nature Valley bar line, it becomes difficult to think of new and creative ways to start off one of these seemingly countless reviews.  So, I'll just dive right into this review of the Nature Valley Salted Caramel Nut Protein Chewy Bar that was mailed to me as part of a free promo.  The bar is 1.42 ounces and has 190 calories with ten grams of protein.

Review: Larabar uber Coconut Macaroon Sweet and Salty Fruit & Nut Bar

I can appreciate a company that continues to spit out new product variations and Larabar is definitely one of those as I've hit on a cornucopia of their product here on the blog in the past.  This time, I picked up this Larabar uber Coconut Macaroon Sweet and Salty Fruit & Nut Bar on sale at Kroger for $1.00.  The bar comes in at the measureables of 1.42 ounces, 220 calories and four grams of protein.  There's obviously also some other numbers in there, but I'm lazy and only want to hit on what I deem to be the high points.

Review: Caveman Dark Chocolate Cherry Nut Bar

Perhaps I didn't notice it in my last Caveman Foods review, but the wrapper of the subject of today's review had the tagline of "Paleo Friendly."  I had no idea what that meant, so I used my friend the Google machine and found out that it referred to a specific diet known as the Paleolithic diet, or more informally as the caveman diet.  Like how the manufacturer tied their name into that?  Actually, I write that in jest, but I find it pretty creative to be honest.  My admiration of their creativity aside, I picked up this Caveman Dark Chocolate Cherry Nut Bar at Meijer for $1.25.  Each all natural, gluten free and peanut free bar is 1.4 ounces and has 190 calories with four grams of protein and three grams of fiber.

Review: Odwalla Chocolate Almond Coconut Chewy Nut Bar

After having done several Odwalla reviews, I figured their bars were mostly the same in that they were soft, pliable bars that consisted of various fruits.  On a recent trip to Kroger, I was surprised when I saw a type of Odwalla bar that I had never seen before in this Odwalla Chocolate Almond Coconut Chewy Nut Bar.  I didn't know that they had nut bars, so this was news to me.  As for the numeric specifics of the bar, I picked it up on sale for $1.00 and it came in at 1.6 ounces and 200 calories with four grams of protein.  It's also made with real fruit and whole cereal grains, so hooray for that.

Review: Larabar Uber Roasted Nut Roll Fruit & Nut Bar

While I haven't had a lot of success with Larabar products in general, I have had success with their Uber line of products.  With that, I've got to say that I was anxious to dig into this upcoming Uber product because everything about it sounded like a recipe for deliciousness to me.  So, that delicious sounding recipe for awesomeness (Uber) leads me to this review of the Larabar Uber Roasted Nut Roll Fruit & Nut Bar that I picked up at Kroger for $1.00.  It comes in at 1.42 ounces, is 220 calories and contains only five grams of protein.  For a product filled with nuts, that seems like a abnormally low amount of protein to me, but I'm no biochemist, so what the heck do I know?

Review: CLIF Mojo Mountain Mix Trail Mix Bar

I think I've said this before on the blog, but I'll say it again:  I LOVE trail mix and when I'm at a place that has trail mix at an open bowl, I always find a way to gravitate toward it and eat it non-stop, no matter how hard I try to avoid it.  That said, CLIF's Mojo Trail Mix bars are right up my alley.  I've already reviewed one of the bars, so I'm now led to the Mountain Mix flavor of one of their trail mix bars.  Why the name Mountain Mix?  Heaven (and CLIF) only knows.  Maybe they want you to throw this in your pack before you go for a climb.  The bar is 70% organic and consist of all the nuts, fruits, etc. that you'd expect to find in trail mix (depending on the mix).  I picked this one up on sale at Kroger for $1.00 and it's 1.59 ounces with 190 calories and eight grams of protein.

Review: LUNA White Chocolate Macadamia Nutrition Bar

I've covered before how I don't think I look like a woman and was duped/bullied into buying these LUNA bars that are specifically made for women, but since I was duped, I might as well finish reviewing my purchases and that leads me to the White Chocolate Macadamia Nutrition bar produced by LUNA (a subsidiary of CLIF, so this fits right in with the theme of the week).  This one is 70% organic and weighs in at 1.69 ounces with 190 calories and nine grams of protein.  I picked it up on Kroger (from the bully) for $1.00.

Review: Larabar Peanut Butter & Jelly Food Bar

If you take a look at the Larabar products website, you will see that they have A LOT of different flavors.  Maybe someday I'll try them all out for this blog, but today I'll just stick with this one, the Peanut Butter & Jelly bar.  Now, everyone (I hope) knows what a peanut butter and jelly sandwich is and studies show that the average person has probably eaten about a 1,500 of them by the time they graduate high school.  I know I ate about one a day as a kid, so needless to say, I have a little experience eating them.  Since I hold them in such high esteem, I had big expectations leading up to trying out this bar.  So, before we start the review, let's get the hard facts out of the way:  this one has 210 calories, 6 grams of protein, weighs in at 1.7 ounces and I picked it up on sale at Kroger for $0.99.

Review: Kashi GOLEAN Roll! Chocolate Turtle Protein & Fiber Bar

I would be willing to bet that when 95% of the ice cream eating world is asked what their favorite ice cream sundae is, they would say that it is a hot fudge sundae.  Hot fudge sundaes are nice, but in my book, the best sundae that exits is a Turtle sundae.  Vanilla ice cream (or custard), hot fudge, hot caramel and pecans.  Some are topped by whipped cream and a cherry for the proverbial (and literal) cherry on top, but those last two aren't completely necessary.  Because I feel that Turtle sundaes are the best, I was very intrigued when I saw this Kashi GOLEAN Roll! Chocolate Turtle bar on sale at my local Meijer for $1.50.  I've had bad experiences with Kashi products before when I tried their GOLEAN Crunch cereal, but I was willing to give this protein/fiber bar a try.  For those of you that are interested in the "under the hood" details, here you go:  all natural, a robust 1.94 ounces, 190 calories, twelve grams of protein and six grams of fiber.

Review: KIND Fruit & Nut Delight Fruit & Nut Bar

If you haven't figured it out from reading this blog before (if you are a regular reader), I love nuts.  No, not that kind of nuts and please get your mind out of the gutter.  This is a family friendly blog.  I love nuts like peanuts, almonds, cashews, etc. (although peanuts are not technically a nut, but instead a legume), but surprisingly am not a fan of walnuts.  Anyway, any time I come across an energy/protein/nutrition bar that includes nuts, it is right up my alley and that's what leads me to this KIND Fruit & Nut Delight bar.  Well, that's not entirely what leads me to it...KIND has monthly "KINDING Missions" where they pass out free bars to fans if you give them your e-mail address (follow the link and join the movement yourself to get a free bar).  Being that I have many different e-mail addresses, I always end up getting at least one of these every few months and that's how I got my hands on this one.  If you were to purchase this at the store though, it would probably run in the range of $1.00-$1.50.  As for the pinup model measurements of this one, it's 1.4 ounces and packs 180 calories and a minimal five grams of protein.  So, it's not a protein bar and it's not an energy bar, so that basically leaves this one out there as a nutrition or snack bar.