Review: Nature's Path Organic Qi'a Roasted Peanut Dark Chocolate Bar

I know some people might view this as odd, but I often find it kind of soothing and therapeutic to wander through the grocery store aimlessly just looking at all the products on the shelves.  You find new stuff, you see variety and it's a great way to pass the time as you definitely have to be in no hurry to get anything done.  I recently was doing that at my local Meijer when I stumbled upon something brand new in this Nature's Path Organic Qi'a Roasted Peanut Dark Chocolate Bar.  It's not my first Nature's Path review, but it is the first time I've seen one of these Qi'a bars.  So, I quickly snatched it up for about $1.50 and here we are.  The bar itself is 1.3 ounces and packs in 190 calories and five grams of protein.  It's also gluten free, organic, vegan and ALSO a superfood.  It's got tons and tons of stuff going on.

Review: CLIF Mojo Sweet and Salty Honey Roasted Peanut Trail Mix Bar

I was strolling through Marsh recently and made my usual trip through the nutrition bar aisle looking for new products to review.  As I was perusing what was on the shelf, I happened upon a bar that I thought I had to have reviewed before, but after looking at the CLIF review archives, I found that I hadn't yet reviewed this CLIF Mojo Sweet and Salty Honey Roasted Peanut Trail Mix Bar for some reason.  I'm not quite sure why either as I'm guessing it's not a new product, although the lack of presence on the CLIF website could leave me to believe otherwise.  I honestly don't know if it's new, a boring recipe or just something that I had blatantly missed, but after ascertaining that it was a "new" review subject for me, I quickly grabbed this bar up for $1.25.  The bar itself is 1.6 ounces, 200 calories and has nine grams of protein.

Review: Green Giant Garden Ranch Roasted Veggie Tortilla Chips

I mentioned in a previous Green Giant chip veggie chip review that it just seemed to me that Green Giant (General Mills) was directly taking a shot at Doritos under the auspice of being a "healthy" chip.  When I saw these new Green Giant Garden Ranch Roasted Veggie Tortilla Chips in the store, I once again had the same thought.  If you take a second to think about it, these are basically a direct shot at the Cool Ranch flavor of Doritos.  That's fine as chip companies compete on flavors all the time, but I just find it funny that these are "healthy" while Doritos are junk.  In reality, the are all junk.  Anyway, I got this bag on sale for $2.49 at Kroger and it is 5.0 ounces and contains five servings of about ten chips each.  Each of those ten chip servings are 130 calories as well.

Review: NuGo Slim Roasted Peanut Bar

My most recent and uncommon trip to GNC was quite eventful for me.  It led me to pick up several bars that I've already reviewed and posted on the blog already and it also allowed me to pick up another bar to add to my NuGo review collection.  NuGo bars are made with dark chocolate (my nemesis), but after trying out and having decent success with some of the bars in prior reviews that were sent to me as free samples, I was curious to see how this NuGo Slim Roasted Peanut Bar would measure up compared to those.  The bar itself set me back $0.75 and comes in at 1.59 ounces with 190 calories and fifteen grams of protein.  Since this bar is "Slim", it has fewer calories than a typical protein bar, so that's nice I suppose.

Review: Nature Valley Crunchy Roasted Almond Granola Bars

Nature Valley granola bars are amusing to me.  The are just about the most basic granola bar you can find, but that should be expected due to the fact that they are mass produced for wide audiences by General Mills.  What I also find amusing about them is that when you look at the box, there are two things that stand out, especially on this box of twelve Nature Valley Crunchy Roasted Almond Granola Bars (six two-bar pouches) that I picked up on clearance at Kroger for $1.15.  The first amusing thing is that Nature Valley seemingly sponsors everything including the PGA, Olympic sports, etc.  The second amusing thing is that since these bars come in pouches of two bars, Nature Valley has decided to put nutritional information on the box that includes columns for both a one bar serving and for a two bar serving.  Is their confidence in America's math skills so low that the feel the need to add information for just one bar, despite the fact that you could just divide the one number by two?  As someone that does math constantly all day, that is just mind boggling to me, but maybe that's necessary for people that only do math sporadically.  I don't know.  Regardless, I won't do the math for anyone and I'll just go ahead and say that each two bar pouch clocks in at 1.5 ounces with 190 calories and four grams of protein.

Review: Green Giant Zesty Cheddar Roasted Veggie Tortilla Chips

I mentioned in my last Green Giant review that I had the freaking brand theme song locked in my head.  Fortunately, I've managed to shake that and because it's not rocking my head and driving me crazy anymore, I figured now was as good of a time as any to look at one of Green Giant's original chip flavors with this bag of Green Giant Zesty Cheddar Roasted Veggie Tortilla Chips that I picked up on sale at Marsh for the low, low price of $1.00.  Each bag is 5.0 ounces and has five servings per bag.  For those of you keeping score at home, one serving is about ten chips and each of those servings is a 140 calories.

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?