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: Nature Valley Blueberry Soft-Baked Oatmeal Squares

I've covered in a recent review how Quaker Oats is a product producing machine and is actually the source of the second most amount of reviews on this blog.  Another big time, although not as big, producer in this blog's history is General Mills, of which Nature Valley is one of their products that I've hit many times on this blog.  Today, I've got another Nature Valley hit with a review of one of their new products as I take a look at this box of six Nature Valley Blueberry Soft-Baked Oatmeal Squares that I was able to pick up in a crazy sale at my local Meijer for $1.88.  Each of the six bars in the box is 1.24 ounces and has 150 calories and two grams of protein.

Review: Quaker Protein Peanut Butter Chocolate Baked Bars

The Quaker machine keeps on trucking.  Quaker Oats has been the manufacturer in the second most amount of my reviews at this point (Kellogg's is first) and due to that, it's only fitting that I add in another review in order to keep their history on this blog going.  In Meijer recently, I saw a box of five of these Quaker Protein Peanut Butter Chocolate Baked Bars on sale for $2.50 and being that these are a new product (they are so new that they don't even have a presence on the Quaker website yet) and also yet another entrant into the growing protein bar foray, I knew that these had a Crazy Food Dude Review written all over them.  Each bar in this box is 1.65 ounces has 190 calories with ten grams of protein.

Review: Gnu Foods Fiber Love Apple Cobbler Soft-Baked Fiber Bar

I don't know why it bothers me, but I have to admit that I sometimes shop at Earth Fare and I hate myself for it.  I guess it might bother me because I've never wanted that connotation as a natural foods/health nut that shops at those kinds of stores.  There's nothing wrong with shopping there at all, but I've just got this bug in my head about it.  I guess it's remnants from being picked on too much in elementary school for doing ANYTHING that was different from the norm.  I'm 35 years old...maybe I should get over that.  LOL.  Anyway, I picked up a new product (to this blog) at Earth Fare with this Gnu Foods Fiber Love Apple Cobbler Soft-Baked Fiber Bar that I was able to grab for $1.33.  Each bar is 1.6 ounces and has 140 calories and three grams of protein.  It's also got 48% of your daily fiber, so HOLY COW.

Review: Pure Protein Double Chocolate Vanilla Crunch Soft Baked Protein Bar

After a long hiatus from the blog, I recently ventured back into Pure Protein territory with one of their line of new soft baked bars and ended up having a very positive experience.  Coming off of that positive experience, I was anxious to try out another one of their bars with today's review of this Pure Protein Double Chocolate Vanilla Crunch Soft Baked Protein Bar that I picked up for $1.00 at Meijer.  Each soft baked bar is 1.58 ounces and has 190 calories and seventeen grams of protein.

Review: Pure Protein Double Chocolate Peanut Butter Crunch Soft Baked Protein Bar

Pure Protein has gotten creative recently after a long lapse in reviews.  First (based on when I found them), the rolled out a line of Greek yogurt covered protein bars.  Now, as I perused the nutrition bar section at Meijer, I found that they've released a line of soft-baked protein bars and wanting to try out something new as always, I decided to grab this Pure Protein Double Chocolate Peanut Butter Crunch Soft Baked Protein Bar (wow, that's a long name) off the shelf for $1.25.  This soft baked bar comes in at 1.58 ounces and has 190 calories and seventeen grams of protein.

Review: Kashi Ripe Strawberry Soft-Baked Cereal Bar

I love company snack time.  Not because I need a snack, but because I love picking up free stuff to review. Snack time and my propensity for free stuff leads me to another Kashi review with this review of the Kashi Ripe Strawberry Soft-Baked Cereal Bar.  Each bar is 1.2 ounces with 130 calories and two grams of protein.  Since I got this gratis, I couldn't tell you exactly  how much this is, but I'd guess a box of five or six of these carries a regular price at your local grocery store of around $4.00.

Review: Kashi Blackberry Graham Soft-Baked Cereal Bar

Money doesn't grow on trees and neither do reviews, so any time that I'm able to pick up a new food for a review at my company's daily snack time, my wallet certainly appreciates it. With that, I'm led to another Kashi review with this snack time inspired review of this Kashi Blackberry Graham Soft-Baked Cereal Bar. This all natural bar comes in at 1.2 ounces and has 120 calories with a teensy two grams of protein.

Review: Quaker Cinnamon Pecan Bread Soft Baked Bars

My local grocer Marsh must have bought stock in the Quaker Oats company recently because they were running an absurd sale where they had all Quaker products on sale with some of them even at rock bottom prices.  I picked up a lot of previously reviewed items in that sale and one of the items I picked up and haven't reviewed yet was a box of these Quaker Cinnamon Pecan Bread Soft Baked Bars.  This wasn't at rock bottom prices, but it did have a sale price of $2.99 for a box of five bars.  Each bar in the box comes in at 1.48 ounces and has 140 calories and six grams of protein, along with five grams of fiber.  Quaker says that you can eat these at room temperature or for an added treat, they recommend that you throw it in the microwave for ten seconds or so to get a warm, "baked" feeling to the bar.

Review: LUNA Fiber Chocolate Raspberry Bar

While I've had varying success with LUNA products on the blog in general, my first experience with a bar from their new Fiber line of products was delightful, so to say I was excited to do a second review of this LUNA Fiber Chocolate Raspberry Bar would be an understatement.  The last one was delicious, so this one had to be delicious too, right?  Well, it doesn't always work that way and that's why I do reviews.  I picked this one up on sale at Kroger for $1.00 and it comes in at 1.41 ounces with a economical 110 calories and two grams of protein.

Review: Kashi Cherry Vanilla Soft-Baked Cereal Bar

I've mentioned before that I don't post these reviews in the order in which I actually do them, but at the time that I'm typing this review, it seems like all I've been reviewing lately are cereal bars as my most recent handful of reviews that I've typed have been cereal bars and when I look at my queue of upcoming reviews, I've still got a couple more to knock out.  Yikes, there are a lot of cereal bars out there on the market.  So much so that I didn't even realize that the cereal bar market was so cutthroat and competitive.  With that, I continue my cereal bar run, as I've got another Kashi review with this review of the Kashi Cherry Vanilla Soft-Baked Cereal Bar.  I got this during the hilarious snack time at my work, meaning it was free.  The pertinent details for this bar are that it is 1.2 ounces with 120 calories and two grams of protein.

Review: LUNA Fiber Peanut Butter Strawberry Bar

LUNA bars have kind of a hit or miss history on this blog, which kind of fits along with their parent company CLIF, who has a similar history here..  I've found some of them to be bland and/or awful, while I've found others to be pretty darn good.  Hoping that this next bar, and the first one from their Fiber line, will be more of a hit, I picked up this LUNA Fiber Peanut Butter Strawberry Bar at Kroger on sale for $1.00.  It's a soft-baked fruit-filled bar, so it's got a lot of hyphens.  It's also fiber intensive with seven grams of fiber and comes in at 1.41 ounces with 120 calories and two grams of protein.

Review: Kashi Almond Soft-Baked Square

I've been hard on Kashi products on the blog, but last time I reviewed one of these soft-baked squares, it wasn't bad, but I was also not overly impressed either.  Since the last square that I tried was a free sample, they sent along a coupon to get $1.00 off a box of these at the store, so on my next trip to Meijer, I saw these Kashi Almond Soft-Baked Squares on sale for $2.99 and with my coupon, I was able to get a box of five of these for $1.99.  What a deal!  My bargain shopping aside, each soft-baked square comes in at 1.4 ounces and has 160 calories and three grams of protein.