Review: Larabar uber Dark Chocolate Turtle Sweet and Salty Fruit & Nut Bar

I don't know about you, but I find Turtle ice cream sundaes fascinating.  The mix of pecans, hot caramel, hot fudge and vanilla ice cream mixed together is just an awesome flavor combination and given my choice of sundaes, I think I'd choose that one 95% of the time.  So, it was with great delight that I found another subject for another Larabar review (after a VERY LONG absence) that was apparently trying to model itself after that sundae according to the name.  With high hopes, I grabbed this Larabar uber Dark Chocolate Turtle Sweet and Salty Fruit & Nut Bar off the shelves of my local Kroger for $1.00.  Each bar is 1.42 ounces, 220 calories and has five grams of protein.  It's also gluten free and kosher, so there is that.

Review: Purely Decadent Dairy Free Turtle Trails Frozen Dessert

Sometimes sales will cause me to do crazy things.  For example, recent sales at Kroger have caused me to go on a dairy free dessert run and pick up several pints of frozen desserts that are made with soy milk.  Today's review is one of those sale splurge purchases as I picked up this pint of Purely Decadent Dairy Free Turtle Trails Frozen Dessert on sale for $3.00.  I guess I wasn't paying attention when I bought this, but after reviewing that linked website, I learned that this Purely Decadent product comes from the same manufacturer as some of the So Delicious products that I've reviewed on the blog previously.  Each pint contains the usual four half-cup servings and in this instance, it's a dairy-free 180 calories per serving.

Review: Blue Bunny Sweet Freedom No Sugar Added Turtle Sundae Light Ice Cream

As the great movie Team America: World Police taught me, freedom isn't free and being that Independence Day is tomorrow, there's no better time to talk about something with freedom in the name and thankfully, freedom can be sweet. In the case of this review, freedom set me back $3.50 for a 1.75 quart container of this Blue Bunny Sweet Freedom No Sugar Added Turtle Sundae Light Ice Cream at Walmart to add to my growing collection. Each two extra scooped container has fourteen half-cup servings and each serving is a Splenda-flavored 130 calories (the Splenda helps this one have half the fat and one-third fewer calories).  Seeing that two extra servings line gets me thinking about something...does anyone actually ever limit themselves to only one serving?  If so, that's awesome and I commend them for that. As for myself, I don't know that I've ever been able to limit myself to less than two servings per sitting in my entire life. Good thing Blue Bunny was so considerate and included two extras so that I could stretch out the life of this container a bit more. Anyway...

Review: JELL-O Mix-Ins Turtle Sundae Pudding

I've never hidden the fact on this blog that I am pretty oblivious when it comes to a lot of things and up until about three years ago, I was oblivious to the existence of the product that today's review is modeled after.  Today, I'm adding to my JELL-O Mix-Ins collection with this review of the JELL-O Mix-Ins Turtle Sundae Pudding that I picked up at Meijer in a two-pack on sale for $1.25.  The reason I mentioned my proclivity toward obliviousness is that for the overwhelming majority of my life, I had never heard of a Turtle Sundae.  Yep, that's right, I had never heard of one of the most classic ice cream sundaes until I was thirty.  As always, I'm a rube.  Anyway, each one of these pudding cups is roughly 3.4 ounces and is 150 calories per cup.

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.