Review: Yoplait Light Apple Fritter Yogurt

Buying a bunch of Yoplait products over a couple of grocery store trips for multiple reviews seemed like a good idea at the time.  Of course, any time you go to a grocery store while hungry, anything involving MORE food sounds like a good idea.  Now, I have to admit that I've gotten bored with these, but I don't want to waste things and that leads me to review this single serving container of Yoplait Light Apple Fritter Yogurt that I picked up on sale at Meijer for $0.50.  Each container is 90 calories and has five grams of protein.  It's also only a two point hit on the Weight Watchers PointsPlus scale, much like the rest of these that I've looked at in reviews.

Review: Yoplait Light Orange Creme Yogurt

As I continue to plow through my recent string of Yoplait reviews, today's review is the first time that there's something slightly different (other than the obvious thing that it is a different product).  This is the first time that I haven't paid a measly $0.20 for one of these cups, so it's a little depressing.  Actually, I'm not that much of a tight wad...it's not depressing at all.  I still got this one on sale, albeit at a different price ($0.50) and at a different store (Meijer), so it's still a very economical buy.  Anyway, this cup of Yoplait Light Orange Creme Yogurt clocks in at the usual 6.0 ounces and it has 90 calories with five grams of protein.  Like the others, it's also a two point hit on the Weight Watchers PointsPlus scale.

Review: Yoplait Light Raspberry Cheesecake Yogurt

Anyone that reads the blog on a semi-regular basis has probably figured out that I'm a penny pincher and am not at all shy about admitting it.  I actually wear it as a badge of pride, so when I see something that is only going to set me back $0.20 at the store, I'm more than willing to grab it and I did it once already with these Yoplait Light products.  On that same trip, I decided I had another twenty cents to burn, so I picked up this container of Yoplait Light Raspberry Cheesecake Yogurt as well.  It's 6.0 ounces and has 90 calories with five grams of protein.  It's also free of aspartame if you notice the container and apparently Yoplait is quite proud of that as they've called it out on their website.  Apparently a bunch of people wrote in asking them to remove it, so they went ahead and found a substitute (sucralose), changed the lids to blue and changed the containers to indicate this big change.  Good for them and also us, I suppose.  Anyway, this is worth two points on the Weight Watchers PointsPlus scale too if you watch that.

Review: Yoplait Light Pineapple Upside-Down Cake Yogurt

I've reviewed plenty of Yoplait yogurts on this blog in the past, but I've never really touched on their original yogurt products that come in the odd and somewhat cylindrical shaped containers for some reason.  Maybe I considered them too pedestrian, too cheap, too boring or some sort of combination of all of those, but I always stayed away.  With today's review, I'm finally crossing the threshold of that and I picked up a container of this Yoplait Light Pineapple Upside-Down Cake Yogurt on sale at my local Marsh for a measly $0.20.  Each container is 6.0 ounces and has 90 calories and five grams of protein.  It's worth two points on the Weight Watchers PointsPlus scale if you are in to watching (get it?) that kind of thing as well.

Review: Boca Original Chik'n Veggie Patties

I mentioned in my last Boca review that I had stayed away from Boca products on the blog for quite some time and I wasn't quite sure why.  Since I'm trying to work more of their products in to the rotation, today's review hits on one of their core products with my review of this box of Boca Original Chik'n Veggie Patties that I picked up on sale at Kroger for $3.00.  Each box contains four patties and each patty is 71 grams with 140 calories and eleven grams of protein.  Each patty is also worth four points on the Weight Watchers PointsPlus scale if you are into that type of thing.

Review: Boca Bruschetta Tomato Basil Parmesan Veggie Patties

In the history of this blog, I've touched on several veggie burgers but all of them up to this point have been MorningStar Farms products.  Today will be my first "adventure" into Boca Burgers territory as I take a look at this Boca Bruschetta Tomato Basil Parmesan Veggie Patties that I picked up as a box of four veggie burgers at Kroger for $3.00.  Each patty comes in at 71 grams and has 90 calories with a solid thirteen grams of protein.  It's also only two Weight Watchers points per serving.

Review: Skinny Cow Divine Filled Chocolates Caramel Candy

On a Skinny Cow product buying spree after some recent positive reviews, I knew I had to keep trying flavors from their Divine Filled Chocolates product line, especially since they had one key advantage going for them:  they were on sale.  So, my obsession with sales led me to pick up this box of Skinny Cow Divine Filled Chocolates Caramel Candy at Meijer on sale for $3.50.  Each box contains six packs of candy and each pack has three candy pieces and comes in at one ounce per package.  Also, each package has 130 calories and rates as a four on the Weight Watchers Points Plus scale.

Review: Skinny Cow Dulce de Leche Low Fat Ice Cream Single Serving Cup

In my continuing quest for my own personal ice cream portion control to not be a total glutton in 2012, I'm led to do another Skinny Cow single serve low fat ice cream review, although this time I'm focusing on the Dulce de Leche flavor of their single serving cups.  This one clocks in at the usual 5.8 ounces and I picked it up at Meijer for $1.25.  This one contains 150 calories and scores as a four pointer on the Weight Watchers Points Plus scale.

Review: Weight Watchers Smart Ones Chicken Enchiladas Suiza

I used to eat a ton of these microwave meals, but once I taught myself how to cook, I stopped eating them all that much.  Every now and then though, I'll feel completely lazy and not even feel the desire to make something as simple as a peanut butter and jelly sandwich, so I always keep a few of these in my freezer for those moments.  I had one of those moments recently and that led me to try out this Chicken Enchilada Suiza meal from Weight Watchers Smart Ones.  I've had up and down experiences with the Smart Ones products in prior reviews, so going into this, I knew that it could go either way.  Prior to its residence in my freezer, I picked up this meal on sale at Meijer for $2.00 and it's 9.0 ounces and 290 calories and scores a seven on the Weight Watchers Points Plus scale.

Review: Weight Watchers Smart Ones Teriyaki Chicken & Vegetables

I've gotten complaints via e-mail that all I seem to review on this blog is ice cream and protein bars and while that definitely is not the case, I do end up reviewing a lot of those products.  So, in an effort to diversify, I've tried to start reviewing more "real" food products and that leads me to this Teriyaki Chicken & Vegetables entree from the Weight Watchers Smart Ones Bistro Selections product line.  It's not my first Weight Watchers review that I have completed and I'm guessing it won't be the last either.  I picked this one up on sale for $1.99 at Marsh and it weighs in a good-sized 9.0 ounces.  It contains 230 calories and for you points watchers, this one is six points on the Weight Watchers Points Plus scale.

Review: Weight Watchers Smart Ones Spicy Szechuan Style Vegetables & Chicken

Google Analytics is a handy tool.  I've already run posts based on data I've seen on there and this post is another one because apparently people like to search for reviews on Weight Watchers Smart Ones products.  Seems odd to me, but hey, I'm looking for page views, so that leads me to pander to the masses and try out this Spicy Szechuan Style Vegetables & Chicken microwave meal.  Yes, this is a microwave meal...there are no directions on how to make this anywhere else.  Not that I need or want those directions, but I do find the lack of options to be amusing.  Anyway, I picked this one up at Marsh on sale for $1.99 and the meal clocks in at a semi-respectable 9.0 ounces.  It contains 240 calories and if you are into the Weight Watchers Points Plus scale type of thing, it is a six point meal on the scale.

Review: Weight Watchers Smart Ones Peanut Butter Cup Sundae

In my previous Weight Watchers Smart Ones sundae review, I was less than impressed with the Chocolate Chip Cookie Dough Sundae.  I loved the idea of a "diet" sundae, but they just didn't follow through on the execution and it ended up being an overpriced unit of borningness (new word in my personal dictionary).  Still, I figured that these Smart Ones sundaes had to make it to market somehow, so I was anxious to try out the Peanut Butter Cup Sundae that was on sale for $2.00 in the same Meijer frozen foods case as the last one.  As I said before, the dimensions of this sundae roughly resemble a deck of playing cards.  It clocks in at 2.29 ounces per sundae (two per box) and each sundae is 170 calories.

Review: Weight Watchers Smart Ones Chocolate Chip Cookie Dough Sundae

To loosely impersonate the late Bernie Mac, "I do this blog for you, America."  It's because of this that I bought a product that I not ordinarily EVER buy in the store and gave it a try so that I could get some sort of review content out there on this one.  In this case, it's my first Weight Watchers product review and I'm focusing on their Smart Ones product line and specifically their desserts with this Chocolate Chip Cookie Dough Sundae.  A sundae in a box that needs to be microwaved for five seconds (or thawed on the counter for five minutes)?  I was alternately intrigued and/or horrified by this prospect, but I was still willing to give it a shot.  I picked this one up on sale at Meijer (the only reason I bought it) for $2.00.  Each box contains two sundaes and each sundae contains 170 calories and weighs 2.64 ounces, which means that it is slightly larger than your typical CLIF bar that clocks in at 2.4 ounces.