Reviews Filed Under 'Two Points'
Price: $0.49
Serving: 1.27oz., 1 bar
Calories: 130 per bar
Fat: 6%, 4g
Cholesterol: 0%, 0mg
Sodium: 4%, 100mg
Protein: 3g
Carbohydrates: 8%, 24g
Fiber: 12%, 3g
Sugar: 11g
Weight Watchers Points: 2 points
CLIF Kids says: For years, we’ve been packing our kids’ lunches. We’re always looking for foods that are nutritious and organic. That’s why we’re taking a closer look at our kids’ snack options and so are states like California. Senate Bill 19 (SB19) is legislation that sets nutrition guidelines for California’s schools. CLIF ZBar is a CLIF Bar just for kids and the first snack created to be SB19 compliant. These organic energy bars were specifically created with active kids in mind, with the right combination of protein, carbohydrates, fiber, and 12 vitamins and minerals. We hope your kids enjoy them!
Abi says: These taste more like raw cookie dough than baked cookies. Not that there’s anything wrong with that.
After seeing a post about the CLIF ZBar on Cookie Madness, I decided to keep these in the back of my mind until I made it back to Trader Joe’s and their ridiculously well-priced energy bar section. Sure enough, there were two varieties available: Chocolate Chip and Chocolate Brownie. Yum, I thought.
A lot of so-called Chocolate Chip energy bars fail to deliver on the chocolate, instead offering plenty of grainy protein-containing weirdness that just calls attention to the horrific lack of chocolate in the bar. ZBars avoid that problem completely, putting chocolate inside the bar and drizzling it outside.
The result is a satisfyingly virtuous energy bar made for kids, but perfect for adults who like something a bit sweet. Try one as a mid-afternoon break or bring one along the next time you go for an autumn jaunt in the park. You’ll be happy you followed my advice.
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Posted on September 28, 2007
Categories: CLIF, Two Points, Chocolate, Five Stars, Energy Bars
Price: $2.99 for 6
Serving: 1 bar, 1.2 ounces
Calories: 140 per bar
Fat: 8%, 5gg
Sodium: 5%, 115mg
Protein: 7g
Carbohydrates: 6%, 19g
Fiber: 15%, 4g
Sugar: 5g
Weight Watchers Points: 2 per Bar
Kashi says: With whole, roasted almonds, a healthy sprinkling of flax seeds and a touch of wildflower honey, our Honey Almond Flax granola bars have 4g of Fiber, 7g of Protein and 300mg Omega-3s.
We say: Kashi’s Almond Flax Granola Bars taste healthy. And by that we mean that they don’t taste particularly fantastic. They don’t taste bad, but they do bear a resemblance to something you’d find in a health store in the 80’s. So if you’re in the mood for martyrdom, Kashi’s got you covered.
These consist of assorted grains and nuts, with red winter wheat being the main contender. There’s also an occasional whole almond. Oh, and jaw-cracking hardness. In an effort to remedy this situation, we left a box of the bars in a hot car for a few hours. This did nothing to alleviate the hardness issue, leaving us stuck with a box of super-hot and still-hard granola bars.
If you’re desperate for something fiberrific and protein-containing, then you could eat these. Or, you could have a Nature Valley granola bar plus some fruit leather. Those snacks combined would be significantly more satisfying than one of these bars and you won’t have to worry about cracking a tooth.
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Posted on September 4, 2007
Categories: Two Points, Kashi, Granola Bars, Almond, Three Stars
Price: $2.49
Serving: 1.5oz.
Servings Per Container: About 6
Calories: 120 per serving
Fat: 0%, 1g
Cholesterol: 0%, 0mg
Sodium: 0%, 10mg
Protein: 2g
Carbohydrates: 10%, 28g
Fiber: 48%, 12g
Sugar: 16g
Weight Watchers Points: 2 Per Serving
Trader Joe’s says: Trader Joe's Fiberful Ends & Pieces are completely handmade which results in somewhat uneven sheets of the delicious dried fruit snack. In order to have nice clean edge on the bars, the large sheets must be neatly trimmed. In this bag are cut sheets of delicious, high fiber fruit snacks.
We say: Several months ago Fiberful fruit bars made an appearance at the DC Trader Joe's. Snack Lounge rejoiced in those delicious, semi-filling fruit bars, both for their taste and their promise of regularity.
Then, one humid summer day, in an event that occurs daily in Trader Joe's stores across the country, the bars disappeared. This phenomena, which was been documented with the tragic half-year loss of Chicken Gyoza Potstickers, creates a constant, consumptive fear in the hearts of avid Trader Joe's shoppers.
The bars still aren't available in the DC store, which makes the appearance of this bag of ends and pieces all the more strange. Where are the ends and pieces coming from? Has Trader Joe's been storing them up for months? Are they switching to an 'ends and pieces' only business model? We don't know the answers to these questions. We do know that the ends and pieces cost about one-fifth as much (by weight) as the individual bars.
So, if we're such Fiberful bar lovers and these are even cheaper, why did they get just two stars? It turns out that half of each bad bag is inedible.
Each package contains an assortment of fruit bar chunks. Only some of these are the delightful apricot version. The others are completely unidentifiable. They taste like dried fruit bars, but they don't taste like fruit. Yes, this sounds odd, but imagine that you've just had a piece of the apricot bar. You've enjoyed the mellow, rich, compounded flavor of dried apricots. You didn't notice the 'fiber' part at all. There is peace and harmony in the world.
Then you reach into the bag and pull out another piece. But this time, instead of the fruity flavor you've come to expect, you're greeted with a bland, disappointing, unidentifiable chunk of dried fruit mush. Ick. If Trader Joe's allowed us to select flavors, then these bags would come close to replacing our need for the bars. However, with the sad surprise of detastified fruit, we won't be buying these again.
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Posted on August 30, 2007
Categories: Mixed Fruit, Trader Joe's, Two Points, Two Stars, Dried Fruit
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