I have decided that I need to find a good, yummy, filling snack bar that I can eat but that is good for me. So, I went to Walgreens and bought three snack bars to test out, and I decided to share my findings with you guys. The three I chose were Curves Chocolate and Peanut Butter Bar, SOYJOY Apple, and SOYJOY Berry. After hearing so many commercials about SOYJOY, I was pretty excited to try them, and well, I couldn't resist Chocolate.
A picture of the competitors -
Game on.
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Well, SOYJOY is possibly the grossest thing I've ever eaten on first bite. It's sickeningly sweet, and the apple taste is all too much like a sour apple blow pop. the texture is good, but the taste is wicked gross.
After eating a few bites, I came to the conclusion that it is, in fact, an aquired taste. I could eat more of them, and I suppose I would spend money on them, but just because they boast that they are good for you, and the fact that the texture is like eating a cookie. The whole thing is like, two centimenters tall wide on the edges, and a perfect square. It's a perfect rectangle and a bit awkward.
Also, there are nuts in it. Totally wasn't advertised!
All in all, don't buy it if there is something better there. It's really not worth two dollars, and they don't sell boxes of these things, you have to buy them individually. Plus, after reading the label, I found out that each SOYJOY bar has 6 grams of fat. YEESH.
A serving of potato chips has 7 grams of fat. Huh. Go figure.
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Snack Bar #2 - SOYJOY Berry
Okay, so this was EXACTLY like the SOYJOY Apple, only totally gross and tasted like an orignal fig newton. Grossss. Really healthy tasting. I ate half, and then broke it up into small pieces and threw it to some birds that I saw straggling by my car.
They tried it, and then flew away without it.
Enough said. Get your 6 grams of fat somewhere else.
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Snack Bar #3 - Curves Chocolate and Peanut Butter Granola Bar
Well the chocolate was yum, and the peanuts were yum, but the bar was like... light. Granted, it boasted that there was only 100 calories, and both of the Soyjoy bars were more fattening, but I felt like something was missing when I ate it.
More like, where's the "snack" factor? I ate it before i realized I was eating it! The thing was so light and airey it was gone before I even realized I had taken a bite!
Granted, it was chocolate, but it won't fill you up. It would be the type of snack bar where you'd have to eat like, three of them. And I repeat, what's the point?
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Quaker Chocolate Chunk granola bars. They're not healthy but they're delicious, they fill you up, but the problem is, they're so damn good you want to keep eating them.So unfortunately, my search is still ongoing, because those don't count.
My snack bar search for the day was a bit of a dissapointment. Hmm. Oh well, better luck next time?
2 comments:
Ah.... snackbars... Try the special K strawberry ones, or the chocolate ones. They're good- and a bit like quaker ones only bigger, and healthier.... and I'm not horribly alergic to them. (It's the sunflowers. -_-;)
I bet SOYJOY has corn syrup in it, which explains the unnecessary sickeningly sweet taste. I had the same experience with Fiber One products. I remember hearing someone say about the SOYJOY, "It tastes like diabetes!" Loved reading this. I know now to never try SOYJOY.
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