curves granola bars

22Mar08

Once again, the HEB closest to school ran out of Kashi Cherry Dark Chocolate, and I was forced to find a substitute. (I went to Walmart tonight though and stocked up on Kashi.) I chose the Curves bar because a) I was curious/skeptical b) most of the other options I had either tried and felt meh about them or were too high in calories and c) I had a coupon. I use granola bars as part of a snack because I like eating, not something to tide me over for 3 hours.

I picked the Chocolate Peanut flavor and here is some of the pertinent the nutrition info:

100 calories (good), 30 calories from fat (ok I can deal with that, but it is a little high). They boast the high fiber content, 5 grams, which is pretty good (but only 1 more gram than Kashi anyway). As for protein, a mere 2g. Lame. Kashi has 5. Ok so not having Kashi for a week has made me really appreciate how good it is.

My biggest problem is that it just doesn’t taste very good. It kind of resembles chalk in a sticky form. The peanut taste isn’t very real. I think making it peanut butter flavored might have worked better. The chocolate is ok but I definitely prefer the chips in Quaker and Kashi over whatever it is General Mills put in their bar. Its definitely not bad enough to refuse but I won’t be buying these again.

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