t_in_maine

Last week when I was buying groceries, I decided to buy an assorment of differenent brands of meal replacement/snack/nutrition bars. These were strictly off-the-shelf (Wal-Mart shelf, to be exact). Rather than buying a whole box and being stuck with something I didn't want, I thought I'd try out a few. These were the three I tried, ranked in the order of taste.

#1) South Beach Diet Cereal Bar - Cinnamon Raisin flavor.
140 calories, 5g fat, 2g sat. fat, 150 mg. sodium, 15g carbs, 3g fiber, 7g sugar, 10g protien. This was very tasty and didn't have any of that "nutrition bar" after-taste.

#2) Pria Power Bar - Chocolate Mint Crisp flavor
170 calories, 6g fat, 4g sat. fat, 190 mg. sodium, 22 carbs, 5g fiber, 7g sugar, 11g protein. This didn't taste bad, but I'm not sure it was worth 22 carbs.

#3) EAS AdvantEdge Carb Control Nutrtion Bar - Cookies & Cream Flavor
220 calories, 7g fat, 4g sat. fat, 210 mg, sodium, 22 carbs, 1g fiber, 0g sugar, 21g protein. I couldn't grab my trash can fast enough to spit this out, before I accidentally swallowed any. This is the most disgusting thing I've ever put into my mouth. With the highest # of calories, and sodium, and fat, and carbs, I don't know why anybody would torture themselves with this. They tout this as only 2g of IMPACT carbs... even if it were NEGATIVE carbs and calories, I still wouldn't eat it.