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Website:
http://www.paleonola.com/
Summary: Paleo-friendly, grain-free granola snack. I am allergic to dairy & grains, so I'm always on the lookout for good snack foods that I can safely eat. This stuff is awesome!
Flavors:
1. The Original
2. Apple Pie
3. Maple Pancake
4. Pumpkin Pie
5. Chocolate Fix
Original mix ingredients:
Almonds, pecans, pumpkin seeds, honey, dried cranberries (cranberries, apple juice concentrate, sunflower oil), almond meal, coconut oil, walnuts, flax meal, sunflower seeds, unsweetened shredded coconut, pure vanilla extract, cinnamon.
Review:
My buddy introduced this stuff to me after finding it at Whole Foods. It's FANTASTIC! I like granola in general, but don't go out of my way to buy it. This stuff, on the other hand, was so good that I went & ordered the sampler pack off their website. It's $8.99 plus shipping for a 10-ounce bag on their website or $7.99 per bag in-store at Whole Foods (my local store is constantly sold out). It has a great chew and really nice flavor - just a bit sweet & very addicting. It'd probably be easy to make at home if you really wanted to.
Lots of ways to eat this - plain, out of the bag; on top of ice cream (there's a local Vegan shop that does fantastic ice cream and this makes a killer topping), as a morning cereal with milk (the Apple Pie flavor is great for that, and using vanilla soy or rice milk makes it super-tasty), or as a yogurt topping. Pretty much just a great snack-in-a-bag to keep in your car or desk or backpack or wherever, grab a handful & munch on it. The bag seals back up after you open it, and initially tearing the top is easy because there's a little tear-tab, so I do like the packaging because it works.
Flavor shootout: I like The Original flavor the best. I could eat this stuff all day, it's great! Apple Pie is the second best, a bit more chew & sweetness for a change of pace, although this would be more of a treat once in awhile than The Original, which you can munch on all day. Maple Pancake is my third favorite, it's basically like the Original with some more spices & a bit more flavoring in it. Pumpkin Pie didn't really have any flavor to me - nice smell, but not something I'd order again. I didn't like the Chocolate Fix at all, it didn't really have a chocolate flavor - if I was going to do a chocolate mix, I'd just throw some chocolate chips into The Original mix and go from there. I thought it would be more chocolatey, like maybe a Chex Mix Muddy Buddy snack or something, but it's not like that at all.
Other snacks:
A couple other snacks I like are Truebars & That's It Fruit Bars. I reviewed the Fruit Bars over here; the apple-mango is now my favorite. Truebars are more like granola bars and are marketed as "the bar with nothing to hide". The coconut-cashew bar is my favorite - fairly plain but great chew & nice simple flavor; the Fruit & Nut bar is good as well. The rest taste like Windex to me. Here's a link to their website:
https://www.bakeryonmain.com/Products/Store/tabid/135/categoryid/7/truebar/Default.aspx?categoryid=7
So there's a few healthier snack options - Paleonola granola, That's It Fruit Bars, and Truebar granola bars. Throwing them out there if you're in search of tasty & healthier snacks!
http://www.paleonola.com/
Summary: Paleo-friendly, grain-free granola snack. I am allergic to dairy & grains, so I'm always on the lookout for good snack foods that I can safely eat. This stuff is awesome!
Flavors:
1. The Original
2. Apple Pie
3. Maple Pancake
4. Pumpkin Pie
5. Chocolate Fix
Original mix ingredients:
Almonds, pecans, pumpkin seeds, honey, dried cranberries (cranberries, apple juice concentrate, sunflower oil), almond meal, coconut oil, walnuts, flax meal, sunflower seeds, unsweetened shredded coconut, pure vanilla extract, cinnamon.
Review:
My buddy introduced this stuff to me after finding it at Whole Foods. It's FANTASTIC! I like granola in general, but don't go out of my way to buy it. This stuff, on the other hand, was so good that I went & ordered the sampler pack off their website. It's $8.99 plus shipping for a 10-ounce bag on their website or $7.99 per bag in-store at Whole Foods (my local store is constantly sold out). It has a great chew and really nice flavor - just a bit sweet & very addicting. It'd probably be easy to make at home if you really wanted to.
Lots of ways to eat this - plain, out of the bag; on top of ice cream (there's a local Vegan shop that does fantastic ice cream and this makes a killer topping), as a morning cereal with milk (the Apple Pie flavor is great for that, and using vanilla soy or rice milk makes it super-tasty), or as a yogurt topping. Pretty much just a great snack-in-a-bag to keep in your car or desk or backpack or wherever, grab a handful & munch on it. The bag seals back up after you open it, and initially tearing the top is easy because there's a little tear-tab, so I do like the packaging because it works.
Flavor shootout: I like The Original flavor the best. I could eat this stuff all day, it's great! Apple Pie is the second best, a bit more chew & sweetness for a change of pace, although this would be more of a treat once in awhile than The Original, which you can munch on all day. Maple Pancake is my third favorite, it's basically like the Original with some more spices & a bit more flavoring in it. Pumpkin Pie didn't really have any flavor to me - nice smell, but not something I'd order again. I didn't like the Chocolate Fix at all, it didn't really have a chocolate flavor - if I was going to do a chocolate mix, I'd just throw some chocolate chips into The Original mix and go from there. I thought it would be more chocolatey, like maybe a Chex Mix Muddy Buddy snack or something, but it's not like that at all.
Other snacks:
A couple other snacks I like are Truebars & That's It Fruit Bars. I reviewed the Fruit Bars over here; the apple-mango is now my favorite. Truebars are more like granola bars and are marketed as "the bar with nothing to hide". The coconut-cashew bar is my favorite - fairly plain but great chew & nice simple flavor; the Fruit & Nut bar is good as well. The rest taste like Windex to me. Here's a link to their website:
https://www.bakeryonmain.com/Products/Store/tabid/135/categoryid/7/truebar/Default.aspx?categoryid=7
So there's a few healthier snack options - Paleonola granola, That's It Fruit Bars, and Truebar granola bars. Throwing them out there if you're in search of tasty & healthier snacks!
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