Mosaic Life

Freitag, November 10, 2006

Getting My Health On

In an effort to become more healthy, I've started buying Kashi brand snacks. I have to admit, they are slightly tasty. But they're not great, like gushers great or nutter butter great, mainly because they're, y'know, healthy.

First I tried the TLC (tasty little crunchies) Pumpkin Spice Flax. First of all, crunchy? That's an understatement. DO NOT BITE THESE WITH YOUR FRONT TEETH. Seriously, your teeth will break off. Bite them with your front molars. Or else you'll lose your front teeth, and then no one will care if you're healthy and hot because you will look imbred, and imbred is not hot. Unless you want to be hot by other imbred folks' standards. Anyway, flax is supposed to be really good for you. The bar has 4 grams of fiber and 6 grams of protein, which should make you feel full. The bar has a pretty good flavor if you like pumpkin spice. Would I recommend it? Sure, but make sure you have something to drink (it's dry) and seriously, be careful with your teeth.

Next, I tried the TLC Peanut Peanut Butter granola bar. That's right, it's got peanut in the name twice. They're serious about some peanuts. Although I'm not sure I've actually ran into a peanut yet. Anyhow, this bar is pretty good. The flavor of peanut butter isn't terribly strong in comparison to Quaker brand peanut butter granola bars (despite Kashi putting peanut in the name twice), but that's probably because of the whole healthy thing. This has 4 grams of fiber and 7 grams of protein, so y'know, it's good. Would I recommend it? Sure, but once again, it's dry. Have water on hand.

It's true, not all health food tastes like cardboard. But it's still not crave-worthy, either.