Thursday, April 9, 2009

granola bars.

long time, no post! since i haven't really eaten anything notable recently, i'd like to share my love affair with granola bars.

for a long time, my favorite granola bars were the quaker chewy granola bars:



i preferred the chocolate chip, s'mores, and oatmeal raisin varieties. recently, the church people have been handing out free chewies, so i have been able to see how far i've come with my taste in granola bars. while quaker chewies are a suitable snack, they don't even come close to the following bars:



i don't know if luna bars count as granola bars, but let's pretend they do. they are marketed as clif bars' female counterpart, with lots of active women dancing around the wrapper. they are nutritious and 70% organic, whatever that means. luna bars are an excellent breakfast or afternoon snack, my favorite flavor being iced oatmeal raisin. i'm going to eat one right now actually!



now for the final bar...




finally, a recent acquisition. fumbling through met food trying to find inexpensive sustenance, i came across nature's valley vanilla nut granola bars. having grown a little tired of their oat & honey variety (let's face it, it gets old), i was skeptical. but these granola bars are actually really great. they taste a little like the oat & honey kind, but with a nice vanilla icing layer that gets smushed in your purse and invades the entire bar. fear not, fellow ex-oat-&-honey fans; vanilla nut bars are great!

11 comments:

eLs said...

OMG OMG OMG OMG OMG K! WHERE DID YOU FIND VANILLA NUT NATURE VALLEY IN THIS CITY?! (Interrobang)

I don't think you understand. I eat a Nature Valley granola bar for breakfast every single day. Every day. Every day. No exceptions. I have been doing this for four years. VANILLA NUT IS MY FAVORITE AND I CANNOT FIND IT ANYWHERE.

Okay, I'm going to calm down now. But the idea of leaving my second favorite (peanut butter) in the dust has me hyperventilating.

eLs said...

Also, we had the same granola bar taste trajectory. I never made a pit stop at Luna bars though.

k said...

HAHAHA. it's at met food in greenpoint!!! i had never seen it before! i'll bring you a box sometime. i don't like peanut butter though.

CaseyMustPie said...

pre-packaged on-the-go option for the young professional!

eLs said...

OMG I WILL KILL YOU WITH LOVE IF YOU BRING ME A BOX.

And yes, Casey, that is what my pre-packaged option referred to!

mwr said...

Oh man, great post! I think I prefer Cliff's to NV, but only slightly, and if I were eating them all the time I'd change it up from time to time.

t said...

Amazon has them...6 boxes for $19.50.
I believe that is 72 bars, but I was never good at math.

eLs said...

Hey K, remember that one time when you pulled a Vanilla Nut granola bar out of your purse and it wasn't for me? I died a little inside.

nrg said...

Go Humans!

CaseyMustPie said...

i got some vanilla nut

eLs said...

I ate a Vanilla Nut Granola Bar yesterday, and it was the best thing EVER. Thanks K!!!!!!