Product: Envirokidz Chocolate Crispy Rice Bars – $2.50+
I haven’t always been intolerant to gluten. It’s been about 10 months since I was told to go on a gluten-free diet. Sometimes that means I miss some of the treats that I used to eat. And sometimes it means I find better products that are reminiscent of my childhood…but way better in the long run.
When it comes to the Chocolate Crispy Rice Bars by Envirokidz…the latter is true.
While at my grocery store one day, the manager’s special table was piled high with Envirokidz products. I picked up cereal and a couple kinds of snack bars while the prices were slashed in half. I love a good gluten-free deal. Despite not having any idea what the products would taste like, I threw caution to the wind and went with the deal. In my book, if it’s gluten-free and fits my vegetarian diet as well…and if it is on sale…then it has to be bought. Otherwise, my food bill gets stupid.
The other day at the office, I finally cracked into the box of snack bars. It’s nothing fancy to look at. It looks like an elongated chocolate Rice Krispie bar. Already, I see nothing wrong with this. And then, upon the first bite, I was definitely transported back to the ages of those easy Little Debbie snack days in school. Because, honestly, these snack bars taste dead up like Star Crunch cookies. You know…those little chewy cookie that were topped off with caramel and crisp rice then layered with a coating of fudge? Oh, I was addicted to those. Hadn’t had them in ages, but one bite of the Envirokidz Chocolate Crispy Rice bar and…yeah…memories.
The Envirokidz Chocolate Crispy Rice Bars are amazing. Full of chocolate flavor. Soft. Chewy. Completely made of yum. No, honestly. When one snack bar can make me think back to a prepackaged, sporadic snack cookie from my childhood, it has a good thing going.
But here is the good news. While Little Debbie’s products tend to be high in calories, fat, and all those nasty non-decipherable and unrecognizable ingredients, Envirokidz Chocolate Crispy Rice Bars are quite the opposite. These little treats contain only 110 calories (as opposed to Star Crunch’s 150 for the small and 290 for the large). In addition, only 2.5g of fat are in each treat, whereas the smaller Little Debbie snack contains 6g and the large…12g. More importantly, the sugar in the Envirokidz Chocolate Crispy Rice Bar is 8g as opposed to the dentist-inducing 13g in the Star Crunch smaller cookie and 25g in the larger version.
For the same, if not even better, taste, I know what I’m reaching for. Envirokidz products are tailored to children, but they are just as exciting and delicious for adults to snack on as well. Not only that, every ingredient on the package is recognizable. I don’t have to sit there and try to guess what might be lurking in my food. I don’t like eating things that I don’t immediately recognize. It creeps me out.
Additionally, Envirokidz is notorious for their initiative that 1% of sales from each Envirokidz purchase are donated to species and habitat conservation or education programs for kids. How can you not like that?
If you’re craving a delicious chocolate hit and want something a little more nutritious than those candy bars, or, God forbid, a Little Debbie snack cake/cookie, reach for Envirokidz Chocolate Crispy Rice Bars. Of all the ones I’ve tried, these are my favorite so far. I can’t wait to get my hands on another box. Not only are you putting some money toward a good cause, you’re bettering your snacking ways as well.
So eat up…and enjoy!
The Celiathlete 