Product: Food Should Taste Good Barbeque Sweet Potato Chips – $3.29+
One of the first gluten-free chips I ever ate and fell in love with were from Food Should Taste Good. I was in Los Angeles a year ago and we were picking out snacks for a pig-out in front of the television and just be four crazy girls night with my besties. That, by the way, is an official night…for any ladies who get together after four long years of being apart. Reunions make the best excuses to cut loose…even with food.
The flavor I selected…Sweet Potato. Why? Because I love sweet potatoes. Any way you cook them…I’m in love with them.
So, flash-forward to almost a year later and a couple more Food Should Taste Good chips under my gluten-free foodie belt. I’m in Denver, Colorado visiting a good friend and checking out a convention. Snacks and food are necessary, so we go grocery shopping. And the roomie spots…something we have never seen before. A new product from Food Should Taste Good. And they involve sweet potato chips.
The mystery product – Food Should Taste Good’s Barbeque Sweet Potato Chips.
Now, I love a good barbeque chip as much as the next person. But, these were the first sweet potato chips I have ever seen in that flavor. We didn’t need them…but we bought them. And they sat there the entire time we were gone, because we bought too much food (our usual problem). So, I packed them in my carry-on for the plane trip back to Louisville, and they survived. At home…other foods expired sooner, so these got pushed to the back of the pantry.
Until this week.
I cracked open the bag this week to begin taking them to work with me as my afternoon snack. The barbeque scent the moment I opened the bag made me smile. They smelled fantastic. So, I could only hope that they tasted as good as they smelled. That afternoon, I happily opened up my serving size (about 14 chips or 28 grams if you prefer to go by weight…and I do). One crunchy bite…and I had to pause to contemplate the flavor.
In the end, the consensus was that I liked them. A lot. I just had to get my taste buds to register all the flavors. There were a lot of them packed into each bite. The sweet potato base is one flavor all itself. The fact that these chips are kettle cooked already makes them a sweeter variety of chip. And then, top it off with the smokey bite of molasses, tomato, and spices to give it that barbeque flavor. That’s a lot for the palate to comprehend at times. But once it gets it…you’ll find yourself popping these one after the other (which is why it is important to dole out that serving size and put the big bag up).
Food Should Taste Good gets another stamp of approval from me. These chips contain no preservatives, are gluten-free, kosher, cholesterol free, trans-fat free, low in fat, and low in sodium. A serving will set you back 150 calories and 8 grams of fat. Not great, but for chips…that’s really damn good. And just the flavors alone are enough to make this snack worth it in the end.
I support companies that do great things with their products. The pride that Food Should Taste Good puts into each bag of their variety of chips is evident. I have fallen in love with another one of their products. And this one is sweet, savory, and spicy all in one. If that isn’t food love…I don’t know what is.
The Celiathlete 