Attune Probiotic Bars

Recently I was contacted to see if I’d like to sample some probiotic bars from Attune. Since I’m somewhat familiar with probiotics, I agreed.

We’re a family who drinks Keifer (thick, sparkly, tickle-your-tongue, probiotic yogurt drink). It helps with some of the digestive issues we’ve had, and is a healthy snack alternative. I was curious about the bars that promise to deliver probiotics in a different form.

The bars arrived in this fancy silver package:

It came with a folder full of information on probiotics. Inside the shiny sliver package - a goldmine of bars: Lemon, Mango Peach, Strawberry Bliss, Blueberry Vanilla, Mint Chocolate, Wildberry and a couple Chocolate Crisp bars. The kids were ready to dig into them and try them out. We sampled a few different ones and placed the rest in the refrigerator (they arrived with a cool-pack to keep them cool and are supposed to be refrigerated).

The bars were about the size of a granola bar, maybe smaller. Chewy and relatively tasty, with a yogurt-y “frosting” on each bar. Major drawback: sickeningly sweet. If you look at the nutrition info on the website, the first few bars don’t look so terribly bad (12g carbs), but then, those are not the “granola” bars — they’re the chocolate bars. No one in the house was fond of the chocolate bars. The granola bars have nearly double that amount of sugary impact in them (22g carbs). That’s just too much for me. Keifer’s got a significant amount as well; the tendency to “sugar up” is not passed over even in the organic world.

Bottom Line: The kids liked them well enough, and it may be worth buying, especially after a child is on antibiotics, as a way to deliver the probiotics. But for me… my fiber pills have probiotics in them, and there’s no sugar involved. if I’m eating something sweet I generally go all the way and eat a real sweet, skipping the healthy part on the way.

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Links: Attune Foods
Probiotics Wiki - Probiotics after antibiotics (Google)

I’ve purchased a few Bean Cuisine soups recently. They come in a bag the size of an eggplant, all dry ingredients (the black bean ingredients are: Beans, Spices, and Red Bell Peppers) and are under $5. For the most part you add some veggies, onion or peppers and maybe some meat if you have it. You could also just serve/make the soups as they are.

Today I made the black bean and added chopped carrots, onion, a pepper, a can of V8 and about 1 cup of frozen corn. Oh, and a leftover piece of pork we had. It was delicious. The kids loved it. Topped with a bit of cheese and sour cream — yum. We had tortilla chips with it, too. Bean Cuisine makes a few different soups. We’ve had the split pea one and the lentil one. All were very good and ended up being devoured by the family. I give these puppies a thumbs up.

If you google them you can find them in many different e-places. There is a 6-pack at Amazon. But, like I said, I pick mine up at Cost Plus and keep them on hand for a simple dinner.

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Link: No website — found on Amazon