When Lon got home last night, he said, “I tried one of the Aristo Wellness Bars…” and I cut him off and told him I had tried one too. We both looked at each other and went, “Yuck!” He tried the Acai-Blueberry & Lime with chocolate and thought the flavor combination was nauseating. I tried the Nutty Pomegranate & Cranberry with chocolate, and it just tasted really healthy, like I’d eat it if it was a cure for some ailment, but not as food. The Aristo Wellness Bars are packed with Omega 3’s, plant sterols, and anti-oxidants, but like I’ve said before, I don’t do yucky diet food.
you gotta go old school, Tiger’s Milk Bar!
those sound awful.
that’s how i feel about most odwalla bars: they just taste too healthy. i feel like they made them purposefully difficult to eat as a character building experience.
screw that.
I haven’t heard of Tiger Milk Bar’s but I’m afraid…as Michelle was saying, these healthy bars taste too healthy…..I tried a power bar once too, geez, that was awful!
Jess – if you find a good nutritional bar, let me know. I just eat protein bars from Bally’s and they’re not the most appetizing.
I don’t know anything about their true nutritional profile, but on the taste front alone, Larabars are really delicious.
Thanks! great blog!
We like the zone bars. Especially chocolate peanut butter. And now they make a smaller size (~80 cals) which is great because Kasi has a tendency to only need 1/2 a zone when she needs a big snack.
You should have tried the Aristo Goji Berry & Orange….my fav!
Kat
Thanks for all the bar recommendations…I’ll know what to try next time I need one.
I have tried the Aristo Wellness Bars and found them to be both delicious and truly good for you… they have thruly broken the paradign between what is good for you and what tastes good….
I finally had a chance to try out one of these bars the other day. I tried the Orange & Goji flavored bar.
I wasn’t expecting much as most health bars just taste horrible. I was pleasantly surprised with the initial taste and then *SMACK*, it hit me hard. The foul taste overwhelmed my taste buds.
I’m not sure why companies insist on trying to market things that people know don’t taste good as “great tasting”. When you try to cover up a taste with another it’s generally a bad idea. Just like cough medicine, but that’s a whole other can of worms.
In this case it tasted like what I would imagine a compost heap comprised of citrus fruits would taste like, complete with the protein goodness of insects.
Probably healthy, but you ain’t fooling me with “great tasting” and swapping “health” with “wellness”.
I tried the Aristo Pomegranate kind today and i thought it tasted ok…better than some flavors I’ve had before but still I’m not sure…it reminds me of some fruit and nut cake. Haha. It’s loaded with way more nuts than I thought were going to be in there. And the bits of pomegranate in the bar reminded me more of dried cranberries than pomegranate. I would eat this if it would do some crazy awesome thing to my body. But as for now looks like I’ll continue my search for the great bar.