We love coffee - a sentiment that most bloggers probably share - but you cannot subsist on coffee alone and the pastries at coffee shops often leave much to be desired when it comes to flavor, as well as a little extra that we don't desire around our waists. With coffee and better-for-you options already on our minds, the new granola bars from Caribou Coffee caught our attention right away. The bars come in two coffee flavors - Vanilla Latte and Chocolate Mocha - but have only as much caffeine as decaf coffee, despite their taste. Each bar has about 140 calories and 3 grams of fat. Caribou says that they're a good source of calcium and whole grains, too.
Both flavors of bar are available online, so you can pick them up without trying to hunt down a store that carries them.
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10-04-2006 @ 8:34AM
joanna said...
they're actually 140 calories each. but they are insanely delicious for granola bars...the scent is insane as well.
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10-04-2006 @ 9:30AM
coffeesage said...
ah yes! These are just wonderful. I especially like the mocha. I was thinking about reviewing them but had let it slip my mind. I've never had a better granola bar. You'd think they have 3 or 4 hundred calories by taste alone. ~Audrey
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10-04-2006 @ 9:45AM
Gemini said...
The Vanilla Latte is my favorite. I stumbled upon these on accident and then found a huge box of them at one of the bulk stores. A month's supply for cheap and I leave them on the desks of coffee lovers to get them just as addicted.
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10-04-2006 @ 9:51AM
Angela Pitt said...
I can't stop eating them. Someone smuggled them into
cafeteria at work and now I'm addicted to them. We're
not allowed to have "contraband" in the cafeteria, so
I feel like a spy when I'm eating one; you know, peeking around corners, hiding under the tables or even locking myself in the storeroom. It makes eating
them even more fun!
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10-04-2006 @ 10:46AM
monica said...
These are pretty good granola, and the smell is really like being in a Caribou Coffee.
However, I first saw them on the very top shelf at my market, and could only make out the "Made with Real Caribou" out of the little part of the box that said "Made with Real Caribou Coffee". That was enough to make me laugh, so I bought a box. A little expensive, but I think that they are worth it.
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10-04-2006 @ 1:38PM
MJ said...
WOW...........Thanks for that info.You dont know the products that your buying and where the money trial leads.Thanks #6 very good!
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10-05-2006 @ 9:12AM
Myron said...
Interesting tidbit about Carribou Coffee
http://www.snopes.com/business/alliance/caribou.asp
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10-05-2006 @ 6:01PM
Cowboy_X said...
I've been eating one on the way out the door for weeks too. Had no idea the caffeine content was so low, the flavor really comes through.
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