Spring 2020 Food Reviews! Featuring – Chips, chips, chips, reddi-whip, & granola bars!

Good Morning All!

Today I’m back with a new food review post! One of my favorite snack foods is potato chips and if you are anything like me then you also love chips and crave that salty goodness with a crisp crunch almost every day.

Today’s food reviews post is mostly a compilation of different kinds of chips that I’ve sampled and tried over the last few months. I’m also reviewing an incredible sweet topping that your coffee definitely needs and a real crunch of a granola bar! I’ve got six reviews today, so let’s get into it!

Pringles Screamin’ Dill Pickle

Nowadays Pringles and Lay’s regularly rotate limited edition flavors in and out of circulation. I tried three interesting Pringles flavors over the course of the last few months.

Dill Pickle chips are my favorite flavor by Lay’s. I know Pringles regularly has out dill pickle as a flavor, but I hadn’t ever tried them because I just love the ones by Lay’s so much that I never stray from them.

However, I decided to try the Screamin’ Dill Pickle flavor which are supposed to be an extra intense taste of dill pickle and WHOA – that they are! Dill pickle is a great flavor for potato chips, but after a handful of these crisps, I could feel the salt eating away at my mouth and could tell that if I kept eating them my mouth and tongue would really hurt!

If you are a fan of pickle chips, then I’m certain that you would like these. But the thing is, I mostly enjoy dill pickle chips because they are similar to salt & vinegar chips, but a little less intense on the salt overload and don’t kill your month. So eating these chips was like going backwards for me!

I also feel like this flavor tastes better on a thinner chip and I think I will stick to Lay’s when it comes to pickle flavored chips. Out of the three flavors of Pringles that I tried, this one was my least favorite.

Pringles Rotisserie Chicken

Last year one of my friends was in Paris and came across Lay’s Roast Chicken potato chips. She knew I would be so intrigued so she was sweet enough to mail me a bag once she got back to the U.S.! I was thrilled and the taste was kind of odd, but also kind of delicious. Odd because they literally tasted like a whole Thanksgiving meal in one potato chip. But it was also extremely impressive that the fine people over at Lay’s managed that much flavor on a single chip!

So when I saw these Rotisserie Chicken flavored Pringles at Walgreens, I had to try them! These are really good, but the flavor is distinctly different from the Lay’s chicken chips. The Pringles are heavy on a chicken gravy flavor, rather than just chicken. These crisps are also mostly brown in color giving the appearance that gravy seasoning is indeed a big part of the flavor. They are tasty, but definitely not a real winner in my book. I would pass on buying these unless you are real curious as to what chicken gravy chips taste like!🐔

Pringles Ranch

These were gone so quickly in my house that I barely got a chance to savor the flavor! My husband and my daughter were both so into these chips that they were gone in a flash. These are so delicious and I’m not even a huge ranch lover. I hardly ever use ranch salad dressing or make a ranch dip for chicken wings or anything, so I was pleasantly surprised by how good these chips were.

The seasoning worked really well on a thicker crisp like a Pringle and I enjoyed these much more than wavy Lay’s ranch chips. The flavor was zesty, but not overpowering and these were really addictive! Sadly, I’ve had a hard time finding them in most stores so if you can find them, then grab them! Even if you only slightly like ranch, you will love these chips!

Reddi Whip Barista Series Sweet Foam

At this time I would like to switch gears and give a huge shout-out to the team at Reddi-Whip who have been oh so busy doing God’s work! 🙌

This stuff is AMAZING and has really elevated my morning coffee game.☕️ It looks like your typical Reddi-Whip upon first glance – but, oh no it’s waaay cooler!

You simply shake and spray it out in a similar fashion to how you use Reddi- Whip. Shake can several times, then flip over, press nozzle and voila! BUT this stuff melts quicker than whipped cream and turns into a delightful looking foam on your coffee. If you taste it right away it tastes just like whipped cream, but the purpose of it is to melt into your coffee and add an element of sweetness. It’s delicious and I’ve been semi-stalking stores looking for it. BUT it’s hard to stalk during a quarantine. Waaaa and the last store that I went to that I know carries it was sold out. 😩 SO here’s hoping for a restock, because until Starbucks is back to normal this stuff is my new BFF.💕

Update: My mom found some at the Stop&Shop by her home and I had her pick up three bottles!! #winning

I also just realized that Reddi-Whip came out with a Nitro Creamer as part of their Barista Series line, but I have yet to come across that in any of the grocery stores near me to try!

Lay’s Fried Green Tomato Potato Chips

That last time I was at Market Basket, they had a sale on Lay’s chips so I was all set to get Dill Pickle (of course) – but they had NONE. UGH, So I saw these and decided to try them out.

These chips are really just alright. Fried green tomatoes are good, I just don’t think that it translated over into the best chip flavor. Not terrible, but not spectacular either. The tomato flavor is there along with what Lay’s used to create their fried flavoring – some sort of buttermilk and spice concoction.

The biggest take away from these chips is that they are kind of spicy. There is a kick at the end which I think is meant to represent some sriracha sauce that you dip fried tomatoes into. I’m not into spicy foods, but the kick is kind of welcoming because it adds more depth to the overall flavor. Without it, these chips would be reminiscent of several other tomato based flavors that Lay’s has come out with previously.

There’s definitely been limited edition flavors that have been better, (I’m still waiting for Lime & Sea Salt flavored chips to come back!) so I’ll finish the bag but won’t be repurchasing or hoping for another limited release.

Target Good & Gather Almonds & Coconut Nut Bars

Once upon a time there was global pandemic and a girl named Holly who was trying her best to NOT gain 25 pounds from just lying around and doing mindless snacking! So she ordered a few seemingly healthier snacks from Target’s rebranded line, Good & Gather.

These bars seem like Target’s own version of KIND bars so I figured I would like them because KIND bars are surprisingly tasty for basically just being nuts stuck together in a bar form by some sort of natural sugar binding process.

But YIKES! One bite into this bar and my teeth hurt! I mean sometimes these healthy granola/nut bars are hard and I’m used to that, but this was ridiculous. My husband took one bite, spit it out, declared it inedible and threw the whole thing out. 🤣

Now, I would not take as extreme measures as him as I make it my own personal goal to never waste food, so I’ll eat the bars. They actually taste good – it’s just that you have to take delicate little bites and try to first soften the bar with your mouth before fully biting into it! Once you know that, then these are a fine nut bar and a slightly more reasonably priced alternative to KIND bars. Speaking of which – the KIND dark chocolate peanut butter bars are really good!!

And that completes my Spring Food Reviews!  Have you tried any new snack foods lately? Which of these food products would you like to try? Or let me know if you have tried any of these products and did or did not enjoy them!

As for me, I’m hoping to find the Ranch Pringles again soon!

xx

Holly

And if you are feeling really desperate and want to pay high prices, they are available on Amazon!