Snack Review: Pepperidge Farm Dark Chocolate Chunk 100 Calorie Cookie Pack
When you think “Pepperidge Farm” you probably don’t think “low calorie.” I have always been afraid to do the math, but I wouldn’t be surprised if the calories in a full package of Milano cookies would keep a family of four alive for a week. Which is not necessarily bad – what more cheerful thing to keep in your emergency stash for earthquakes and blackouts? – but it means that this is not likely to be your usual Pepperidge Farm product.
So, 100 calorie cookie packs. How do they do it? When I picked up the box, it was so surprisingly light that I thought the trick was that there were basically no cookies in the box. The packaging is definitely excessive – the box does not need to be that big to hold the five individual packets. Lots of air for your money, here.
But, when you open an individual packet, there’s a decent number of little cookies in there. Although, we are talking little. These cookies are the size of a quarter and pretty thin – the picture on the package is quite misleading about the thickness.
The chocolate in them is good. The texture is kind of hard in not such a good way – probably due to a reduced amount of fat. The texture is less noticeable when dunked in milk.
For me the real disadvantage of these cookies turns out to be the size. At first the idea of eating many little tiny cookies was cute – it made me think about planning a doll tea party. But, the downside quickly revealed itself: I like to dunk my cookies in milk, and it’s messy if my thumb almost entirely covers the whole cookie. I mean, it’s my cookies I like to dunk, not my fingers, you know? But if you’re looking for portable, non-dunked lowish-calorie cookies with decent chocolate in them – or are having a tea party for dolls on a diet – these might be just the thing.
Buy Pepperidge Farm Cookies Online:
- at Amazon.com
4 Comments
lisa on August 21st, 2008
I like these a lot.
penis.poo on October 2nd, 2009
u geek what kind of a cookie has only a hundren calories we eat cookies to get fat u dumass so go jump of the humber bridge enjoy …. oIo
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A. Cappe on August 10th, 2008
I bought these based on your recommendation. I was not disappointed.