Snack Review: Damn Good Cookies

Hey Snackers! Quick intro, since I’ve meandered my way over here from Candy Addict: I’m Monica; I really like cookies; and I love four-letter words. (It’s true. I know exactly the one I will supply when James Lipton inevitably asks for my favorite curse word one day, and it has exactly four letters.) Now, armed with this all-important information, it wouldn’t be difficult for one to imagine the warm reception that greeted the package of Chocolate Gourmet’s Damn Good Cookies (and Ugly Truffles, reviewed over at Candy Addict) when they recently arrived at my house. Jammed inside an unassuming cardboard box was a selection of ten different gourmet cookies for my sampling, a quantity that necessitated an act that falls decidedly lower on my list of favorites: sharing. So, tasting cohort by my side, I settled in for a sugarfest this weekend, and am happy to report my findings.

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Snack Review: Rachel’s Wickedly Delicious Yogurt

No, wait! Don’t go!

I know, I know. You don’t come here to read about yogurt. Yogurt isn’t a snack. It’s a meal replacement for deluded dieters who will inevitably be hungry an hour later and succumb to Twinkies from a vending machine, or a health food for people who’ve read that there are some crazy eastern Europeans somewhere who eat yogurt at every meal and live to be a hundred… or at least their lives feel really long, what with having to eat all that yogurt all the time.

I hate fruit flavored yogurt. I like plain yogurt in savory dishes like Indian cucumber raita. I can eat maple or vanilla sweetened yogurt, although without a huge amount of enthusiasm. But I have always felt that yogurt doesn’t improve fruit, and fruit doesn’t improve yogurt.

Well, maybe there really is an exception to every rule.

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Snack Review: Jovy Fruit Rolls

To be honest, fruit rolls (or rollups, which always sounds to me like the stomach-crunching calisthenics I was ordered to perform in seventh grade) have never thrilled me. Maybe it’s because my kids occasionally request them, and most of the offerings on the market are so sickly sweet and utterly sticky (say that ten times fast) that they’re more trouble than they’re worth. On the rare occasions I ate a Fruit Roll-Up, I always felt as though I were consuming artificially sweetened and flavored industrial adhesive, and paying for the privilege.

So, it was with much trepidation that I received a large box of assorted Jovy Fruit Rolls containing enough flattened and rolled fruit to feed a small army of hungry children and nervous adults.
I was pleasantly surprised by this product and enjoyed nearly every flavor. Consider me a convert to Jovianism.

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