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Nature Valley® Chewy Granola Bars with a Naturally Flavored Yogurt Coating are a traditional chewy granola bar with a yogurt bottom.

The newest variety packs include a blueberry variety, but my box of bars was lacking the blue in the red, white, and blue motif, so you get Switzerland. (That makes more sense if you know what the flag of Switzerland looks like. I don’t mind waiting if you need to go look that up.)

The vanilla version of the bar was absolutely like wallpaper glue looks like it would taste. The strawberry version was like fireworks in my mouth. Talk about a world of difference…

And since I mentioned how hard it was to read the box, here’s what I was looking at during the video:

That’s the *full* size of the box, and that’s the crazy hard to read ingredients list.

Deductions on Strawberry for allergens and the box being hard to read. Even more deductions for Vanilla for being straight up awful.

Vanilla Bowls:

Strawberry Bowls:

For more information about Nature Valley Chewy Granola with Yogurt bars visit Nature Valley.

Nature Valley Granola Thins are new product offered by General Mills. Two flavors are currently offered, dark chocolate and peanut butter, so I decided to pit them against each other in a battle of less than epic proportions.

In both cases the granola itself is chopped up into tiny crunchy delectably pieces, so crunchety crispy that it seems like they pan fry the granola on one side to sear it. Obviously they don’t do that, it’s not a steak, but there is a very nice crunch on the top. On the bottom is the layer of flavor: dark chocolate which was super melty and tasted way more like milk chocolate to me; and peanut butter which was creamy without being melty, super rich and delicious in its perfect balance of sweet and salty. I enjoyed every bite of the peanut butter thin. A dark chocolate thin will certain do in a pinch when I have no peanut butter thins at my disposal. Or maybe I’ll give them away to NYCWD who adores dark chocolate.

The nutrition information for both is kind of abysmal, which is truly unfortunate because I can’t give it my full thumbs up in approval, but here’s the 411:

There are lots of allergens, be super careful with BOTH flavors if you have any allergies.

Dark Chocolate Cereal Wednesday Bowls:

Peanut Butter Cereal Wednesday Bowls:

For more information about Dark Chocolate Granola Thins please visit the product page.

For more information about Peanut Butter Granola Thins please visit the product page.

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Anyway, down to business…

Nature Valley Oats ‘N Honey Cereal is distributed by General Mills Cereals and is pretty brand spanking new to the market. This cereal is based on Nature Valley‘s granola bars which have themselves been on store shelves since… well, since I was a kid!

The flakes are predominantly rice based but also include oat, wheat, and corn flakes. There are pieces of the famous Nature Valley granola bar included in the cereal which contain whole grain oats as their first ingredient and honey as the fifth ingredient. A little misleading to call this oats ‘n honey, if you ask me, but still tasty.

The cereal claims to be 100% natural, and to be a good source of fiber with 4g per serving as well as an excellent source of whole grain. It’s also worth mentioning that this cereal has 230 calories per one cup serving (hmm…), 5g of protein per serving (yay!), 3g of fat per serving (kinda high for a cereal, but it does have granola bar in it!), 48g of carbohydrates per serving, NO VITAMINS per serving, and only 4% iron. Be sure to run around a lot and then take your vitamins after eating this cereal.

Slogan: “The Energy Cereal Nature Intended”
Taste: It has my favorite childhood granola bar in it, so I’m slightly biased in saying that I enjoy the taste very much when it’s not sogged out.
Box opening: Easy
Bag rippage: (Almost) no ripping!
Bag slippage: Lots of slipping…
Allergy alert: Contains soy, wheat, and milk ingredients

Cereal Wednesday Bowls:

For more information you can visit the Nature Valley Website.