Showing posts with label snacks. Show all posts
Showing posts with label snacks. Show all posts

Wednesday, December 9, 2009

Is The Price Right? A Cost-Taste Analysis of Sahale Snacks

$4.29

$4.29 for 4 ounces.

We have been pondering this price - pondering it, and not paying it.

That's how much a package of Sahale Snacks costs at the local grocery store. And that's the only bad thing about the Sahale Snacks - they are so, so good, but so, so expensive.


We had received two samples of Sahale snacks to review for free, and Foodgoat, who normally hates cashews, loved the Cashew with Pomegranate and Vanilla mix. They are more like candy than nuts - really, really good candy. The cashews are mixed with pomegranate and apple and lightly glazed with a hint of vanilla. I tried the Soledad Almonds with Apple, Flax Seeds, Date, Balsamic Vinegar + Red Pepper, and it too was yummy - the bit of heat and vinegar made for an interesting flavor.

Sahale has managed the to combine nuts and fruits in a balance of crunchy and chewy and nutty and sweet. It's really very good.

But since we've gobbled up the samples, we haven't tried it since. Because it $4.29 for 4 ounces.

Not that we haven't thought about it. No, each week Foodgoat walks by the snack aisle at the grocery store, looks at the Sahale Snacks, looks at the price, remembers how tasty it was ... but then keeps on walking.

Under $4, Foodgoat would probably buy it. Over $4, that's the gray area. So yummy ... yet kind of pricey. How much would you pay for a really good snack?

Per FTC disclosure guidelines, we got two samples of Sahale Snacks for free.

Monday, April 21, 2008

The Chili-Delphia Story: Dorito's Spicy Sweet Chili Chips

How much did we enjoy Dorito's Spicy Sweet Pennsylvania Primary Coverage From Chili-Delphia - The City of Brotherly Crunch! - on the Colbert Report last week?

Enough to try out the Dorito's new Spicy Sweet Chili flavored tortilla chips! (Not that we are ever influenced by clever marketing ploys at all.)

Foodgoat found them, surprisingly, not bad at all, considering that he doesn't care for the regular Doritos Nacho Cheese flavor much. A little spicy ... and then, yes, a little sweet. Crunch-goat-licious!

Thursday, December 1, 2005

Honey Dijon, FTW


Meet the BEST CHIPS EVER.

Kettle Chips brand, Honey Dijon flavor. Deeeeelicious. Jam-packed with flavah. And not the too-salty, too-chemically, typical chip flavah. The other flavors of Kettle Chips are also very yum-yum, but honey dijon blows even them away. We can only find them at the food co-op, but it's so worth it.

On the other hand, if the you find that the cafeteria is all out of regular coffee at 2:30 in the afternoon, and all that is left is the Cinnabon flavored coffee, with only the French Vanilla non-dairy creamer to chase it down with, I advise you to suck it up and suffer through the afternoon sleepies, because that crap is nasty. Trust me on this one.