This texture of this cookie is a little bit like a granola bar with some chocolate. They aren’t kidding when they said there’s all those grains. According to the ingredients, there’s hard red winter wheat, oats, rye, triticale, barley, long grain brown rice, buckwheat and sesame seeds. As usual, for these types of cookies and bars, there’s added fiber from chicory root and oats.  This is great for those trying to lose weight and lower cholesterol too.  The dark chocolate in it is awesome, but because it had all the grains in it, it doesn’t stay together very well, so keep that in mind.  One cookie has 130 calories and 5 g fat and the following ingredients:

Ingredients: Kashi Seven Whole Grain and Sesame® Blend (Whole: Hard Red Winter Wheat, Oats, Rye, Triticale, Barley, Long Grain Brown Rice, Buckwheat, Sesame Seeds), Dark Chocolate Chips (Evaporated Cane Juice, Chocolate Liquor, Cocoa Butter, Soya Lecithin, Ground Vanilla Bean), Whole Rolled Oats, Expeller Pressed Canola Oil, Honey, Evaporated Cane Juice Crystals, Brown Rice Syrup, Chicory Root Fiber, Oat Fiber, Vegetable Glycerin, Natural Flavors, Sodium Bicarbonate, Soy Lecithin, Salt, Mixed Tocopherols (Natural Vitamin E) For Freshness, Monocalcium Phosphate, Walnuts, Peanut Flour, Nonfat Dry Milk, Eggs.

I just love that this cookie can actually satisfy some of your daily fiber, thus helping with weight loss, and up your whole grain intake and satisfy your choco-cravings too!  Kashi, you have done it again!

Yes, calorie-counting teens and grown-ups who still crave the real thing can also grab a stack of Swoops for their chocolate fix. They’re made from Hershey’s original recipes, but have less than half the calories of a normal chocolate snack.  The new Swoops because they totally satisfy chocolate cravings when you want a taste of something ‘bad.’  Just take one or two and shove them back in the box, or indulge in more if you dare.  Swoops are a great way to have not too much of the real thing, their carb-free chocolate flavor is smooth and creamy, with a bit of powdered-sugar sweetness to it, which like most no-carb candies, contains a mix of sugar alcohol and Splenda to give it the right texture and sweetness combination plus inulin, which is a healthy fiber.

The little bars are a good size for munching on when you get a chocolate craving and the soy crisps are great too; a lot like a Nestle’s Crunch Bar, they come as plain chocolate and a nut version.  At only 1g of carbs per bar, this is the perfect treat for those on a low carb diet who get that intense chocolate craving. Also, the bar doesn’t have any trans fats, either so there is virtually no guilt!  As we all know, chocolate isn’t very nutritious, but Hershey’s has now given us something great to get you through a choco-craving while you watch those carbs.  Enjoy!