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joshperson195 wrote: »

FYI: Quest bars are on sale on Amazon for $18.99/12 count... Looks like all protein bars are on sale

It's only with subscribe and save though
Otherwise, it's the same as VitaminShoppe's 20% off sale, but without the bonus of reward points.

joans1976 wrote: »

Veggie tots review: 7/10

No way you could fool a kid into thinking these were tater tots with the looks of these. I'm not a kid and I like my veggies though. I didn't taste any cheese. I cooked them an extra 2 minutes longer because I like crispy. I could have cooked them longer I'm sure. Tasted like broccoli with a bit of crispy coating. Not too salty. I would buy them again but only with a coupon because you get so little for $4.29. (I had a coupon)

Yeah, they don't look too much like tater tots to me either, but I think they look delicious. It's unfortunate that you couldn't taste the cheese. I'll have to try these myself someday, with a coupon/sale, because as you said, they're expensive.

I saw the Dunkin Donuts and Coke and read that as a coffee flavored soda was set to be released.

joshperson195 wrote: »

hgycta wrote: »

joshperson195 wrote: »

FYI: Quest bars are on sale on Amazon for $18.99/12 count... Looks like all protein bars are on sale

I really wish I noticed this before I gave up and wasted my money on a ton of Death Wish Coffee on there and then a bunch of useless stuff on ThinkGeek xD Thanks for letting us know!

The Quest sale on its website isn't that great, which is disappointing. Maybe they'll have a big end-of-year sale?

That's what I am thinking of as well. I remember last year I bought so many boxes of Combat Crunch Birthday Cake when GNC had their buy one get one free sale last Cyber Monday.

The only thing I bought Black Friday (did some shopping at Wal-Mart on Thursday) was a pair of Sketchers shoes on www.6pm.com.

Noreenmarie1234 wrote: »

Anyone else notice the difference in taste and consistency of lenny and larry cookies? Every time I buy a box the taste and consistency is slighty different. JUst bought snickerdoodle and they taste burnt and a bday cake which has a SUPER strong butter flavor (much different than the last ones).

I usually pick up a cookie of both those flavors every week. Other than the cookie weighing less than normal, 111 grams, I didn't notice anything different about birthday cake.

Noreenmarie1234 wrote: »

Anyone else notice the difference in taste and consistency of lenny and larry cookies? Every time I buy a box the taste and consistency is slighty different. JUst bought snickerdoodle and they taste burnt and a bday cake which has a SUPER strong butter flavor (much different than the last ones).

Yeah, my last order of pumpkin cookies and mini chocolate chips both tasted burned, and the peanut butter swirl was sweeter than normal

Noreenmarie1234 wrote: »

Anyone else notice the difference in taste and consistency of lenny and larry cookies? Every time I buy a box the taste and consistency is slighty different. JUst bought snickerdoodle and they taste burnt and a bday cake which has a SUPER strong butter flavor (much different than the last ones).

The Birthday Cake cookie I bought a few months ago tasted like it had before, but I can't vouch for any of the other flavors. I was so burnt out on the Snickerdoodle cookies from last year's huge sale ($13.00 a box) that I was trying to give them away.

New to me product: oat fiber. This is not to be confused with oat flour. Oat fiber is nothing but the indigestible cellulose, so no calories. It has an interesting smell - cross between oatmeal and cardboard.

I started using this in pancakes in a 1:8 flour to oat fiber ratio. You can't taste any difference at all. No difference in final result in terms of texture. Very happy with my results so far with pancakes.

I used this in some cookies - my speculaas spiced oatmeal raisin cookies tasted amazing, but the texture needs some work. Combo of dried fruit and oat fiber made the cookies dry. So I'll play around on Friday with this some more and see what I can do about it. Thinking about adding some grated zucchini and soaking the fruit (OMG, I just thought of making a speculaas cake! Nom!). But the taste was on point and gets better with a day or two sit. BTW, I found the best recipe for homemade speculaas spice mix:

Dutch Baker's Daughter wrote:

* Speculaas spice:
8 parts cinnamon
2 parts nutmeg
2 parts ground cloves
1 part white pepper
1 part ground ginger
1 part cardamom

Source

That speculaas cookie recipe is also really good. 11/10, will definitely bake again.

Something I tried last night was stretching some chocolate PB2 with the oat fiber. Two tablespoons of CPB2 mixed with 1tbsp oat fiber, reconstituted with water to peanut butter consistency. It actually was surprisingly decent. Ate it on a xTreme Wellness Low Carb/High Fiber wrap with some mini chocolate chips for texture. The peanut flavor overpowered the oat flavor, no problem.

Where it was more meh was I tried to mix it with Greek yogurt and there wasn't enough 'other' flavor to take on the oat fiber. I just had vanilla and some sugar free chocolate syrup. It would probably go better with a cinnamon apple or speculaas flavored Greek yogurt and I might try that tonight for dessert.

Anthony's also sells erythritol that I regularly buy now.

kellyjellybellyjelly wrote: »

MoHousdon wrote: »

I bought workout clothes on Cyber Monday and a pair of jeans. I wasn't all that impressed with anything this year. Did anyone else find any killer deals?

I so badly wanted to buy a pair of Hunter rubber boots, because the short glossed style is so cute, but I still couldn't justify paying 79-100+ for a pair of rubber boots.



Here's a pic of the shoes I bought on Friday.

Those are so pretty!!! I've been wanting a pair of stylish walking shoes. I see it listed for nearly $40 on the 6pm website. Yikes.... How much did you end up paying for it?

lol Your ice cream haul !!! Interesting with the oat fiber I wonder if it's like ISO imo hey used to use in quest ?