Diet Food Reviews
Kashi TLC Oatmeal Dark Chocolate Cookie
By: | Oct 13, 2008
If you want to win me over, all you have to do is bake me some homemade chocolate chip cookies. I cannot recall a time in my life I have ever turned down a fresh, warm, chocolate chip cookie. Keeping this in mind, I realize that any packaged cookie especially one made with healthy ingredients, will inevitably not taste as good as homemade, but I have tried to keep an open mind and give them a fair chance anyway.
When I spotted Kashi TLC Oatmeal Dark Chocolate Cookies in my campus convenience store, I was very excited. I had high expectations because of Kashi's great reputation in the healthy food market. I was very pleased with these cookies. They were definitely sweet enough to kill a chocolate craving, but they had a heartier, healthier taste that I enjoyed. Don't expect these cookies to taste like full-fat homemade cookies, but if you're looking for a tasty packaged cookie, these fit the bill. They are both soft and chewy, the way an oatmeal cookie should be.
Now to the cons. I wished they had come in individual packages instead of a whole package, because it makes it more difficult to eat these "on the go." I was also somewhat disheartened by the calorie count, since these cookies are not very large.
One 30 gram cookie provides 130 calories, 5 grams of total fat (8% of the RDA), 1.5 grams of which are saturated, 2 grams of protein and 21 grams of total carbohydrate which includes 3 grams of fiber (12% of the RDA) and only 8 grams of sugar. There is a decent amount of fiber and protein in each cookie for them being so small, but it would be difficult for me, as a cookie lover, to eat just one. I did not, however, wolf down these cookies the way I would with homemade ones, due to their chewy, denser texture.
A pack of 8 cookies cost about $3.00, which seems quite expensive for anything other than an occasional treat - or maybe the price is the built-in portion control. The ingredients list is stellar, but if you're on a diet - 130 calories from 1 cookie is just too much - but at least at least these cookies are 30 calories less than Quaker Breakfast Cookies.
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I don't think the calories are that bad for a after dinner treat if you just eat 1. I like them warmed up in the microwave for 30 seconds so the chocolate chips melt. Mmm so good, but yeah, too epensive. You might still be able to get a free sample from Kashi's website.
I got a sample from the website, and they send one individually-wrapped cookie - same flavor. I didn't try it though...there was an adorable child on the elevator with me and I gave it to her (with her father's permission of course, lol).
Healthier or not, I'm sure these would get scarfed down in my house. :)
And I really like Alison's idea to warm them up in the microwave!
the nutritional information appealed to me, except for its high sugar contents (but i decided to give it a try because it had better values than normal cookies) i hated it it.. i mean they were dry.. and crumby..
These cookies are very much like the cookie diet cookies that have taken many of the major metro markets by storm lately. They are very capable of being the exact same thing. They are more ment to be a replacement of not only a desert but also a breakfast or something like that.
We've tried the Kashi cookies and
absolutely love them. I agree with
Thomas, they could
very well work as a
'diet cookie' because one cookie is so filling. We're really into the healthy eating, but still love our sweets. So we don't mind that the cookie is a little dry and fairly 'fiber full'. :-) It makes it seem like a very healthy cookie, which I believe it is.
I got to where I was buying so many boxes of Kashi cookies, I finally fiddled with a recipe and came up with one that tastes almost like it, but has a little less sugar and a little more oats, raisins and nuts and no chocolate. It too, is absolutely delicious. I praise the day I bought our first Kashi Cookies.