Oreo or not?When Mr. Tidbit suggested last week that we were entering a record three months without a new Oreo product, he misspoke. (It had been two months -- we were just entering the third month.) He should have known better: The folks at Kraft's Nabisco arm would never let three months go by without a new kind of Oreo!
And here's the latest: Oreo Dipped Delight bars, which are 100-calorie items, six to the box totaling 5.46 ounces (between the amount of air in the box and the amount of air and wrapper for each Dipped Delight, you might wind up surprised at the unimpressive size of the actual bar).
As with Oreo Thin Crisps, another 100-calorie product, the notion that Oreo Dipped Delights are in any sense Oreos is pushing the limit of credibility.
These are crisped-rice fiber bars -- nothing like Oreos in texture or flavor, with a lot of food and near-food ingredients (oat fiber, oligofructose, "resistant corn maltodextrin") to push the fiber content up to 4 grams per bar.
Any resemblance to an Oreo is limited to the fact that the bottom part is dark brown and that there's a thin layer of white stuff on top of that. The whole thing is dipped in fudgy coating, but Mr. Tidbit doesn't think that's enough to save it.
There are Nutter Butter Dipped Delight bars too, and they, too, are fiber-enhanced crisped-rice bars, but they are peanut-butter flavored and wrapped in peanut-butter-flavored coating.
Scouting for cookiesKeebler's newest offering is Coconut Dreams, which are very much like Girl Scout Samoas (or, in some Girl Scout jurisdictions, Caramel DeLites). There'a a ring-shaped cookie, topped with caramel, sprinkled with toasted coconut and drizzled with fudge stripes, and the bottom is dipped in fudge.
If you're watching saturated fat, these probably shouldn't be in your cart -- of the 8 grams of fat in a two-cookie serving, 6 grams are saturated fat. (Pretty much the same is true for Samoas and Caramel DeLites.)
