We have a busted refrigerator to blame for that. Or, I hope to say, had. Something something was something somethinging the something (or so I understand, as explained by the Sears repair guy and filtered thru my wife) making the bottom of our fridge leaky and pooling water. Been doing it for months, actually, and just got it fixed earlier today...but at time of writing this, we're now on the evening of Day 2 with an unplugged icebox in the kitchen. Been eating down whatever supplies from the fridge all week. Can't restock quite yet. No spare fridge on site. Thought we'd be able to use it by tonight, and already kinda spent our eating out budget at Red Lobster last night...
...so granola for at least part of our dinner. It's what we had. Living the dream.
Granted, evening sustenance and main course is probably not the intended use of Trader Joe's Peanut Butter Protein Granola. As with most granola, it's definitely one of those snack-on-the-go type deals, or an easy morning breakfast with a little yogurt or something. Also never a horrible idea to have a bag tucked away in the desk drawer at work for midday munchie.
But, I'm not convinced this pb granola is all that great. It's not really horrible, either, but there's something a little off about it after a few bites. Tough to explain, but it gets that taste in your mouth, you know, the one that resides in the little pouch between your teeth and cheeks. Bitterswee-tish, almost metallic in some ways. You know that one? It's what I get.
Probably not a repeat buy. Even as a peanut butter aficionado and a general granola fan, there's just not enough here to make me want to come back. It fills a void and that seems to be about it. Sandy's not impressed either. "Meh" is about all we said about it. Might be more enjoyable with some cold milk...we'll get back to you on that.
Bottom line: Trader Joe's Peanut Butter Protein Granola: 5 out of 10 Golden Spoons.
I was disappointed in it too-tasted very bland and even worse in milk
ReplyDeleteLooking at the ingredients and nutritional info there's less than two TB of peanut butter per serving- so that's a lot of oats without much anything else for flavor. The mouthfeel os probably the pea protein which shows up both as the crisps and as a seperate ingredient.
ReplyDeleteI bet it would work as a garnish to some chocolate ice cream ;))
Hope the fridge issue is solved quickly! If not then you could always do entree salads with some of the TJs salad kit bags and hard boiled eggs or the tasty chickpea salad they sell premade
Ttrockwood
Works great in a smoothie with banana and chocolate protein!
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