Resealable bag? Check. Air fryer instructions? Check. Nine frozen oatmeal balls? Check. Like planet earth, these oatmeal bites are not perfect spheres, but might qualify as "oblate spheroids."
After a spell in the Ninja, the bites are crispy and crusty on the outside and wet and gooey on the inside. The dueling textures make them fun and unique, significantly more interesting than traditional oatmeal.
They have a rich, hearty, grainy taste like regular bowl-bound oatmeal, and there's a pretty decent amount of apple and cinnamon flavor. It's not a desserty flavor by my estimation, though. The flavor is on par with a regular non-spherical apple cinnamon oatmeal. They're not as cookie-esque as I might have hoped. They're more breakfasty in terms of sugary decadence—or rather, a decided lack thereof. That's fine. I kinda wish they were just a taaad sweeter. Would you think me a monster if I added maple syrup or whipped cream or something?
The convenience level is significant, and there's a definite novelty factor here. $3.99 for 3 servings. I think we're looking at about three and a half stars a piece from Sonia and me.
Bottom line: 7 out of 10.
I dunno, I feel like the convenience factor is on the side of a regular bowl of oatmeal. Although I do appreciate the notion of dueling textures. I eat a lot of oatmeal and it's soooo boring.
ReplyDeleteI just mean you can pull these straight out of the air fryer basket and eat them with your hands. No need to dirty a bowl and a spoon.
DeleteThe texture of the bites is indeed a tad less boring than traditional oatmeal.
How big are they? Is a serving about as filling as a serving of oatmeal, or are they more of a dessert/treat?
ReplyDeleteThey're maybe a little bigger than a ping pong ball each... I'd say they're filling like regular oatmeal.
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