This bag of TJ's Baked Cheese Crunchies boasts that these
snacks have “33% less fat than regular fried cheese flavored corn
snacks**”. It took us a while to hunt
around on the packaging to follow the asterisks after that statement to find
what they connected to. I finally found
the mouseprint (did you know that is what teeny tiny print is called, isn’t that
a fun phrase??) that told us:
-one 28 gram serving of TJ’s Baked Cheese Crunchies will set you back 6 grams of fat
-whereas a 28 gram serving of Regular Fried Cheese Flavored Corn Snacks will ding you 9 grams
of fat.
-one 28 gram serving of TJ’s Baked Cheese Crunchies will set you back 6 grams of fat
-whereas a 28 gram serving of Regular Fried Cheese Flavored Corn Snacks will ding you 9 grams
of fat.
All of that being said, I
would posit that if you are worried about eating FAT, perhaps cheese doodles
should not be on your shopping list. There are much tastier "cheat foods" in my opinion!
Also, anyone who thinks that David is going to eat a 28 gram serving of
Cheetos, be they “real” Cheetos or this Trader Joe’s version, is mistaken. No, David is a Cheetos aficionado and once ate
so many on a road trip that he barfed. I
think Cheetos are the only food he has ever done that with.
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| Snack time |
Here is what David said
about this snack food:
“I will eat crunchy or
non-crunchy Cheetos, because the crunch is amusing. But these are not quite as amusing as a
Cheetos brand baked crunchy snack. These
will do. They have a bit less cheese
taste than traditional crunch Cheetos.
Otherwise, they are fine.
I will go back to my fried
puffy Cheetos “Naturals” and not get these again. When you need a snack, these will do.* I will give them a 3.5.”
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| Does this man look excited to eat this snack food? I think not. |
Price: $1.99
Rating: 3.5
*Editor’s note: When David said, “When you need a snack these
will do,” I pointed out to him that if you really neeeeeded a snack, a fried
turd would do. He stressed that he would
give a fried turd a lower score than these TJ’s Baked Cheese Crunchies.
EDITOR'S IMPORTANT NOTE: I find this very funny: I just realized, after writing this review, that we have previously reviewed this product. It is bound to happen, there are probably around 500 reviews in my blog. But I totally forgot that we rated these way back in September 2015. I am impressed that they got almost the same score back then, and also impressed that TJ's has not increased the price at all. I smiled when I read a reader's comment on the original review (that I had forgotten) dissing name brand Cheetos. Link to original review here: Baked Cheese Crunchies Original Review
EDITOR'S IMPORTANT NOTE: I find this very funny: I just realized, after writing this review, that we have previously reviewed this product. It is bound to happen, there are probably around 500 reviews in my blog. But I totally forgot that we rated these way back in September 2015. I am impressed that they got almost the same score back then, and also impressed that TJ's has not increased the price at all. I smiled when I read a reader's comment on the original review (that I had forgotten) dissing name brand Cheetos. Link to original review here: Baked Cheese Crunchies Original Review
