Customer Reviews

Advantage Bar - Smores

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I've tried all of the Atkins bars, and many other lo carb bars. This is my favorite. Little bit of crunch, slightly sweet, not too dry.

I've tried many of the Atkins Advantage bars, and this is by far my favorite. Also good are Chocolate Mocha Crunch and Chocolate Peanut Butter. Hopefully Amazon will offer these flavors soon. I highly recommend this product.

I have tried most nutritious bars on the planet and these rate pretty well. They don't have sugar or icky fructose but Splenda which makes them perfect for me. I don't want extra calories to sweeten a bar. Since I have bought these my appetite has gone away and I am not even an Atkins dieter. I highly recommend them for someone wanting a snack, (candy bar type treat), that will fill you up. A lot of protein and fiber, yes some fat, and no sugar. Thanks!

I guess I should have known that at $9.99 a box that there would be something wrong with them...I ordered the Smores and Mocha Crunch varieties of the Atkins Advantage bar, and when they arrived, I noticed that one of the boxes was past the expiration date (Dec 2004) and the other is almost expired (Feb 2005). I can't believe that they can get away with selling expired food without advertising it as such. So, buyer beware! You get what you pay for sometimes! VERY DISAPPOINTED!!!

I use these bars for a quick tune up and loss of about 5 pounds with this strategy...

I'll do a 24 hour fast on water using the strategies described in Paul Bragg's "The Miracle of Fasting." Water fasting throws me into ketosis in about 16 hours.

Then on the 24th hour, I break the fast with a low carb, Atkins induction diet for 24 to 48 hours.

Then, I finish the week feeling great and 5 pounds lighter using my everyday diet (which is very much like that described in "The Abs Diet, Eat Right Every Time").

I'm not over weight, but I keep a 6 pack at 45 years old by walking 20 milse a week and using this routine every month or two.

For those who are overweight, I'd recommend that you consider fasting...the physician's who say nay have probably never tried it.

These bars work great for the Atkins induction day following a 24 hour water day (you'd be surprised how good almsot anything tastes after 24 hours on water...my experience has been the more overweight the person the pickier the eater).

For the Atkins induction day...I usually start with an omlette for breakfast, use three of these bars with lots of water (I prefer Dannon's bottled water) while at work, and finish the day with a salad on arrival home and another omlette at bedtime.

Of course, all of these strategies should be approved by your physician. For more, see my reviews of the books mentioned above (and my website).

Peace & Health,

Charles Runels, MD

Author of "Anytime...for as Long as You Want: Strength, Genius, Libido, & Erection by Integrative Sex Transmutation"

I really like this bar, the texture is not too sweet and icky like a lot of other brands which can have a nasty aftertaste. No sugar is awesome, most bars are loaded with sugar which seems like pure insanity to me.

Just a note about carbs, one reviewer expressed concern that this bar had way more carbs than the next carb number. Net carbs are the carbs that count when doing Atkins & I think other low carb program. Fiber counts on nutrition panels as a carbohydrate but when dieting is a good thing, so you subtract it from the figures. Otherwise broccoli would even look like a high carb food! These, like most of the sweet food replacers also use sugar alcohols, which alter glucose levels very little but help with the sweet taste. I wouldn't eat this at every meal, but I really love them when I'm on the run and the only other options are bagels and muffins.

This one was a bit too sweet for me. While overall it has a good texture and flavor, that extra kick of sweetness was a bit much. Some folks might prefer this bar, though, to its less sweet counterpart, the chocolate peanut butter bar. (The PB bar is my favorite)

Suggestion: buy one of each flavor and do a taste test. Come back to your favorite for the 25-bar box discount.

I'd just like to dispell another reviewers comment on carbs. I'm a type one diabetic and i've been thru enough nutritional classes tought by medical professionals to know that not all carbs are the same. Net carbs and net carbs only affect blood glucose levels. If you want to see it for yourself go out and buy a blood glucose monitor, test your blood before eating an atkins bar, eat an atkins bar and test your blood 15-20 minutes after eating the bar. You should notice very little difference in your BG level. The next day try the same experimant with a snickers bar or something loaded with carbs/sugar. Im sure you'll see that not all carbs are equal. ;-)

Best on the market by value and taste - 60 gr. a bar with 3 gr. net carbs. Got them for $9.99 as the other reviewer but mine have expiry date of Jan 06 so I am sorry I did not order more.

I think that these are the best low-carb protein bars I've had so far! They are supposed to taste like S'mores! Hello! Graham crackers are not cookies! I think that these bars taste exactly like cold s'mores! Yum!!!