Fitness Romance SagaTasting! Simply Fruit Roll Ups
November 15th, 2010 • 19 Comments | Leave a Comment »
Men who wear blue panties really know their stuff.
The “Simply” line of edibles is spreading like a HAZMAT olive oil spill. So now I vote for it to go beyond those buttermilk biscuits and these Simply Fruit Roll-Ups to spread into other areas of my life. Like, Simply Gettin’ Big Money. And Simply Sleepin’ in Late.
Won’t they package that, please?
I’m damn near incapacitated from Greedy Baby biting my finger (complete with bloodshed). And I’m gonna sue. So I’ll be basic and only partially frivolous so I can get back to Tweeting my lawyer.
Simply Fruit Roll Ups are a refreshing breed of all things Rolled. That artificial bright red look is gone (it’s much darker) with its “more than 90% fruit juice and real fruit”. It’s strawberry-ish. It’s appley. But NOT as stretchy-rubbery as the original.
Go on and test drive it with your Foot Trap for a burst of fruitiness without the BS ingredients. I was glad when I found ‘em, because Greedy Kid #3 keeps b!tching for more variety in his lunchbox. I wish somebody would pack ME a damn lunch.
ROLLED NOTES
- Price Paid: $2.89 for 10-pack
- Calories: 50
- Fat Calories: 5
- Total Fat: 0.5g
- Sodium: 20mg
- Carbs: 12g
- Fiber: less than 1g
- Protein: 0g
REACTIONS FROM THE TASTE TEST CREW
Health-hater Husband: Not too bad. It’s not bright red like the other kind.
Greedy Kid #1: I’d rather have the artificial kind I grew up on.
Greedy Kid #2: I can’t tell the difference.
Greedy Kid #3: It’s so good, I can’t stop eating it.
Yum UP! to: Settling lawsuits out of court. Greedy Baby better do the right thing.
Yuck Down to: Children who gnaw on their parents. I’m might lose an arm one day.
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Tanya November 15th, 2010 at 22:19
I saw this the other day too and was going to do a write up. A few things I found interesting – way better ingredients than the ‘regular’ kind – but it has 3 grams more sugar and costs $0.50 more.
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JourneyBeyondSurvival November 15th, 2010 at 22:32
It’s better than that sweetner that will probably be revealed to be related to polyester. Yeah, the corny one. It’s worth 50 cents just for that.
But, I would need to teach myself AND my children that they are special treats. For once in a while. That is not proving too easy to do right now.
But it’s better than halloween candy, than stoppy for donuts, than icecream, than non-food substances, than fake coloring dyeing the innards, than unknown possible cancer causers, than french fries, than apple dippers that smell faintly of alcohol,
And it’s way way better than this bread I bought once in a foreign country that smelled like they poured nail polish remover on it right before it was sealed. Must’ve been a holiday bread or something. We were poor…who’s your lawyer so that when we have cancer we can sue/settle?
Okay, okay. I realize I’m tired and I get a bit ‘o diarrhea of the mouth and constipation of the brain when that happens. Shutt tting dooooooowwn…
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Josie Reply:
November 15th, 2010 at 10:38 pm
Diarrhea of the mouth? It already happened, girlfriend. But it’s welcomed ’round here, tho.
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Alexia @ Dimple Snatcher Reply:
November 15th, 2010 at 10:50 pm
Hahahahahahaha.
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JourneyBeyondSurvival Reply:
November 16th, 2010 at 11:11 pm
@Josie,
Wow. She needs to go to sleep. Pronto.
I mean, what?
Oh. Yes. Me.
G’night.
P.S. You must stop lurking in my bushes and threatening to jump in my leaf piles. It’s making me lose sleep. #guarding
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Josie Reply:
November 17th, 2010 at 9:17 am
I’m not lurking in your bushes no ‘mo. I caught Cat Scratch Fever from one of your feline border guards. I’m through with you.
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Miz November 16th, 2010 at 5:16
I saw these too
picked up em and put em back
gummy stuff abounds here still (posthalloween) & they seemed in a way just like her beloved barbie gummies rolllled flat
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Estela @ Weekly Bite November 16th, 2010 at 7:14
Thanks for the review. I saw these as well… I passed on them
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Erin November 16th, 2010 at 9:24
It sounds like the fruit leathers. When Sam’s old enough and things settle I think I’ll be getting her these instead of the regular ones. If she doesn’t have a sugary one she wont know what she’s missing right?!
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Vee November 16th, 2010 at 10:15
Not bad if you like gummy things. My kid won’t touch them but he never liked the “roll-ups” or gummy bears/worms/etc anyway.
Enjoy! Vee at http://veegettinghealthy.blogspot.com
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lisa November 16th, 2010 at 11:19
mmmm id probably like these, i love fruit leathers!
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lisa November 16th, 2010 at 11:20
p.s… remmeber the fruit roll up “pizzas”? Where you had to like push the pizza out of the fruit roll up and add the toppings? haha best fruit roll ups ever! i wonder if they make those anymore…
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angela November 16th, 2010 at 13:17
I have a box of these in my pantry. They’ve been there about a month now, with only a few missing from the box. My daughter thinks they’re ok, but not as tasty as the original ones. Her best friend thought they were nasty and threw hers away. I guess I won’t be buying them again, even tough i too was impressed by te whole fruit juiceness and other naturalness of them.
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merri November 16th, 2010 at 19:39
oh i remember fruit rollups… i havent eaten those since i was probably 12. but i did have a free fruit leather the other year at SF’s leather/fetish festival..this is prob like that. sounds good.
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Karen November 17th, 2010 at 8:31
I always loved fruit roll-up and other fruit snacks… like candy:) Duh. But I also like the fruit “leather” that has no added sugar. But for me now, it is the real deal when I eat my fruit.
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Habibah November 17th, 2010 at 9:10
My hubby, who does the grocery shopping, picked these up over the weekend. We recently started giving our four year old fruit roll ups and it’s amazing to see him still adjusting to the concept. He was willing to share a small tiny piece of the Simply Fruit roll up last night. It was tasty. Yum
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Sagan November 17th, 2010 at 10:00
Now I’m thinking about biscuits.
I like taking fruit roll up things with me when I go hiking… a good way to get in that fruit fix!
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Sparkina November 19th, 2010 at 15:20
These “new” roll-up fruit snaks are actually not that new. They sound like the way Fruit-Roll-Ups used to be when I was a teen in the 80s, just fruit and some sugar, when they were under the Fruit Corners brand. They were plenty of tasty back then. They even had a grape one which was like munching on a big flat sheet of raisin
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