What a fun package I got from Betty Crocker! They sent me a box of their Variety Pack Fruit Flavored Snacks and a box of their new Create-A-Bug Fruit Flavored Snacks to try out. They came with a frisbee, a yo-yo, and a set of pick-up sticks. Want to win a package just like this one? Read about how at the end of this review!
I never knew that these snacks were gluten free, and was surprised to find that they taste really good, even for a grandma! The bug snacks are shaped like different parts of bugs, like heads, wings, and tails, so kids can put them together like a puzzle before eating them up. They taste a little like soft jelly beans. For older folks, watch out, they do stick to your dental work somewhat, but if you need a quick, gluten free portable snack they are really good.
Create A Bug Fruit Snacks
The Fruit Roll-ups have been on the market a long time but I had never tried them before. They are a like fruit leather that I have tried and liked. They are rolled up on a piece of plastic so be sure to remove it first. It may be a little difficult for very young children to eat them without help. The Fruit By the Foot is easier to get off the paper it is wrapped up with, so may be a better choice for little hands.
Ingredients:
Fruit By the Foot: sugar, maltodextrin, corn syrup, partially hydrogenated cottonseed oil, Contains less than 2% of Carrageenan, citric acid, acetylated mono and diglycerides, sodium citrate, mailc acid, xanthan gum, locust bean gum, vitamin C (ascorbic acid), natural and artificial flavor, potassium citrate, color (red 40, blue 1, yellow 5) Calories per package: 80 Carbs: 17 g
Fruit Roll-ups: Pears from concentrate, corn syrup, dried corn syrup, sugar, partially hydrogenated cottonseed oil, Contains less than 2% of citric acid, sodium citrate, acetylated mono and diglycerides, fruit pectin, malic acid, vitamin C (ascorbic acid), natural and artificial flavor, color (red 40, blue 1, yellow 5)
Calories per package 50, carbs 12g
Fruit Gushers: Pears from concentrate, sugar, dried corn syrup, corn syrup, modified corn starch, fructose, grape juice from concentrate. contains 2% or less of partially hydrogenated cottonseed oil, maltodextrin, cottonseed oil, carageenan, citric acid, glycerin, monoglycerides, sodium citrate, malic acid, vitamin C (ascorbic acid), potassium citrate, agar-agar, natural and artificial flavor, color (red 40, blue 1, yellows 5 & 6, and other color added), xanthan gum. Calories per package 90, carbs 20g
Create-A-Bug: Fruit juice blend from concentrate (apple, pear), corn syrup, sugar, modified corn starch. Contains 2% or less of Fruit pectin, citric acid, dextrose, sodium citrate, malic acid, potassium citrate, vitamin c (ascorbic acid), mineral oil (adds a trivial amount of fat), natural and artificial flavor, color (red 40, yellow 5, blue 1 and other color added), carnuba was, sulfiting agents, beeswax. Calories per package 90, carbs 21g
Want to win a package like the one I got? just leave a comment, telling me which one of these fruit snacks you think you’d like best. I’ll pick a winner at random on Sunday, November 29. Be sure you leave me a way to contact you if you win. Get another chance to win by tweeting about this post on Twitter, then come back and leave me a comment telling me you did. Prize package includes one box of Creat-A-bug snacks, one box of Variety Pack Fruit Flavored snacks, a frisbee, a yo-yo, and pick-up sticks.
This sounds good. I haven't eaten fruit leather in years. Hard on the dentures huh?
Oh boy, pick-up sticks!
I see the children at school eating roll ups and often wondered how they tasted and what nutrition was in them.
Mmm! I love fruit snacks and rollups!
Bugs? I'd eat em. Heh.
I have an 18-year-old and STILL, today, when we ask him what we should grab for him at the grocery store to take back to his dorm – he says, "Gushers".
He's home for Thanksgiving. What did he con his dad into picking up while at Sam's Club? A CASE of the variety pack.
How fun! I love fruit snacks!
I tweeted about your contest, too!
Actually Brenda Faye said…
Fruit roll up and gushers are great my kids and my grandkids eat them. I would put them in my kids lunches they loved them now the grandkids do too.
I think that making bugs and eating them would be a lot of fun for kids. I like fruit leather and have tried Fruit Roll-Ups.
I haven't eaten roll-ups in years! I do remember packing them in my lunch bag though. Fun treat! I have always loved food I could play with before eating it.
I will have to check these out. My kids used to eat fruit roll-ups all the time when they were younger. We stooped buying them, but I don't remember why. I will try these and see how the boys like them.
Roll ups just don't do it for me. But i got home from work tonight and what was on the kitchen island… froot by the foot! too funny.
Can you make fruit origami from the fruit roll-ups?
My boys love these! Owen has the fruit snacks and Michael the roll ups. They are pretty tasty too for me lol