As a diabetic, I’m always on the lookout for tasty, low-carb snakes. While I was wandering the aisles at Sam’s Club, I found Sheila G’s Thindulgent Dark Chocolate Bark. Crunchy almonds, cranberries, and puffed quinoa covered in rich dark chocolate topped with pumpkin sees and a dash of sea salt! Only 17 carbs per 40 gram serving. Yummy!
Sheila G also offers other Thindulgent snacks: Milk Chocolate Smores, Milk Chocolate caramel Pretzel, Milk Chocolate Cashew Toffee, and Dark Chocolate Almond Sea Salt. What’s your favorite snack?
Here’s the nutritional information on the Dark Chocolate Bark:
Nutrition
Serving Size: 1.4 oz(s) – 40 g
Calories 230
Calories from Fat 140
Total Fat 15g
Saturated Fat 7.5g
Trans Fat 0g
Cholesterol 0mg
Sodium 100mg
Total Carbohydrate 20g
Dietary Fiber 3g
Added Sugars 14g
Protein 3g
Vitamin A 0IU
Vitamin C 0mg
Calcium 20mg
Iron 2.88mg
Vitamin D 0IU
Interesting mixture – probably not really cheap.
We like our ingredients separately usually, but make exceptions …
My wife likes dark chocolate with at least 50% cocoa – preferrably 70%.
And we both like dark German bread with sunflower seeds or even better:
Pumpkin seeds – that’s my favourite!
Here in Hungary and Austria they also make pumpkin seed oil, not cheap either but with a special taste – not for cooking, just as a topping on a salad or in a soup.
Generally I’m more the “salty guy”, also eat peanuts and other salted nuts (though I shouldn’t have too much …) while my wife is the “sweet thing” ….
Have a nice Sunday, everbody!
Wolf, this one-pound bag of SHEILA G’S THINDULGENT DARK CHOCOLATE BARK only cost around $8 at Sam’s Club. Well worth it!
Is this discontinued? Where can I buy – Amazon, Sam’s are saying not available.
Jennifer, SHEILA G’s THINDULGENT DARK CHOCOLATE BARK can be order from AMAZON: https://www.amazon.com/Sheila-Gs-Thindulgent-Chocolate-Organic/dp/B0772TVMVP/ref=sr_1_3_a_it/144-3707034-5402955?ie=UTF8&qid=1520707173&sr=8-3&keywords=thindulgent+dark+chocolate+bark
I note that there are about 11and a half servings per bag there. Is that what you get George?
Dan, pretty close to 10 services in my case. The bark shards come in all different sizes.
Although I generally favor salty/savory snacks, I’m afraid that bag would be empty within an hour of me opening it! To make it work, I’d have to carefully measure out the servings and put them in individual baggies–and even then, I’m afraid they’d be “calling” to me all day!
Deb, I know exactly what you mean by the “Call of the Snack.” If there are Peanut M & Ms in the house, I can’t resist!
Popcorn. It’s my favorite food, in fact. I try to pop it in an air popper but the ease of buying those skinny popcorn bags tempts me. I am trying really hard to stay away from sugar.
Patti, Gary Taubes’s The Case Against Sugar is very persuasive.
Patti, my wife also is a fan of popcorn – and it’s good and cheap here in Hungary:
three small bags of microwave popcorn (different tastes available) for around 1$!
And sometimes her dinner consists of just one of these bags …
I know Jackie would like this, though she called it “a pretty high calorie snack.”
The oat bran bars we eat are 140 calories and we eat half each. She says we eat an 80 calorie or less portion, like one square of Godiva chocolate or half of a chocolate graham cookie.
Jeff, I’ve found SHEILA G’S THINDULGENT DARK CHOCOLATE BARK is a good change-of-pace snack. And, fairly healthy, too! Jackie would love it!
there are too many things in that for me. I don’t often eat smooth and crunchy together. I wish the smores would have been with dark choc.
95% of the time I can eat just a small portion of something that is too high in calories, salt, carbs or sugar.. It’s that 5% that does me in.
I like Fiber One bars. the choc brownie has 90 calories, 1,5 gram sat fat, 90 mg sodium, 8g sugar and 5g fiber (20%) They’ve had some really good ones but they are only available for a limited time. Plus they have box tops for education.
I’ve also liked weight watchers choc mint, don’t have a box to read from, but think it’s pretty much like the fiber one bars.
I love getting bags of small bites of candy, as I can generally eat just one.
Totally forgot to mention it:
Here in Hungary today is Mother’s Day – so I surprised my wife with a package of “After Eight” peppermint chocolate, one of her favourites.
We had a visitor today for lunch, an old friend of hers who was born in South America, grew up in the USA, married and divorced a Hungarian emigré, lived in Hungary, went back for work o the USA and now as a pensioner came to Hungary again …
Of course her $s are worth more here …
The two girls almost finished that chocolate package!
My wife loves After Eights, which she developed a taste for on our summer trips to Britain, where we often had them after Indian food.
Yum.
Wolf, HAPPY MOTHER’S DAY to your wife. We celebrate it next Sunday.
Maggie, I like FIBER ONE bars, too. The ones with a lot of nuts and chocolate are my favorites.
I love your first sentence about looking for low-carb snakes. I guess some snakes are higher carb, maybe rattlesnakes, or coral snakes.
Rick, just wondering if people would notice. It was kind of a “snakey” thing to do…
after seeing the chocolate picture, I was too entranced to see the “S” word (I hate snakes as much as Don Sandstrom)
Maggie, Indian Jones had a problem with snakes, too!
You might as well be eating a Snickers! This doesn’t look like it’s appropriate for either a dieter or a diabetic! Snakes? Yeah, I caught that! As for indulgences, I’m all over the map: pie, cake, doughnuts, candy, popcorn, chips, Ice cream, pizza, burritos, tacos, and anything else that’s no good for me!!! I just started cutting out most of that crap, however!!!!!
Bob, everything in moderation.
Oh, and dark chocolate isn’t my favorite by a long shot!
Bob, the only chocolate I don’t like is “white” chocolate.
But white chocolate is good, especially with nuts and raisins!
Used to be one of my favourites – but now all kinds of sweet stuff only in small pieces for me …
It’s always funny when we buy those 2kg packages at the factory outlet of Ritter Sport (those square packages, they now come in different sizes – and of course in all tastes) and then have a look at what’s in this time – often it’s a new variation or just a package with a description in another language – the last white chocolate was described in Russian!
My main extra calorie intake however is from beer – seems I’m always thirsty.
REALLY, REALLY LIKE THINDULGENT ORGANIC TRAIL MIX !!!!
WE PURCHASED IT AT SAMS CLUB BUT THEY NO LONGER CARRY IT…
WHERE CAN WE PURCHASE IT ??
Jerry, I’ve seen it available at BJ’s Warehouse.
I just bought a big of’ thindulgent dark choc bark peppermin’t and I see on the bag iti is distributed by brownie brittle but I want to know where it is actually made??
dang, BAG not’ big’… the font is so tiny I can’t read it!
Sunny, I’m guessing China.
Sams club, wal mart, amazon. all say thindulgent organic trail mix not available. Is this product available or not.
Robert, GOOGLE says SHEILA G’s products are available at TARGET, WALGREENS, and WAL-MART SUPERCENTERS.