@shiranissosexy i bought these and they’re a decent keto snack. Don’t expect it to be anything like BBQ chips, but if you buy strict keto bbq pork rinds they have a similar crunch and light bbq flavoring. They’re a very easy snack to grab and you don’t have to feel bad about eating a bag.
@shiranissosexy My significant other does Keto and we were able to adapt a lot of our favorite recipes. A few of our easiest swaps were:
Bread crumbs > crushed pork rinds
Mashed potatos > mashed rutabaga
Rice > shaved jicama (I run it through a food processor set to slice, and then again for shred)
Hashbrowns > shredded jicama
Pasta > heart of palm noodles
Sugar > monk fruit extract
Best wishes and good luck!
Just wondering about the difference, as it’s minor but not sure what else it might be different about: bag says two carbs, specs say one carb. Did something change? Are there different ingredients that we need to be aware of from what is stated and what we’d actually get?
Protein is also off by 2.
@benf_dc Ah, okay. Because yeah, nutrition label says 1 gram of carbs and 14 grams of protein in the specs. So from the one you have, we have more calories, more carbs, protein, etc.
Someone who is selling this on eBay with a slightly better expiration date (2/3/22) included a photo of the nutrition label on the back: 120 calories, 16 g protein, 3 g carbs. One gram of those carbs is allulose, which is probably the basis for the claimed 2 g net carbs on the front of the package.
@benf_dc This is true! I’ve been eating these things for years and BBQ is the highest calorie option (but tastes super good for keto snacks). Everything else has the listed 100cal amount.
@katbyter BACK IN MY DAY our schoolyard snack was some dirt and a few metal strands from the old rubber tires! Damn kids just don’t get it these days! I think they could use a good swattin’ on the backside with an 'ol fashioned hickory swich! And also they better STAY OFF MY DAMN LAWN!! GRRRR!!
In for the gamble that the expiration date is more of a “we want more profit sooner date”, since these are essentially baked cheese. Time will tell how wrong I am.
@dalekjoe Sort of… There are a bunch of other keto snacks that truly are “baked cheese”. Moon Cheese, for example, is the KING of the baked these options. So good - but you can tell it’s just cheese. These Schoolyard Snacks things have a bunch of new “keto science” craziness in there. Weird protein blends and whatnot. Make it certainly not taste/feel like pure baked cheese.
The taste and texture can be completely summed up with the word, “MEH…”
Been doing Keto for about 7 months now (down 64lbs so far) and even with the limited amount of snacks available, I can’t even bring myself to finish the two orders of these that I already have.
@Nyc_Tattoo I thought a “Mehist” was someone who practices Mehism. But then I guess “Mehist” could also be an adjective, so it could apply here.
Analogous to a person being a Methodist, or a Methodist minister?
The last time these were on sale I almost didn’t get them because of the terrible reviews here but I took a chance on the spicy flavor. Considering some of the other crap I’ve gladly consume to maintain a healthy lifestyle these were more than decent.
The only way someone can eat this and really complain about the way they taste is if they really care more about flavor and enjoying food than they do about eating healthy. But if you regularly make sacrifices in the kitchen and in the gym then you’ll find these to be a satisfying snack based on the flavor and the volume of food you get for the calories per serving.
If you don’t like these because you expect them to taste like Cheetos, but they don’t compare to Cheetos, then eat Cheetos. These were never meant for you.
@phendrick@uscpsycho Up higher someone else made a comment that I basically translated that they mean as keto stuff doesn’t really taste good compared for non-keto, but for keto these are good.
These things are terrible. I have a box of each flavor from last time. I have only opened one package from each and then never touched them again. If you are trying keto there’s a ton of other snacks that are loads better quality and flavor out there that don’t literally feel like eating compressed sand. Eating “healthy” doesn’t have to be this shitty. Seriously just get some pork rinds if you want salty and crunchy. Dip them in salsa, queso, hummus, etc (just take note of the carbs of the dip). There’s tons of recipes out there of stuff you can make too.
I got the jalapeno cheese and BBQ varieties of these last year. The jalapeno cheese are some of the worst snacks I’ve ever had. The BBQ are OK. They’re really hard and have a weird aftertaste, but real ones who are doing keto know there aren’t bulletproof chip-like snack options out there, so in reality, they’re acceptable.
Chips and other prepackaging snacks DO NOT expire, its a myth and a scam on a massive scale that has been perpetrated on the consumers of the world. Yes, they do go stale and flavors can change based on the amount of heat that the packaging is exposed, but there is no “magic date” where these products suddenly “expire”.
@Delta22@Kyeh
Flip side: Without consumer protection rules requiring a “sell-by date” on the package, there would not be one, and you would have nothing to use as a benchmark for whether the product was reasonably fresh, or over the hill and unattractive, or WAY over the hill and either useless of dangerous. Being the kind of idiot who has bought entirely too many things that ended up going past their sell-by date in the back of the pantry, I can tell you that most of the time, there’s a little wiggle room (because if there wasn’t, some samples would already be stale before the date was reached) but not much. My experience has been that with staples, you can go a year past the sell-by for an unopened package most of the time, and the look/sniff/taste test will usually spot something that’s bad. With snacks, though, most of them really are getting limp, or rancid, or otherwise either unappetizing or problematic, shortly after the marked date.
I won’t call anyone crazy for checking before discarding. I also won’t criticize anyone who looks at a date that’s three months gone, and chucks the package. Personally, I’ve had one too many bellyaches from assuming that the date’s bupkis. And don’t forget that when the food item comes in chunks, like ramen with a seasoning packet, the main part might be good for years but the other part can be starting to go south as the clock runs out. My favorite pad thai noodle packets are one of the ones for which the stale date can go flying past, and they’ll still be good for years yet if stored properly, but a hell of a lot of other ramen is emphatically not going to be edible if you use that over-the-hill seasoning packet in it.
I tried these the last time they rolled around and they’re awful. I have tried a bazillion keto snacks and these were so bad, I don’t want to feed them to the crows for fear that they’ll come after me. Crows are smart. Schoolyard Snacks are horrible.
@pixeltech My S.O. bought the combo pack somewhere, and one packet of each flavor was tried. The rest got handed off to somebody who had access to ravenous teenagers. The report that came back was that many bags ended up being used for craft projects. I very pointedly did not inquire what those projects were.
I really don’t think Schoolyard Snacks have any right saying these so-called ‘cheese’ puffs are Keto Supplements or Keto Puffs! According to Ms Sally Harper [ who, as a nutritionist, knows a Lot more than Any of us do] According to a posted article by her, she stated the snack, pill, or maybe even drink Must contain BHB, Apple Cider Vinegar, etc, etc as part of the ingredients, otherwise, it’s just simply a scam trying to profit on the Keto Craze & ignorance of many people. If one simply loves the taste of the product, then buy them simply for the taste & not because you think they are any healthier than a Dr Pepper!! I’ll admit I can’t retain facts as great as I use to, but you can check out Information at: Sally@ketofacts.org {I only have 5 min to edit my errors, so…for those, My Bad}
@1DisabledWarVet, it’s: Sally@ketoreport.org
NOTE: The Editorial I quoted was about PILLS & NOT About Snacks, so all my damn info may be wrong,… But it Was well intended!! Again, My Bad!!
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$89.97 for 36 at Amazon
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90 days
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Monday, Jan 10 - Thursday, Jan 13
Sawdust snacks again?
I had to. New Years and trying keto. Wish me luck?!
@shiranissosexy good luck
@shiranissosexy
It would take a miracle.
@shiranissosexy i bought these and they’re a decent keto snack. Don’t expect it to be anything like BBQ chips, but if you buy strict keto bbq pork rinds they have a similar crunch and light bbq flavoring. They’re a very easy snack to grab and you don’t have to feel bad about eating a bag.
@shiranissosexy My significant other does Keto and we were able to adapt a lot of our favorite recipes. A few of our easiest swaps were:
Bread crumbs > crushed pork rinds
Mashed potatos > mashed rutabaga
Rice > shaved jicama (I run it through a food processor set to slice, and then again for shred)
Hashbrowns > shredded jicama
Pasta > heart of palm noodles
Sugar > monk fruit extract
Best wishes and good luck!
What size are the bag you shady weirdos
@thechinglish 26 grams apparently
@skiptomystew thanks!
Can we expect to see you offloading unsold Magic Spoon cereal in 6 months
@thechinglish Ooooh I’m hoping so! Eight years on keto here and totally down to capitalize on people bailing on their new year’s resolutions.
@thechinglish magic spoon cereal is spectacular! This stuff, not so much.
Wait 1 bag is a serving I figured 3 and 6 for the playoffs per game. Not to mention 12 total for the super bowl.
I don’t know why these have a “best by” date. Could they get worse?
@werehatrack Yes, yes they could get worse. If these were the jalapeño cheddar, THEN they’d be worse.
@werehatrack Well, the “Best Buy” date would probably be NEVER.
I got these earlier. Not the worst. But have a decent flavor.
It’s not sawdust, it’s crunchy fiber
Not even good for a month? Yikes
I may need to buy more of these. They’re not the worst, especially when I don’t want pork rinds but still want a quick keto snack.
No thank you. I got enough package filler in all the dilivered Christmas gifts. Wow, Covid does have a upside!
how do you puff a keto?
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Meh, I already feel like I have heartburn just looking at the pictures. On top of that they won’t charge my smart phone.
Just wondering about the difference, as it’s minor but not sure what else it might be different about: bag says two carbs, specs say one carb. Did something change? Are there different ingredients that we need to be aware of from what is stated and what we’d actually get?
Protein is also off by 2.
@Artimid Front of bag says two net carbs. As I note below, the nutrition label on the back says three carbs.
@benf_dc Ah, okay. Because yeah, nutrition label says 1 gram of carbs and 14 grams of protein in the specs. So from the one you have, we have more calories, more carbs, protein, etc.
Does it at least have the same ingredients?
Someone who is selling this on eBay with a slightly better expiration date (2/3/22) included a photo of the nutrition label on the back: 120 calories, 16 g protein, 3 g carbs. One gram of those carbs is allulose, which is probably the basis for the claimed 2 g net carbs on the front of the package.
@benf_dc This is true! I’ve been eating these things for years and BBQ is the highest calorie option (but tastes super good for keto snacks). Everything else has the listed 100cal amount.
@benf_dc @Fourhundred57
I translated that as non-keto snacks are better than keto, considering these are keto snacks they are good for being keto.
@Alacrity
These make unbelievably shitty margaritas.
OH MY GOD THEY FRIED UP A BUNCH OF GLEN’S KIDS AND SOLD THEM AS A HEALTHY SNACK!!!
Schoolyard snacks? Because they taste like ground up playground cushion?
/giphy playground cushion
@katbyter BACK IN MY DAY our schoolyard snack was some dirt and a few metal strands from the old rubber tires! Damn kids just don’t get it these days! I think they could use a good swattin’ on the backside with an 'ol fashioned hickory swich! And also they better STAY OFF MY DAMN LAWN!! GRRRR!!
In for the gamble that the expiration date is more of a “we want more profit sooner date”, since these are essentially baked cheese. Time will tell how wrong I am.
I like the in-date ones I bought last time.
@dalekjoe, do you see Any cheese in the ingredients?
@dalekjoe Sort of… There are a bunch of other keto snacks that truly are “baked cheese”. Moon Cheese, for example, is the KING of the baked these options. So good - but you can tell it’s just cheese. These Schoolyard Snacks things have a bunch of new “keto science” craziness in there. Weird protein blends and whatnot. Make it certainly not taste/feel like pure baked cheese.
@dalekjoe @Fourhundred57
Moon Cheese is the bomb. Sometimes Costco has it on sale for close to half price. But yeah, just cheese and you can tell.
I like putting them on salad like croutons.
@1DisabledWarVet touché. Oh well a more exciting/dangerous gamble then.
This is one of the Mehist deals in a while.
The taste and texture can be completely summed up with the word, “MEH…”
Been doing Keto for about 7 months now (down 64lbs so far) and even with the limited amount of snacks available, I can’t even bring myself to finish the two orders of these that I already have.
@Nyc_Tattoo
Number one snack here is dry roast pecans. I roast them myself.
@Nyc_Tattoo I thought a “Mehist” was someone who practices Mehism. But then I guess “Mehist” could also be an adjective, so it could apply here.
Analogous to a person being a Methodist, or a Methodist minister?
The last time these were on sale I almost didn’t get them because of the terrible reviews here but I took a chance on the spicy flavor. Considering some of the other crap I’ve gladly consume to maintain a healthy lifestyle these were more than decent.
The only way someone can eat this and really complain about the way they taste is if they really care more about flavor and enjoying food than they do about eating healthy. But if you regularly make sacrifices in the kitchen and in the gym then you’ll find these to be a satisfying snack based on the flavor and the volume of food you get for the calories per serving.
If you don’t like these because you expect them to taste like Cheetos, but they don’t compare to Cheetos, then eat Cheetos. These were never meant for you.
@uscpsycho
God forgive me, I guess I’m “they”…
But, I try to not eat too unhealth
y[ily]@phendrick @uscpsycho
Plus, I get that people go on keto to lose weight, and that’s good, but whether the diet is actually healthy is strongly debated.
@phendrick @uscpsycho Up higher someone else made a comment that I basically translated that they mean as keto stuff doesn’t really taste good compared for non-keto, but for keto these are good.
Hey meh! With an expiration date less than a month away, I’d expect you to be selling them for less. A lot less.
These things are terrible. I have a box of each flavor from last time. I have only opened one package from each and then never touched them again. If you are trying keto there’s a ton of other snacks that are loads better quality and flavor out there that don’t literally feel like eating compressed sand. Eating “healthy” doesn’t have to be this shitty. Seriously just get some pork rinds if you want salty and crunchy. Dip them in salsa, queso, hummus, etc (just take note of the carbs of the dip). There’s tons of recipes out there of stuff you can make too.
They’re a horrible texture. Taste isn’t too bad.
Gross
I got the jalapeno cheese and BBQ varieties of these last year. The jalapeno cheese are some of the worst snacks I’ve ever had. The BBQ are OK. They’re really hard and have a weird aftertaste, but real ones who are doing keto know there aren’t bulletproof chip-like snack options out there, so in reality, they’re acceptable.
Chips and other prepackaging snacks DO NOT expire, its a myth and a scam on a massive scale that has been perpetrated on the consumers of the world. Yes, they do go stale and flavors can change based on the amount of heat that the packaging is exposed, but there is no “magic date” where these products suddenly “expire”.
@Delta22 Exactly!!!
The fact that so many of us read a “best by” label as actually saying “bad after” is partly a public education problem, and it’s one that manufacturers haven’t worked too hard to combat. https://www.vox.com/22559293/food-waste-expiration-label-best-before
@Delta22 @Kyeh
Flip side: Without consumer protection rules requiring a “sell-by date” on the package, there would not be one, and you would have nothing to use as a benchmark for whether the product was reasonably fresh, or over the hill and unattractive, or WAY over the hill and either useless of dangerous. Being the kind of idiot who has bought entirely too many things that ended up going past their sell-by date in the back of the pantry, I can tell you that most of the time, there’s a little wiggle room (because if there wasn’t, some samples would already be stale before the date was reached) but not much. My experience has been that with staples, you can go a year past the sell-by for an unopened package most of the time, and the look/sniff/taste test will usually spot something that’s bad. With snacks, though, most of them really are getting limp, or rancid, or otherwise either unappetizing or problematic, shortly after the marked date.
I won’t call anyone crazy for checking before discarding. I also won’t criticize anyone who looks at a date that’s three months gone, and chucks the package. Personally, I’ve had one too many bellyaches from assuming that the date’s bupkis. And don’t forget that when the food item comes in chunks, like ramen with a seasoning packet, the main part might be good for years but the other part can be starting to go south as the clock runs out. My favorite pad thai noodle packets are one of the ones for which the stale date can go flying past, and they’ll still be good for years yet if stored properly, but a hell of a lot of other ramen is emphatically not going to be edible if you use that over-the-hill seasoning packet in it.
I tried these the last time they rolled around and they’re awful. I have tried a bazillion keto snacks and these were so bad, I don’t want to feed them to the crows for fear that they’ll come after me. Crows are smart. Schoolyard Snacks are horrible.
@pixeltech My S.O. bought the combo pack somewhere, and one packet of each flavor was tried. The rest got handed off to somebody who had access to ravenous teenagers. The report that came back was that many bags ended up being used for craft projects. I very pointedly did not inquire what those projects were.
I really don’t think Schoolyard Snacks have any right saying these so-called ‘cheese’ puffs are Keto Supplements or Keto Puffs! According to Ms Sally Harper [ who, as a nutritionist, knows a Lot more than Any of us do] According to a posted article by her, she stated the snack, pill, or maybe even drink Must contain BHB, Apple Cider Vinegar, etc, etc as part of the ingredients, otherwise, it’s just simply a scam trying to profit on the Keto Craze & ignorance of many people. If one simply loves the taste of the product, then buy them simply for the taste & not because you think they are any healthier than a Dr Pepper!! I’ll admit I can’t retain facts as great as I use to, but you can check out Information at: Sally@ketofacts.org {I only have 5 min to edit my errors, so…for those, My Bad}
@1DisabledWarVet, it’s: Sally@ketoreport.org
NOTE: The Editorial I quoted was about PILLS & NOT About Snacks, so all my damn info may be wrong,… But it Was well intended!! Again, My Bad!!