Granola bars layer fruit filling

New from Quaker, which makes nine kinds of chewy granola bars, plus three 25-percent-less-sugar chewy granola bars, four big chewy granola bars, five chewy Dipps (fudgecoated) granola bars, two chewy yogurt granola bars, two quinoa granola bars and two unfortunately-named chewy Girl Scouts granola bars (they have the flavors of two Girl Scouts cookies), come two chewy Snackwich bars. The word “granola” isn’t in the name, but granola (made with oats, brown rice crisp and more) is the first ingredient.

What makes these things Snackwiches is that, between two layers of chewy granola, there’s a layer of either apples and caramel or peanut butter and chocolate chips. Make that a thin layer: At least in my purchase, the apples and caramel version, the apples and caramel layer is hardly visible to the naked eye.

Pudding in bars

ConAgra, makers of the 11 flavors of Snack Pack shelf-stable puddings, has brought forth two kinds of Snack Pack Pudding Bars (chocolate fudge and chocolate caramel). What’s a pudding bar? Both versions are described as brownies.

The box announces that “pudding* is baked right in” (and the asterisk advises that what’s baked right in is pudding mix, which seems perfectly fair). We’re also told that the pudding bars are “powered by pudding,” but no asterisk helps us understand that one.