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I’m not much of a pudding person. Maybe it’s because I grew up eating a lot of it or it could be that I just haven’t found a pudding I really, really liked. But, now I can say that I’ve finally found that elusive pudding that I truly enjoy.

I discovered Handi-Snacks Sugar Free Pudding at my local grocery store. A 4-pack was $1.39 which I felt was a good deal until I bought them last week on sale for $1.00!

I didn’t try the chocolate flavor as I’m not a chocolate person. Yeah, I know, kinda odd but I’m just one of those people who just isn’t that crazy about chocolate. I’ll eat chocolate pudding once in a great while but only if it’s lightened up with some whipped cream from a can to lessen the chocolate taste. But I was thinking I could buy a couple of 4-packs of this and make an awesome chocolate pudding pie. I like to take a low-sugar graham-cracker crust (pre-made, of course), put in sugar free pudding, and top it with sugar-free whipped cream. You then freeze it and before you eat it, defrost it a little bit. On a hot humid summer day it’s delicious!

I do love vanilla pudding, so figured I’d try it and see if it was any good. And, yes, it was. The vanilla flavor was almost a little too strong for me. It had the consistency of a thick pudding without being too thick, and wasn’t too sweet. Sometimes products with Splenda can have an aftertaste of a sort, and this didn’t have it at all. But again, I found the vanilla taste too strong for me. I read the ingredients label and saw it had hydrogenated oils near the beginning of the list, so decided to not get this again, as I try to avoid hydrogenated oils as often as I can.

I then saw the Creamy Caramel flavor at the store and read the ingredients list first, and saw it had no hydrogenated oil, so I grabbed a 4-pack.

When I opened it up, it smelled just like butterscotch to me which was a good thing, as I love butterscotch pudding. The consistency was just like that of the chocolate pudding, not too thick and not too thin. The flavor to me is more like butterscotch than caramel, but is still delicious. No hydrogenated oils, either.

There are about 60 calories in a serving making it a great quick snack without a lot of calories.

It does, however, have 7 grams of sugar alcohol. Anyone familiar with the “itols” as I call them know it can uh wreak havoc on your digestive system. Sorbitol, Mannitol, Mallitol, Xyitol — they are all sugar substitutes and when eaten in quantity have a laxative effect, or can produce a few pretty bad bouts of flatulence. Ok, gas. I generally try not to eat anything with more than 4 or 5 grams of sugar alcohol, just in case, but this does not affect me at all.

I suggested a relative try it as I know she loves pudding and she felt it was as good as I said, and she was surprised at having no gas from it. As she told me, if she buys tapioca pudding that’s pre-made, it guarantees a musical night!

All in all the Handi-Snacks Sugar Free Pudding are a great bargain at less than 35 cents a service. They won’t kill your diet when you crave something creamy and sweet at just 60 calories a serving. You’ll be able to eat it with company around, too.

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