Pringles Baked Wheat Stix

I admit I haven’t eaten Pringles in about 20 years. I used to love the odd-shaped potato crisp in a can but back then I found out I don’t get along well with potato products, so gave them up, but man, I loved the sour cream and onion crisps!

I still associate the word Pringles with potato crisps, so almost ignored a box of these when I saw the display at my local supermarket. But, being so curious, I went over to investigate. The “Crunchy Wheat” caught my eye and I immediately read the nutritional information and ingredients.

90 calories per serving package. OOH. First ingredient — wheat flour. Double OOH since I can’t eat any products with white flour.

Stix Crunchy Wheat Nutrition Facts

Serving Size 1 Pack
Servings Per Container 10
Amount Per Serving
Calories 90 Calories from Fat 30
Total Fat 3.5 g
Saturated Fat 1.5 g
Trans Fat 0 g
Cholesterol 0 mg
Sodium 150 mg
Total Carbohydrate 12 g
Dietary Fiber 0 g
Sugars 1 g
Protein 2 g

This sounded like a good snack to me. Not full of sugar, not overloaded with sodium and low in calories. They were on sale at $6 for 2 boxes with a regular price of $3.49. I bought one box in the Crunchy Wheat flavor but they also had Vanilla and Honey Butter. According to their website, there is also a Pizza flavor.

Inside the box were 10 individually-wrapped packages. I opened one and grabbed one of the stix. It sort of resembled a pretzel stick but much lighter in color without the salt all over it.

First bite and I was in love. WOW. These are VERY, very tasty. I wasn’t quite sure what to expect but they tasted just like a cracker yet in a weird form. They weren’t messy to eat, like crackers can be, so I knew they’d be perfect for grabbing a quick snack when driving without getting crumbs all over my car floor. There are about a dozen stix in each packet which is a lot for the 90 calories. I can imagine people dipping these into peanut butter, into cheese spreads, into sour cream dips and other types of dips.

The next day I went back to the store to try the Vanilla flavored stix. While these were good, I didn’t get as many in the package and they have more sugar, though less sodium. I guess the sweet taste in a cracker was just odd to me. Don’t get me wrong, I’ll eat up every package and if I’d bought these first, I’d probably be in love with them, but the Crunchy Wheat stole my heart, so to speak.

I haven’t tried the Honey Butter flavor and won’t, since I’m not a fan of honey. My local store didn’t have the Pizza flavor but I’ll check another supermarket when I visit later in the week.

I appreciated that they had no hydrogenated fats or corn syrup (though the Vanilla contains less than 1% corn syrup)

At 30 cents a snack pack, 90 calories, 150 mg. sodium and a great taste, I can highly recommend these.

2 Comments »

on 28 Mar 2008 at 2:51 pm 1.admin said …

I tried the pizza flavor as I saw them at Wal-Mart and grabbed 2 boxes, hoping they’d be good — and wow — they really are. Not salty with a nice Italian/pizza-style flavor.

I think the plain wheat are my favorite, followed by the pizza, then vanilla.

on 10 Apr 2008 at 12:01 pm 2.andrea said …

We are Canadian and went to the U.S. this past week-end and we bought a box of the pizza flavoured sticks. They are delicious and the 90 calorie snack size is a plus since I am on WW and watch my calories/fat intake. We are disappointed as I can’t see that they are sold in Canada and we only bought one box. My husband and I wish we would have tried them over there, then we would have picked up several more boxes. If I know someone from this area going to the US I would definitely get them to pick me up a box or 5.