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Quaker Morning Minis!

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I am not sure why, but its very trendy to miniturize everything.  Betty Crocker has the "mini" dessert bowls (which i actually reviewed for another site, iateapie.net, and yes, i will proabably never purchase a microwavable dessert again since my 12 week baking boot camp!) and then quiznos even came out with these mini "samies" that tout having 200 calories and who can forget classics like mini m&ms which i rarely see anymore (but i genuinly really like!).  So the oatmeal based Quaker company just came out with a new line of these "baked morning minis".  I bout a pack that was peanut butter and oats flavor and comes in these little to-go pouches with 140 calories, 4.5 g fat (2 saturated), 110mg sodium, 24 g carbs, 3 g fiber, 7 g sugars, and 2 g protien.  On the package they are described as "chewy bite-sized cookies" so for "cookies", yea the nutritional value aint so bad (Girl Scout's peanut butter patties have 75 calories each).You get five cookies in this pouch but they look like little balls of cookie dough, you know before you bake it, all chunky and not really uniformly shaped.  Each cookie is also quite heavy, this might hurt if you threw it at you annoying coworker or that little brat you are babysitting.  Well, i must say, i had low expectations, but these are actually not bad. they taste like peanut butter cookie dough, and sometime, i do crave cookie dough as opposed to an actuall cookie (yes, i used to buy those premade cookie doughs and forgo the actual baking, its just better sometimes straight out of the tube). you know now that i have already had 5 or so bites of this so far, i must say the taste is growing on me. Yes, these are tasty. Not super healthy (ingredients do include sugar and HFCS and hydrogenated oils) but i am assuming better than those peanut butter girl scout cookies.  and if all else fails, these are dense enough to throw at hyper-active girl scouts doing everything in their power to get you to buy i box.