SPOTTED ON SHELVES – 12/14/2018

Here are some interesting new and limited edition products found on store shelves by your fellow readers. If you’ve tried any of the products, share your thoughts about them in the comments.

Frito Lay Holiday Sweet  Salty Mix

Frito-Lay Holiday Sweet & Salty Mix

Frito Lay Winter Fun Mix

Frito-Lay Winter Fun Mix

(Spotted by Kelly S at Walmart.)

Great Value Lightly Salted Shelled Pistachios

Great Value Lightly Salted Shelled Pistachios

(Spotted by Bob K at Walmart.)

BarkThins Dark Chocolate Nut  Pretzel Medley with Sea Salt

BarkThins Dark Chocolate Nut & Pretzel Medley with Sea Salt

(Spotted by Dorothy at Sam’s Club.)

Diet Snapple Takes 2 to Mango Tea

Diet Snapple Takes 2 to Mango Tea

(Spotted by Rachel J at Fred Meyer.)

Sun Tropics Moch Rice Bites  Sea Salt and Tamari Soy Sauce

Sun Tropics Mochi Rice Bites (Sea Salt and Tamari Soy Sauce)

(Spotted by Rachel J at Safeway.)

Happy Inside Bold Blueberry Cereal

Happy Inside Bold Blueberry Cereal

Happy Inside Simply Strawberry Cereal

Happy Inside Simply Strawberry Cereal

Happy Inside Coconut Crunch Cereal

Happy Inside Coconut Crunch Cereal

(Spotted by Sarah D at Hy-Vee and Robbie at H-E-B.)

If you’re out shopping and see an interesting new product on the shelf, snap a picture of it, and send us an email ([email protected]) with where you found it and “Spotted” in the subject line. Or reply to us (@theimpulsivebuy) on Twitter with the photo, where you spotted it, and the hashtag #spotted. If you’ve tried the product, share your thoughts about it in the comments.

Also, if you want to send in photos and are wondering if we’ve already covered something or if the product is old, don’t worry about it. Let us worry about it.

SPOTTED ON SHELVES: Jello Play Unicorn Slime and Monster Slime

Jello Play Unicorn Slime

Jello Play Monster Slime

I’ve seen The Blob and enough anime to I know what monster slime is. But I’m not sure what unicorn slime could be. Does it come out when I pull down on a unicorn’s horn? (Spotted by Bob K at Giant Eagle.)

Thank you to all the photo contributors! If you’re out shopping and see an interesting new product on the shelf, snap a picture of it, and send us an email ([email protected]) with where you found it and “Spotted” in the subject line. Or reply to us (@theimpulsivebuy) on Twitter with the photo, where you spotted it, and the hashtag #spotted. If you do so, you might see your picture in our next Spotted on Shelves post.

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QUICK REVIEW: Dairy Queen Secret Menu Coffee Oreo Blizzard

Dairy Queen Secret Menu Coffee Oreo Blizzard

What is the Coffee Oreo Blizzard?

The Coffee Oreo Blizzard fulfills my childhood dream of being an ice cream secret agent. This “secret” menu item tasks my alter ego secret agent DQ7 with requesting coffee syrup to be blended with the standard vanilla base and Oreo cookie pieces.

How is it?

Dairy Queen Secret Menu Coffee Oreo Blizzard 2

The basic request for a coffee infusion added a flavor so light that I thought it was undercover itself. A slight mocha note peaks its shy head up in the bites that are light on Oreo magic. A spoonful consisting of cookies galore on the other hand drown out the faint whispers of coffee flavor found in their absence. This raises the vanilla floor, but the Oreo cookie ceiling isn’t even raised enough for Oddjob. The coffee syrup is a pleasant but uninspiring addition.

Is there anything else you need to know?

I take any opportunity to don a tuxedo and affect a terrible, and probably offensive, British accent. It is however completely unnecessary when ordering from the “secret” menu. At least based upon the lack of a convoluted plot to slowly lower me into a gigantic bladed Blizzard stirrer.

Dairy Queen Secret Menu Coffee Oreo Blizzard 3

To order the Coffee Oreo Blizzard for yourself, simply ask for coffee syrup to be added to the Oreo Cookie Blizzard. If you want more than just a hint of coffee, ask them to double it. Just don’t ask for it to be shaken and not stirred unless you enjoy exasperated eye rolls. I was not charged extra for the coffee flavoring, but they may have been scared of my license to chill.

Conclusion:

My first mission as a Dairy Queen secret agent ended satisfactorily. Coffee flavor fans will find this hack to be neutral at worst, and at best, an incremental upgrade unworthy of Q. Next time, I will ask for a heavier hand with the java juice.

Purchased Price: $4.19
Size: Medium
Rating: 7 out of 10
Nutrition Facts: None available.

SPOTTED ON SHELVES (SEASONAL EDITION) – 12/13/2018

Here are some new seasonal products found on store shelves by your fellow readers. If you’ve tried any of them, share your thoughts in the comments.

Perry s Hot Cocoa Ice Cream

Perry’s Hot Cocoa Ice Cream

(Spotted by Bob K at Wegmans.)

Sisters Gourmet French Toast Cookie Sticks Cookie Mix

Sisters Gourmet French Toast Cookie Sticks Cookie Mix

Sisters Gourmet Hot Cocoa Cookie Mix

Sisters Gourmet Hot Cocoa Cookie Mix

(Spotted by Amanda Y at Central Market.)

Russell Stover Hot Chocolate Soild Milk Chocolate Pour and Stir Santas

Russell Stover Hot Chocolate Soild Milk Chocolate Pour-and-Stir Santas

(Spotted by Robbie at H-E-B.)

Spongebob Squarepants Chocolate Cake in a Cup

Spongebob Squarepants Chocolate Cake in a Cup

Paw Patrol Cookies  Creme Cake in a Cup

Paw Patrol Cookies & Creme Cake in a Cup

(Spotted by Amanda Y at Walmart.)

Two Bite Christmas Vanilla  Chocolate Cupcakes

Two-Bite Christmas Vanilla & Chocolate Cupcakes

(Spotted by Rachel J at Safeway.)

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Marketside White Chocolate Christmas Shortbread Cookies

(Spotted by Bob K at Walmart.)

Thank you to all the photo contributors! If you’re out shopping and see an interesting new product on the shelf, snap a picture of it, and send us an email ([email protected]) with where you found it and “Spotted” in the subject line. Or reply to us (@theimpulsivebuy) on Twitter with the photo, where you spotted it, and the hashtag #spotted. If you do so, you might see your picture in our next Spotted on Shelves post.

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REVIEW: Chobani Flip Peanut Butter Cup

Chobani Flip Peanut Butter Cup

The Chobani Flip Peanut Butter Cup flavor is like dumping your good Halloween candy into Greek yogurt.

Or, to be more exact, it’s tiny peanut butter cups, tinier peanut butter oat clusters, and even tinier fudge coated peanuts you dump into chocolate and peanut butter-flavored low-fat Greek Yogurt.

Let’s start with the chocolate and peanut butter Greek yogurt base. If it was sold separately, I’d pick it up regularly to get my calcium, protein, L. bulgaricus, S. thermophilus, L. acidophilus, bifidus, L. casei, and L. rhamnosus fix. It doesn’t have a strong flavor because the yogurt’s tang cuts through it like a chainsaw into a marshmallow. But it’s mild enough that eating it sans mix-ins was more than fine with me.

Chobani Flip Peanut Butter Cup 2

But with that said, the mix-ins are what makes this Chobani Flip perhaps my GOAT. The peanut butter clusters and fudge-covered peanuts slightly amp up the sweet flavors and provide a little crunch. But they pale in comparison to what those tiny peanut butter cups do with the yogurt. They pack a punch that makes you forget there are other types of mix-ins. It’s as if I’m eating a peanut butter cup by itself that happened to get a little Greek yogurt on it.

Chobani Flip Peanut Butter Cup 3

With this Chobani Flip variety, you can experience three different levels of chocolate and peanut butter goodness. There’s the yogurt by itself, which would be level one. Then there’s the yogurt with the PB clusters and fudge peanuts, which would be level two. Then there’s the yogurt with just the mini PB cups, which is several chocolatey and peanut buttery levels higher than the others.

All it takes is just one of those tiny PB cups to make a spoonful worthwhile. Unfortunately, there might not be enough of them in every container to make EVERY spoonful worthwhile.

In a nutshell, Peanut Butter Cup the best Chobani Flip flavor I’ve ever had. Although, that could be the sugar in the candy that goes into the Greek yogurt talking. This flavor better be around forever, because if it ever gets discontinued, I’ll eat a large tub of Yoplait Plain Yogurt in protest.

Purchased Price: $1.29
Size: 5.3 oz. container
Purchased at: Target
Rating: 9 out of 10
Nutrition Facts: 200 calories, 6 grams of fat, 4 grams of saturated fat, 0 grams of trans fat, 15 milligrams of cholesterol, 140 milligrams of sodium, 25 grams of carbohydrates, less than 1 gram of fiber, 21 grams of sugar, and 11 grams of protein.

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