SPOTTED ON SHELVES: Dove Milk Chocolate Peanut Butter Eggs

Dove Milk Chocolate Peanut Butter Eggs

This is only at Target this year. It could also be only at Target next year. Someone with a time machine or who’s reading this in 2017, let us know if it’s still a Target exclusive in the comments. (Spotted by Amanda at Target.)

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FAST FOOD NEWS: Baskin-Robbins Warm Cookie Ice Cream Sandwiches and Sundaes

Baskin Robbins Warm Cookie Ice Cream Sandwiches and Sundaes

Baskin-Robbins is now offering customizable ice cream sandwiches and sundaes with warm cookies.

Their new Warm Cookie Ice Cream Sandwich combines a scoop of ice cream with two warmed cookies, and embellished with your choice of rainbow sprinkles, chocolate sprinkles, or chopped almonds. It’s also available in a Double Scoop version that has two scoops of ice cream, three cookies, and two toppings. It’s like an ice cream Big Mac, if you will.

The Warm Cookie Sundae features two warmed cookies and a scoop of ice cream that’s topped with your choice of wet topping, whipped cream, cherry, and almonds. There’s also a Double Scoop version.

The cookies available are Dark Chocolate Chunk, Double Fudge, Peanut Butter Chocolate, and White Chocolate Macadamia. You can also mix and match cookies with your dessert.

A Warm Cookie Ice Cream Sandwich with Dark Chocolate Chunk Cookies and vanilla ice cream has 520 calories, 25 grams of fat, 14 grams of saturated fat, 0.5 grams of trans fat, 50 milligrams of cholesterol, 320 milligrams of sodium, 70 grams of carbohydrates, 1 gram of fiber, 42 grams of sugar, and 7 grams of protein.

If you’ve tried either dessert, let us know what you think of it in the comments.

(Image via Baskin-Robbins’ website)

SPOTTED ON SHELVES – 3/2/2016

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

Trader Joe's Sweet Plantain Chips

Trader Joe’s Sweet Plantain Chips

Those with Trader Joe’s encyclopedias in their heads will probably remember their roasted plantain chips. Are these different? (Spotted by Sylvia at Trader Joe’s.)

Entenmann's Limited Edition Glazed Cinnamon Donuts

Entenmann’s Limited Edition Glazed Cinnamon Donuts

A glazed cinnamon donut doesn’t seem limited edition appropriate. It’s like have vanilla as a limited edition ice cream flavor. (Spotted by Maria L at Stop & Shop.)

Red Button Vintage Creamery Tiger's Blood Sherbet

Red Button Vintage Creamery Tiger’s Blood Sherbet

Red Button Vintage Creamery Root Beer Float Premium Ice Cream

Red Button Vintage Creamery Root Beer Float Premium Ice Cream

Red Button Vintage Creamery Chocolate Malt Premium Ice Cream

Red Button Vintage Creamery Chocolate Malt Premium Ice Cream

Red Button Vintage Creamery Triple Chocolate Chunk Premium Ice Cream

Red Button Vintage Creamery Triple Chocolate Chunk Premium Ice Cream

Red Button Vintage Creamery Limited Edition Cinnamon Chocolate Chip Premium Ice Cream

Red Button Vintage Creamery Limited Edition Cinnamon Chocolate Chip Premium Ice Cream

Red Button Vintage Creamery Cotton Candy Premium Ice Cream

Red Button Vintage Creamery Cotton Candy Premium Ice Cream

Red Button Vintage Creamery Raspberry Ripple Chocolate Chip Premium Ice Cream

Red Button Vintage Creamery Raspberry Ripple Chocolate Chip Premium Ice Cream

Red Button Vintage Creamery White Chocolate Strawberry Premium Ice Cream

Red Button Vintage Creamery White Chocolate Strawberry Premium Ice Cream

Tiger’s Blood Sherbet doesn’t contain a tiger’s blood. The flavor is a combination of cherry, strawberry, watermelon, and a little coconut. (Spotted by Rachel C at Macey’s.)

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.

SPOTTED ON SHELVES: Edy’s/Dreyer’s Ice Cream with Nestle Candy

Edy's-Dreyer's Ice Cream with Nestle Candy (1)

Edy's Rolo Ice Cream

The varieties are Buncha Crunch, Crunch Mint, Baby Ruth, 100 Grand, Rolo, and, according to the shelf price tag, Kit Kat. (Spotted by Josh C at Dierbergs and Dorothy M at Giant Eagle.)

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.

REVIEW: Mountain Dew Midnight Grape Kickstart

Mountain Dew Midnight Grape Kickstart

I’d like to apologize to Mountain Dew Midnight Grape Kickstart.

On several occasions, on this blog, out in public, and in a mirror, I’ve said the grape-flavored Mountain Dew Pitch Black is the best Mountain Dew flavor. So when I learned the brand was coming out with Midnight Grape Kickstart, I said to myself in the mirror, “YASSSSS!!! A grape-flavored Dew!!!” because I thought it would taste like my beloved Pitch Black.

But after drinking it and comparing it with Pitch Black (which I received from Mountain Dew a few weeks ago), I realized I shouldn’t have gotten my hopes up because my logic was flawed.

I thought Grape + Mountain Dew = Pitch Black, but that’s not the case and I should’ve known that. Does the Black Cherry Kickstart taste like Mountain Dew Code Red? No. Does Orange Citrus Kickstart taste like Mountain Dew Livewire? No. So I’m sorry to Midnight Grape Kickstart for thinking it would taste like something that it doesn’t.

How can I make it up to you, Midnight Grape Kickstart?

A glowing review? Nope, you’re not going to get that.

Mountain Dew Midnight Grape Kickstart 2

Much like all the Kickstart varieties that come in 16-ounce cans, this grape one has 5 percent juice, which comes from white grape juice concentrate. The addition of juice gives the beverage a natural grape flavor and not the candy-like grape Pitch Black has. Although it’s white grape juice, the color and flavor are more like a purple concord grape.

It’s not syrupy sweet like regular Mountain Dew sodas, thanks to artificial sweeteners ace K and Sucralose backing up the high fructose corn syrup. The use of those sweeteners cut the sugar content to 20 grams per can, which is a third of what’s in a 16-ounce serving of regular Dew. However, the lower sugar content makes it taste like a lightly carbonated diet grape juice or lightly carbonated grape juice that’s been watered down.

To be honest, I didn’t really care for it the first time. But after having a second can, it’s grown on me. However, that could be the 90 milligrams of caffeine per can talking.

I’m a fan of Mountain Dew Kickstart. I regularly purchase the Black Cherry and Fruit Punch flavors. But, even though Midnight Grape has grown on me, I can’t say the new flavor is good enough to join the other two flavors as a regular purchase.

(Nutrition Facts – 1 can – 80 calories, 0 grams of fat, 170 milligrams of sodium, 105 milligrams of potassium, 21 grams of carbohydrates, 20 grams of sugar, 0 grams of protein.)

Purchased Price: 99 cents
Size: 16 oz. can
Purchased at: Target
Rating: 6 out of 10
Pros: Decent grape flavor that may take some getting used to. Fewer calories and sugar than regular Mountain Dew. Contains fruit juice. Natural grape flavor. 90 milligrams of sweet, sweet caffeine.
Cons: If you’re expected Mtn Dew Pitch Black, stop expecting. Tastes like diet grape juice or watered down grape juice. Apologizing to a Mountain Dew flavor.