SPOTTED ON SHELVES – 9/17/2015

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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.

Nestle Coffee-mate Star Wars Limited Edition Pack R2-D2 French Vanilla Creamer

Nestle Coffee-mate Star Wars Limited Edition Pack R2-D2 French Vanilla Creamer

All I need is the C-3P0 one and my photo collection of all the Coffee-mate Star Wars Limited Edition Pack Creamers will be complete. (Spotted by Joshua G at Target.)

Archer Farms Limited Edition Pumpkin Spice and Caramel Apple Biscotti

Archer Farms Limited Edition Pumpkin Spice and Caramel Apple Biscotti

I bet the pumpkin spice one would go great with some pumpkin spice coffee with pumpkin spice creamer. (Spotted by Carla at Target.)

Don Francisco's Coffee Pumpkin Spice K-Cups

Don Francisco’s Coffee Pumpkin Spice K-Cups

I never thought Don Francisco’s Coffee would get on the pumpkin spice bandwagon. Well, only because I didn’t know about Don Francisco’s Coffee until after receiving this photo. (Spotted by Sylvia at Ralphs.)

505 Southwestern Breakfast Bacon Mexiwraps

505 Southwestern Breakfast Bacon Mexiwraps

505 Southwestern Breakfast Sausage Mexiwraps

505 Southwestern Breakfast Sausage Mexiwraps

Maybe it’s just my active imagination, but they kind of look like fish throwing up breakfast food. (Spotted by Sascha at Walmart.)

Nestle Toll House Dark Chocolate Morsels with Coconut Filling DelightFulls

Nestle Toll House Dark Chocolate Morsels with Coconut Filling DelightFulls

I wonder if anyone out there is eating DelightFulls straight out of the bag. If you are, feel free to let the internet know in the comments. (Spotted by Carla at Walmart.)

Thank you to all the photo contributors! If you’re out shopping and see an interesting new or limited edition 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.

Also, if you’re wondering if we’ve already covered something, search our Flickr photos or use the Google Search box on the right (or below if you’re on a mobile device) to find out.

SPOTTED ON SHELVES: Nestle Toll House Cookie of the Year Salted Caramel Cookies

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Nestle Toll House Cookie of the Year Salted Caramel Cookies

If you’re wondering, here is Nestle Toll House’s 2013 Cookie of the Year and 2014 Cookie of the Year. Also, if you’re wondering if I’m going to copy and paste these words and then make the appropriate changes when I post the 2016 Cookie of the Year, I will. (Spotted by Jacob at Walmart.)

If you’re out shopping and see an interesting new or limited edition 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’re wondering if we’ve already covered something, search our Flickr photos or use the Google Search box on the right (or below if you’re on a mobile device) to find out.

COMING SOON: Ben & Jerry’s Texas’ Top Pick Bourbon Pecan Pie Ice Cream

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Ben Jerry s Texas Top Pick Bourbon Pecan Pie Ice Cream

Ben & Jerry’s has flavors that are store exclusives. The Walmart-only Strawberry Not So Shortcake and Target-exclusive Blondie Ambition are recent ones that come to mind.

But now Ben & Jerry’s has a state-exclusive flavor. Their new Bourbon Pecan Pie Ice Cream is only available in Texas. The flavor features buttery bourbon ice cream with pecans, shortbread cookie pieces, and a whiskey caramel swirl.

The flavor is available in pints at retailers in Texas and at Scoop Shops located in Plano, San Antonio, Galveston, McAllen, Webster, DFW Airport, Highland Village, Houston, and Sugar Land.

Wait a minute…Texas has a town called Sugar Land? Sweet!

(Image via Ben & Jerry’s)

REVIEW: Keebler Limited Batch Pumpkin Spice Fudge Stripe Cookies

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Keebler Limited Batch Pumpkin Spice Fudge Stripe Cookies

Let it be known that if you come over to my apartment at 7:30 with a voracious appetite, an empty plate, and a demand to be filled with a joy that surpasses that of a ghost hunter finding the apparition of Aristotle at the back of a gas station, then you are liable to get dished a plate of cookies for dinner.

If you like spice cake, crunchy things, and a dauntingly bountiful amount of orange-checkered packaging, you probably wouldn’t mind if you came over today.

Keebler Limited Batch Pumpkin Spice Fudge Stripe Cookies 2

Before chomping in, let us admire the contrasting aesthetics of the Fudge Stripe: the parallel lines, the perfect ring shape, the little geometric bibbelty-bobs that pock the surface.

It’s a pattern that could rival the most intricate of doilies and possibly compete for the world’s best cross-stitching design, although I’m not 100 percent certain of that last statement. The only time I tried cross-stitching, I ended up with a “scarf” that looked like a beach towel gnawed off by Godzilla.

What I do know is that, after over 30 years, Ernie Keebler still knows how to make a mighty fine stripe cookie. Never one to hold back on the sugar intake, the cookie’s been generously shoveled with three variants of the sweet stuff, highlighting the earthy molasses against all the varieties of fructose. Combine that woodsy taste with a crunchy base, some sweet, mildly flavored white fudge stripes, and a zip of ginger, cinnamon, and nutmeg and this bugger might as well be the perfect pumpkin pie crust.

But heed my warning, fellow pumpkin maniacs: there is no actual pumpkin here. I was a little bummed out before acknowledging that, as with all goods of the “Pumpkin Spice” ilk, I am only promised spices, not necessarily squash, and, with a cookie so fine and limited in its presence, how can I complain? (I can’t.)

Keebler Limited Batch Pumpkin Spice Fudge Stripe Cookies 3

Welp, that was a fine dinner. If you fall head over heels for the warm spices of autumn and enjoy a depth of sweetness with your spice, these are worth picking up, if only to test them out on your own taste buds. Could the cookie be crispier? Could the soft, sweet fudge benefit from less hydrogenated oil and more vanilla? Could the Keebler elfin army deliver these to my door, equipped with complimentary magical talking woodland creatures?

Sure, but, far above these idealistic visions, my need for cookies reigns. As it always should.

(Nutrition Facts – 2 cookies – 140 calories, 60 calories from fat, 7 gram of fat, 4.5 grams of saturated fat, 0 grams of trans fat, 0 milligrams of cholesterol, 85 milligrams of sodium, 18 grams of carbohydrates, 0 grams of dietary fiber, 10 grams of sugar, and less than 1 gram of protein.)

Item: Keebler Limited Batch Pumpkin Spice Fudge Stripe Cookies
Purchased Price: $2.50
Size: 11.5 oz
Purchased at: Walmart
Rating: 7 out of 10
Pros: Crunchy cookie. Just enough molasses. Zippy ginger. Fudge is everywhere. Geometry! The experience of using “bibbelty-bob” in a sentence. Finding the ghost of Aristotle at the back of a gas station.
Cons: No pumpkin involved. Fudge could use more vanilla. Hydrogenated oils crush dreams. Not delivered by a magical elfin army. Failed cross-stitching projects that look like they were gnawed off by an overgrown prehistoric lizard.

SPOTTED ON SHELVES – 9/16/2015

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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.

Yoplait Seasonal Edition Pumpkin Cheesecake Greek 100 Whips! Yogurt

Yoplait Seasonal Edition Pumpkin Cheesecake Greek 100 Whips! Yogurt

Last year’s Yoplait Limited Edition Pumpkin Cheesecake Greek Yogurt is a bit airier this year. (Spotted by Lindsey at Walmart.)

Cole's Good Morning! Biscuit & Gravy Breakfast Bites

Cole’s Good Morning! Biscuit & Gravy Breakfast Bites

Cole's Good Morning! Bacon Egg & Cheese Breakfast Bites

Cole’s Good Morning! Bacon Egg & Cheese Breakfast Bites

Why are you yelling at us Cole’s? We already get that from our alarm clocks. Get rid of that exclamation point. (Spotted by Monica at Walmart.)

Garden Veggie Sea Salt Ghosts + Bats Chips

Garden Veggie Sea Salt Ghosts + Bats Chips

These look like they can be used during another season as stars and doggies with big floppy ears. (Spotted by Jennie at Target.)

Duncan HInes Limited Edition Decadent Cranberry Orange Bar Mix

Duncan Hines Limited Edition Decadent Cranberry Orange Bar Mix

One day, cranberry orange will overtake pumpkin spice. *giggle* I can’t say that with a straight face. (Spotted by Erika at Walmart.)

Thank you to all the photo contributors! If you’re out shopping and see an interesting new or limited edition 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.

Also, if you’re wondering if we’ve already covered something, search our Flickr photos or use the Google Search box on the right (or below if you’re on a mobile device) to find out.