{"id":75466,"date":"2026-02-05T10:00:00","date_gmt":"2026-02-05T20:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theimpulsivebuy.com\/wordpress\/?p=75466"},"modified":"2026-05-25T17:32:08","modified_gmt":"2026-05-26T03:32:08","slug":"spotted-nature-valley-protein-balls","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.theimpulsivebuy.com\/wordpress\/2026\/02\/05\/spotted-nature-valley-protein-balls\/","title":{"rendered":"SPOTTED: Nature Valley Protein Balls"},"content":{"rendered":"

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This is going to very embarrassing to admit, but this product makes the 10-year-old in me giggle. I apologize. There’s also a Peanut Butter Chocolate Chip variety. Update: added Peanut Butter Chocolate Chip variety. (Spotted by Robbie at H-E-B and Sarah R at Target.)<\/em><\/p>\n

If you\u2019re out shopping and see new products, snap a picture of them, and send them in via an email (theimpulsivebuy@gmail.com) with where you found them and “Spotted” in the subject line. Also, if you want to send in photos and are wondering if we’ve already covered something or if they’re new, don’t worry about it. Let us worry about it.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

This is going to very embarrassing to admit, but this product makes the 10-year-old in me giggle. I apologize. There’s also a Peanut Butter Chocolate Chip variety. Update: added Peanut Butter Chocolate Chip variety. (Spotted by Robbie at H-E-B and Sarah R at Target.) If you\u2019re out shopping and see new products, snap a picture […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"site-sidebar-layout":"default","site-content-layout":"","ast-site-content-layout":"default","site-content-style":"default","site-sidebar-style":"default","ast-global-header-display":"","ast-banner-title-visibility":"","ast-main-header-display":"","ast-hfb-above-header-display":"","ast-hfb-below-header-display":"","ast-hfb-mobile-header-display":"","site-post-title":"","ast-breadcrumbs-content":"","ast-featured-img":"","footer-sml-layout":"","ast-disable-related-posts":"","theme-transparent-header-meta":"default","adv-header-id-meta":"","stick-header-meta":"","header-above-stick-meta":"","header-main-stick-meta":"","header-below-stick-meta":"","astra-migrate-meta-layouts":"set","ast-page-background-enabled":"default","ast-page-background-meta":{"desktop":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"tablet":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"mobile":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""}},"ast-content-background-meta":{"desktop":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-4)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"tablet":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-4)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"mobile":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-4)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""}},"advanced_seo_description":"","jetpack_seo_html_title":"","jetpack_seo_noindex":false,"jetpack_seo_schema_type":"","_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[1333],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-75466","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-spotted-on-shelves"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":36976,"url":"https:\/\/www.theimpulsivebuy.com\/wordpress\/2019\/06\/03\/spotted-trader-joes-soft-baked-peanut-butter-chocolate-chip-cookies\/","url_meta":{"origin":75466,"position":0},"title":"SPOTTED: Trader Joe’s Soft Baked Peanut Butter Chocolate Chip Cookies","author":"Marvo","date":"June 3, 2019","format":false,"excerpt":"If this was a Pepperidge Farm product, it would probably be called Mont\u00e9r\u00e9gie. 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