Protein Bars...Who uses them?

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05-10-2013
PNMike

Protein Bars...Who uses them?

Been traveling and slammed with work so much, that ive been forced to grab protein bars here and there. I wanted to put some words down on some ive tried and my thoughts. PLEASE UNDERSTAND, THESE REVIEWS DO NOT REPRESENT ANYTHING PN...THIS IS ALL ON ME AND NOT A REFLECTION OF ANYTHING ON THE COMPANY I WORK FOR.

Supreme Protein Bars - Taste great, loaded with fat and sugar alcohols. More of a snack with protein than a protein bar.

Muscle Milk Bars - Uhhhh, GARBAGE..Taste like bricks

2:1 and 6:1 Protein Bars by Metragenix - Taste good, sugar alcohols, real protein though, no so much soy based, acceptable calorie count

Come Ready - Supreme clones, snack food

Detour Lean Muscle - Good taste, like the fiber and protein crisps. Would def eat again.

Clif Builder Bar with Protein - Taste is great IMHO, good mix of calories, natural ingredients for the most part. Balanced though wish more protein. Def like these for a meal replacement type bar...

Snickers Marathon Protein - Had to try them. 20g Protein, 10g Fiber...Taste is good and they are soft, well the caramel nut crunch one was i had...Would make it my snack bar over supreme simply due to fiber content

Quest bars - taste is ok, simplicity in ingredients is nice, but not for me, and i'll elude to why below.

EAS and Met-rx - I refuse to purchase or support these companies in any aspect, so fug em

So i talked with the owner of the Metragenix bars at the Arnold and they are renaming them Ratio Bars. They have an all natural, NON-GMO, GLUTEN FREE bar coming out that i got to taste behind the seems. Peanut butter banana flavor and they were phenomenol. Soft, moist. Will definitely keep my eye out for those.

Quest bars, well a close associate of mine had them tested as he is trying to release his own line of bars and wanted to use them for a starting point. Tested 7 different ways from sunday, multiple flavors, etc, they all came back with half of the claimed fiber content. To some this not may be a big deal, to others it may. Im just putting it out there, and i saw the COAs with my own eyes. Yes it was 2 separate third-party testing companies too. So take it for whats its worth, just know the facts.

Guys give me some inputs on some bars or even if you use them at all. Being im traveling so much, powders get inconvenient for me and i usually looking for RTDs or something. No Im not drinking muslce milk or core power either. For RTDs, my only real winner is IsoPURE and that damn glass bottle doesnt work well for packing. So thats why all the bars.
05-10-2013
milehighguy

My all time favorite are Metabolic Drive bars from Biotest (TNation)....
I try not to eat bars but sometimes it is my best option
Problem is that Biotest hasn't had them in stock for a long time
Most others taste like dog s@*t IMO
05-10-2013
xxiv

i was making my own a few months ago using anamass.
05-10-2013
longBallLima

really didn't look at nutrition cuz i got a couple for free and just chowed them, but surprisingly, GNC had bars that tasted freaking amazing.
05-10-2013
PNMike

Quote:

Originally Posted by milehighguy

My all time favorite are Metabolic Drive bars from Biotest (TNation)....
I try not to eat bars but sometimes it is my best option
Problem is that Biotest hasn't had them in stock for a long time
Most others taste like dog s@*t IMO

Have you tried there Finibar? it looks pretty good stats wise...thinking of buying a box?

Is the general board consensus that you DO NOT use bars?
05-10-2013
Sorrow

I use bars, makes for an easy to grab snack for when I dont want to do vending machine junk food. Also they come in handy at competitions (powerlifting meets can be looooooong days sometimes)
05-10-2013
Grape Ape

If I made my own I would, otherwise they are too expensive for what they are. I'd rather grab a bag of cashews and a 16oz whole milk if I'm at the local WaWa. Right now I've been doing 2% plain greek yogurt and an apple for about $1.75.
05-10-2013
burlyman30

Re: Protein Bars...Who uses them?

I don't use bars as a regularly planned part of my diet, but I steal my wife's Atkins bars pretty often and wash them down with a glass of milk. When I'm tired, usually before bed, and just don't want to think about a meal, it does the trick. A box of 6 is about $7.50, so pretty reasonable, and the nutritional profile on the ones she gets are decent.

I've tried the Supreme bars, but they make me fart and they are smelly ones. Can't do those AT ALL. I think its the sugar alcohols, but not sure.

Builder bars are the only soy based bars that seem to digest easily for me. Most soy based bars give me gas and/or intestinal pain.

Quest bars are OK, but not great for on the go, IMO. Hard as.a.rock when cold and chewy as can be when warm. Too.much work to eat.

At the local AM/PM store I sometimes pick up a bar if I know that lunch isn't likely to happen that day. The carry Lean Muscle/Detour bars. Its a last resort for me, though, as they give me gas too. Again, I'm thinking it's the sugar alcohols.
05-10-2013
Jack O'Neill

I est them several years ago when I eat 6/7 times a day.

But I started IF 2,5 years ago and CBL one year ago. No need to eat more than 3 times now. So no more protein bars. I prefer to prepare my own food
05-11-2013
PNMike

Glad PN decided not to do a bar a long time ago. Seems, for the most part, they are not popular
05-11-2013
Turbo6GN

I do my best to avoid them, I'll eat one if I need a snack to keep me going till dinner. They are little more then glorified chocolate bars.
05-11-2013
weekend

I love power crunch bars and loved quest bars until you told me the ingredients are lies...

Anyway, if you guys came out with a bar that had comparable pricing to powder, I'd be all over it. I need protein on the go a lot of the time.

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Power crunch with protowhey
05-11-2013
Cobalt

I'll pick up a box of Zero Impact bars when I'm on a bulking cycle to get some extra calories while I'm at work. I don't depend on them, but on really busy days, they are great.

Any bar that has sugar alcohols are horrible on my stomach though. I avoid them at all costs.
05-11-2013
Rulk

Snickers bar.
05-11-2013
USN HM 350Z

I will use them if in a pinch, but considering I can just stop at 7-11 and get a cold protein shake I usually just go that route.
05-11-2013
burlyman30

Re: Protein Bars...Who uses them?

Quote:

Originally Posted by USN HM 350Z

I will use them if in a pinch, but considering I can just stop at 7-11 and get a cold protein shake I usually just go that route.

Protein shakes at 7-11? Who knew?
05-11-2013
USN HM 350Z

yeah, just look in the fridge. they have about 3 different brands. I get the VPX protein rush I think they are called.
05-11-2013
Grape Ape

Yeah, I second the shake. Can grab a muscle milk for the same price as those shit bars.
05-11-2013
Bucks

Protein Bars...Who uses them?

Quote:

Originally Posted by USN HM 350Z

I will use them if in a pinch, but considering I can just stop at 7-11 and get a cold protein shake I usually just go that route.

Same here. More and more quick marts are stocking Muscle Milk , ABB , Syntha 6 in the fridges. I wish more airports would do the same as Im always on the road.
05-13-2013
PNMike

Quote:

Originally Posted by Bucks

Same here. More and more quick marts are stocking Muscle Milk , ABB , Syntha 6 in the fridges. I wish more airports would do the same as Im always on the road.

This is my dilema...also please remember on the quest bars, the ingredients arent lies, there is not as much fiber as claimed. Thats the only thing off. To me, the taste on this is ok, but would not be my first choice
05-13-2013
DJM

Protein Bars...Who uses them?

Quote:

Originally Posted by NOA

Snickers bar.

noa!!!!!!
05-13-2013
sandman

Protein bars are just to expensive. They are nice when your away on business but like people have said with shakes available at local stores now, they are pretty much obsolete. Or carry a salad dressing tupperware filled with powder and buy a small bottle of milk or water. Cheaper and usually better for you.
05-13-2013
burlyman30

Re: Protein Bars...Who uses them?

Quote:

Originally Posted by NOA

Snickers bar.

Quote:

Originally Posted by DJM

noa!!!!!!

I got a good laugh out of his comment and yours. The guy who is a supplement junkie uses a snickers for a protein bar. Lol
05-13-2013
ctAL

quest bars are legit

fiber claim doesnt shock me.............i always wondered for as much fiber as they claim why i was still hungry not soon after

now i know.
05-13-2013
olddawg

Burly, I liked the atkins bars too until I found they were mostly soy protein. I liked the 0 net carbs but that soy gave me gyno just like grapefruit juice does.

Quote:

Originally Posted by burlyman30

I don't use bars as a regularly planned part of my diet, but I steal my wife's Atkins bars pretty often and wash them down with a glass of milk. When I'm tired, usually before bed, and just don't want to think about a meal, it does the trick. A box of 6 is about $7.50, so pretty reasonable, and the nutritional profile on the ones she gets are decent.

I've tried the Supreme bars, but they make me fart and they are smelly ones. Can't do those AT ALL. I think its the sugar alcohols, but not sure.

Builder bars are the only soy based bars that seem to digest easily for me. Most soy based bars give me gas and/or intestinal pain.

Quest bars are OK, but not great for on the go, IMO. Hard as.a.rock when cold and chewy as can be when warm. Too.much work to eat.

At the local AM/PM store I sometimes pick up a bar if I know that lunch isn't likely to happen that day. The carry Lean Muscle/Detour bars. Its a last resort for me, though, as they give me gas too. Again, I'm thinking it's the sugar alcohols.
05-13-2013
burlyman30

Re: Protein Bars...Who uses them?

Quote:

Originally Posted by olddawg

Burly, I liked the atkins bars too until I found they were mostly soy protein. I liked the 0 net carbs but that soy gave me gyno just like grapefruit juice does.

A lot of them do have soy.. my wife buys one of the flavors that actually uses whey. Grapefruit juice... funny :D
05-13-2013
DJM

i dont care for bars, i sometime shave a box for stahing in my pocket, but generally never buy, they hurt my stomach and the ones with isolate whey are like $5 here, not worth it when a scoop of iso powder is $1.......when us bigger guys eat so much it adds up fast

the snickers bar,honestly, after the thread bout new diet, then taco bell, then eat better, then other setbacks, now snickers but usplabs test stack, imo, and first i dont know more than the next guy and am not the end all be all, it just seems like odd choices......they are good tho lol, have a friend i told pb is great n he tells me oh yeah i eat reeces cups all the time lol, the guy is 185 chiseled tho, ad can eat anything, drinks alot, and doesnt know wtf is an amino acid lol
05-13-2013
olddawg

Quote:

Originally Posted by burlyman30

A lot of them do have soy.. my wife buys one of the flavors that actually uses whey. Grapefruit juice... funny :D

hmm, never seen the whey, have to look for it
05-13-2013
burlyman30

Re: Protein Bars...Who uses them?

Quote:

Originally Posted by olddawg

hmm, never seen the whey, have to look for it

The one she gets is a PB and chocolate flavor.
05-13-2013
olddawg

Quote:

Originally Posted by burlyman30

The one she gets is a PB and chocolate flavor.

you know I think I was eating the highest protein ones, 19g rings a bell, it's been a year or so so not sure, even then I had to eat 2 to just get 40g. Prot bars are yummy, but most are candy. I'll only eat them when I am cheating or bulking.
05-18-2013
USN HM 350Z

in before the delete and ban...