You may remember Jimmy Bar! from my review a while back. If you don’t, here is some background to refresh your memory. A while back, I met Jim Simon, the Jim of Jimmy Bar, a Chicago company. Jim is an entrepreneur and he became interested in “eating only real food” after seeing the documentary Food, Inc. and suffering an unexpected illness in 2009. With the help of his sister, the owner of Fillippo’s restaurant in Chicago, he created “all real food, energy bars” and started sharing them with friends and family.
Now the bars are available in four flavors – How ‘Bout Dem Apples, No Bluffin’ Banana Muffin, Peanut Butter Clutter and Super Hip Chocolate Chip (and yes, he has a good sense of humor in person, too!) These bars have “no empty calories, rice nectar, high fructose corn syrup, GMO glucose, or jacked-up protein levels.” They contain real, recognizable, nutritious ingredients with no gluten or dairy. His goal “a 4-year-old could read our ingredients. How many bars can say that?”
The bars are:
- All-natural
- Dairy-free
- Gluten free
- Vegan (Super Hip Chocolate Chip and No Bluffin’ Banana Muffin don’t qualify simply because of honey)
- Made with no added sugars or sweeteners
- Non-GMO
- Made with no preservatives, no additives…“no ingredients that require a PhD to understand”
So how do they taste? They are delicious. The bars are very fresh and you can see the pieces of peanuts, chocolate chips and apples in them. I love being able to see the food pieces in the bar – in fact, it is all recognizable as food! I broke into the Super Hip Chocolate Chip first and it was my favorite – no surprise for me here. A close second for me was the How ‘Bout Dem Apples and then Peanut Butter. I don’t much care for banana flavored things – only bananas – so Banana Muffin was my least favorite. That said, I shared the banana and the peanut butter flavors with my friends Meryl and Maureen and they both liked the banana (and peanut butter) a lot. Lindsay says the banana is her favorite, too.
Jimmy Bar recently launched their mini bars. These .8 oz bars come in all four flavors and are less than 100 calories. each Jim says these are a great snack for kids. Why? He says, “Snacks like candy bars, potato chips, or even granola bars are heavy in sugar and salt and don’t provide healthy energy for your kids. Give them a JimmyBar! instead and satisfy their appetites with healthy, whole food.” He is even trying to “clean up” Halloween by offering 48 minis in a “Jim-o-Lantern” for $39.99. One lucky reader will win one to clean up his/her Halloween!
Want to win a “Jim-o-Lantern” with 48 mini Jimmy Bars? Use the Rafflecopter below to enter. A winner will be selected and notified on Saturday, October 24th so that the bars can arrive in time for Halloween. Winner must be 18 or over, a US resident (or have a US postal intermediary) and the offer is void where prohibited.
Don’t want to wait? You can get your Jim-o-lantern with 48 mini Jimmy Bars here. You can also keep up with Jimmy Bar! on Facebook, Twitter and Instagram.
Please note: I was not compensated for this post. JimmyBar! will provide the winner’s prize at no cost to me. All opinions are my own and those of my friends.