Lara Bars at Costco!

[Bikingmomof3]

I just had a Maya Bar-Chocolate Coffee and I liked it. DH bought one Maya and 4 Lara Bars.

[KnottedYet]

My favorite Lara bar is the cherry pie. Mmmmmm. Might have to try the Maya bars, too.

[donnambr]

Cherry Pie is my fav, too.

I'm single, too. You can get a Costco membership and you can have anyone take the extra "spouse" card that goes with it. Switch off who pays the membership dues which year, or just split the cost. It's quite reasonable that way.

[divingbiker]

Lara bars seem so heavy to me that I haven't acquired a taste for them yet. I'm addicted to Luna bars, which Costco also sells. But their variety pack includes the lemon flavor, which I find disgusting. Luna bars are vegan, so they substitute as candy bars for me...there's only one vegan candy bar that I know of, Goldenberg's peanut chews, which I must not get into the habit of eating. At least Luna bars are semi-healthy. Aren't they? Please?

Had to let the Costco membership lapse this year because it just wasn't worth it to me, even sharing a membership. I didn't go often enough, and how many 4 lb bags of spinach and gigantic jars of sun dried tomatoes can a girl eat? Did like the huge bags of organic carrots for the dog, though. He eats lots of them as treats when we do our weekly therapy dog visits to the nursing home, and we had no trouble finishing off a bag.

[Dogmama]

Check out the fat content on Larabars.

[DeniseGoldberg]

Check out the fat content on Larabars.

Funny you posted this, because that's just what I did when everyone started raving about these bars many months ago. My sister told me about them after she was at Whole Foods one day and they had Larabars cut up and out for tasting. She loved the taste. Of course, nutrition nut that I am, I went directly to their web site and looked at the nutrition info. Based on the percent of fat in the bars (a very high 40%), I opted not to try them. They don't fall anywhere within the recommend nutrient percentages to support my activity level - even though the fat comes from nuts, and nuts in a reasonable amount are good.

After my initial shock at the contents of the bars, I threw the nutrition info from the Larabars into a spreadsheet with the nutrition info with a few other bars. My usual choices are Lunabars, Pria, or ClifBars, so that's what I used for comparison. I included the Clif nectar bars because they are similar to the Larabars (and from my experience, they don't work as well for me during exercise as the other bars do - based on that I think the Larabars would be a total disaster for me).

I calculated the calories by multiplying grams of fat by 9 calories, and by multiplying grams of carbs or protein by 4 calories. In case anyone else is interested, I've included a screen shot from the spreadsheet.

I'm well aware that different people's bodies work differently, and it sounds like many of the women here are Larabars fans. I guess I'm just not one of them...

--- Denise

[salsabike]

Interesting thread. I tried Lara bars not long ago and just hated them. Luna bars and the occasional Balance bar work for me. I like my bars to feel "light" in the stomach and not get in my way, if you see what I mean. Lunas seem to do that best for me.