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TRADER JOE’S PUMPKIN FLAVORED DOG TREATS

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Welcome to day 22 of Tag Sale Tastes’ Pumpkinpalooza!

Today my dogs tried Trader Joe’s Pumpkin Flavored Dog Treats, because really, they should have in on the fall fun too:

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Check out this ingredient list — pumpkin, molasses, cinnamon.  No shellac?  No artificial and natural flavors?  No food coloring?

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These sound better than most of the pumpkin spice products I’ve sampled this month.  I think they might be right when they say that the ingredients “are so pure and tasty that you could even sneak one yourself if you must.”

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But . . . probably not a great idea.  I sent some to my friend Joe in a bag marked “DOGS” along with some other pumpkin spice leftovers, and he accidentally tried one of the dog treats.  He said they were very hard and not very good.  🙂

The biscuits are pretty large, and very hard:

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Let’s see what Jasper and Maisy, my pumpkin-spice colored dogs, think of them:

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Jasper would have given them two thumbs up, if he had thumbs:

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And Maisy said they were A-OK:

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Both dogs loved them.  Props to Trader Joe’s!

Rating:  5 pumpkins (out of 5)

FIBER ONE PUMPKIN BARS

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Welcome to day 21 of Tag Sale Tastes’ Pumpkinpalooza!

Today I tried a Fiber One 90 Calorie Soft Baked Pumpkin Bar:

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The ingredients include pumpkin flakes (first time I’ve seen that), cinnamon, and spice (I wonder what the spices other than cinnamon were, and why they weren’t identified.  I hate secrets — don’t you?):

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Each box contains 6 individually-wrapped bars:

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And here’s what one looks like:

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These are smaller than the package would lead you to believe — not much bigger than a Fig Newton.  They were soft and had that gummy texture that low-calorie baked goods tend to have.  They had a slight orange color, accented by the pale orange icing zig zags (which were puzzling, seeing as the one on the package had white icing). These were OK, nothing special, and you really had to concentrate to believe they were pumpkin bars.  My kids and I like most of the other Fiber One varieties, including lemon, coffee cake, and chocolate mint — they’re great to tuck in a lunchbox or in a backpack for a quick snack.  The pumpkin ones were definitely on the lower end of the Fiber One flavor spectrum.

Rating:  2-1/2 pumpkins (out of 5)