 Hi friends, welcome back to my channel and a very special welcome if you're new here. My name is Jen. I'm a certified weight loss and nutrition coach. And today I have a super fun video. I have a huge, and when I mean huge, dollar tree snack haul. Three full bags of snacks from the Dollar Tree, WW friendly, calorie friendly. We have drinks, we have snacks, we have a little bit of everything. So if you're excited, give this video a big huge thumbs up. Subscribe if you're not. Turn your bell on. I upload five videos every single week. Down in the description box, you will find nutrition coaching where I offer personalized to you macros and calories. Highly recommend. This is how I have lost and maintained a 140 pound weight loss as well as one-on-one coaching for accountability to ask questions or talk with me directly. Links and discounts to my favorite things and come join our Facebook group. We would love to have you are all down in that description box. So let's jump into this huge dollar tree snack haul and taste test. So a few disclaimers before starting out this Dollar Tree haul and taste test. Number one, not all of these foods are whole real healthy foods. These are snack foods. These, some of these are sweet treats. No food is bad or good. All foods can be eaten in moderation including snacks from the Dollar Tree. Number two, groceries are expensive. So sometimes we need to shop at places like the Dollar Tree for our snacks for ourselves, for our family, for our kids so that we can stay within our budget. But if you're in a budget and you want some healthy affordable snack options, I've got you covered. We're gonna go bag by bag. We're going to taste test some of these products. I'm going to put up on the screen all of the points. I'm going to talk about the calories of each item as well. So the first thing that I found is from the brand Juana Bana, Juana Bana, Juana Bana. This is a natural fruit smoothie. It says no sugar added. This is strawberry, orange, banana and beet. It is 100 calories. It's gluten-free, BPA-free packaging, ready to drink and not suitable for the microwave. Why would you put a smoothie packet in the microwave? But they had a bunch of these at Dollar Tree. They had a bunch of different flavors. I thought this one sounded good, strawberry, orange, banana and beet. So you can drink this right out of the little container or you can throw this in your blender with some ice and some protein powder and maybe some water, some milk, whatever you want to do and blend it up into an icy smoothie. And add in some protein as well. So this has only one gram of protein, but the ingredients in this are really good. It's orange juice, strawberry juice, beet juice, banana puree, apple puree, antioxidants and ascorbic acid. That's it. So nice clean ingredients and honestly a really good choice at Dollar Tree. Now this was a new item. I've never actually seen these before. I've seen this Sunbest brand, but these are the pastry crisps and I got mine in apple and cinnamon. So I think these are a dupe for what is it, the Special K pastry crisps. You get two biscuits for 100 calories and there is four servings per container. So here's what they look like. Ooh, these actually look really good. They had a few different flavors. I went ahead and got apple cinnamon so they literally look like the main brand pastry crisps. They have a little drizzle of frosting on top, some apple filling. These are really good. Honestly, these are better than I expected. They're crunchy. They're a little sweet and the filling is really good. I get the apple, I get the cinnamon, 100 calories for the pack, two grams of fats, 20 carbs, one protein and it says eight grams of sugar. These are really, really, really good. Then healthy choice soups. Then healthy choice soups. This is the chicken noodle soup. Now these particular soups at my local grocery store are anywhere from two to 250 per can and I got this for $1.25. Entire can is 180 calories or if you do one cup, it's only 100 calories, 13 grams of protein in the cup. It's a name brand soup, chicken noodle. This was an incredible, incredible find. If they would have had more flavors, I would have bought more. A dollar 25, you can't beat it for healthy choice soup. Now this was another thing I saw that I was pretty excited about. These are the snack pack sugar-free jello. I got the strawberry orange. You get four little sugar-free jello cups. These only have five calories a piece. I love these for a little sweet treat. Put a little whipped cream on there. I felt like a dollar 25 was a pretty good deal. I think sometimes you can find these for a dollar, dollar 50 for the four pack if they're on sale at your local grocery store. But if you're at the dollar tree, you can get the four pack for a dollar 25. That makes them about 30 cents per cup, which is a really good deal. So I was excited to see those. Now these are fantastic for on the go. These are great snacks for your kids. I like taking these when I'm hiking or when I'm exercising. They're just a really good quick snack that has some carbohydrates, some protein, some fat. These are from the Lance brand. And these are the Peanut Butter Toasty Cracker Sandwiches. They also had a cheese one. And then I believe that the cracker was actually a pretzel. But I got the peanut butter one. This is a six pack and each little pack has four crackers. Here is what they look like. So pretty good sized little peanut butter cracker sandwiches. Each one of these little packs is only 120 calories. You're getting three grams of protein. So like I said, you've got a fast acting carbon, the cracker. You've got some protein and fat in the peanut butter. Great on the go snack because they're pre-portioned, pre-packaged. And these types of crackers can be pretty pricey at your grocery store. These are really good. I love the saltiness from the cracker, the crunch, the peanut butter. Yum. These are so good. Such a great deal for six packs. Now I've shared super coffee in quite a few grocery hauls. I actually really like this for a coffee drink on the go. They have the cinnamon roll flavor. They're zero added sugar. There's 10 grams of plant-based protein, 200 milligrams of caffeine and they taste really, really good. So you're getting caffeine and it's a great on the go coffee drink. And these at my local grocery store are about $2.50 a piece. And again, they're only $1.25 at the Dollar Tree. I have had the cinnamon roll flavor before. It's really, really good. There's some nice, there's good ingredients in here and you can't beat it for only 80 calories with 10 grams of protein. Now you know my love of the mint anything. And I was so excited to see the sugar-free Russell Stofer little mint patties. These are the dupe of the York peppermint patty in the sugar-free version. You get three pieces for 170 calories which is what's in this bag. So this bag is one serving. So you can only have one as a sweet treat, not the whole package. And these are honestly a really good size. They're like the size of the mini York peppermint patties. I have tried the sugar-free Russell Stofer candies in the past and really enjoyed them. And you know that I love mint anything. So let's test these out. So here's the size of them. Nice, good size. And what are they? 60-ish calories a piece? Here's what the inside looks like. These are good. They have a really good flavor. The chocolate is really thick and the mint is really thin. I do wish that there was a little bit more balanced ratio like a little more mint, but honestly they taste really good. You wouldn't know you're eating something sugar-free versus the York peppermint patty. Fruit snacks are always an amazing deal at Dollar Tree but I saw these. This is a brand I've never heard of before. This is the brand Yummy Yummy and this is the value pack of tropical fruit snacks. You actually get 12 packs in here for $1.25. I love that they're tropical. Each pack also is only 35 calories. Now I don't know of another fruit snack. That's only 35 calories per little pouch. I feel like they're usually between 50 and 80 calories. So these are only 35 calories a piece. Excellent source of vitamin C, high in antioxidants, peanut and fat-free, no high-fructose corn syrup. So you don't get a lot of the fruit snacks in the little pack. It looks like one, two, three, four, five, six, but it's only 35 calories. So it's a nice, kind of sweet treat for 35 calories. So the flavor, really good. They are a little bit hard to chew. They're definitely on the chewy side but the flavor is really good. 12 packs for a $1.25. And the last item in this box is also from the Sunbest brand which was the same brand as those super yummy pastry crisps. These are the fruit and grain bars in Strawberry. So these are going to be a dupe to the NutriRain bars and I actually really like the NutriRain bars that is something I eat a lot of time pre-workout because it's a good carbohydrate before a workout. These actually have eight grams of whole grains, no high-fructose corn syrup. There is four servings in here. A serving is one bar and it's 140 calories. The size of the bar looks exactly like the size of a NutriRain. Looks just like a NutriRain as well. It actually look and smell really good. Yum. Dare I say, dare I say I like these better than NutriRain? These are incredibly delicious. They're very soft and that Strawberry filling is so good and there is a good amount of filling in here. I feel like even more filling than NutriRain. Wow. These are really, really good. Highly recommend. They did have quite a few other flavors as well but again, I picked up Strawberry. Moving on to bag number two. I got some good snacks in here starting with Boom Chicka Pop. Now I have never seen Boom Chicka Pop at my Dollar Tree. They do have the Skinny Pop. I think Skinny Pop, I see that a lot but this is the Boom Chicka Pop popcorn in white cheddar. Now the entire bag is 240 calories. This is definitely more than one serving. I would say two servings. So if you ate half the bag, it'd be 120 calories. The full bag is 240 calories and the bag is going to give you four grams of protein. It has 100% whole grain popcorn. It's actually contains kosher dairy and is non-GMO. Real simple ingredients, nothing fake. Now I have never tried the white cheddar Boom Chicka Pop. Ooh, it smells so good. It smells like that smart food popcorn and that popcorn is a little bit higher calorie than this one. Yum. This is really good. Really, really good white cheddar flavor. Super crunchy. Ooh, I'm excited about this. Honestly, I should have grabbed a couple bags because I love popcorn as a snack. Speaking of popcorn, speaking of snacks, I couldn't pass this up. This is from the brand Drizzlelicious. Now I have tried this brand before. I think it was the birthday cake one. This is actually the chocolate chip cookie popcorn. Real cookie crumbles and Nestle Toll House cookie Drizzle. Yes, please on popcorn. So it's only 140 calories per serving. This bag is 290 calories. So there's two servings in the bag. So if you eat half the bag, it's only 140 calories. Oh my goodness, this looks so good. Look at that. Oh my goodness. Chocolate Drizzle popcorn and cookies. Yes, please. Yum, yum, yum. I taste chocolate. I get that little bit of a cookie taste to it. It's really good, crunchy popcorn. This is amazing. Way to go, collaborating with Nestle Toll House. This is so good. So if you want a good, sweet popcorn, yum. I also saw the Harvest Snaps. Now these are pretty pricey for the bigger bag. The big bag is about $4 at my local grocery store. It's about twice the size of this bag. And this one was $1.25. This is the White Cheddar Harvest Snaps. So these are basically baked green peas. So they're a crunchy green peas snack. Now the entire bag is 240 calories. There is two servings in the bag. So again, half the bag, 120 calories. There's actually eight grams of protein in this bag. So if you ate half the bag, you're gonna get four grams of protein. That's pretty impressive in a snack. I've had the White Cheddar before. I've had the lightly salted one. They even have a spicy one. These are excellent. And if you want a good, crunchy snack that's actually going to give you protein, this is an excellent choice. I also got two different apple chips. Now when I hiked Picachu Peak, I took apple chips with me as a snack. Such a great snack. They're so crunchy. I get a whole chip vibe from apples. So I got two different ones at Dollar Tree. This is from the brand So Natural. And these are the freeze-dried apple slices. This entire bag is 60 calories. And the ingredients are apples. This is zero points. It's simply apples. 60 calories is less than what's in a full apple. And these just make getting your fruit on the go super easy. They're great for kids. They're great for hiking. For again, on the go, traveling at the office. I was so excited to see these because I got mine at Trader Joe's and they were at least three times the price. And then I saw that they had the Seneca brand of the apple cinnamon chips. Now this bag is 170 calories. These are not zero points because there's apples, canola oil, corn syrup, sugar, dextrose, cinnamon, citric acid and natural flavor. So there's actually a decent amount of sugar in here. Corn syrup, sugar and dextrose, which are all sugar. So three different kinds of sugar. So if you're looking for something healthier, a little bit more natural, go for these. If you want something, you know, a little bit sweeter with a little bit more flavor, the Seneca cinnamon apple chip. Feel like you don't get a ton in the bag for 170 calories. Here's what they look like. They taste really good. But honestly, I don't get much cinnamon from these and they taste really similar to these. It's a crunchy apple chip. You might rather have these that are simply just dried apples than these. Although delicious, kids would probably like these more. But if you want a cleaner option, pick these. I think they taste just as good. Now I love Utz pretzels. I love the little packs that come out at Halloween and Valentine's Day. I've already bought two big boxes from Target. And I saw that they have the Utz brand of the peanut butter filled pretzels. I love peanut butter filled pretzels. Peanut butter and pretzels, perfect snack. You've got protein, fats and carbs. And if you can get them in a little compact version, I think that's even better. Now one serving is 10 pretzels for 140 calories. There's three and a half servings for that. Now if the pretzels are as good as the regular Utz pretzels, we are in for a treat. Oh my goodness, these are so good. The pretzel is so crispy and the peanut butter. The peanut butter is not sweet peanut butter. It's not jiffy or skip peanut butter. Skippy peanut butter, it tastes like a natural peanut butter. These are incredible. It's the perfect crunch, salt peanut butter. Honestly, the best peanut butter pretzels I've tried and there's three and a half servings. So you can have multiple days of snacks out of one bag. Another staple, something I always get from the Dollar Tree. I love having these in my car, in my purse. I take them again when I hike. If you're traveling or working outside of the home. These are individual packs of jerky. They had regular beef jerky in pepper, teriyaki, spicy and then they had the turkey jerky. So this entire pack is 50 calories and is going to give you eight grams of protein. So I don't think that's a bad price for a little individual serving of turkey jerky. Jack Link's brand is really, really good. And again, these are great just to have around for a high protein snack. Speaking of high protein snack or meal, look what they have. They had the Bumble Bee brand of the Tuna Packets. I typically buy the Star Kiss brand and they're anywhere from $1.50 to $2 per pack. Sometimes you can get them on sale for $1, $1.25 but I've never tried the Bumble Bee brand and I'm really excited about this one. It is Mediterranean herbs and spices, 16 grams of protein, only 80 calories. So these little pouches are amazing. You can pair these with some crackers. Oftentimes I just eat them with a fork. They're already seasoned, you don't have to drain them. They're amazing, amazing for on the go. I always take these traveling because worst case scenario, this can be my lunch on the airplane or at the airport. I'm so excited to try the Bumble Bee brand. They had four or five different flavors but I immediately was drawn to Mediterranean herbs and spices. Now I did pick up a couple of sweet treat options. You saw that I got the Russell Stover mint patties. I also got the sugar-free Russell Stover caramels. I've never tried these. So this entire pack is one serving. It's three pieces and it's 160 calories. So what is that? Just over 50 calories per piece. Here is what they look like. We have to try these. I've never tried the caramel. So they look like the little chocolates that come in the Valentine's Day heart boxes. Here is the inside. I definitely like the mint better. These are okay. These taste like a sugar-free candy to me. There's a weird kind of artificial sugar taste to the chocolate and the caramel inside. So I would definitely pick up the mint over the caramel again but if you like chocolate and caramel and you're trying to find a good sugar-free option, I feel like these are okay. I would probably rate these a five out of 10. And then also for sugar-free, I grabbed these. I've had these before, they're really good. These are the Werther's Original Chewy Caramels. This is one serving, five pieces, 90 calories. So you actually get all five of the caramels for 90 calories. Here's the size of them. I love these. I've had these before, like I said, both Tori and I really like these. These do not have that weird fake sugar taste like the caramel from Russell Stover did. These caramels are creamy and delicious. Truly you would never know that this was a sugar-free caramel. And the last item in this bag are these. I was pretty excited about these. I know Tori will eat these, so I had to pick them up. These are from the brand Jell-O and these are the Cherry Sour Gummies. Now I love a good gummy anything. I love a good gummy candy. You get 15 pieces for 90 calories. Three and a half servings in this bag. I'm so excited to try these out. The fact that they're gummy and sour and cherry sounds amazing. Here's what they look like. They remind me of those sour strips. Mmm, these are delicious. Definite cherry. I am hit in the face with cherry. Little bit of sour, definitely not as sour as like a sour patch cake. More on the sweet side. Mmm, they're really, really good though. Really, really good cherry flavor and really 15 pieces for 90 calories. Not a bad sweet treat. And moving on to bag number three. So I did get a couple of beverages. First I saw this and I was shocked to find this. When juice is so expensive right now, I think I pay five or six dollars for Troy's prune juice, orange juice, apple juice, so expensive. And this is from the Old Orchard brand. And this is the Happy Heartcut Healthy Balance Apple Juice. Five calories per serving. So if you like a reduced sugar, low sugar juice option for $1.25, you get a full size of the apple juice. That is a killer, killer deal. I also saw the Powerade Zeroes as I was going to the checkout. $1.25 is a great deal. These are upwards of $2 to $3 at a gas station and anywhere from $1.50 to $2 at your grocery store. And I got the mixed berry Powerade Zeroes. Great for electrolytes, post-workout. Or if you feel like you need a little bit of an electrolyte boost, these are great. Zero calories, I like these a lot. I drink them pretty regularly. They had three or four different flavors. Next up are some crackers. I think charcuterie boards are all the rage. Meat, cheese, and crackers is a staple in this house. Troy and I love meat, cheese, and crackers. And these looked really good. These are the brand Greta and these are the garden vegetable crackers. One pack of crackers, individually portioned out, which is incredible, is only 120 calories and there's four servings per container. So you get this entire pack of crackers. I love that it's pre-packaged, pre-portioned out. Great for taking on the go or for your lunch at work. Whoa, there is a ton in here. So all of these crackers is one serving and each sheet is two crackers. So basically the size of two salting crackers put together times five. So you get 10 crackers for 120 calories. They smell really good. They smell like, they kind of smell like chicken in a biscuit, delicious, super good. They actually taste like chicken in a biscuit, not gonna lie, they're really, really delicious. And there's four grams of protein per serving. All of these crackers, 120 calories, four grams of protein, pre-portioned out, a definite must. And last but not least of this massive Dollar Tree snack haul are veggie chips. I love these with hummus, love them with hummus. Full-size bag from the brand Good Health. This brand is sold at Health Food Store. Sprouts, Whole Foods for $4 to $5 per bag. These are the sea salt veggie chips. One serving is 150 calories, which is about 30 chips. These are so good with hummus, so good with dip made from Greek yogurt. A good crunchy side to a lunch or snack. Here's what they look like there. I'd say about the size of a quarter. Really good, really good, crunchy. They have a potato taste, and I just noticed that is this potato-based snack. They do have a potato taste, so like a chip taste. Really good, and 30 of them for 150 calories. So that is everything in my big Dollar Tree snack haul. I found some really, really good deals, some really great snacks. We have healthy, we have a little less healthy. It's all about balance and moderation, and if you're on a budget for groceries, don't sleep on Dollar Tree. You can find some really great things. We found soup, which is a meal. The tuna packet's also a meal. There was a lot of components to put together meals at the Dollar Tree. If you would be interested in a what I eat in a day Dollar Tree edition, let me know down in the comments. I plan on doing more Dollar Tree snack calls as well, because it's really important for us to be mindful of our budget, and because groceries are so expensive, the Dollar Tree can definitely save you money on some of your favorite brands, and you can also find some new brands that you really enjoy. I mean, those sun-best fruit and grain bars and pastry crisps, better than the name brand. So if you enjoyed today's video, give it a big, huge thumbs up. Again, subscribe, turn your bell on so you never miss a future video, and don't forget to check out the description box for nutrition coaching, links and discounts to my favorite things, and come join our Facebook group. We would love to have you. So that's a wrap on another Dollar Tree snack call.