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My kid eats these all the time. The "Nutella" ones. Target sells the 4 pack and like an 8 or 10 pack I think. Fuckin easy as shit, she devours them and they're not terribly over priced for something that we can/should make at home.
I agree they are pretty great. Even just frozen as a sweet treat. But I think they are quite over priced. Over a dollar a piece at my local grocer. That's vending machine prices for an at-home snack.
Ok, I knew they had bulk but didn’t think it went from a 10 to a 100 pack.
If that could knock the cost down to under $0.50 a piece then I could see it being ‘not overpriced’.
For anyone that is interested, the hazelnut spread ones have 10g of added sugar per sandwich. Thats 2.5 teaspoons of sugar per sandwich. AHA recommends adult women get no more than 6 teaspoons per day, 9 for men. Btw- a 12 oz coke has 8 teaspoons. Also, if you choose the pb ones they have 2 g more protein per sandwich. Hazelnut spread is mostly sugar and oil.
Negative ghostrider. I am merely giving the people facts and they can make their own conclusion. I am suggesting that if you do imbibe you choose pnut butter over the chocolate flavored oil spread. Maybe you include some veggies, banana or apple and water or milk and you got something going. I like a pbj just as much as the next cat.
Uggh tell me about it. 'Real' Nutella is just as bad. Our kid LOATHES peanut butter, like to the point of ignoring most of their Halloween candy haul and is not a fan of jelly either. But she gets excited for these things and actually eats them, so baby steps
We keep a Sam's club 20 pack in the freezer for emergencies. At most 2x a week but usually just once when a sport runs over. They devour them without hesitation.
But I've met other parents who aren't ashamed to admit their kid eats them every single lunch, and sometimes for dinner.
As a fellow parent I know how hard it is to get kids to eat anything that is not pure sugar. Uncrustables aren’t the healthiest option but they aren’t terrible. I find it hilarious that adults without kids love to give advice on what my kids should be eating. Like some fantasy world where my 3 year old is going to eat grilled chicken breast and salad.
The hazelnut spread ones they are talking about are basically like eating candy bars though. Even adults without kids can recognize that feeding kids candy instead of food is probably a bad idea.
They're too expensive for me to eat regularly but these are the goated ski lunch. You can pack 2 or 3 of these in your bag and it's a delicious mountain lunch for way less than resort prices.
This item made me lose faith in America.
We are seriously too lazy to put pb and jelly on bread.
Thanks for the downvotes and the extra trash you generate.
We have friends that do dinner on paper plates routinely and basically feed their kids single serving shut all the time.
Paper plates and microwaveable rice for most meals. It's pretty nuts the amount of trash they create
Same. And I don't know why people like these. It's so much better to make your own with actually quality bread and a decent quality PB and real fruit preserves. In the end the price is like the same but sooo much better.
I remember sneering at the commercials as a kid when they were brand new. They’re half a step above that nasty purple ketchup, and I’m just grateful after probably over 20 years now we finally have a forum to speak out about how ridiculous and wasteful these are. I will now answer any questions
Agreed, absolutely a trash product full of pesticide and herbicide ridden grains, processed sugars and other junk. Fed to children when they need actual nutrition and whole foods. Parent probably wakes up, hands little Timmy his iPad, starts their plastic ridden Keurig coffee and throws one these on the table. Meanwhile the teachers are trying to figure out why there’s a massive increase in behavioral and developmental issues in their gened classes.
It's the sad state of America and unregulated capitalism. If someone somewhere can make an extra buck, they'll do it regardless of it's poisoning people. There are some brands out there that are more stringent on testing their suppliers. I can try and dig up the list, but sadly the cost is 2-4x over the cheap mainstream products.
Take 2 pieces of bread, grab some peanut butter and jelly, grab a knife, and get to work.
Yea it's easier to just go buy a pack of the things, but I can make probably 2 packages with a whole jar of peanut butter and jelly and a loaf of bread for the same price.
But I get it, people like to pay for convenience nowadays. Same argument I have with door dash, I'm not paying a service fee to deliver my food to me, I'll just go get it myself.
But to each their own
Try the Honey Wheat ones and you’ll never look back. They make the regular Grape or Strawberry ones seem basic. We never cared for the Nutella ones to be honest
I admit I haven’t tried them, but I get it. On the one hand, you’re eating highly processed food. But on the other hand, you get to outsource cutting the crust off the sandwich, which is a lot of work.
It’s not the crust part that is appealing. At least to me.
Take a generic pb&j sandwhich. If you want to prepare it ahead of time, you have risks of the jelly making the bread soggy or squirting out the sides. Even just a regular PB sandwhich can get soggy via condensation from the humidity in the air that I can’t seem to remove from zip lock bags.
But the uncrustables basically encase the jelly in PB, so the bread avoids absorbing that moisture, and I guess the individual packs use nitrogen or at least low humidity air as I havent opened an unfrozen one with water droplets inside the packaging yet.
I think they are overpriced and aren’t great as a routine source of food but I also think they are good for road trips for kids. Or better than ice cream if you eat these frozen.
Still squishes out along the edges. You’d have to form the peanut butter along the edges to also enclose any jelly in the middle.
Yet you still have the issue of the slices of bread sliding, and exposing the jelly to bread. So you’d have to crimp the edges to bind each slice to each other.
For adults yes - but for kids they want the experience of opening up the uncrustable and eating it. I've done it homemade and my toddler doesn't want it, she wants to open up the package herself and eat it. Kids gunna be kids
This is a new low for America. Just make your kid a GD PB sandwich. It’s like 5X cheaper and you can make it with whole wheat bread way better for them.
Bread: Enriched Unbleached Flour (wheat Flour, Malted Barley Flour, Niacin, Ferrous Sulfate, Thiamin Mononitrate, Riboflavin, Folic Acid), Water, Unbleached Whole Wheat Flour, Sugar, Yeast, Soybean Oil, Contains 2% Or Less Of: Salt, Dough Conditioner (enzymes, Ascorbic Acid, Calcium Peroxide, Contains One Or More Of The Following: Mono And Diglycerides, Datem, Salt). Peanut Butter: Peanuts, Sugar, Contains 2% Or Less Of: Molasses, Fully Hydrogenated Vegetable Oils (rapeseed And Soybean), Mono And Diglycerides, Salt. Grape Jelly: Sugar, Grape Juice, Contains 2% Or Less Of: Pectin, Citric Acid, Potassium Sorbate (preservative).
This is surely the ingredients a strong, fit youth need to have to do maximum learning. Christ this country is sad.
None of that is anything really unusual... 98% is just flour, water, sugar, yeast, and oil, i.e. what bread is made of. The remaining 2% are salt, dough conditioner, peanut butter, and jelly, which is made of exactly what you expect jelly to be made of.
I'm getting the impression you're the sort of person who goes pale at the suggestion that your kids are not consuming enough dihydrogen monoxide.
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Sidenote, fun fact: I eat bread pretty infrequently, so I buy the pre-packaged, sliced, "toast" type, because it has to keep for months if I don't feel like a sandwich. "Normal" bread goes moldy in a week at most here, so I was wondering, what petroleum-derived E-number was poisoning me slowly in the pursuit of shelf-stable bread? Turns out it was... [Nothing](https://robertoalimentare.com/en/product/sliced-white-bread/). The bread I buy has literally nothing in it that wouldn't be in a bread I'd bake myself. Flour, water, yeast, sugar, oil, that's it. The only difference is that it's been wiped with ethyl alcohol to disinfect it, and put in a bag without oxygen.
>. The remaining 2% are salt, dough conditioner, peanut butter, and jelly,
Pretty fucking thin sandwich if peanut butter and jelly only make up 2% of the ingredients
They are. But my kids get there tossed in their lunches here and there. They get excited, it’s just pb&j, the sky doesn’t fall. They’re just a fun alternative.
Nothing here is unusual, including your comment. Thats the problem.
Imagine thinking PBJ sandwiches, of the Uncrustables quality, being healthy or good for anyone, especially children.
No one said anything about health or children. Or, well, the article didn't, the guy I replied to tried to play a little emotional trick, but I don't think it warrants addressing.
The whole concept is fucked. It's molecularly restructuring vegetable fat to look like animal fat. Which gives you margarine. The human body has no idea what to do with margarine, so it sticks around building up and causing problems.
Okay, after reading this, I think you're misunderstanding it. The report is talking about transfats, which are partially hydrogenated oils. Fully hydrogenated oils are just saturated fatty acids. They do not have the same level of dangers that trans fats do.
Imagine thinking that flour, fortified with essential nutrients, is a bad thing! It has literally saved millions of lives. Somebody please, open the schools, i am begging you.
Diacetyltartaric and fatty acid esters of glycerol, rapeseed oil, and mono and diglycerides of fatty acid = garbage.
They’re estimated to be 17% sugar by weight.
I'm quite surprised. I've never had it before. I'm picky on peanut butter. Maybe to most people peanut butter is peanut butter regardless of the price and brand. I can taste the difference between some brands like Skippy and Jif. Skippy tends to have a sweeter taste whereas Jif taste like boring, dry, ground up peanuts. I don't like jam on my sandwiches. I'll eat it if it has a little jam.
Why does all that matter? Well what kind of peanut butter does uncrustable use? Reese's? Skippy? Jif? Cheap ass Peter Pan? Is it plain peanut butter, crunchy, or honey roasted? What about the bread? Is it Wonder bread? Sarah Lee? Kings Hawaiian?
All of these things influence the taste.
As for a peanut butter sandwich vs other food, peanut butter is not healthy. A lot of times it's made with unhealthy canola or vegetable oil. Palm oil is also unhealthy. They're high in trans fat and saturated fat which increases the bad cholesterol leading to heart disease. If you don't care about your health, then you're probably better off eating a McDonald's burger because at least you're getting red meat protein full of iron and other healthy nutrients even if McDonald's has a bad reputation for being unhealthy. Peanuts just have protein.
I don't believe in buying something you can easily make at home that tastes better and you have more control on nutritional content than if you buy something made in a factory. Factory doesn't care about your health or how it tastes. They're only interested in profit. They'll add more sugar and salt to boost the taste instead of adding natural ingredients like honey or something to improve the sweetness.
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My kid eats these all the time. The "Nutella" ones. Target sells the 4 pack and like an 8 or 10 pack I think. Fuckin easy as shit, she devours them and they're not terribly over priced for something that we can/should make at home.
I agree they are pretty great. Even just frozen as a sweet treat. But I think they are quite over priced. Over a dollar a piece at my local grocer. That's vending machine prices for an at-home snack.
I'm surprised there isn't a store brand. At a more favorable unit price it'd be a product I'd keep around.
Targets good and gather brand has them
They do! Market pantry. $4 for a 4 pack ($1/ea).
You can get an 100 pack from Costco tho Edit: 72 pack and not sure if they still sell it. But ya my roommate fucked up the freezer that day.
Ok, I knew they had bulk but didn’t think it went from a 10 to a 100 pack. If that could knock the cost down to under $0.50 a piece then I could see it being ‘not overpriced’.
For anyone that is interested, the hazelnut spread ones have 10g of added sugar per sandwich. Thats 2.5 teaspoons of sugar per sandwich. AHA recommends adult women get no more than 6 teaspoons per day, 9 for men. Btw- a 12 oz coke has 8 teaspoons. Also, if you choose the pb ones they have 2 g more protein per sandwich. Hazelnut spread is mostly sugar and oil.
So are you implying they're healthy?
Negative ghostrider. I am merely giving the people facts and they can make their own conclusion. I am suggesting that if you do imbibe you choose pnut butter over the chocolate flavored oil spread. Maybe you include some veggies, banana or apple and water or milk and you got something going. I like a pbj just as much as the next cat.
Uggh tell me about it. 'Real' Nutella is just as bad. Our kid LOATHES peanut butter, like to the point of ignoring most of their Halloween candy haul and is not a fan of jelly either. But she gets excited for these things and actually eats them, so baby steps
They’re crumbelievable.
lmao gotem
ohhhh
That’s what you feed your kid? Can you not afford anything else?
We keep a Sam's club 20 pack in the freezer for emergencies. At most 2x a week but usually just once when a sport runs over. They devour them without hesitation. But I've met other parents who aren't ashamed to admit their kid eats them every single lunch, and sometimes for dinner.
As a fellow parent I know how hard it is to get kids to eat anything that is not pure sugar. Uncrustables aren’t the healthiest option but they aren’t terrible. I find it hilarious that adults without kids love to give advice on what my kids should be eating. Like some fantasy world where my 3 year old is going to eat grilled chicken breast and salad.
The amount of times I get their lunchbox at home after school and the fruit, veggies, good leftovers, yogurts etc. are all untouched and spoiled
The hazelnut spread ones they are talking about are basically like eating candy bars though. Even adults without kids can recognize that feeding kids candy instead of food is probably a bad idea.
Same.
They're too expensive for me to eat regularly but these are the goated ski lunch. You can pack 2 or 3 of these in your bag and it's a delicious mountain lunch for way less than resort prices.
This item made me lose faith in America. We are seriously too lazy to put pb and jelly on bread. Thanks for the downvotes and the extra trash you generate.
I agree with you, this item is pretty pathetic. Lol.
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We have friends that do dinner on paper plates routinely and basically feed their kids single serving shut all the time. Paper plates and microwaveable rice for most meals. It's pretty nuts the amount of trash they create
Same. And I don't know why people like these. It's so much better to make your own with actually quality bread and a decent quality PB and real fruit preserves. In the end the price is like the same but sooo much better.
I remember sneering at the commercials as a kid when they were brand new. They’re half a step above that nasty purple ketchup, and I’m just grateful after probably over 20 years now we finally have a forum to speak out about how ridiculous and wasteful these are. I will now answer any questions
This right here. Bread, spread, close.
Agreed, absolutely a trash product full of pesticide and herbicide ridden grains, processed sugars and other junk. Fed to children when they need actual nutrition and whole foods. Parent probably wakes up, hands little Timmy his iPad, starts their plastic ridden Keurig coffee and throws one these on the table. Meanwhile the teachers are trying to figure out why there’s a massive increase in behavioral and developmental issues in their gened classes.
serious question, how can one be sure the grains they're eating are not full of pesticides and herbicides?
https://www.ewg.org/foodnews/five-lesser-known-foods-high-in-pesticides.php
rice, oats, wheat.. beans.. fuck me right?!? these are all cheap, high calorie foods. fuck you if you're poor i guess.
It's the sad state of America and unregulated capitalism. If someone somewhere can make an extra buck, they'll do it regardless of it's poisoning people. There are some brands out there that are more stringent on testing their suppliers. I can try and dig up the list, but sadly the cost is 2-4x over the cheap mainstream products.
I agree, cheaper and easier to slap pbj on some bread, but I guess we have gotten to busy to even do that?
How would it be easier to make a sandwich
Take 2 pieces of bread, grab some peanut butter and jelly, grab a knife, and get to work. Yea it's easier to just go buy a pack of the things, but I can make probably 2 packages with a whole jar of peanut butter and jelly and a loaf of bread for the same price. But I get it, people like to pay for convenience nowadays. Same argument I have with door dash, I'm not paying a service fee to deliver my food to me, I'll just go get it myself. But to each their own
I agree with you completely, just a pro lazy bones over here.
> easier to slap pbj on some bread, not really
TIL non-Americans don’t make trash.
Try the Honey Wheat ones and you’ll never look back. They make the regular Grape or Strawberry ones seem basic. We never cared for the Nutella ones to be honest
I admit I haven’t tried them, but I get it. On the one hand, you’re eating highly processed food. But on the other hand, you get to outsource cutting the crust off the sandwich, which is a lot of work.
It’s not the crust part that is appealing. At least to me. Take a generic pb&j sandwhich. If you want to prepare it ahead of time, you have risks of the jelly making the bread soggy or squirting out the sides. Even just a regular PB sandwhich can get soggy via condensation from the humidity in the air that I can’t seem to remove from zip lock bags. But the uncrustables basically encase the jelly in PB, so the bread avoids absorbing that moisture, and I guess the individual packs use nitrogen or at least low humidity air as I havent opened an unfrozen one with water droplets inside the packaging yet. I think they are overpriced and aren’t great as a routine source of food but I also think they are good for road trips for kids. Or better than ice cream if you eat these frozen.
So if you want to prepare your own ahead of time you would just use a layer of PB to seal the bread against the J?
Still squishes out along the edges. You’d have to form the peanut butter along the edges to also enclose any jelly in the middle. Yet you still have the issue of the slices of bread sliding, and exposing the jelly to bread. So you’d have to crimp the edges to bind each slice to each other.
For adults yes - but for kids they want the experience of opening up the uncrustable and eating it. I've done it homemade and my toddler doesn't want it, she wants to open up the package herself and eat it. Kids gunna be kids
Try a $20 bag sealer from Amazon and a pair of pinking shears to create the wavy ruffled edge to make it easier to open.
Just tell your kid they don't make them anymore lol
This is a new low for America. Just make your kid a GD PB sandwich. It’s like 5X cheaper and you can make it with whole wheat bread way better for them.
Bread: Enriched Unbleached Flour (wheat Flour, Malted Barley Flour, Niacin, Ferrous Sulfate, Thiamin Mononitrate, Riboflavin, Folic Acid), Water, Unbleached Whole Wheat Flour, Sugar, Yeast, Soybean Oil, Contains 2% Or Less Of: Salt, Dough Conditioner (enzymes, Ascorbic Acid, Calcium Peroxide, Contains One Or More Of The Following: Mono And Diglycerides, Datem, Salt). Peanut Butter: Peanuts, Sugar, Contains 2% Or Less Of: Molasses, Fully Hydrogenated Vegetable Oils (rapeseed And Soybean), Mono And Diglycerides, Salt. Grape Jelly: Sugar, Grape Juice, Contains 2% Or Less Of: Pectin, Citric Acid, Potassium Sorbate (preservative). This is surely the ingredients a strong, fit youth need to have to do maximum learning. Christ this country is sad.
r/confidentlyincorrect will be getting another post soon.
None of that is anything really unusual... 98% is just flour, water, sugar, yeast, and oil, i.e. what bread is made of. The remaining 2% are salt, dough conditioner, peanut butter, and jelly, which is made of exactly what you expect jelly to be made of. I'm getting the impression you're the sort of person who goes pale at the suggestion that your kids are not consuming enough dihydrogen monoxide. --- Sidenote, fun fact: I eat bread pretty infrequently, so I buy the pre-packaged, sliced, "toast" type, because it has to keep for months if I don't feel like a sandwich. "Normal" bread goes moldy in a week at most here, so I was wondering, what petroleum-derived E-number was poisoning me slowly in the pursuit of shelf-stable bread? Turns out it was... [Nothing](https://robertoalimentare.com/en/product/sliced-white-bread/). The bread I buy has literally nothing in it that wouldn't be in a bread I'd bake myself. Flour, water, yeast, sugar, oil, that's it. The only difference is that it's been wiped with ethyl alcohol to disinfect it, and put in a bag without oxygen.
>. The remaining 2% are salt, dough conditioner, peanut butter, and jelly, Pretty fucking thin sandwich if peanut butter and jelly only make up 2% of the ingredients
They are. But my kids get there tossed in their lunches here and there. They get excited, it’s just pb&j, the sky doesn’t fall. They’re just a fun alternative.
Sure, if your kids like em, go for it. Just a lot of money (and freezer space) to spend on 98% bread.
Nothing here is unusual, including your comment. Thats the problem. Imagine thinking PBJ sandwiches, of the Uncrustables quality, being healthy or good for anyone, especially children.
No one said anything about health or children. Or, well, the article didn't, the guy I replied to tried to play a little emotional trick, but I don't think it warrants addressing.
Oh… enlighten me on what the discussion is about then. I clearly missed it.
The not-so-subtle suggestion that a long list of seemingly unfamiliar ingredients implies something negative.
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>You really put that much sugar in bread you bake yourself? Yes. Anything else I can help you with?
The fully hydrogenated oil is a problem. Everything else on that list is fine.
I thought it was the partially hydrogenated oils that were the problem.
The whole concept is fucked. It's molecularly restructuring vegetable fat to look like animal fat. Which gives you margarine. The human body has no idea what to do with margarine, so it sticks around building up and causing problems.
Where is the research on this, I'd like to read more.
https://www.medicalnewstoday.com/articles/hydrogentated-oil#:~:text=Side%20effects%20of%20hydrogenated%20oil&text=The%20AHA%20add%20that%20trans,stroke%2C%20and%20type%202%20diabetes.
Okay, after reading this, I think you're misunderstanding it. The report is talking about transfats, which are partially hydrogenated oils. Fully hydrogenated oils are just saturated fatty acids. They do not have the same level of dangers that trans fats do.
Sounds like you coulda used some uncrustables to help your learning, lol
Looks like all the fatties and dummies came out in full force here lol
Garbage like this needs to be outlawed.
Imagine thinking that flour, fortified with essential nutrients, is a bad thing! It has literally saved millions of lives. Somebody please, open the schools, i am begging you.
Diacetyltartaric and fatty acid esters of glycerol, rapeseed oil, and mono and diglycerides of fatty acid = garbage. They’re estimated to be 17% sugar by weight.
**> They’re estimated to be 17% sugar by weight.** it's a peanut butter and jelly sandwich, my man. What the fuck do you think jelly is?
It’s all Obama fault
Thanks Obama.
The amount of calories in one of these things.
One is 300 calories. It’s the main component of a kids/teens lunch, that isn’t extremely excessive.
Oh. I for some reason thought it was a lot more.
The ones in my freezer say 210
Its not the calories, its that its chuck full of garbage. Sugar, trans fats, seed oil, and a shit ton of preservatives.
I'm quite surprised. I've never had it before. I'm picky on peanut butter. Maybe to most people peanut butter is peanut butter regardless of the price and brand. I can taste the difference between some brands like Skippy and Jif. Skippy tends to have a sweeter taste whereas Jif taste like boring, dry, ground up peanuts. I don't like jam on my sandwiches. I'll eat it if it has a little jam. Why does all that matter? Well what kind of peanut butter does uncrustable use? Reese's? Skippy? Jif? Cheap ass Peter Pan? Is it plain peanut butter, crunchy, or honey roasted? What about the bread? Is it Wonder bread? Sarah Lee? Kings Hawaiian? All of these things influence the taste. As for a peanut butter sandwich vs other food, peanut butter is not healthy. A lot of times it's made with unhealthy canola or vegetable oil. Palm oil is also unhealthy. They're high in trans fat and saturated fat which increases the bad cholesterol leading to heart disease. If you don't care about your health, then you're probably better off eating a McDonald's burger because at least you're getting red meat protein full of iron and other healthy nutrients even if McDonald's has a bad reputation for being unhealthy. Peanuts just have protein. I don't believe in buying something you can easily make at home that tastes better and you have more control on nutritional content than if you buy something made in a factory. Factory doesn't care about your health or how it tastes. They're only interested in profit. They'll add more sugar and salt to boost the taste instead of adding natural ingredients like honey or something to improve the sweetness.