Great sweet treat for kids lunch boxes. (McVities Penguin)

Member Name: Darkstar101

Product:	McVities Penguin
Date:	26/06/09 (66 review reads)
Rating:

Advantages: Taste great, no artificial colour or flavours, added calcium .

Disadvantages: Have shrunk in size over the years & chocolate cream filling a little gritty.

Last week, whilst shopping for things to go in my daughter's lunchbox, I was attracted to a pack of McVities Penguin bars as it was very reasonably priced at 89p for a pack of 9. As my daughter only has packed lunch on 5 days of the week, my chocoholic brain computed that this meant there were 4 "spare" bars left for me to eat.

The bars come attractively packaged in a red and navy blue outer wrapper featuring the stuttering penguin alongside the signature P..P..P...Pick up a Penguin slogan. Each of the 9 individual Penguin bars themselves come wrapped in vibrant colourful packaging complete with the penguin picture and a joke printed on the reverse. My six year old daughter loves these jokes.

Described as milk chocolate covered biscuit bars filled with chocolate cream, McVities boast they contain no artificial colours or flavours and no hydrogenated vegetable oil. Penguin bars now contain added calcium, with each biscuit containing 25% of kids recommended daily calcium intake and at only 113kcal per bar, I feel there are worse sweet treats you can put in a child's lunch box. They are also suitable for vegetarians.

Upon opening the wrapper, the first thing I noticed was Penguins seem to have shrunk! I remember them being much longer and wider than they are now. However, chocolate is chocolate, so I forced myself to eat one anyway.

The Penguin consists of two thin chocolate biscuits sandwiched together with chocolate cream which is then covered in milk chocolate. The outer covering of milk chocolate, although very thin, tastes quite creamy and pleasant. The sandwiched biscuits are quite crunchy and chocolaty, but the chocolate cream filling was a little disappointing, as it tasted sugary and almost gritty - not unpleasant, but not exactly nice either. That said, the biscuit on the whole did constitute a good chocolate fix and with only 113 calories a bar, I was quite satisfied with it.

In conclusion, A pack of Penguins represents very good value for money as children love them, they are relatively inexpensive to buy and nutritionally a lot better than some of the rubbish kids demand in their lunch boxes.

Summary: Overall good value for money.