BBQ Brilliance (Quaker Snack A Jacks 'Barbeque' Rice & Corn Snacks)

Member Name: flodombey

Product:	Quaker Snack A Jacks 'Barbeque' Rice & Corn Snacks
Date:	23/02/09 (122 review reads)
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Advantages: Tasty, filling, low point value

Disadvantages: Cant yet get them in 6 packs as you can with other flavours

I am currently on the weight watchers plan so finding snacks which are going to keep me within my daily points limit is something of a continuous task with varied results. I always get hungry at work around the 10.30am mark and to have a 1-2 point snack at this point in the day seems to work well for me - so what to have?

Well, I do try and stick to snacking on fruit but sometimes you just want something that feels a bit more substantial in your stomach so over the last year I have tried a lot of 'healthy' snacks like these snack a jacks, ryvita mini bites, seasons etc. I do think some of them verge on the cardboard consistency and give very little pleasure when eaten but this particular variety of snack a jacks is positively different.

Coming in at 2 points per packet (based on the WW online calculator) they fit the bill in terms of calorific/fat content. I was pleasently surprised when I opened the packet to find that they smell like bbq sauce as they should rather than a nasty chemical type smell of flavourings (some of the salt and vinegar snacks are particularly bad for this I think).

The taste is absolutely lovely, not too strong but strong enough to enjoy, for some reason it really does feel like a treat to eat, slightly sweet and slightly smoky like a good bbq sauce should be. Because of the texture of these snacks they do seem to fill you up and the bag lasts longer than a standard bag of crisps, its quite deceptive I think, because they are mostly air filled rice grains so it feels like you are eating more in weight that you get with normal crisps - but this is great motivation for my diet!

You do get a fair amount of the flavouring coming off on your fingers but this is because they certainly are not stingy in applying it to the snacks. The smell is not so overpowering that the rest of the office will be trying to identify the source of it either.

At the moment a couple of the supermarkets have special offers on snack a jacks where you can get 3 bags for £1 (Sainsburys) or 5 for £2 (Asda), they do seem to frequently have these on some kind of offer. It is a shame though that this flavour is as yet not available (in my supermarkets anyway) in the 6 bag multipack variety, I hope that they do eventually make it so. A standard bag on its own retails for around 44p.

Of all the snack a jack flavours this is definitely my favourite, I am actually craving a bag now I have written this and may well have to go and hunt some down! Its great to find snacks which assist with your diet plan and these are certainly one option which, for me, make me feel like I am not being done out of a 'proper' snack.

Summary: Great snack idea to keep you going and fill you up