Walden Farms... what kind of monstrosity have I just ingested?
After reading a lot about the products on these forums, I decided (with the influence of some wine) to buy the chocolate syrup. Sweet Jesus, it’s terrible! This is in no way, shape or form, food. Honestly, it makes Cheeze whiz look like grandma’s home recipe. Honestly, it’s one degree away from plastic! I’m disappointed CC Food critics, and I’m taking note of all of you who gave any credit whatsoever to this bastardized creation!
BOOO-URNS!
Oh dear... LOL! You know, I'm not a US citizen and I read about some of the freaky, lab-created food-like substances you poor people are subjected to under the auspices of it being 'healthier' and I really think it's tantamount to human rights abuse, I really do.
A book I read recently suggested that we should all be instantly suspicious of any product that makes health-claims. It's a philosophy maybe you'll take up in future.
Hey, Don't blame me. If you looks for mostly any post on this site dealing with their products you'll see me saying that they taste like sh**! Lmao.
I'm sorry you had the displeasure of trying this crap. It IS really really god awful.
The wine will do that sometimes. It must have given you delusions that Thoreau endorsed this product. [To be more transcendentally correct they should rename this stuff Brook Farm, in honor of the Alcott's farming experiment....]
It's easy to make dark brown liquids that look like chocolate, but rarely does one of them deliver on the flavor. I do OK making a cocoa mix from scratch using 2/3 c sugar, 1/3 c cornstarch and 1 c unsweetened cocoa powder. I add 2 tablespoons of this mix to 1/2 c of cold milk and bring to a boil 2-3 times in the microwave. Mix really well between boilings and watch it so it doesn't boil over. Refrigerate and top with a little ice cream after it cools. It comes out thick and full of tasty, bittersweet clumps of partially dissolved cocoa powder. A good chocolate fix for 100-200 calories.
I was so excited by the prospect of zero calorie peanut butter and thousand island dressing that I disregarded all the negative reviews I read about Walden Farms and hit the old buy button.
Boy was I in for a rude surprise. That stuff is bad. My mouth tasted like the scene of a chemical fire. Both products leave a chemical taste in your mouth and I do think there was a burning sensation on my tongue.
Original Post by 10bysummer:
After reading a lot about the products on these forums, I decided (with the influence of some wine) to buy the chocolate syrup. Sweet Jesus, it’s terrible! This is in no way, shape or form, food. Honestly, it makes Cheeze whiz look like grandma’s home recipe. Honestly, it’s one degree away from plastic! I’m disappointed CC Food critics, and I’m taking note of all of you who gave any credit whatsoever to this bastardized creation!
BOOO-URNS!
LOL
I have an unopened bottle of ranch dressing in my pantry. I don't think I'll be opening it now...
oh and dont try the balsamic dressing either. *gags and eyes start to water*
its dee-skusting.
Oh god, it ruined a chocolate-covered strawberry desert I put together once. I even tried it on a sandwich with peanut butter. Poor peanut butter didn't deserve that. =/
It doesn't taste like chocolate. At all.
Yea the Chocolate syrup is kinda eh odd freaky unfufilling, the Hersheys SF syrup (15 cals I think) is much better tasting and makes an awesome chocolate milk.
Or unsweetened chocolate almond milk w/ some splenda (I like equal) for sweetness, much better than Walden funk!
I tried the honey mustard one and LOVE IT!!! From the reviews I dont think I will try the others though.
I just bought the Honey Dijon last week (finally tracked down a store that had it). It was totally fine. No worse than any other lite dressing. *shrug*
i like the thousand island one...
Original Post by yummy_kitty:
I just bought the Honey Dijon last week (finally tracked down a store that had it). It was totally fine. No worse than any other lite dressing. *shrug*
Maybe so, but are any of the others ZERO calories?
i make reubens with the thousand island and it's fine. and i swear by the pancake syrup. everything else, i probably wouldn't try. the chocolate dip, BLECH. Walden Farms has taught me that treat meals & desserts are a good idea if the alternative choice is these products.
Original Post by wobbly:
Original Post by yummy_kitty:
I just bought the Honey Dijon last week (finally tracked down a store that had it). It was totally fine. No worse than any other lite dressing. *shrug*
Maybe so, but are any of the others ZERO calories?
I strongly suspect Walden Farms products aren't ZERO calories either. They just have to have less than 5 calories per serving listed. So, assume everything is 4 calories per serving. Most light salad dressings are in the 10-20 calories per serving range, so the difference isn't as much as you'd think (especially not if Walden Farms cheats and has extra-small serving sizes listed).
The serving size is two tablespoons for the Honey Mustard. That's the standard serving for every other salad dressing in the world.
And yep, I am assuming Walden Farms is something like 4 calories per serving.
Last night, I dipped my french bread in the Honey Dijon instead of using butter. Tasted really good. I was a happy camper.
Original Post by yummy_kitty:
The serving size is two tablespoons for the Honey Mustard. That's the standard serving for every other salad dressing in the world.
And yep, I am assuming Walden Farms is something like 4 calories per serving.
Last night, I dipped my french bread in the Honey Dijon instead of using butter. Tasted really good. I was a happy camper.
NO! waldens farm are zero calories for most of their range including the Honey mustard dressing.
Wobbly: Why would you assume that? Are you saying that because of their statements that they are 0 calories?
Didn't you know they are legally allowed to say it's 0 calories if it has under 5 calories per serving? You'd have no way of ever knowing if it's 0, 1, 2, 3, or 4 calories without personally performing the necessary experiments with very high end lab equipment.
Every 0 calorie food I've come across (including artificial sweeteners, diet soda, and calorie free sauces) all have around 4 calories per serving technically. But since the margin of error can be up to 5 calories, the FDA allows them to "round down" and call it zero.
But it's not actually zero.
Original Post by yummy_kitty:
Wobbly: Why would you assume that? Are you saying that because of their statements that they are 0 calories?
Didn't you know they are legally allowed to say it's 0 calories if it has under 5 calories per serving? You'd have no way of ever knowing if it's 0, 1, 2, 3, or 4 calories without personally performing the necessary experiments with very high end lab equipment.
Every 0 calorie food I've come across (including artificial sweeteners, diet soda, and calorie free sauces) all have around 4 calories per serving technically. But since the margin of error can be up to 5 calories, the FDA allows them to "round down" and call it zero.
But it's not actually zero.
Thank you for the information, I will be more careful in future. As I live in the UK I believe that statement would be illegal here so I trusted what they claimed!
yeah nothing is a free-for-all.
for the Walden Farms record, I don't like jam but I've tried the apriot and raspberry spreads and they're very real tasting
Original Post by wobbly:
Original Post by yummy_kitty:
Wobbly: Why would you assume that? Are you saying that because of their statements that they are 0 calories?
Didn't you know they are legally allowed to say it's 0 calories if it has under 5 calories per serving? You'd have no way of ever knowing if it's 0, 1, 2, 3, or 4 calories without personally performing the necessary experiments with very high end lab equipment.
Every 0 calorie food I've come across (including artificial sweeteners, diet soda, and calorie free sauces) all have around 4 calories per serving technically. But since the margin of error can be up to 5 calories, the FDA allows them to "round down" and call it zero.
But it's not actually zero.
Thank you for the information, I will be more careful in future. As I live in the UK I believe that statement would be illegal here so I trusted what they claimed!
aye over here in uk they list the calories for everything may it be 3 calories or 10 they have to list them ........
also i find it quite shocking that in america they are legally allowed to say it's 0 calories if it has under 5 calories per serving
