I tried to keep them away from him — those granola and cereal bars that seemed like first cousins to candy bars.
I tried to take the snack-food high road. But peer pressure drove us to them. Every day I would have to hear about how all his friends got them in their school snacks.
Eventually, I let him buy one box as a treat. And now, if you look in my cupboard most days of the month, you will find those sweet, chocolate chip infused bars. (I can’t blame him for wanting them — they are good! And in my defense, they are really convenient and when I read the label – they are made with whole grain oats and don’t have any trans fat or cholesterol either – they are a better alternative to a chocolate chip cookie!)
Yet, I always lament how little protein they put in them. I mean really, if you can make high protein energy bars for adults, why not throw some protein in the stuff for kids?!? My son needs protein — not sugar!
So, when Quaker wrote us to tell us that their Chewy Granola Bars now come with 5 grams of protein, I got excited. Thank you Quaker — we needed some more protein in those things!!!
Now, you might judge me for not only feeding my son packaged snack foods, but openly writing about it. But ladies, I have to tell the truth. I don’t have time to bake. I would love to say that I make my own granola and form it into bars before my children wake up in the morning. But it is not going to happen in this house.
So, I do feed my son Quaker Chewy Granola Bars on a regular basis. I also feed him more raw vegetables in a day than most rabbits consume. I feed my family very healthily. And I recognize that a child’s diet needs to be balanced – and fun! A child cannot live on vegetables alone! 😉
(Quaker’s website is actually quite helpful with great tips for packing healthy lunches and teaching your kids how to make good food choices. I got some good ideas from it.)
The two flavors they just announced – Nutty Peanut Butter and Peanut Butter & Chocolate – both won’t be allowed at our peanut-free school, which is disappointing. But I suppose that extra protein in the bars comes from the peanuts.
I know in my morning rush, on days when Jackson is late crawling out of bed and I have to throw him in the car without breakfast, these little protein packed treats and a thermos of milk will be a great way to get a quick – and very yummy – shot of protein into a six year old boy on his way to a long day of first grade. But don’t worry – I will make sure he eats his banana too. 🙂
To join in the Back to School Giveaway fun, Quaker is offering two of you a sports bag filled with some fun – but practical – items for activity-filled family days (soccer ball, tennis balls, sports socks, fun shoelaces, water bottles, etc.), along with a few boxes of Quaker Chewy Granola Bars with Protein.
To win, leave a comment below and (and be sure you’ve followed the Back to School Giveaway guidelines). This giveaway is open to U.S. and Canadian addresses.
Good Luck!
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The boys would love the prizes. Thanks!
These sound yummy – and healthy! I would love to win these for my daughter to try…thanks!
Quaker makes some yummy snack foods. I would love to win and stock my son’s lunches with these.
What a great prize pack…. thanks for the sweeps!
I would love to have this gift bag to keep in the car so we are always prepared for games when we are out. We eat a lot of granola bars around here also and would love to try these.
I love these bars. My daughter is a diabetic so it is hard to find great, and easy snacks. These bars seem to have a good balance that do not make her sugar go sky high. Thanks for the giveaway.
this is one great giveaway!
this sounds like such a great prize pack!
The two new flavor choices sound great and wouldn’t this sports bag full of goodies just be the ticket too!
I love your site and all your giveaways.
My kids will love these healty treats!
Sooooo… It’s all that, and a bag of (chocolate) chips… Granola bars are yummy, and the sporting gear is awesome.
Yes, please!!
We LOVE Quaker Chewy bars at your house and with triplets, we NEED more sports bags!!!
My kids eat them before I even get one, but i love them
Not only could I use the bags but the goodies is great as well!
Great giveaway, and I’m glad they are trying to make granola bars healthier and offer more protein!
I’m in
This is so great!! With four kids, I know that everything in the bag would disappear quickly! Thanks for the chance to win!
sounds delish!! 🙂
I love quaker bars so I hope I win.
Yummy!
Yum!
Once school starts- the kids look for snacks to pack for at school- then I need to ack some for on the go for after school activities.
We sometimes do school on the go so this would help. Besides who doesn’t love Quaker bars. Thanks!
Quaker has the best granola bars. They wouldn’t last long in our house. Thank you so much!
These bars look great…thanks!
We enjoy these bars in our home!
Our boys would love these. Thanks for the offer of these cool prizes.
Yum!! This sounds great. My boys would love it!
Quaker Chewy Granola bars are delicious! Now I can feel less guilty when the box empties so quickly….
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I keep these bars in my cookie jar for my grandchildren, we all love them!
I love thse bars. I enjoy giving my family healthy snacks.
Our sports bags are in dire need of replacement!
we love the bars, this bag sounds like so much fun
My kids and I love these bars. This sounds great!
We have two sons that could use these sports bags! They both like “Quaker Granola Bars!” Please enter me in your drawing. I appreciate it. Thanks, Cindi
My 4 kids LOVE these bars. And that is a mean feat to get them all to agree on something. We can also use a new backpack for school.
This would be a great win! My hubby, daughter and I are addicted to the chewy granola bars! YUM
WoW! What a hit this package would be in our house! Thank you!
Good deal pick me
I eat granola bars almost every day!
My son loves granola bars. And balls and fun. So he’d really like this prize.
this would be yummy and fun!
This sounds like fun.
Everyone could use a few more excuses to get outside more often. Thanks for the great contest!
Quaker is the best. What a neat giveaway.
I love granola bars and so does my little boy! He would love the other items in the sports bag
Me please!
Hope I win 🙂
These are sooo good!! I would love to win, with 5 kids I don’t get much of an opportunity to bake either! 🙂
thanks for the chance
This sounds like a very yummy prize pack. I love granola bars.
My kids love granola bars! Thanks for the chance.
Thanks for the chance!
these are so yummy! great prize! thanks for the giveaway
Would love to win this contest!! Thanks!
Thanks so much for the opportunity.
I would have to hide these bars from my kids!
Really good for grandmas who do daycare!
Recently I started working out with a trainer and he has told me how important it is to get large amounts of protein. However, I can only eat so much chicken…I would welcome protein granola bars to help me get the added protein my body needs.
Great Item to Win, It’s very nutrious for me and my Family.
We grew up with these Quaker bars in our family, and since fall is coming with sports season, my family would love the equipment and bags!
My family loves these bars. I buy them for my little girl for school. This is great for our family, we stay active in sports… thanks.
Yes, please!!!
i would love to win this for my Boys ! Thanx 🙂
Wow thouse sound great for kids and the adults that chase after them. My daughter loves anything to do with balls so this is the prize for her.
Love Quakers granola bars but I have never seen ones with protein. Would love to try. Thanks for the giveaway.
Enter me please. 🙂
pretty cool
Sounds useful and tasty.
count me in! my nephew loves them!
I would love to have this !
My little granddaughter is starting school. I want to send a Quaker Granola Bar as comfort food. Put me in the draw. I sent an e-mail about this Blog to all my friends.
these sound good and we would love to try them! Thanks
Quaker is one of the healthiest pre-packaged snacks! Great giveaway 🙂
I love Quaker products, they make such healthy snacks.
We eat LOTS of Quaker granola bars around here! Most mornings, they’re my breakfast.
I’d love to win this.
this would be fun to win!
my kids would love to win this prize package!
one of my favorite snacks an I love to give them to the grandkids too,so please add me in the contest,thanks for the nice contest
A great giveaway! Count me in.
My little one’s loves granola bars…this would be fantastic to win, so please count us in!!!
I have very active homeschoolers who would really appreciate this!
Ideal for me since I babysit my five grandkids while their parents work. I always need snacks and things to play with.
My son lives off these after school. They’re perfect for a quick bite in the car on the way to martial arts.
All three of my children love these. They are great for putting in their lunchboxes
It would be great to have this permanently packed and waiting in the car!
My husband and son would have a blast with this prize.
Can’t wait to try the peanut butter granola bars. These are perfect to keep on hand in the house as well as the car.
Please count me in. Thanx for putting up the great contest.
These would be great to offer to my grandkids. I have always been a fan of Quaker products so it doesn’t surprise me that they have come out with something tasty and healthy!
Perfect for lunches!
Granola Bars!!! so good for you and taste great too
Must have granola bars!
My twin boys eat these up, especially ebfore soccer and football practice!
these would be great for both of my kids, thanks
please enter me. I love these to take to work as much as my kids do
yumo! great item for the kids to. Sweet and good for you
Our family would love this!!! We love granola bars; our fave is a Snickers granola bar we had found.
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These would be wonderful for my little girl’s school snacks and my husband’s biking treks!
We love these Granola Bars! Please enter me.
We love these! Please enter me!
Yum! These are great when traveling.
I love those chews easy to grab and go.
Buy these all the time. My middle child has ADHD and must have lots of protein in order to stay calm. They help mom too!
Love these – good for work, school and home!
Great kids would go crazy over this, for sure!
My boys love these and always are in their lunch its great that they’ve come up with them with protein.
Terrific prize, we all love granola bars, please enter me
Great giveaway! Count us in.
I am in for some fun stuff. Please enter me!
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I’m always looking for more sources of protein, so I’d love to win this — the school supplies would be great, too.
This giveaway sounds so sweet! Please count me in…thak you!!!!
awesome prize! I’d love to win one.
I put your button on my blog
These are great!! Added you on my blog!!!
Even tho we home school, we still need bags like these.
Count me in, thanks!
Wow – these look great. Please enter me.
Thanks for offering the giveaways!
That is great to know about the protein. this is usually my breakfast of choice. And sometimes midday snack.
What a great contest. Lots of activities and a great snack.
Granola? Great for lunchboxes 🙂
This sounds great. I added your button to my blog.
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What a great idea – count me in!
Fun! What a great, activity-filled giveaway!
Great items and we’ld have alot of fun with them
Thanks
This would sooo work for us and my son for his football practice and game days! Please enter us! Thank you!
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we would use everything that comes in the bag, we love quaker granola bars
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We really like Quaker too.
yummy!
Yummo! Please count me in for this delicious giveaway.
Everyone in my family likes these granola bars.
This is fun…kind of like the lotto! You can’t win if you don’t play! I love these as snacks at nutrition!
Sports bag, granola bars, my kids would never believe me if I told them we won this one!
My boys LOVE granola bars, and I would never criticize ya for not baking, since I don’t even do probably 10% of the cooking around here!
We love these, sign me up!
That’s so great they have made them even better!
How cool! We love granola bars 🙂
Cool. We love granola bars too. Pick us please.
thanks for the entry!!!!
thanks for sharing
perfect! thank you.
Always looking for more protein here too!! Thanks for the tip!
Love sports, love granola bars…great combo. Thanks so much.
sweet, count me in!
Sounds good to me.
We love granola bars in our household and use them for heading out the door breakfasts too!
I’d love to win, great giveaway. I have your contest code on my contest blog!
Totally in.
We love love love Quaker granola bars!!! Please count us in for this yummy giveaway…thaks so much!!
I’m not ashamed to say I give my kids boxed granola bars. 🙂 I’d love to win this!
Love granola bars. What a great giveaway!
Yummy! Thanks for having an awesome blog all around!
Thanks for entering me! Great giveaways, girls! 🙂
We love a good protein bar! Thanks for another great giveaway!
We love these granola bars and the bags would be great!
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thanks!
My daughter LOVES these bars! I have to confess they serve as breakfast several days a week!
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Granola bars are so delicious, and I don’t think they know that they are good for them! Which is always a pus in my book.
I love Quaker! I wanna win this one too!
Yummy. Thanks.
Fun contest! I already posted and my button is up.
These are great, my son loves them!
Mmmm, yummy! My daughter loves Quaker Chewy granola bars!!
Our family also relies heavily on snack bars! The kids are always in the mood for them and I figure that they could do a LOT worse than the occasional snack bar!
we love granola bars!
Ohhh…I will definitely check these out. My kids love em! Enter me please!!
Enter me please!
This is great, I wish I will win this one so I could share some for my parents 🙂
Yes please! Enter me!
Yummy and Fun?! Please count us in!
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Count me in! Thanks for the chance!
These would be great to pack for school lunches.
Throw my name in the drawing!
Enter me. Thanks!
My triathlete daughter would love the extra protein in these bars! Thanks for the chance to win!
Oh, how neat! What a prize! We love Quaker bars.
Thanks!
We love granola bars… and we can all use the extra fiber!
great giveaway!
Thanks!
This would be devoured at my house, thank you so much for offering it. We’ll keep our fingers crossed and hope for the best!
Sounds like fun! Yummy, too!
Sometimes it is all I can do to keep food in my son! When do ‘growth spurts’ end?
Running from school to soccer…. we love granala and nuts as quick and good energy food!
I would love to win!
Your on my side bar..byt hte way too…
Who couldn’t use a few boxes of granola bars? I know I could!
I love those granola bars and am excited that they are even better now!
yummy! great giveaway! This is a coveted item.
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Great giveaway and yes I’m linked at my blog!
I would love to win this. The snacks will surly be enjoyed and eatten in this house. But the sports things will be loved.
I could use the goodies as well as the snacks! My kids go through snacks like crazy!
Please enter me, sounds like a wonderful giveaway. My kids love these also.
Thankfully my kids like granola bars so I try to always have some on hand for snacking. The added protein will make them every better in my eyes. Count me in on the drawing. Thank you. Take care and God bless, Cory
All of my kids love the regular Quaker bars. We buy them in bulk at Costco to have on hand for quick snacks on the way to practice and games. I’m THRILLED to see they are adding protein! Thrilled! Kind of sad the things that excite a mom 🙂
My son calls these candy bars! What a great giveaway…
What a great giveaway! We love Quaker granola bars and the sports/activity bag sounds great.
Thanks!
Yum! Great for eating during breaks at sports or other events.
Sounds fun! 🙂
Sounds like it would be a lot of fun things to do with the kids in the sports bag. Thanks for hosting this giveaway.
Oh, JediBoy LOVES all his sports gear. This would thrill him.
This would be a great thing for us. Please enter me.
What a great giveaway!! I am really hoping to win!!!
Frugal Carol
Yum!
We’d like to win this.
🙂
These are great Mom breakfasts! I could eat granola bars all day.
We eat these all the time, and I also would not mind sporting a bag to say that… hehehe
oooh!! the little boy would love these goodies!! and i’d love the bars too! how much fun!
This would make the transition back into school much easier. And the fun sports stuff would be great. My husband is already training our 14 month old to be a soccer star! He’d love this prize as much as I would! m_huston(at)hotmail(dot)com
These would actually be perfect snacks for my husband to take to work. He gets really cranky without enough protein in his diet. I’m sure my girls would love to try them too. I would love to give these a shot.
We would love some granola bars
Love granola bars!
I love granola bars and my youngest loves everything with penaut butter in it. I usually have to hide a box from my husband because he could 3 of them in 1 sitting. And I will take chocolate anyway I can get it. Count me in!
You know what? The worst guilt a mother can RECEIVE is from another of the same! From nursing or bottle feeding, to babyfood in jars versus homemade…we need to stop the madness of judging our fellow breeders!!! We are all in this together, not to mention that we can actually learn from one another…I FEED MY CHILDREN PRE-PACKAGED FOOD!!! (Isn’t that how the guilty confess?) God Bless Quaker and ALL of their convenience…if it weren’t for them I may never have time for blogging;)
All granola bars are a huge hit in The Gang’s house. We love them and it’s shocking how many we can consume in a week. Thanks for the chance to win some, too!
my son loves those!
My daughter just ate a granola bar for breakfast. We love them at our house. Sign us up!
Marvelous!!! My youngest son loves these things, and is very involved in sports – this would be perfect for us!!
I want to try these Granola Bars. They look so yummy! Oh and the giveaway is nice too! 🙂 Thanks.
I would really love to win this. I’ve linked back on my blog! Thank you.
I would love to be entered to win – I love Quakers bars!
We eat very healthy here, but sometimes the convenience wins. We have a lot of activities going on and the kids love these so it is good to hear more health thrown in the ingredients. They are great for sack lunches or soccer game snacks.
We love these!! Count me in!
What a great way to start the school year! Thanks for the giveaway!
my daughter loves these things. they would come in handy for snacks during school.
Great prize pack. Count me in!
yummy-oh
We love these at my house!
My family loves Quaker Chewy Granola Bars!
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My daughter would be so grateful. She loves her “nola” bars.
What a fun giveaway! Thanks!
Yummy! We love Quaker Oats products here at my house…count me in!
Yummy, yummy, in my TUMMY! These are AWESOME and so are YOU!!! With five kids – something fast and nutritious always helps!
What a practical back-to-school giveaway! Thanks for the chance to win! (I’ve posted about your giveaway on my blog.)
Mmm, what a yummy giveaway!
Yum! I love granola bars and so do my girls!
Yum, I love granola bars.
That sounds like a fun prize. With my active family who are all in school now, that comes in handy.
A bit of energy for their game can come in a Quaker package.
Oh man, we love our granola bars! And those sports bags sound wonderful.
We have started a eat healthy lifestyle change which includes our kids. We would love to give these a try.
We love granola bars, and we don’t feel guilty about it. 🙂
We love Quaker granola bars, too!!
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This is a super fun giveaway!!! Please add me to the mix! :o)
Oooo, that sounds fun, count me in!
Peanut butter granola bars are great. You guys are doing a great job.
I would love this, too!!
I would love this!
We love granola bars. Great giveaway!
Sounds great!
Yummy!
Quaker Granola Bars and the fun filled bag………please enter me! No blog, I’ll spread the word.
yummy, love those and so do my kids.
Hey, who doesn’t love granola bars?! I’d love to win this–sounds great.
Sure would love to win this one too 😉
My kids enjoy these. I’d love to win. Sounds like the perfect prize pack! Thanks for the chance to win.
I’d love to win! Your button is on my sidebar.
I need help with packing healthy lunches. These would help.
I left a comment before, but my computer must be ALL wacky!! hehe
I LOVE these bars and have stopped being selfish and introduced them to my boys! 🙂
We love these at my house! YUM!
I would love this! <3