Weight Watchers Smart Ones Chocolate Chocolate Chip Muffins

November 21, 2007 | Reviewer: Abi

Weight Watchers Smart Ones Chocolate Chip Muffins Price: $2.59
Serving: 1 muffin, 2.5oz.
Calories: 190
Fat: 3%, 2g
Sodium: 13%, 320mg
Protein: 4g
Carbs: 13%, 39g
Sugar: 21g
Fiber: 8%, 2g
Weight Watchers Points: 4 Points

Smart Ones says: Never skip breakfast again with a rich chocolate muffin, made even more decadent with melted chocolate chips inside.

Abi says: There’s a Krispy Kreme doughnut place on the south side of DC’s Dupont Circle, a location approximately a block north of of my former workplace. They don’t make doughnuts there, they just glaze and fill them. The glaze appears to be a constantly recycled vat of Elmer’s glue. Don’t think about this too much, it is sort of gross.

So, heeding my health and reader requests for more Smart Ones reviews, I picked up a two-pack of Smart Ones chocolate muffins. I also bought a couple of desserts (Key Lime Pie and some S’mores looking thing, but I’m sort of scared to try those).

First impressions of the frozen muffin were promising. Unable to wait an entire hour for the defrosting period to elapse, I opted for the microwave thaw option. This also meant that I’d have melty chocolate chips and if there’s one thing I adore in the morning, it is melty chocolate chips. Too bad this 4 point muffin got my hopes so high.

Smart Ones Chocolate Chip Muffins aren’t a smart substitute for doughnuts. Just like a doughnut, one of these muffins left me feeling empty and yearning for just a bit more breakfast. Sure, they’re chocolatey, but they’re full of a whole lot of nothing.

They’re so full of nothing that they’ll completely fall apart in your hands as you desperately try to keep muffin bits from falling all over your cubicle. And then, because little bits of chocolatey fake muffin are deadly to computers, you’ll have to go get out the Windex and really, who wants to smell Windex at 9am?

If you’re looking to eat something chocolatey, buy a bag of mini chocolate chips, some brown sugar and a box of trustworthy oatmeal. I prefer McCann’s, but you may have some other favorite brand. Make the oatmeal in the microwave (yes, Instant Irish Oatmeal), toss in a spoonful of brown sugar and a half-handful of mini chocolate chips. Now you’ve got a chocolatey breakfast that won’t leave your stomach begging for satiety.

FYI, if you’re doing a Google Image search for “Brown Sugar”, I highly recommend turning on the ‘SafeSearch’ option. Also, the title of this product is not a typo, it really does say “Chocolate Chocolate” on the box.

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7 Responses to “Weight Watchers Smart Ones Chocolate Chocolate Chip Muffins”

Ace on November 23rd, 2007

Chocolate muffins are my latest addiction, but I agree that the crumbs can be a bit of a hassle. I basically try to eat a muffin out of the wrapper like a dog eats food out of a bowl when I don’t want to make a mess. It’s not a pretty sight.
Crow on November 23rd, 2007

Brown sugar…hehehe…
Abi Jones on November 23rd, 2007

@Ace - Yeah, that sounds sort of gross. Effective, but gross.

@Crow - Thank goodness those image results preview pictures are really tiny.
beth on November 24th, 2007

the key lime pie is really good!!!
Michelle on November 26th, 2007

Maybe not for breakfast…but a very worthy night-time snack with a glass of cold milk. Yum!
Jed on December 15th, 2007

Well, Chocolate Chocolate Chip Muffins does make sense, afterall, a chocolate chip muffin can just be a white muffin of some sort with chocolate chips. Chocolate chocolate chip says that the muffin is chocolate AND it contains chocolate chips.

I actually thought these were OK for a dessert. They aren’t a breakfast item for me, but for a dessert from time to time…. I was, however, utterly horrified by the SmartOnes Black Raspberry Swirl Cheesecake. Not only did it have transfat it it (under .5g, so it isn’t listed as transfat but the ingrediants lists the hydrogenated stuff), but it also tasted utterly terrible! The raspberry part tasted extremely chemically, and the cheesecake part was just a sugary ooze.

The stuff in the SmartOnes line are just very hit or miss…
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