Kraft Chive Bagel-fuls: Pro

August 29, 2008 | Reviewer: Adina

Photo of Kraft Chive Bagel-fuls Price: $2.39 (free from Kraft foods)
Serving: 1 Filled bagel, 2.5 oz.
Servings per package: 4
Calories: 200 per serving
Fat: 8%, 5g
Cholesterol: 5%, 15mg
Sodium: 9%, 220mg
Protein: 7g
Carbohydrates: 10%, 31g
Fiber: 8%, 2g
Sugar: 4g
Weight Watchers Points: 4 Points

Kraft says: A bagel and cream cheese all in one. The warm, golden crust and soft, chewy texture of an authentic bagel wrapped around a center of cool and creamy Philadelphia cream cheese.

Adina says: I had doubts about this product. First off, I am not a big breakfast eater. I know it is the only way to start your day and your metabolism, blah blah blah when fact is, I find breakfast food sort of uneventful. The options are so limited – bagel, eggs, Danish – and I guess in the end I would rather wait the two hours and load up on delicious noodley noodleness than spend five minutes eating something just to fill the void. I am not a eat-to-liver. I am a live-to-eater and I am damn proud of it.

So knowing all of this, you should take what I am about to say very seriously. I loved these Bagel-fuls. LOVED THEM. For the past two weeks, I found myself biking just a little bit faster to work because faster biking equaled sooner bagel eating.

When my two boxes of Bagel-fuls were delivered to me (I received these free from the company), I immediately stuck them in the freezer without first reading the labeling. While I think the “bagels” would have tasted a bit more fresh if I had put some in the fridge, in the end it worked out well as there were four “bagels” in each box.

I keep on putting the word “bagels” in quotes because I am really struggling with whether or not I can honestly call these things “bagels” without angering Yahweh. I mean, can I really call them “bagels”? Does this make my Jewish grandmothers and grandfathers cringe? That this creation, what is basically a healthier version of a Twinkie, dare bare the name of my ancestor’s finest creation (second only to Manischewitz Wine, ahem)? I think I will play it safe and use the quotes when referring to these “bagels” just in case this is the very moment God points to when I am trying to enter Jew Heaven and says, “No real Jew would call those bagels. Shame on you. Go eat your preservative-laden chicken-fatless gentile food!”

Regardless, these things were a delight. I heated them in the microwave for 30 seconds and then toasted them for about one minute. This left the outside slightly crispy and the inside cream cheese still cool yet creamy. If you toast these suckers for too long, the cream cheese gets a bit warm, which some people enjoy, but not me. I like the contrast of heat, the warmness of a freshly microwaved bagel with the coolness of recently frozen chive cream cheese. Mmmm.

This is great bang for your buck – I have kept my eye out for them in the supermarket, and they consistently fall in the $2.50 price range. And with 4 to each box, that means each bagelful costs you a little over 60 cents. And yes, they are tinier than full sale full sized bagels, but they are also significantly healthier for you than the average bagel with cream cheese. And they will leave you feeling satiated well into lunchtime. Because of these little buggers can curb my appetite to noon, then they could quell Attila the Hun’s hunger. Because seriously, I have hunger that is comparable to a barbarian’s. It is disturbing but true.

So buy these. In bulk. And eat them every morning. And die happy. And leave me all your money in your will as your token of appreciation. Because while money might not have bought you happiness, I think you might just be spending it on the wrong things. As in, you didn’t buy a house down the shore. Shame on you.

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19 Responses to “Kraft Chive Bagel-fuls: Pro”

Cara on August 29th, 2008

“I think I will play it safe and use the quotes when referring to these “bagels” just in case this is the very moment God points to when I am trying to enter Jew Heaven and says, “No real Jew would call those bagels. Shame on you. Go eat your preservative-laden chicken-fatless gentile food!”

That made me laugh at loud. Adina, you need to write more reviews.
yum on August 29th, 2008

I love mine with pretzel salt (before heating rub a tiny bit of water on the bageful, they sprinkle on the salt). They’re a lot more like a soft pretzel stuffed with cream cheese than a bagel, so the salt tastes just right.
Shann on August 29th, 2008

Hmm, they’re good. addicted
Ali Marie on September 1st, 2008

Hmm, I was very dubious about these when I saw them in the store. But now I may try them. Never have time to cook and eat a bagel in the mornings before work, but these might just be the solution if they’re not as inedible and weird as they look.
Mike on September 2nd, 2008

You’re a moron about the no breakfast thing. Quit being so lazy go to trader joe’s and find something delicious.

Good review though.
DaddyO on September 2nd, 2008

How did ytou get them free?????????
A Jewish Dad
Jessica on September 2nd, 2008

Only the chive ones are yummy. The plain and strawberry taste like doodie.
Julie A. on September 3rd, 2008

If there ever comes a day when I can’t prepare a real, honest, bona fide bagel with cream cheese I will know it’s time to move in to an assisted care living facility.
Donny on September 3rd, 2008

I think they still expect you to prepare your own bagles in assisted living care facilities.
Adina on September 3rd, 2008

@ cara - thanks but there is only so much microwaved food I can eat in a day. I am trucking along though.

@ yum – that is genius

@ ali marie – just think – healthy twinkie, healthy twinkie, and they get less and less weird.

@ mike – you’re right on both points.

@ dad – wouldn’t you like to know (p.s. this is my actual father)

@ jess – I had the strawberry ones and I agree. Something about chive flavored cream cheese makes the world a better place.

@ donny – depends if it is a jewish assisted live care facility.
Lori on September 4th, 2008

Thanks for the review! I have seen these and just thought it was another gimmcky frozen food. The cinnamon ones are fantastic. I toast them in my toaster using the defrost setting and they are extremely delicious. I haven’t tried the other flavors yet.
Kristen on September 11th, 2008

This is a great idea! Yum! I’ll have to check and see if they have these in my store. I hope so!
Juliet on September 20th, 2008

Wow. It sounds like you really LOVED these. I’m surprised (they kind of look like twinkies in their ads so I was skeptical), but glad to know they are good. I’m going to check them out.
Janet on September 23rd, 2008

I’ve wondered about these… I’d like to buy some to put in my kids lunch box… but they have no access to a microwave or toaster oven. I wonder if they would be any good unheated (just thawed out)??
Kremit on September 25th, 2008

@Janet: I wouldn’t recommend this. A lukewarm, untoasted bagel-ful tastes pretty nasty. If you could toast them in the morning and put them in a sandwich bag it might work out.
Meggaroo on September 26th, 2008

I have to say, the fiancee and I picked these up super cheap at the Wall of the Mart. And he adores them for thier quickness (though the poor baby has a habit of leaving them in the microwave for me to find later)…and I will eat his forgetness. :3
I SO want to try the chive, but right now I’ve had EVERY ONE of the kinds EXCEPT that. T^T …but I really really like the whole wheat one…and I will now be getting pretzel salt to sprinkle over them.
JayBee on October 14th, 2008

I found coupons for these in the Sunday paper. I <3 coupons and Bagel-fuls.
amy on October 16th, 2008

I have now tried the plain, chive, and cinnamon. The plain are nothing special at all. The chive are excellent. Savory and good flavor, though not oniony, as I initially feared. The cinnamon are out of this world good! No raisins to offend the raisin haters out there. And good cinnamon flavored cream cheese in addition to the cinnamon flavored bagel. This is like a dessert. I will totally continue to buy these.
Abi Jones on October 16th, 2008

Now I am really bummed that they didn’t send me the cinnamon ones : /