MET-Rx Big 100 Trial Pack, Meal Replacement Bars, 9 Count

TL;DR: They're all dry so make sure to drink something with them, personally recommend the "Crunch" flavors (Super Cookie Crunch, Mint Super Cookie Crunch, Salted Caramel Brownie Crunch), seems like a decent meal replacement, good protein and carbs for your workout. Right, so I took notes over the week I was eating these to keep track of my thoughts and experience with these bars. Overall they're dry so definitely drink something with them. My sugar tolerance is pretty low so they were almost unpleasantly sweet for my tastes, leaving me with that subtle sugary burn in the back of my mouth, and the other flavors seemed subtle as a result. Of course ymmv on the flavors, so take my opinions on that with a grain of salt. As far as meal replacements go, I believe they did the job. They kept me full between meals during my ususal workout routines, but on more intense days these bars felt more like snacks and left my stomach feeling like an all-consuming black hole. I'll chalk it up to user error in case I just wasn't eating enough on those days. Now for the individual bars themselves: -Chocolate Chip Cookie Dough had a chewy texture that I liked, though my notes say "jaw workout". It has that generic protein bar flavor and I didn't notice much, if any, chocolate flavor. Definitely had some vanilla and maybe a hint of something like cinnamon. Not as dry as the other bars. -Peanut Butter Pretzel was "honey forward" according to my notes. There are actual pieces of pretzel on it, and there was some caramel flavor. Despite there being some peanut butter coating on it, I apparently didn't notice the flavor. This one, along with Crispy Apple Pie and Vanilla Caramel Churro have the same core texture: a sort of dense crispiness that, in my opinion, sounds better in text than it feels in the mouth. Personally I didn't like the way they scraped my gums. -Crispy Apple Pie tastes like an apple pie, so the flavor is good but it loses points for scratching the inside of my mouth. -Vanilla Caramel Churro: My notes on this one seem confused, so I guess I couldn't make sense of the flavor at first. Mostly tastes like sugar, apparently, with a subtle cinnamon flavor buried beneath it. Makes sense, now that I'm thinking about it, and now I have the ungodly temptation to gently heat one of these up to see if that'll change anything. -Granola Peanut Butter Chocolate Chip isn't as sweet as the last three, and has that generic protein bar flavor with maybe a hint of vanilla. "Has a flavor", according to my notes, but there's nothing on whether it tastes like peanut butter or chocolate. I'm assuming I couldn't taste either flavor or it was super subtle. -Granola Chocolate Chip is apparently a generic chocolate chip protein bar and somehow more sugary than the other granola bar in the trial pack. -Salted Caramel Brownie Crunch looks like it might be a softer bar, or at least that's what I thought when looking at the packaging. It's more like a very thick wafer in terms of texture instead of the cake-like thing I expected. The caramel did come through all the sugar in this one, but the overall flavor was like a sugary chocolate bar. Definitely in my top three. -Mint Super Cookie Crunch: my personal favorite because it tastes like a less intense peppermint patty. If you like mint chip ice cream, you'll probably like this one. Didn't taste as sugary either. Has that same wafer-like texture as Salted Caramel Brownie Crunch and Super Cookie Crunch. -Super Cookie Crunch: just had this one on the day of writing this review. There's not much to say about it that hasn't been said about the last two. It's chocolatey, has that wafer-like texture, dry like every bar in the pack (except Chocolate Chip Cookie Dough), and tastes like chocolate flavored sugar. Still in my top three because I love chocolate. In conclusion, I'm glad I started with the trial pack because now I know what to expect and what flavors I prefer. Feels a tad expensive for my liking, but I'm also cost conscious so that's influencing my opinion on the price. I'm not sure I'll use these around my workouts, but will probably instead keep them around as meal replacements when I can't find the motivation to get out of bed and cook something.

Gives you a good way to try the flavors they offer and buy bulk packs of those flavors.

Taste good but full of sugar causing me to crave sugar shortly after eating and did not satisfy my hunger like other protein bars. All the sugar cravings and extended hunger outweighs any positive effects it may have.

Highly recommend this. It is a great alternative to keep with you if you don't have enough time to make food or simply don't want to. Quick reminder to anyone considering buying this, THIS ISN'T A PROTEIN BAR. This bar has a very good amount of protein, but it has soooo much more to it! I am not going to list it because there are simply too many, but if you get a chance to read the ingredients, you'll see that it is full of vitamins and nutrients such as B12 and zinc. PS: Crispy Apple Pie is the best.

First of all, I am not a protein bar expert, and I'm not in the market for a purely protein bar. I ate a Cliff bar once, and was not favorably impressed. However, an installer at our house was eating these while working over lunch and recommended them. I was looking for something I could eat at my desk when my head is deep in work and I don't have time for a real lunch break. Something which would keep the hunger pangs from distracting me. These definitely fit the bill. These Met-Rx bars are all on the dry side, some more dry than others, so keep some black coffee or water nearby to wash them down. They are all pretty sweet, hence the black coffee recommendation, if you like coffee. Black or green tea should work as well. So, here is my man-off-the-street impression of the different flavors in the pack. On a scale from 1 (almost inedible) to 10 (very tasty). Mint Super Cookie Crunch - 10 - One inch thick Girl Scout 'Thin Mint' cookie. Hard and chewy, not crunchy. Salted Caramel Brownie Crunch - 10 - Crunchy-ish, not too dry brownie. Chocolate and caramel. Not salty. Chocolate Chip Cookie Dough - 9 - Reasonably good cookie dough flavor. Chewy, not dry texture. Granola Chocolate Chip - 8 - Dry, chewy, not too sweet, oatmeal-ish(?) nutty flavor. Not bad. Super Cookie Crunch - 7 - Dry chocolate brownie, a little nutty-ish (protein powder?) flavor. A little chalky aftertaste. Granola Peanut Butter Chocolate Chip - 6 - Peanut buttery chocolate flavor. Somewhat chalky aftertaste. Peanut Butter Pretzel - 6 - Peanut-buttery trail mix flavor. Somewhat chalky aftertaste. Crispy Apple Pie - 4 - Apple/cinnamon flavors tasted artificial to me and a little funky. Vanilla Caramel Churro - 2 - Dry, grainy, with unidentifiable taste - no vanilla, no caramel. Everyone's taste is different, but hopefully this will be a little more data for those not adventurous enough to try Vanilla Caramel Churro for themselves. I will be ordering Mint Super Cookie Crunch, Salted Caramel Brownie Crunch, and Chocolate Chip Cookie Dough. Those are all solid winners for me.

extremely Brown bought this child pack and expected to get all different bars and we ended up getting two bars that were the same. So not a trial pack if we have two of the exact same bars, we were missing other bars that were in the photo as well, which was a bummer cause they were two bars we wanted to try which were cookie dough and the salted caramel brownie

Great trial/variety pack! Would definitely buy again and was delivered fast! Great for on the go and when need something quick with protein to eat.

Loved the option to try all the bars before committing to one whole box. There was a couple of the bars that were too sweet for my taste!